Body-Data Loop is a live performance and installation work, the result of 3 years of exchange between Australia and Taiwan. It is a choreography of combined bodies - interpolated into data points and mediated via the context of performance installation. The artists work to dissolve the boundaries between each other using digital and cultural technologies including language and dance, telecommunications and projection, incantation and togetherness. Their live performances leave shadows in the installation artwork - residue of an uncanny movement logic - the result of a Body-Data-Body-Data-Body-Data... LOOP. Through repetition the uncanny becomes normalised, familiar and reassuring, pluralism is now the default. The time before and during and after corporal presence is emptied of value hierarchy. We are now ever-present, a memory that is held by the machine - a collapse of time and space and self - communal being.
Performer
The artist group was formed through an open call under the 2022-2024 Taiwan and Australia Choreography and Technology Exchange Program. It began with the "Digital Creation Expansion Lab" and the "Choreography Creation Expansion Lab," fostering a collaborative partnership in digital technology and dance choreography between Taiwan and Australia.
LEE Ming-Chieh –is an independent choreographer born in 1989 in Taiwan. Her recent artworks are focusing on the phenomenon of "Nomadicity of current generation" that people long for moving and yet search for sense of security in it at the same time. She usually focused on the dynamic of body, objects and things as the main mediums for her research related to memory and time, and further discussed the flowing performativity of body and space.
Nasim PATEL –is an artist engaging with diasporic identities, technologies and the Anthropocene through rap, digital work, game development, performance, and writing. He has worked with artists such as Jo Lloyd, Matt Cornell, and Chris Chua, with whom he helped develop the interactive video game performance 'BeatStorm'. Nasim's major two recent works 'non-paradise', a short film commissioned through the Sydney Opera House's Shortwave program, and 'Equivalent Voids', created as an outcome for The Grimwade Collection Miegunyah Student Project Awards 2023, both explored the universality of desert spaces, parallels between void spaces and digital environments, and the particular experience of the early migrant cameleers in Central Australia. He is currently working with producer Tom Benter on a collaborative debut rap album, titled 'Freckles on My Ancestor's Face'
Roslyn ORLANDO –is a multidisciplinary artist working across live performance, video, text and experimental music. She is interested in the ways new technologies produce language, communication and meaning. Her work explores how these networked systems infiltrate, co-opt and disrupt our ontologies, emotional transmissions and experiences of time, memory, death, desire, friendship and other socially formed cognitions.
TIAN Zi-Ping –works mainly focus on the reflection towards the technical production and media era, and also attempt to achieve the multi-perspective artwork through the creative process. Tian shifts between roles of audio-visual technician, visual designer, and executive producer of new media devices at exhibition and theatre.
About the Performance
- Tryout Date：2024.11.15(Fri.) 19:00
- Screening Date：2024.11.16(Sat.) 19:00
- Venue：C-LAB FVL DOME
- Performance Date ：2024.11.23(Sat.) & 11.24(Sun.)15:00
- Exhibition Date：2024.11.26(Tue)-12.22(Sun.)
- Venue：NTMoFA U-108 SPACE
Organizer│C-LAB、Critical Path、NTMoFA
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Co-Organizer│Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Sydney