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Performance behind these walls, in Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival 2017

For a long time, the concept of movement and its sequence has been an exciting subject for visual artists. In 1887, Eadweard Muybridge captured a collection of images of a horse at its highest speed using twelve cameras mounted on the racetrack. The movement pattern of the horse in these twelve photos was quite observable. In 1912, inspired by the technique used by Muybridge, Marcel Duchamp created the painting „Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2“.

The purpose of creating these images was to extract the movement pattern and turn this three-dimensional nature into a readable and descriptive image. Using time as a dimension to connect and deepen the sequential components of a movement creates visually appealing and explicable images and forms with an
organic basis.
• Moving with the times : Eadweard Muybridge I
• Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2
• MoMa : Eadweard J. Muybridge

Task:
In the following task, we ask you to create an organic form based on „translating and depicting body movements over time“. This exercise aims to draw the movement pattern,then develop and change it into a three-dimensional geometric form.
The final output should be Two-dimensional | The Motion pattern and Three-dimensional | The Geometrical shape.

Task you can find in download

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