Handbook for a Photographic Investigation

[Texte disponible uniquement en anglais] Jenny Vogel’s Handbook for Photographic Investigation is a performance about historical and paranormal mysteries and their photographic representations. The visuals and sound for the performance are created live, on-site with a copy machine, and are presented to the audience via projection. Legend, myth and the supernatural are persistent forces in society, despite an ever-growing trust in science; it is the iconography that changed. Though now in the scientific rather than the religious realms, the images are strikingly similar: blurry lights, faint traces of hard to define objects and the ever lasting conflict between believers and skeptics. The low-resolution black and white images from the copy machine mixed with glossy 3D animated models feed our desire to believe, perpetuating the myth. Much like a magician Vogel creates a tension between the reality of the performance space and the blurry illusion of the projected images.