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VIVO Media Arts is pleased to present ARRAY: Performance on June 19 — a one-night-only event featuring a live performance and a post-show artist talk, ahead of the exhibition opening on June 20. ARRAY explores dimensionality to contemplate the layers of our existence, revealing the abstraction between our physical and non-physical realities.
During the live performance, multiple laser projections are generated in real time from body joint tracking data captured during a trio choreographic score, composed of geometric lines, rotational arm sequences and morphing poses that reflect the dimensional planes in which we exist. ARRAY translates this movement data into evolving patterns, oscillating forms, and abstract geometries by integrating precise and randomly generated visualization models derived from intra- and inter-body joint connections.
The laser projections are mapped onto 96 semi-transparent screen panels, each representing a specific joint from a set pose in the choreographic score and individually suspended in space according to each joint’s 3d positional data. Select screens are coated with a thin layer of phosphorescent, UV-reactive paint, capturing traces of movement that slowly fade over time.
The live performance is integral to the final installation's creative process and invites people to witness the creation of ARRAY. The performance will also be a movement capture session to retrieve joint data to drive the final installation's laser visualization.
Lead Artist(s): Eric Cheung / Cristian Gonzalez
Choreographic Composition by Eric Cheung in collaboration with Kinui Oiwa & Rina Pellerin
Creative Technologist: Cristian Gonzalez
Dancer(s): Kinui Oiwa / Rina Pellerin / Eric Cheung
Composer(s): Magazinist (Matthew Tomkinson / Andy Zuliani)
Laser Technician: Sean Gregor (Laser Light House)
Architect / Computational Designer: Edward Park
Rigging / Special Effects Coordinator: Ole Michel Vezina
Fabricator: Artiphax Props
Costume: Mark Sim Suangco / Sebastian Palencia
Graphic Designer: Sebastian Palencia
PA: Pauline Fan, Gerry Sung
Creative Producer: Interim Studio / Sebastian Palencia
Graphic Designer: Sebastian Palencia
PA: Pauline Fan, Gerry Sung
Creative Producer: Interim Studio
Technical Residency, Programmed, Exhibition: VIVO Media Arts Centre
Funding Support: The Canada Arts Council
Co-production/Administration Support: New Works
Artist Studio Residency at Q7: Outinner Space Theatre
VIVO is located in the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in a warehouse space at 2625 Kaslo Street south of East Broadway at the end of E 10th. Transit line 9 stops at Kaslo Street on Broadway. From the bus stop, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight decline. The closest skytrain station is Renfrew Station, which is three blocks south-east of VIVO and has an elevator. From there, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight incline. There is parking available at VIVO, including wheelchair access parking. There is a bike rack at the entrance. The front entrance leads indoors to a set of 7 stairs to the lobby.
A wheelchair ramp is located at the west side of the main entrance. The ramp has two runs: the first run is 20 feet long, and the second run is 26 feet. The ramp is 60 inches wide. The slope is 1:12. The ramp itself is concrete and has handrails on both sides. There is an outward swinging door (34 inch width) at the top of the ramp leading to a vestibule. A second outward swinging door (33 inch width) opens into the exhibition space. Buzzers and intercoms are located at both doors to notify staff during regular office hours or events to unlock the doors. Once unlocked, visitors can use automatic operators to open the doors.
There are two all-gender washrooms. One has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The other is a single room with a urinal and is wheelchair accessible: the door is 33 inches wide and inward swinging, without automation. The toilet has 11 inch clearance on the left side and a handrail.
To reach the bathrooms from the studio, exit through the double doors and proceed straight through the lobby and down the hall . Turn left, and the two bathrooms will be on your right side. The closest one has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The far bathroom is accessible.
Eric Cheung is a second-generation Chinese-Canadian inter-disciplinary street dance artist and choreographer based in so-called Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations. Eric has cultivated a singular approach to generating movement and choreography that is recognized nationally and internationally, with his specialization in the Popping style while incorporating outside influences and other dance styles in his practice.
Eric has been a company member of Ouro Collective since 2018, a street dance contemporary company, partaking in the creation process of HAKO, SOTTO51, Fire06, 7y98D (Theatre / Film) in collaboration with RubberLegZ, Ouro Excerpts and Ouroboros.
Individually, Eric explores different mediums to expand the boundaries of street dance further in various artistic forms of film, theatre, digital new media, interactive experiences and art installations. Select works include E_GO, I(n)finite, Re:1974, iye, Diverge, Flux, Liminal, Null, and Flux.
Most notably known for the international acclaim of the short film E_GO commission by FORM in 2018, where Eric has been awarded and featured on numerous online art platforms and festivals, such as Nowness, Booooooom, Vimeo Staff Pick, screened at international film festivals such as Aesthetica Festival, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, FORM Prague Film Festival, and Telus Spark Optik TV. Later, he received the Best Experimental Short at Cift 2023 for his recent film “I(n)finite which was featured on Nowness Asia.
Additionally, Eric has presented solo theatre works and exhibited at Place Des Arts, Pact Zollervin, Phi Centre, La Nuit Blanche, Music Conservatory of Montreal, VIVO, Polygon Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, SFU, and Festive Acces Asie. Eric has collaborated with Acronym, ASUS ROG, CBC Arts, Spencer Badu, Company 605, Spy Films, Modus Operandi, and RubberLegZ.
Photo by: Sebastian Palencia
As engineer and creative coder, Cristian works with emerging technologies in an attempt to explore the human-machine entanglements and the intersection between science and spirituality. He uses code, software and machines as his craft to design real time multimedia systems for immersive/interactive experiences. In constant collaboration with artists from other disciplines he is always driven to enhance artistic and creative expression where his works usually falls into a field commonly known as expanded animation where there is appropriation or augmenting physical space.
