ALMA ZEVI is pleased to present Violet Dennison's Dance Dance Revolution (2019).

Dennison’s video piece Dance Dance Revolution was made for her exhibition at the Kunsthall Stavangar (Norway). This is the first time it has been presented since then. Dance Dance Revolution is a two channel video installation that displays a popular arcade game where the dance moves provided by the machine are accompanied by an audio track consisting of morse code. In the game, the machine stimulates the human dance experience until the video shifts its pattern; dance moves are signalled by a left-right movement of colour and sounds that evokes codes of sine waves and EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) treatments. In this representation of the human form and its interaction with space and time, Dennison eliminates the subjects’ identities – filming from the back, not showing their heads or the faces. The fast-paced dance allows us to explore the connection between the data of machines, and the spirituality of the body moving at an almost uncontrollable speed – not unlike a whirling dervish. The two ‘dancers’ are seen side by side, so the viewer can observe how their movements are not, and can never be, identical. They are learning new movements from the machines, which are then used in an attempt to ‘beat’ the machines.