"Rose-colored Dance" is a remediation (produced by Noah Travis Phillips) of a site-specific installation of Butoh-inspired scrolls collaged with imagery (by Jennifer Lord). The original site-specific installation was realized for "The Passage of Light Can Be Bent", presented at Counterpath, in Denver, Colorado.
The video focuses on subtle and slow contemplative 'movement'. Movements are repeated over and over until they form a pattern within which mood mystically changes. One scroll's dance is vertical, the other horizontal. Within the video one layer of images scrolls horizontally and the other scrolls vertically. Collage is a traditional choreographic method of Butoh, and is used here as a means of creating complex spacial and symbolic arrangements. A minimal dance of imagery echoes the dark elegance of the original installation.
bio(s)
Jennifer Lord and Noah Travis Phillips are Boulder, Colorado-based artists whose collaborative practice brings together collage, textiles, assemblage, research, and ecological inquiry. Working across digital and physical media, they create layered works that interrelate, feminist and queer craft traditions, landscape, and the more-than-human worlds. Their collaborations emerge through shared processes of collecting, making, and dialogue, balancing intimacy with geological and ecological time.
Individually, Lord creates hand-embellished textile collages and teaches t’ai chi chuan in the Cheng Man-Ching lineage. Phillips works with an archive of “made, found, and modified” images, exploring the posthuman and the Anthropocene through experimental collage. Together and independently, they have exhibited locally, nationally, internationally, and virtually. Both received BA degrees in Visual Art from Naropa University ; Lord received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Phillips received an MFA from the University of Denver and is Assistant Professor and FabLab (Z-Space) Coordinator at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design.