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Dancing at the Edge of the World
Replica Institute
Artistic direction: Diana Neranti
Dramaturgy: Kirsty May Hamilton
Production: Dimitri Cacouri
Production assistant: Emma Collauzzo
Performers:
Dimitri Cacouris, Kirsty May Hamilton, Angela Monaco, Sarai O'gara, Kate Ryan
Costume & interaction design: Mika Satomi
Sound design: Kling klang klong - Johannes Helberger, Lugh O'Neill
Data visualisation: Meredith Thomas
A speculative practice-as-research piece exploring the intersections between the body-based practices promoted by Grotowski’s theatre laboratory and Donna Haraway’s feminist theory.
Dancing at the Edge of the World aimed to shift the locus of knowledge production for AI-design by rooting it in the experience of the body.
Mika Satomi developed the wearable technology: a collar, with bend sensors that can be attached to 8 points on the body. A speaker sits on the front of the collar, emitting sounds that react to how the performer moves their body. These sensor data are lists of numbers, which can be sonified or visualised in various ways, creating aural or visual cartographies of movement captured in flight.
The sounds emitted were developed by kling klang klong. They remodelled aspects from the human vocal anatomy through the artificial voice, by mimicing the vocalisation of the vowels and phonemes of the English language.
