Synchronising the brain signals of two performers with the Audience’s

(un)focussed is a live EEG experience, in which we try to “tune” the minds of all audience in the room and the performers to the same mental state by using a flickering light at 10Hz. Through the translation of EEG signals into laser light, each person in the audience can observe the similarities and differences between the brain-states of the two performers throughout the piece, and feel the difference with their own.

Commissioned by the Amsterdam Brain and Mind project / VU University in Amsterdam.

(un)focussed is the third work of a tryptic directed towards the analysis and display of human brain activity.

• EEG analysis and laser design: Alberto Novello
• Sound design: Ivo Bol
• Scenography & light design: Marion Traenkle
• Choreography: Marion Traenkle, Roos van Berkel and Tashi Iwaoka
• Performers: Roos van Berkel and Tashi Iwaoka

made possible with support from Dutch Performing Arts Fund