In the first place...

In the first place (2013), an EMPAC Dance Movie Commission based on the Renaissance book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (The Strife of Love in a Dream), published in 1499, was presented as a multi-channel installation at EMPAC. A second influence for the piece was the "Memory Palace" mnemonic technique. It shifted Poliphilo's "crisis of forgetting" from the Renaissance protagonist's disorientation relative to antiquity, to a disorienting relationship between personal memory and a location's historical record.

Music: Erin Gee

Titles and postproduction: Patrick Kelley

More information on the EMPAC site, here.

In the first place, 2013 (excerpt)