Motive Colloquies (2011)

Motive
1. to be in motion
2. to have reason for action

Colloquies
1. conversations
2. gatherings

An interactive installation and performance, developed through a collaboration between interaction designers, architects and performance artists. Its principal performer, a 3 metre high responsive robot, interacts with its audience’s gestures while it waits for the arrival of its human co-performers. The film shown here presents the first choreographed site specific work to come from this colloquy. Titled ‘The Promise of Touch’, it was presented at the Pompidou Centre in Paris in June 2011. responding to two works within the Gallery – Francis Bacon’s Triptych ‘Three Figures in a Room’ (1964) & Pablo Picasso’s ‘Femmes devant la mer’ (1956).

The installation was led by Ruairi Glynn with his students Ciriaco Castro, Miriam Dall’Igna, & Enrique Ramos and with Central School of Speech and Drama students Sigridur Reynisdottir, Nicholas Waters, Jemima Yong