RESONANT CITY
Resonant City was the New Zealand entry to the Space Section of the 2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, PQ15. It was a collaboration between Simon Twose and Katrina Simon. A short film was performed in Clam Gallas Palace, and a city walk performance conduced in the streets of Prague with twenty participants.
Prague city streets, beginning at Clam Gallas Palace, Prague
PERFORMANCE
2015
Twenty participants, or ‘drawers,’ flowed through the city capturing it in strange ways using shaped mirrors on the end of selfie-sticks and cameras or mobile phones. The Resonant City project merged uncontrolled natural events in two cities; the propensity of Prague’s landscape to inundate the city with water was blended with the cataclysmic seismic jolts that occurred in Canterbury, New Zealand, in 2010/11.
Participants encountered the city as a form of flood, and a line of least resistance, and their collective and individual movements were recorded as redrawing of the city.