Abstract
After a brief reflection on ‘aura’ and ‘atmosphere’, and mentioning the current vogue of immersive and participatory performance, Johannes Birringer introduces scenographic concepts explored in the European METABODY project and practices of stage designers and installation artists working with changing materialities and atmospherics. The essay then addresses the question of how we understand the human and non-human, controllable and uncontrollable aspects of atmospheres, before discussing the material affects of choreosonic wearables and the design of wearables used in immersive performative environments which themselves are conceived as formative, not built or constructed in a stable form. Basing its investigation of such interactive environments for wearable performance in recent productions of the DAP-Lab, the essay explores the impact of VR "accessories" (wearable augmented virtuality) on movement choreography and role-play within dance installations – here called ‘kimospheres’.
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