Polytope

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Ludmila Rodrigues is fascinated by the ways we move, interact, relate with the others and with the built environment. She works as an artist, scenographer and sometimes performer, operating in the intersection between sensory experience, architecture and social interaction. She investigates affect, embodied and visceral experience creating spatial interventions, living sculptures and devices to influence, interfere and engage with the body of the audience. Ludmila Rodrigues uses playful strategies to trigger physical awareness, blurring the notions of agency, pleasure and control. Her works unfold a corporeal dialogue with the public, a context where everyone becomes an actor.
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Abstract:
“Polytope” é uma construção leve e articulada, que convida o público a uma experimentação espaço-corporal. Estrutura rígida e ao mesmo tempo maleável. Vazia, no entanto, ocupa espaço. Volumes que se justapõem e se recombinam a partir da interação com o público.
Na geometria elementar, polytope (polítopo) é a região resultante da interseção de vários semi-espaços, e que pode ocupar n-dimensões. A obra propõe um jogo de relações de espaço e tempo, ganhando contornos performáticos.
O movimento provocado na escultura, por sua vez, influencia o corpo do visitante, numa coreografia de mão dupla. Deste diálogo emergem formas múltiplas de agir, reagir, mover-se e expressar-se. Pequenos gestos podem gerar transformações ampliadas.

Créditos:
Concepção: Ludmila Rodrigues
Design de Som: Rob Bothof
Apoio: Stroom Den Haag

Biografia:
Ludmila Rodrigues (Rio de Janeiro, 1979) é artista, cenógrafa e às vezes performer, trabalhando entre a arte cinética, a arquitetura e a intervenção social. Ela investiga o afeto, a experiência corporal e a propriocepção (senso de movimento), através do tato, e cria espaços, situações e instrumentos que envolvam a plateia. A artista busca estratégias lúdicas para provocar a consciência tanto individual, quanto coletiva. Sua obra desenvolve diálogos com o corpo da plateia, onde todos se tornam atores. Formada em Arquitetura e Urbanismo (UFRJ), ArtScience (KABK, Holanda), mestrado pelo departamento Art Sense(s) Lab (PXL/Bélgica). Também praticou várias danças e artes marciais. Vive na Holanda desde 2009.
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Abstract:
“Polytope” is a lightweight, tractable structure that engages the visitor in a space-bodily investigation. It is rigid and at the same time, tractable. A void which takes space. Its volume is juxtaposed and re-arranged through the action of the visitor.
In elementary geometry, a polytope is a region, resulted from the intersection of half-spaces, and it may exist in any general number of dimensions. The work proposes relations in space and time, raising a sense of performance.
The movement provoked in the sculpture, in turn, influences the body of the visitor, in a mutual choreography. In this interplay, multiple forms of action, reaction, motion and expression emerge. Subtle gestures may create amplified transformations.

Credits:
Concept: Ludmila Rodrigues
Sound design: Rob Bothof
Support: Stroom Den Haag.

Biography:
Ludmila Rodrigues (Rio de Janeiro, 1979) is an artist, scenographer and sometimes performer; operating in the fields of kinetic art, architecture and social intervention. She investigates affect, bodily experience and proprioception (sense of move) through the touch, creating spaces, situations and devices to engage with the audience. Rodrigues deploys playful strategies to trigger both individual and social awareness. Her works unfold a corporeal dialogues with the public, where everyone becomes an actor. She has a bachelor degree in Architecture and Urban Planning (UFRJ/Brazil); in Arts by the ArtScience Interfaculty (KABK, The Hague) and a Master in Arts by the Art Sense(s) Lab (PXL/Belgium). She has also learned some dance and martial arts. Based in The Hague, Netherlands, since 2009.