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Bodytext

2010. Interactive performance installation by Simon Biggs, Sue Hawksley & Garth Paine.

Bodytext is a performance work that involves speech, movement and the body. A dancer's movement and speech are re-mediated within an augmented environment employing real-time motion tracking, voice recognition, interpretative language systems, projection and audio synthesis. The acquired speech, a description of an imagined dance, is re-written through projected digital display and sound synthesis, the performer's movements causing texts to interact and recombine with one another through their subsequent compositional arrangement. What is written is affected by the dance whilst the emerging recombinant descriptions determine what is danced.

Bodytext questions and seeks insight into the relations between kinaesthetic experience, memory, agency and language.

Image credit: Photos: Simon Biggs.


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