Project description: How do we move through familiar spaces? Who sees the city from the top of the Butte after a hike? Who witnesses the changing face of the city as they move through its streets? Different locations create the opportunity to make a choice for a different kind of movement, which in turn affects the way we see the world. By offering a view of the city that would normally be impossible to experience from within it, this corner can become a mirror or a portal to those who move beside it. Here is a chance to be transported high above the city, out into nature, and back to the corner of 10th and Willamette, all while considering how our bodies can decide to move or dance between them.

This site-specific video installation combines video footage recorded from the top of Spencer Butte with documentation of a dance performance. The software called Isadora was used to capture video of dancers in front of a camera and create an animated render of the movement in combination with sound inputs in real time. The resulting pulses and stylized changes in the image are the results of a now-lost soundtrack, replaced with the sounds of the buses, cars and people around the installation.

Credits: Video and Concept/Hannah Hamalian, Technical Support/Michael Maruska, Movement Performers/Colton Brown, Jung-chen Liang, Grace Roberts.