“Body Crysis/身體災變” is a choreographic work with (re)animated bodies, stretching the bounds of our newfound digital corporeality. It transmutes dance, motion capture and CG animation into a simultaneous, shared performance between Newport and Taipei, in the flesh and online. Long-time collaborators Harrison Hall and Sam Mcgilp have teamed up with NAXS FUTURE, a Taipei-based media art collective to present a hybrid live/digital dance work of impossible choreography, biomimicry and techno-morphology. Performed simultaneously at The Substation and online, “Body Crysis/身體災變” is the culmination of two years of experiments in motion capture and digital choreography by two artists who are fast gaining a reputation for their visionary approach to genre-fluid performance. “Body Crysis/身體災變” is decentralised and untethered. Recordings of the hybrid performance and digital dance work will be exhibited as a screening at Composite Moving Image Agency and Media Bank.
These experiments in film will also satellite showcase at Bunjil Place and Metro Arts in Meajin (Brisbane).