INTRO
IMAGO CAELI is a twelve-minute stilt performance in which white inflatable costumes become the screen. Mobile video projection and music turn the performers into figures of light.
Neither the costumes nor the videomapping technique existed before the show. Xenorama developed them over more than a year, working in parallel with three groups: Stelzen-Art and Raummaschine in Bremen, Oakleaf Stelzenkunst in Hamburg. The costumes had to carry an image while walking on stilts, and the mapping had to find them wherever they went.
Key challenges
Costume and mapping built in parallel
Keeping the image on moving stilts
Three groups in two cities
ON THE ALTER MARKT
Made in Bremen for the carnival's Lichtertreiben, the piece later travelled. On 18 January 2020 it was performed on the Alter Markt in Potsdam as part of the light festival “Unterwegs im Licht”, with logistical support from Volkswagen Automobile Potsdam. Raummaschine’s system also carried IMAGO FLORIS, made for the Fleurop World Cup in Berlin in June 2015.
In performance, the projected light first surrounds the performers. Then colour settles on the costumes in organic, archaic and graphic forms, until the costumes themselves begin to glow.
CREDITS
Created by Xenorama (Lorenz Potthast, Marcel Bückner, Moritz Richartz, Richard Oeckel, Tim Heinze) together with Hendrik Lüdders, Simon Ulbricht, Janine Jaeggi, Martin Sasse, Piet Koenekoop, Bettina Eichblatt
System by RAUMMASCHINE
Costumes by Stelzen-Art & Oakleaf Creativity