Workshop Statement

This article analyses passage, a performance-installation project, created by kondition pluriel. It examines the work and the research problematic surrounding an artistic project, which is conceptualized towards the goal of creating a hybrid work oscillating between installation and performance. The text focuses on the creation process in this multidisciplinary project, the technological framework and the artistic and conceptual context. It describes the steps that had to be taken to develop the central element of this work: the socialization between performer and public.

• Martin Kusch (CA) is a visual media artist and artistic co-director of kondition pluriel. He is teaching at the Dept. for Digital Arts at the Univ. of Applied Arts in Vienna. His artistic practice is based on the creation of media installations and interactive performance environments.
• Marie-Claude Poulin (CA) is a choreographer and co-funder of kondition pluriel. Her work confronts the relationship between the body and technology in a very organic manner. Her choreographic language is made of multiple bodily states, showing the body in a perpetual process of reorganization.

Full text (PDF) p.  51-52