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Rain (created by Camille Utterback & Romy Achituv) is a playful
interactive installation that blurs the boundary between the familiar
and the magical. Participants use the familiar instrument of their
bodies to lift and play with falling letters that do not really exist.
Participants view a mirrored projection of themselves in black and
white, combined with falling, colored text. Like rain or snow, the
text lands on participants' heads and arms. The text responds to the
participants' motions and can be caught, lifted, and then let fall
again.
If a participant accumulates enough letters along their outstretched arms, or along the silhouette of any dark object, they can sometimes catch an entire word, or even a phrase. The falling letters are not random, but lines of a poem about bodies and language. As letters from one line of the poem fall towards the ground they begin to fade, and differently colored letters from the next line replace them from above. Reading the poem in the Text Rain installation becomes a physical rather than cerebral endeavor.
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