In split flow the audience encounters various realities that could only be visualized through the fecund corporeality of the dancer. Through the rich movements layered with different spatiotemporal textures, the audience starts to sensate that the surrounding environment is filled, from time to time, with media of different mass - such as, water, oil and air. In other words, on stage, Umeda brings into relief, with his movements, a dual reality consisted of microcosmic fragments on the one hand and macrocosmic continuity on the other. In split flow dance version, Umeda first implants movements of various speed, strength and scale into his body, and second, develops a sleek dance flow that continues without a single interruption. Through the dynamic intervention of the body into static space, different reality came into existence.Īs corporeality was already an important factor in the installation, Umeda decided to create a dance piece from the same concept, and, moreover, to structure a new dance vocabulary out of it.
However, when the viewers walked through the static space lined with white bars, the achromtic light transiently split into three colors. In the installation, a high luminance laser device was applied to project three primary colors of light – red, green, and blue – in split-second velocity, which, then, appeared to the human eye in the color of white. The piece, which first appeared as a light installation commissioned by Van Abbenmuseun (Eindhoven, Netherlands) in 2011, was an experiment to express velocity with strokes of light. In this optical dance piece split flow, the artist juxtaposes two distinct physical conditions – dynamic and static – in order to visualize the duality within reality.
Yet, the residue of heat still simmering after the experience of an informational overload will linger long in the audiences' bodies. As if to embody the ephemeral aesthetics underpinning the piece, here, on stage, the invisible forces come to the fore and the visual universe sink out of sight. When an evanescent expression per se of the body is embedded within the architecture of lights, which moves incessantly to maintain a split-second stability, sooner or later, the audience realizes that everything on stage will vanish in the next moment. Therefore, despite the existence of an explosive canvas soaked with digital curvatures right before our eyes, it simultaneously gives us a fragile impression. The audience will be experiencing a digital reality saturated with 'unstable stability': the raging streamlines vanishes after a minute, and the luminous waterfall vaporizes after a second. The transient shapes of digital particles which conjure images of dissolution of solids, sublimation of liquids, and algorithms of heat transference, synchronizes and synthesizes with Umeda's movements – yielding an entire universe that dances like a living organism. Yet, the extremity is not sustained for long as it once again reverts back to a temporal equanimity by going through phase transitions. On stage, the corporeal, the photic and the sonar forces converge in exponential speed, and, at one point, it reaches the critical point of energy. Based on this creative concept, in Intensional Particle, Umeda reinterprets the particles in space as not static molecules but rather as 'active particles (or, mass points)' and, visualizes, in space, the 'intensional force' that particles conceal. When waterfalls and rivers are seen from afar, they seem to maintain static forms yet, when one zooms into the same objects in a microscopic level, it is noticeable that they are consisted of ceaseless motions such as swells, waves, vortex and crosscurrents. Similarly, when Umeda on stage trembles, covert energy withheld in his body is transmitted from the pelvis to the spine, to the arms, and lastly to the digital screen situated at the rear, in which the energy is visualized by curved lines reminiscent of a solar corona. Suddenly, for an instance, the line drastically multiplies as if to discharge its immanent energy.
A horizontal line projected on the screen tremors.
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