Unseen Worlds: Bodies in motion and at rest, is a site-specific screen dance choreographed by U-M dancer Leah O’Donnell in response to Unseen Worlds, an adhesive vinyl installation by Jim Cogswell. Seven dancers shapeshift alongside the colorful microscopic creatures of the installation and move within the architecture of the museum.
Unseen Worlds is an adhesive vinyl mural on the theme of microorganisms. Cogswell, who is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of Art & Design in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, made ink paintings of more than 350 microorganisms which were transferred to a digital format to create machine-cut vinyl film. The brightly colored vinyl elements make visible the world of the unseen, creating a link between art and natural science. Unseen Worlds is on view through 2023. …...more
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