Body Crysis/身體災變
Harrison Hall, Sam Mcgilp, Body Crysis/身體災變, 2022. Digital x Live Performance & Multiplayer Game.
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 and Bunjil Place.
Credits:
- Lead Artists: Harrison Hall, Sam Mcgilp, NAXS FUTURE
- Creative and Art Director: Han Yu-Feng
- Project Manager: Chun-Ting Chen
- Scene Design, Player Character Design and Web UI Design: Eg.lio
- System & Interactive Development: KP Wong & YJ Huang
- Technical Art: Wei Huang
- Sound Design and Live Performance: Prairie WWWW
- Performers and Collaborators: Cody Lavery, Imanuel Dado, Samuel Harnett-Welk
- Lead Avatar Design: Luca Dante
- Lighting Design: Jenny Hector
- Set Design: Lotus Hall
- Costume: Sez Brez
- Producers: Erin Milne and Xavier O’Shannessy
Body Crysis/身體災變 is presented as part of the Body-Cities program as curated by Centre Of Projection Art artistic director Priya Namana for FRAME: a biennial of dance 2023, and can be seen on the 13, 14, 15, 16, 19 March, 4.00 pm – 5.00 pm on the Bunjil Place Outdoor Screen.
Harrison Hall
Harrison Hall’s work situates contemporary performance and dance in experiential art environments. Harrison’s recent work traverses states of flux between the digital and physical realms. His works have been presented nationally and internationally.
Sam Mcgilp
Sam Mcgilp is a media artist and researcher working in contemporary performance contexts. He seeks to create digital states of play that foreground somatic and performative knowledge in digital work. His PhD research with Chambermade and RMIT was awarded the Vice-chancellor’s Phd Scholarship and the emerging scholar award.
Documentation of Body Crysis_身體災變” (2022), Harrison Hall and Sam Mcgilp
Documentation of Body Crysis_身體災變 (2022), Harrison Hall and Sam Mcgilp. Photo courtesy of the artists_1
Harrison Hall
Sam Mcgilp
