LUPERCYCLOPEDIA VJ Performance

On Friday June 17 2005 Peter Greenaway on invitation by NoTV performed his first VJ act.

On music by DJ Serge Dodwell (aka Radar), 'VJ' Greenaway used for his set a specially developed VJ system consisting of a large plasma screen with touchscreen. Utilizing this system, Greenaway projected the 92 Tulse Luper stories on the 12 screens of Club 11 in a multi-screen way and mixed the images 'live'.

The result was amazing: Greenaway rocked the crowd in Amsterdam's VJ temple "11", blending his avantgarde cinematographic imagery (taken from the Tulse Luper Suitcases movie) with the heavy movie score remix by DJ Radar. Mastering the giant touch screen the newborn 'realtime image conductor' Greenaway provided a totally new experience to the audience: Live Cinema at its best.

The magnificent VJ debut of Peter Greenaway did not go unnoticed. As "real time image conductor" he finally freed himself from classic cinematographic linearity. With his outstanding cinematographic eye and energetic approach Greenaway won the respect of fellow VJs worldwide and hereby set the pace in the toplevel international VJ scene.

Greenaway's ground breaking original VJ Performance proved immensely succesful. After a challenging and exciting start in 2005 the tour travelled in 4 years to 14 countries: Australia, Belgium, Brasil, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Film, video, music and crossover festivals hosted the 33 performances in classic and modern theatres, open squares, industrial halls, amphitheatres, concert-halls, opera-houses and musea.
And now: the story continues !

NEW 2010 / 2014 World Tour: THE LUPERCYCLOPEDIA

THE LUPERCYCLOPEDIA Live Cinema VJ performance presents a live encyclopedia for the Information Age: 92 Characters, 92 Places around the World, 92 Global Events, 92 Stories, 92 Elements, 92 Objects to Represent the World, 92 Atomic Bombs.

The encyclopedic TULSE LUPER SUITCASES PROJECT was always manufactured as an up-datable phenomenon for the Information Age, to be responsive to a plethora of new data and new ways to experience it. Since it will soon be ten years since the project's conception and a hundred years since Tulse Luper's birth, the project is being reborn as THE LUPERCYCLOPEDIA, re-establishing all the existing information and introducing much that is new, embracing a greater number of screens in new configurations for a denser impact to explore the first chapter of Uranium from its comprehension as an instrument of everlasting energy or total destruction, from 1911 through Hiroshima to the collapse of the Cold War in 1989, until the present day.

Through application of the latest multiscreen technology Greenaway is able to take his magnum opus "The Tulse Luper story" to exciting new heights, unleashing Luper's fully immersive potential:
- with new video content
- projected in High Definition 5-channel video
- specially composed surround audio by Dutch 'Golden Calf' Award winner Huibert Boon
- and new state-of-the-art VJ & DJ control system technology.

Pushing the boundaries of cinema even further, the new world tour starts in Summer 2010 with the brand new VJ performance THE LUPERCYCLOPEDIA: immersive cinema created live, and no performance will ever be the same. Cinema is dead; long live Cinema!