COLLABORATIONS
In performance, I “become” light.
Light propagates from my body and magnifies my movements. I feel light’s direction, scale and geometry as my body, and move accordingly. The performances work when movement dissolves the boundaries between light, body, and architecture.
Eye Dance
A collaboration with poet and visual artist Elizabeth Goldring, using Light Dance to communicate with her impaired eye. Goldring viewed the performances through a scanning laser ophthalmoscope that directed imagery onto healthy portions of her damaged retina. This work led to “Eye Robot,” a “seeing-machine” for people with low-vision.
Light Dance - Sky Art: collaboration with Otto Piene
Wearing mirrored and holographic costumes, Riskin performed Light Dances in the sky, lifted upon helium-filled, polyethelene tubes.
Riskin performed in light beams cast through Piene’s “Prism Dome” at the Schadow Arkaden, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Robotic Light Ballet
Riskin collaborated with Otto Piene to build motion platforms that animated Piene’s “Light Ballet.” In addition to tests at the MIT Museum, the Light Ballet Robots were featured in the 2014 Otto Piene memorial at MIT.
Regenbogen Raster
Developed in appreciation of Otto Piene’s “Light Ballet” for an exhibition at ZERO Haus, Düsseldorf, Germany in 2021, the project built upon the art form with novel techniques and LED light sources.
MIT 150th Sky Art Event
With Otto Piene, Riskin led the planning and execution of the culminating event of MIT’s sesquicentennial celebration, lifting Piene’s inflatable stars, Cereus and Paris, into the night sky of MIT’s Killian Court.
Silo Solos
“Red Breath” (2020) in the Otto Piene Light Silo and “Open Eye” (2021) in the Paul Matisse Bell Silo, video performances at the Otto and Elizabeth Piene Art Farm in Groton, Massachusetts.
Both works were part of the B3 Biennale Frankfurt, Germany
