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Trespass is an ongoing project, a collaboration between the Interactive Architecture Lab, Shobana Jeyasingh and the Department of Informatics and the Cultural Institute at King’s College London.

Shobana’s work is inspired by the coexistence of different personal and historical territories within the make-up of one individual, referencing issues of migration such as: ideas of home; boundaries; territories; belonging; leave-taking and new beginnings. More of her work can be found here.

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Trespass as the name suggests, deals with ideas of breaking through boundaries. Achieving this would be possible with exploring methods of touch. The modules will respond to the dancers touch, and will react based on the intensity of “push” or “pull”.

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Trespass intends to develop highly innovative artistic work that would see the most powerfully empathetic of human interactions – ‘touch’ – produce complex aesthetic responses in specially designed structures surrounding interacting performers, dancers and participating audiences. This site specific piece of work could suggest new ways of understanding our own behaviours, whether in performance or in everyday human interaction.

The piece is to be performed in the Anatomy Museum at King’s College. The site consists of a mezzanine level that wraps around three sides of the space with a stairway leading to it at both ends. This condition at the site prompted the decision that the audience will view the piece from this level, ostensibly looking down onto the performance. This is an interesting situation where we quickly realised that movement particularly in the X-Y plane would be most impactful, unless of course the movement in the Z axis was extremely drastic. This view point of the piece has effects on both the design of the modules the dancers interact with, as well as the choreography.

The design for the modules are inspired by the SCARA(Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm) robot. By virtue of the SCARA’s parallel-axis joint layout, the arm is compliant in the X-Y direction but rigid in the ‘Z’ direction, hence the term: Selective Compliant. The second attribute of the SCARA is the jointed two-link arm layout similar to our human arms. This feature allows the arm to extend into confined areas and then retract or “fold up” out of the way.

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Presently, we envision a network of 2 modules, each with three arms. The central arm will be motor driven, which will in turn passively rotate the second and third arm connected with bearing brakes. The brakes will help control the position at which the arm segments are intended to stop. Each of the modules will be at varying heights so that each module can be placed on site with their maximum extents overlapping another modules’. This will allow the modules to enter into the space of the other, thereby creating a combined space, as opposed to individual designated spaces per module.

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Dancers train for long hours, often repeating movements in order for their muscles to remember the movements they intend to make. This “muscle memory” is extended to Trespass by virtue of the modules which learn the dancers movements, through their interaction, and repeat the movements they learn when the dancer leaves the proximity of the module.

The modules will communicate within the network to respond to the presence of dancers within the space, as well as when the dancers interact with a particular module. The modules will be lit to enhance the experience to touch, movement and communication.

The intent of Trespass is exploring the emerging possibilities for relationships between human behaviour and intelligent environments – that is to say, the ways in which creative and emotional impulses might be instantly extended to and reflected back by the architecture and structures that surround us.

The piece is scheduled to open in 2016.

Student’s work: Aksa Ksera, Dan Feng, Dongming Zhao


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