Flowerpower poster A2 paint, pencils and markers made in collaboration with Jesus Eloy
People were invited to join an experience to plant the Flowerpower, a collective energy that emerges from coming together, singing and improvising.
The Flowerpower-installation shows and stimulates present and upcoming energies. The installation consists of a big flower-figure (hanging above our heads)
where 30 flower-heads (the halfs of plastic yoga-balls with little speakers) are hanging. Maximum 30 people can join the experience by wearing this flower-heads.
In the middle are 15 flower-microphones who catch all the voices of the participants installed in a flower-figure microphone standard.
where 30 flower-heads (the halfs of plastic yoga-balls with little speakers) are hanging. Maximum 30 people can join the experience by wearing this flower-heads.
In the middle are 15 flower-microphones who catch all the voices of the participants installed in a flower-figure microphone standard.
During the experience you could hear the other voices with slightly shifting volumes.
Also Instructions/ suggestions were given by listening in to the little speakers. Some of them:
– Feel the connection with the other flower-minds
– Increase tone rapidly – higher
– Repeat what you just have heard
– Give more space to the other flower-minds
– Improvise by listening/ move by watching
– …
This is a research for measuring the energies between people.
There will come more Flowerpower-sessions in the future!
Special thanks to Jesus Eloy, Sjoerd Leijten and Vincent Van Dijck!
Forbidden City, Antwerp, 2019
By Jo Caimo
During the Flowerpower experience – photo’s by Bernadette Zdrazil
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| The day after – photo by Patries Wichers |
Jacket made by Jesus Eloy for me to wear during the happening.
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| the making off in artist-run-media-space ToitoiDrome – photo by Jesus Eloy |
Flowerpower the Movement
Noordkasteel Antwerpen 2019 – foto’s by Mark Rietveld
Passers-by and the public are invited to plant the “Flowerpower”: a collective energy that comes from coming together, singing and improvising. The mobile installation has a large flower figure hanging above our heads with 30 flowers (halves of plastic yoga balls) with pistils (small speakers). 30 people take part in this “attraction” by wearing these flower buds; in the middle, 15 flower microphones pick up all voices. You hear the other voices through the speakers, with slightly changing volumes, along with improvisation suggestions: feel the connection with the other flower spirits, repeat what you just heard, go higher / faster, give more space to the other flower spirits, …
