LoadingLoadingThe carnivorous plant Nepenthes cannot choose its prey; it swallows whatever enters and is endangered by the undigested remains. This cross-genre performance uses that trait as a metaphor for information overload and the absence of choice in contemporary life, told together through dance, sculpture, music, and mapping.
Director & Choreography: Byun Gabeen Dancer & Choreography: Baek Sangha Assistant Director: Kim Gahui Performers: Baek Sangha, Park Junwoo, Choi Gaeun, Lee Junghee, Kwon Haewon Projection Mapping & Light Director: YOUHWAN Sculpture: An Minhwan Music: Sim Heejung, Choi Sungwook, Choi Minji, Lim Juncheol Photo: Heo Jangbeom Art: Kim Gahui / Fashion: Park Yejin / AI Artist: Kim Woonha DoP: Song Byung gu (1st Kim Jeong eui) Gaffer: An Jin Hyouk (1st Lee won keu, 2nd daeyoung Park, 3rd changhwan Youn) Edit: Kim Gahui / Marketing: Kim Gahui, Byun Gabeen Art Makeup & Head piece: Son Jinyoun (assistant Lee Gyeongna) Natural Makeup: Kim Chohyeon (assistant Park Seola) Production Assistant: Kim Gahui, Ko Seungkwan Supported by Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
01 Planning
A plant that swallows but cannot choose
We likened the way the carnivorous Nepenthes swallows its prey without choosing to people living amid information overload. The planning was gathered in Milanote so that dance, sculpture, music, and mapping could unfold this metaphor together.
02 Design
The plan of a warehouse black box
We measured the truss-ceilinged space of Alter in Mullae and placed the projectors, lights, and sculpture on the floor plan. The technical drawings were made so that walls in two directions and the sculpture all serve as projection surfaces at once.
03 Production
Layers that take the plant's body apart
The Nepenthes sculpture was divided into whole, inner, and outer layers to create the mapping sources, and motion that spreads along its contours was produced. Fabrication of the sculpture and wall projection tests proceeded together.
04 Operations
Gestures in light and shadow
From rehearsal through the performance, the operator changed mapping and lighting in real time to the dancers' movements. The audience sat in the middle of scenes where the sculpture, the walls, and the dancers' shadows overlapped.
