OKEANOS
Resonance and Rebellion 2
In 2012, Jodi Lomask and her company Capacitor produced and performed Okeanos: a portrait of the ocean as body, environment, resources, metaphore, and force. It inspired and educated audiences about the ocean and ocean conservation. Lead science advisors Dr. Sylvia Earle and Dr. Tierney Thys provided a loving narration. This session: Resonance and Rebellion 2 showcases the Capacitor processwhich humanizes abstract scientific concepts - through dance, interactive video, cirque nouveau, live music, and large-scale movement sculptures - to build a visceral empathy, transcend cultural barriers, and widen the scope of basic human experience.
Pose your question to Jodi Lomask here by 14:30 July 17 2020
Celebrating the company’s twenty-year anniversary, Left to Her Own Devices: 20 years of Sculpture in Motion (2018) is a distillation of all of Capacitor’s work to date, focusing on physical structures—which have essentially been oppressive problems for the performers to overcome—to explore the theme of liberation.
In the spirit of scientific inquiry, Capacitor uses a laboratory-style creative process, called Capacitor Lab. For each new work, they assemble a cross-disciplinary team of the world's leading artists and scientists to explore a specific concept, find common threads, and create a shared vocabulary. From this collaboration, a performance is born.
Jodi welcomes questions from the audience about her practice combining performance, art and science.
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