VESPERTINE

VIDEO PROJECTION DESIGN

2018

I made the video projection design for the opera VESPERTINE. Vespertine is an opera based on Björk’s album Vespertine, staged by Hotel Pro Forma and The National Theatre Mannheim. Vespertine is a visual poem about cells, transformation, frequencies.

Music: Björk
Idea, stage adaptation, transcription, orchestration and additional music:
Jan Dvořák / Peter Häublein / Roman Vinuesa /
Dramaturgy: Julia Warnemünde
Director: Kirsten Dehlholm / Jon R. Skulberg
Stage design: Maja Ziska
Video design: Adam Ryde Ankarfeldt
Light design: Jesper Kongshaug

Premiere: National Theater Mannheim, Manheim, Germany, May 2018

RHEIN-NECKAR-ZEITUNG (DE):
»Adam Ryde Ankarfeldt’s video visualisation delve deep into the microscopic. Fantastic worlds of colour and shapes appear, are projected. Photographs and videos of cells, the network inside the brain as well as the microscopic, translucent building blocks of life. It is staged in visionary and utopian style, with Maja Ziska’s scenography and Fredrik Floen’s costumes.«

DIE RHEINPFALZ (DE):
»…Similarly, anyone in the audience at the almost sold-out National Theatre encounters an overwhelming blend of video-art, Adam Ryde Ankarfeldt, imaginative stage design... «

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Process

I created the video projection using real microscopic visualizations from Core Facility for Integrated Microscopy at The Panum Institute in Copenhagen. I animated and adapted visuals of blood vessels from mouse and rat brains, pig and rat kitneys, haircells, human lungs and even a pollen grain (see image to the left).

ADAM RYDE
CVR 39332787