Flow Fields

Presented by

May 21, 2013

London/ Madrid/ Lisbon

Flow Fields
London/ Madrid/ Lisbon

The Architectural Association’s Inter-professional studio performs vivid flows between body and space through themes of water. The multi-sensory installation Flow Field is focused on journeys of water and our relationshipto them through movement, sound and cultural activities.

From the first iteration on Flow Field at the Zaha Hadid designed Roca Gallery in London, the studio expands the project to the Matadero and continues its collaboration such as Distract Fold Ensemble,

New Movement Collective and the Fundacio Enric Miralles. The Architectural Association’s Interprofessional studio installation continued to permeate the Matardero before it continued to the Lisbon ArchitectureTriennale in September 2013.

Through the AAIS Flow Fields programme, interactive installations, music and dance combine to address atmosphere changes within the Sinel de Cordes Palace by inciting the senses. Through manipulations of water and light, forms in flux, live soundscape compositions and interactive navigation, visitors will experienceheightened atmospheric awareness as they explore throughout the palace courtyard. As a continuous flow of events running from the 12th - 15th of September, the visitors become an integral part of the activities.

Hear the Cloud

Hear the Cloud is a performative object, seemingly formed like a floating cloud on the wall of thecourtyard. As time passes, it

gradually expands its structure and plays the sound translation of invisible vapor particles. Expansion andcontraction of the cloud represents the humidity changes corresponding to the sound gradually effected by moist. This work explores the invisible realm surrounding us and makes it tangible.

Touch The sound!

Visitors experience memory of the Palace or childhood through soundscapes activated by magnets. The sound sources generate interaction amongst the visitors, who then become part of the performance in thecourtyard. As pre-recorded sounds highlight the old memory of the courtyard, new memories of the Palace arerecreated through reiterations and translations.

Hear The shadow!

With light, projection, sound and shadow, the domes creates a flowing lively atmosphere in the courtyard andindicate the concept of diluting architecture. The elements of sound, light and projections create illusory scenes mixed with real circumstances to blur the boundary of illusion and reality.

Hear the Light!

Performed throughout the Sinel de Cordes Palace, Hear the Light! unites dance, music, water and sunlight. Two tuning experiments -- one with sound and one with movement -- are performed concurrently side by side; dancers and musicians operate independently of each other, and synchronicity is left to chance.

During the performance costumes and objects are used to manipulate light and water, addressing the sensesand transforming the palace into a stage in flux.

Flow Fields culminates its finale performance with the voices of a choir singing nostalgia-tone translations. It leads visitors into a collective performance of live sounds and dance by New Collective Movement and Distractfold Ensemble heightening the senses towards the surrounding elements throughout the wholepalace courtyard. This is the culmination of every element present within the courtyard that brings the visitorsinto a harmonious experience of sound, light, movement and as they explore    different parts of the courtyard.

No items found.

Past Events

September 17, 2024
Academic

AAIS 2024-25

June 5, 2024
Festival

BORNE

March 22, 2024
Festival

Creatures of Compassion: A Performative Dinner Event!

March 22, 2024
Festival

Music and Mixology Workshop

March 18, 2024
Festival

रक़ीब; Raqeeb

March 18, 2024
Exhibition

-Waiting- Watching

March 18, 2024
Festival

BORNE: To those born later

March 17, 2024
Exhibition

Catalyst

March 16, 2024
Performance

Savage Growth

March 15, 2024
Performance

404 Reading Club

March 15, 2024
Performance

Veiled texture of shame

March 14, 2024
Performance

Fractured Reflections

March 14, 2024
Performance

Wanderer's reverie

March 13, 2024
Performance

No Apple

March 12, 2024
Performance

Threads of Transformation

March 1, 2024
Exhibition

Commune: A Sensory Journey Combining Music and Art to Elevate the Senses

December 15, 2023

Whilst in Sight

December 1, 2023
Performance

Realms

November 17, 2023
Performance

The Falsified

October 20, 2023
Performance

Holding Me Gently

October 3, 2023
OPEN REHEARSAL

The World’s One Hope

September 6, 2023

Among

June 1, 2023
Performance

Parding your Beggon

March 9, 2023

Metamorph

March 9, 2023

Parding your Beggon

March 9, 2023
Performance

Seen

March 9, 2023

Partita

March 7, 2023
Performance

Drifting

March 6, 2023
Exhibition

DIFFERENT

December 16, 2022
Performance

Staging Artists

December 2, 2022
Performance

TORQUE

November 18, 2022
Performance

And ACT(iva)TION!

November 4, 2022
Performance

Spatial Narrative: Pandora's

October 21, 2022
Performance

Metronome

October 7, 2022
Performance

"Selves"

October 3, 2022
Lecture

Billy Klotsa

June 25, 2022
Exhibition

AAIS at AA Project Review

May 25, 2022
Festival

Echo 2.0: Ripples

May 25, 2022
Performance

Wô-men

May 25, 2022
Performance

Dawn

May 25, 2022
Performance

Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)

March 24, 2022
Performance

Echo_Performances

March 24, 2022
Jury

MFA Final Jury

March 23, 2022
Performance

The Initial Metaverse

March 23, 2022
Performance

Myself

March 23, 2022
Performance

Power Off

March 22, 2022
Performance

Reconstruction

March 22, 2022
Performance

Rock Rose

March 22, 2022
Performance

The Invisible Cage

March 21, 2022
Festival

Echo

March 21, 2022
Performance

The Floating Life

March 21, 2022
Exhibition

How Was Your Day

March 21, 2022
Performance

Advertiseverse

March 21, 2022
Performance

Fantasia

March 20, 2022
Performance

The Music Of Our Dreams

March 17, 2022
Performance

Undoing Self

March 4, 2022
Exhibition

Alyosha

February 27, 2019
Performance

Schweig und Sprechen

April 26, 2018
Festival

A Walk

January 20, 2018
Performance

Cloud/Plunger

July 6, 2017

To Be Honest - Spain

May 20, 2016

Dial

March 21, 2016
Performance

XYZ/s

May 20, 2014

The Conversation

May 21, 2013

Flow Fields

May 20, 2012

Angles of Incident

May 18, 2011
Performance

Exquisite Corpse

May 17, 2010

Seed to Scene

May 5, 2009
Festival

Bauhaus Lab

Get involved

Join AAIS and apply today