DCTV and Open-Azathoth

Dynamic Configuration and Transversal Video is a practice-based research methodology devised by Ben Spatz. For further information:

https://punctumbooks.com/titles/making-a-laboratory-dynamic-configurations-with-transversal-video/.

Throughout the process, we can distinguish between several different implementations. In this beat, we see variations of:

Open-Azathoth and Informed Open-Azathoth

Extending from the second to the third beat of the first phase, we adjust the previous variation to place an increasingly rigorous focus on the aesthetics, practices, and concepts of Azathoth. Often, we work so that all movers embody the role of practitioner, and Roi as a musician embodies the role of director within the practice space. This change of configuration and approach to stewardship, which can be notated as: [ M O Ra S ] < Ro .

“Informed” Open-Azathoth then connotes sessions where specific aspects of the aesthetics, practices, and concepts of Azathoth were foreground by various principles, challenges, and invitations. On the level of impulse manipulation and saturation: Stay with and develop one thing for longer than intuitive, isolating and saturating specific qualities and colors; Prolong the transformation from one material to another. On the level of collective composition: Attend to the composition of the space, aware of the serendipitous encounters, accidents, that may be engaged, fulfilled, embraced; Find opposition relative to the other practitioners. And on the level of shaping the temporality of the piece: Provide a “tutorial” for a spectator, an exclamation of intent which inform their intrigue.

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