The Waiting Room
1998. Interactive installation by visual artist Simon Biggs.
The Waiting Room is a virtual interractive tango, with a double screen projection. Six projected performers enter, sit and wait, or leave to dance a tango on the opposite side of the room. Their movements, persona, gender and the music they dance to shift and change as a result of the position and movement of the viewers in the room, who are remotely sensed by infra-red camera.
Image credit: screengrabs from video by Simon Biggs.
CREDITS
- Visual artist: Simon Biggs.
- Audio: Stuart Jones.
- Choreography: Sue Hawksley
- Performers: Colin Poole, Paul Old, Stefan Karsberg, Mariana Dodig, Judy Gordon, Sue Hawksley.
- Costumes: Rosa Maggiore.
PERFORMANCES & PRESENTATIONS
- Sheffield Railway Station, as part of Site Gallery's Shunted exhibition, 1998.