Lumi is conceived as a surreal, celestial-like, minimalistic performance/installation. It invites its audience to wander and explore the movement of lights and dancers, to drift among luminous objects, to surrender to curious sensations.
Lumi explores the possibilities of an event-world rather than an object world – something more dynamic and relatively unpredictable. It aims at diverse sensory experiences and a heightened sensitivity towards the immediate physicality of the world by interlacing movement, dance, music, visual art and light design. The performance/installation affirms the idea of place as sensed, place as sensation – space as audile-tactile or kinaesthetic sensory universe in which proprioception is key.
During the performance the audience is free to move, enjoy multiple perspectives, explore, be active and/or relax. Furthermore, in order to respect the individual needs of both babies and adults, as well as the time needed to constitute the experience, the audience is invited to enjoy the installation upon their personal needs – to arrive at the time which suits them the best and stay as long as they like to, within the 4 hours running time.
Essential for the concept is the notion of audience’s agency in correlation with multi-directional interaction of the senses and sensuous interrelationship of body-mind-environment. Safe and stimulating performance environments are conceived to generate an inter relational ecology, providing unique conditions for a wide variety of interchange and communication. The installation environment is designed to challenge conventional conception of aesthetics for babies by proposing to its audience out-of ordinary experience and ambience.