Allegori

Allegori was an multimedia performance/party at Hammarby ArtPort in Stockholm, where I wanted to
unite all my artistic expressions in one experience.
All since early 1990th I had worked with ideas of staging illusions that reveals one by one in a series of
events. Inspired by traditional Indian dance performances, Indonesian shadow theater and the Allegory of
the cave by Plato, I wanted to explore our perception of what we call the reality.
I invited the audience to a auditorium that was in one half of a bigger room, divided with a curtain.
The light went out and I turned on a slide projector showing a serie of photo collages that I made from
Sovjet propaganda material from the 1960th on to a screen.
The images started to move while a video projection blended in and the size of the image began to grow. I
opened the curtains until the growing image filled the hole dividing screen from floor to ceiling.
The film was a journey in to a human eye and in to cells, molecules, atoms and elementary particles.
And from there out again in faster speed, out from the human eye, the planet, solar system, galaxy, groups
of galaxies until a computer drawn helix shape emerge, turning in side out of its self, creating a hypnotic
pattern. After a staggering ride through space and back to earth, my live performed electronic music
reaches a crescendo of distorted noise.
The room behind the projection screen was filled with smoke from smoke machine and small light sources
creates shadows of six characters, doing undefined things, on the screen.
The characters opened a hole in the screen that where made of a elastic material, and come out to the
audience and opened the curtains even more at the sides of the visible screen.
It appears to be one side of a white curtain hanging in a vide circle. The six characters invites the audience in
to the inner room where they now could see three more people, busy mixing the music and video material
from a round table in the middle of the round room. Five projectors filled the surrounding curtains with
video images in an slow movement in one direction. The electronic sound scape turned in to dance music
and a bar opened in the auditorium.

Miguel Regalado edited and live mixed video.
Joa Palmér, Dag Engström, Lucinda Illernäs, Pacoco Gil, Victor Mondragon, Hassan Selim, Gabriel Agut performed.