Ben Shan Center
for the Arts, Wayne N.J.
Sensory Overdrive,
October 28 - December 6 1996
".... Peter Terezakis' "participatory
environments" resemble remnants or artifacts left by a future culture
rediscovered.
These chemically-aged cybernetic structures are endowed with a virtual
intelligence (inter-active components of infra-red and/or sound sensors,
which act as computer input), which invite spontaneous gestures and individual
reactions. Our physical bodies are intrinsic to the work, and emphasize
our own individuality in the way we approach movement and music. Physical
dynamism is translated into different chords and notes inscribed instantaneously
as track marks of adventure and exploration.
The presence of the physical action finds traces of the body, the 'cage'
of an elemental vessel, a container of energy, in the skeletal grid of
chemically tortured steel. Terezakis has incorporated various dancers
to choreograph and participate with these works, whose bodies initiate
analogous sound and rhythm, rather than being manipulated by them.
In this way, the body becomes an instrument in the art of sublimation
...." Excerpt from catalog.
- Alice Hutchison, Curator
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