TRANSMISSIONS

description: a site specific interactive performance

artist: Alexandra Stratou

materials: mirrors

year: 2011

Commissioned work through Vital Space art projects

Transmissions was a site specific interactive performance that was conceived following an invitation by the Eleventh plateau project in Hydra by Out of the box intermedia in 2011. A chain of people holding mirrors gradually find their position along a shady street that descends the amphitheatrical hillside of Hydra harbor. Each person manipulates the angle of their mirror and their own position so as to capture the image from the mirror of the previous person and transmit it to the next. The first person in the chain standing on the top of the hill will capture the image of the sun setting. The procession will naturally assume the density that the street geometry commands, and spread downward transferring the light. Locals emerge at will from their doorstep to form part of the human chain. If enough people join the light-path it will be possible to transmit the image all the way to the sea. And thus the sea, the water, will simultaneously reach the top of the hill.

photography: askarchitects