Monumental Video Projections

The video above comes from Easyweb.fr, a group in Europe that specializes in architectural projection performances and technologies.

These projections are similar to the large out door installations Frieder Weiss has implemented in his Wishing Well and a few other installations.

The use of 3D techniques and illusions to create virtual lighting and a sense of depth in accenting and animating a static space is particularly interesting to me. While none of the examples above include a live performer, I feel as though the techniques demonstrated can directly inform the use of projections in a live performance context. The vivid, realistic and intense transformation of architecture into a moving pallet, as well as the examples provided in smaller room sized spaces directly points towards a powerful and perhaps more classically informed use of projection as lighting within narrative live performances.