In 2014, Atlanta Eke’s “Body of Work” stunned audiences with its technical mastery, offering up a vision of future in which time collapses, and the physical body and its digital simulations collide and consume one another. Created in collaboration with video artists RDYSTDY and composer Daniel Jenatsch, this ground-breaking work imagined an end to the distinction between human and machine, questioning who choreographs and who is choreographed.
In 2023, they return to make a sequel, of sorts: “QWERTY” — a new work exploring the footprint technologies have made on the human body, and our capacity to rewrite our choreographic coding. Experimenting with interior and exterior interfaces and notions of path dependency, “QWERTY” probes the capability of the dancing body to break free of its pre-installed design.
Presented together as a double bill, “Body of Work” and “QWERTY” offer two spellbinding commentaries on the relationship between the human body and technology, in an evening of stunning visuals and innovative possibilities.
Post-show talk: Friday 24 March, 7.30pm