The Lobster

 

- Motion capture live performance

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Together with a dancer this work explores the limits of the human body and the possibilities of extension through technology. Motion capture data is manipulated and transferred to a nonhuman body through recoding. Through the performance, the dancer slips into the other body. Their movements are transcribed and rewritten. The Lobster thus reflects on the technical-human relationship and the human longing for out-of-body experiences.

Physicality in the digital sphere is a changeable state.
Digital bodies are malleable, permeable, fluid and without borders. It is the place where the body is not subject to any physical laws and does not have to depict what actually exists. Through digital art we invent new body forms to free oneself from restrictive gender binaries and thus to undermine conventional notions of identity and representation. The digital realm is therefore a place of utopia, a place of imagination and transformation.

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concept, 3D-design, motion capturing, rigging, video-editing  -  Lisa Kaschubat

dancing  -  Tasha Hess-Neustadt