Dazzle: Solo
Gibson/Martelli & Peut-Porter
DAZZLE: SOLO is a multidimensional choreography and immersive installation combining performance, virtual reality, and fashion created by Gibson, Martelli, Pollmann, and Roth. Influenced by the rhythms and colours of early 20th-century naval camouflage and Italian futurist Thayaht's groundbreaking 'Tuta-suit' garment design, the project was ignited by the original Dazzle Ball, which took place in 1919 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Dressing up in real life introduces the work and physically recreates the virtual act of inhabiting an avatar. The costumes exhibited are selected from fifty fashion designers who co-created unique zero-waste garments. The pattern collection is open-source and available online.
Credits
Concept: Gibson/Martelli and Peut-Porter
Sound designer: Paul Steinman
Dancers: Harry Alexander, Hannah Burfield, Ruth Gibson and Francesca Orlando
Costumes: The Dazzle Collective
Supported by Creative XR (Arts Council England & Digital Catapult)
Gibson/Martelli & Peut-Porter
Gibson/Martelli lead in innovative uses of technology to explore immersivity and somatic sense, redefining visitors as players and performers. Their accolades include a BAFTA nomination, a Henry Moore Foundation Commission, and the Lumen Prize. They have completed residencies worldwide spanning Europe, North America, China, Australia, and New Zealand and exhibited at venues such as the Barbican, Royal Opera House, ICA, Somerset House, Tekniska Museet Stockholm, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Detroit Institute of Art, Ars Electronica, and The Venice Biennale.
Peut-Porter’s all-female design collective forms its own category, interrogating and imagining all that is ‘worn’ in its widest sense. Inherently future-facing, they create artefacts that investigate body politics and social change through the lens of fashion and technology. Peut-Porter have worked and partnered with: Burberry (Creative Media
Department), British Council, Design Museum London, Sadler’s Wells, Siobhan Davies Dance, Museum of London, Museum of Technology Berlin, Center for Arts & Media Karlsruhe, Victoria & Albert Museum London.
