ReactionTime 1.0
Interactive performance
Jerusalem Design Week
23-30.6.2022, Hansen House
Ceramic material sensors, sound, and motion
3-part video projection on a 9x3m LED screen
changes in response to the sensory inputs
ReactionTime 1.0 is a performance piece where a one-time dynamic installation was created in an attempt to "capture" time, distort, stop, and record it. A playground where the artists challenge the perception of reality and the way information is processed by the viewers, creating an experience of an elastic sense of time, moving in parallel spaces.
By using a non-linear and rhizomatic creative process, based on 3 layers: body and material > sound > abstract image based on code. The performance opens with a synchronized movement of the creators, and in time is interrupted by distortions of movement, sound, and image.
Photos by Dor Kedmi, Courtesy of Jerusalem Design Week, Tal Penso, The ReactionTime Team
Video by Eden Bezalel Habas
The work ׳Reaction Time׳ was first performed at Hansen House as part of Jerusalem Design Week 2022 and was produced with the support of the Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage, The Jerusalem Development Authority, and Ran Wolf Company.
Since 2011, Jerusalem Design Week has been the largest and most influential public design event in Israel, offering a multitude of events, performances, and local and international design exhibitions. Each year, Jerusalem Design Week focuses on a central annual theme concerning situations that are at once unique to Jerusalem and Israel, and of international relevance, stemming from the idea that Israel’s cultural landscape allows it to serve as a kind of living laboratory for the exploration of urgent global issues, and based in the belief that design must respond to such issues.