Dazzleissue #1 NEWS

HELLO!

Since we last met, the project has grown from strength to strength. We jaunted our way through a staggering thirty Zooms in the Alternate Realities Talent market, presenting to the Baltic, Tate, Serpentine and Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam and Phi Centre in Montréal. We loved talking with everyone and were inspired by the interest and insight shown in those brief but beneficial gatherings.

We established the DAZZLE Collective for worldwide fashion students to create 100 unique costumes, beginning in Singapore in the next fortnight. We have had exciting The DAZZLE Project is an experience of immense joy and conversations with other partners from the world of immersive an expression of deep rebellion. Designed as a tourable hardware, footwear, and fashion. interactive exhibition with a desire to reshape contemporary forms and combine fashion, art, music and choreography. A And with our partners CCIXR at the University of Portsmouth new model for next-generation Mixed-Reality. and Cooperative Innovations, we have now begun work on the UKRI funded ‘MotionRiver’ spinoff project — streaming Inspired by the 1919 Chelsea Arts Club Dazzle Ball, we situate Mocap for all. our experience in the 21st Century, bringing to life colourful net-art and post-internet aesthetics. Costumes allow audiences Most importantly, Bine has a new dog — it is lovely. to join the exhibition — coats, masks, capes and hats, offering an introduction to the dazzling landscape. The visitor embarks on an expedition, fully prepared and supported to explore alternate realities — participants diving in and out of sensual and visual optical illusions, distinctive and part of the spectacle. Live dancers and audience members are modelled as animated dazzle characters, assembling in virtual worlds. The individual experience emerges alongside collective understanding.

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BLESS ALL The history of Dazzle camouflage is inextricably SEAFARERS connected to the naval application of its confusing aesthetic to bewilder the enemy. The high contrast designs pioneered by artists like Edward Wadsworth were applied to ships, baffling the predatory U-Boats hunting them. The crews of the Dazzle ships were protected by warpaint that gave them both an intense identity THEY exchange while simultaneously misleading enemies with a unique form of camouflage. not one LAND for another, but one ELEMENT

Dazzle does not hide. Bold, abstract and for ANOTHER. chaotic, it is present. It unites people with its non-conformity and its fearlessness. Attracting people to its cause, inviting exploration and The MORE against expedition. Those who sail with Dazzle reap the rewards of experience revelling in their own agency. the LESS ABSTRACT Causing a little confusion and cavorting with rebellious abandon. This is perhaps why so many Blast! The Vorticist Manifesto art movements embraced the Dazzle aesthetic: Vorticists and Cubists to the Bauhaus not forgetting the remarkable effect on clothing and costume and why the Dazzle Ball was such an outrageous spectacle and legendary hootenanny. Captain Schmidt at his periscope You need not fall and faint For its not the vision of drug or dope But only the DAZZLE PAINT.

James Taylor ‘Dazzle: Disguise & Disruption in War & Art’

D A Z Z L E CONTACT

Alexa.Pollmann @ DAZZLE2020.com +44 7447 534595

Bruno.Martelli @ DAZZLE2020.com +44 7547 204463

Dan.Tucker @ DAZZLE2020.com +44 7733 048217