Displace Engine
Displace Engine was selected for Gibney Dance NYC Performance Opportunity Project (POP). It is the premier work of caitlinadams/HEIDCO.
DE centers itself around absences created by displacement and disassociation, elliptically addressing social issues, scientific and natural processes, and cultural identity, without reducing or literalizing those experiences. DE utilizes choreographic methods of repetition, instant composition, and variations on kinetic and structural themes; the movement both deconstructs and indulges in sentimentality by romanticizing physical vocabulary over time.
The sonic environment creates distance between the product and the consumer (ie: the dance and the audience) by employing an aesthetic of "sexualized metal" – with music by electronic goth artist SOFIA RETA CORPORATION, and sound engineer, Zach Crumrine, styled by Helena Grierson of Libertine and FLOWERS.
This project includes research in Marxist philosophy of "commodity fetishism," capitalist ideology, and techniques of engineering and physics.