Potter-Belmar Labs is Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens, two collaborating artists who conduct live cinema. They are doing a west coast tour this spring, and will be stopping at Central Cinema in Seattle on May 24 & 25. From the San Antonio Business Journal:
Their live cinema performance, titled “Fortune,” is a dream-like mix of sound, music and moving images created from laptops, projectors and a bevy of other electronic devices. There is also an interactive element to the show: Audience members will pick tarot cards bearing descriptions of different states of being, and the resulting art performance will be a symbolic collective fortune telling.
“The audience determines the selection and arrangement of the vignettes, ensuring that no performance is like any other,” Raymond says.
Check out their West Coast Tour site here.
This looks great.
I hope they’ll extend their tour up to Vancouver,BC!
I also perform live visuals – what i find so intruiging about this performance is the way the audience guides the content. I can imagine that this makes it way more compelling for the audience. I guess its similar to how improv troupes work. How do you prove to the audience that it is improv rather than canned.
The tarot card thing is great because then it is still somewhat bounded – the visualists know they are at least prepared at a fundamental level for wherever fortune takes them.