CHOOSE ARTIST
Robert Breer, Paul Chan, Martha Colburn, Thomas Demand, Edison Manufacturing Company, Fleischer Studios, Brent Green, George Griffin, Ezra Johnson, Bill T. Jones and OpenEnded Group, William Kentridge, Avish Khebrehzadeh, Laleh Khorramian, Maria Lassnig, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Joshua Mosley, Oscar Muñoz, Jacco Olivier, Raymond Pettibon, Robert Pruitt, Christine Rebet, Mary Reid Kelley, Lotte Reiniger, Robin Rhode, Hiraki Sawa, Berni Searle, Cindy Sherman, Federico Solmi, Dziga Vertov, Kara Walker
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- Bill T. Jones and OpenEnded Group
- After Ghostcatching, 2010
- Virtual Dance for Stereoscopic Display
Visual and sound design: Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar, and Paul Kaiser Choreography, movement, and voice: Bill T. Jones
Sound recording studio: Harvestworks, New York
Special thanks to Michael Girard
Original version commissioned by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York
Courtesy of OpenEnded Group
SITE Santa Fe Commission
ABOUT THIS WORK
After Ghostcatching is a stereoscopic version of a work created from a collaboration between Bill T. Jones and OpenEnded Group. Jones’s distinctive movements are transformed into a three-dimensional moving drawing through the use of motion-capture technology. Abstract lines are created by the fading traces of Jones’s body while the sound of Jones’s rhythmic humming and breathing punctuate his gestures. This tenth anniversary reworking of the original edition takes advantage of the evolution of 3-D and projection technology to create an enhanced version of Ghostcatching in which art, dance, and technology are seamlessly integrated.
ABOUT BILL T. JONES AND OPENENDED GROUP
Bill T. Jones was born in Bunnell, Florida, in 1952, and later moved to upstate New York. He began his dance training at the State University of New York at Binghamton, studying classical ballet and modern dance. In 1982, Jones formed the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company with his long time partner, Arnie Zane. Throughout his prolific career, Jones has explored the integration of the visual arts and dance choreography. He collaborated with new media artists Shelley Eshkar and Paul Kaiser to produce Ghostcatching, which opened at the Cooper Union, New York, in 1999. In this virtual dance installation, Jones’s movements were digitally captured and manipulated, poetically fusing dance and technology. The OpenEnded Group—Marc Downie, Eshkar, and Kaiser—created a new 3-D-version of Ghostcatching for The Dissolve Biennial. In 1994, Jones was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He and the members of OpenEnded Group live and work in New York.