TADRA, and other visions
Jahra Wasasala x Henry Lai-Pyne x Spewer
Mixed Media Performance
Commissioned by CHUNKY MOVE
Activators 10 (residency / development program)
Monday 27–Friday 31 March 2023
Collaborators: Jahra Wasasala @jahra.arieta Henry Lai-Pyne @eek_now Spewer @spewer_os Oosh @ooshcon Liam Wolfe @liamwlfe Harrison Hall @infernalfaun Sam Mcgilp @mygilp
TADRA, and other visions uses motion capture, animation and dance to explore and reinterpret Fijian mythology, symbology and expressive movement. TADRA holds a process of world-building and technological interrogation that focuses on the memory and stories of the dancing-body while transmuting Fijian folklore into a digital vision of mutation and distortion. This work in development utilises motion capture technology to inhabit virtual creatures and environments, in the process of enhancing and abstracting bodily expression in a live space.
KALOUGATA - DRA
Jahra Wasasala x Henry Lai-Pyne
Animation Film and Dance Performance
KALOUGATA - DRA has had two development iterations presented through an online virtual experience with Tempo Dance Festival 2022 (Aotearoa, NZ) and through a live-exhibition space at The Physics Room Gallery (Aotearoa, NZ) that featured an experimental experience between Jahra’s live physical performance, costume design, sculpture and Henry’s multimedia animation.
Collaborators: Jahra Wasasala @jahra.arieta Henry Lai-Pyne @eek_now Oosh @ooshcon Harrison Hall @infernalfaun Spewer @spewer_os
KALOUGATA - DRA uses motion capture, animation and dance to explore and reinterpret Fijian mythology, symbology and expressive movement. KALOUGATA - DRA holds a process of world-building and technological interrogation that focuses on the memory and stories of the dancing-body while transmuting Fijian folklore into a digital vision of mutation and distortion. This work in development utilises motion capture technology to inhabit virtual creatures and environments, in the process of enhancing and abstracting bodily expression in a live space.
EXTREME SYMBOLS
Experimental Animation film and Score
Commissioned by Soft Centre
Premiered at SOFT CENTRE’s ARC at the Ritz Cinema
8th of April 2022.
EXTREME SYMBOLS is an experimental animation short and score that was completed between 2021 and 2022. The work is a dedication and homage to my dear friend Baramet (Ham) Laosethakul who passed away in early 2021. The work has been a process of my grief, and seeks to process joint memories, environments, dreams, and speculative nostalgia between two friends.
Are we able to create and position omens in a state of lucid dreaming? Could these supernatural objects grant fortuitous affect upon the waking life. EXTREME SYMBOLS is a process of digitally seeking and creating new artefacts and images in order to consolidate the past and present.
EXTREME SYMBOLS incorporates a mixture of various mediums, methodologies, and subject matter to address the various stages and ideas that are involved in consolidating loss. The experimental film includes the use of photogrammetry to create digital scanned artefacts, sourced video footage, live-action film, digital sculpture and animation, motion capture, and artificial intelligent assisted imagery.
jebaited
Virtual livestream and artist interviews
commissioned by Arts House, Cambelltown Arts Centre, Taipei Performing Arts Centre, and Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, as part of BLEED 's 2022 online symposium/ after party.
incl. of
- Avatar A
- Avatar B
- their respective UE4 domains
- 4x obligatory, but v enjoyable 16:9 Zoom Artist Interviews w/ Avatar A (u can find em on youtube
- 1x vtuber unreal livestream w/ Avatar B
- 1x Arts House instagram heist
- 1x Cloudy Ku mix
- 1x Liam's brain
- 1x anticlimactic geoguesser fumble
Collaborators:
Henry Lai-Pyne - Lead Artist
Mat Spisbah - Lead Artist
Liam Wolfe - Unreal Engine design and real-time developer
Emile Zile - Host / Avatar
Cloudy Ku - DJ
Amnesia Scanner
single channel video, audio, screen and stand
2024
as part of group exhibition: every time we touch I get this feeling
including: Felix Ashford, Paul Boyé & Ella Valentine Bunker, Kalanjay Dhir, Eugene Hawkins, Lucas Horta, Henry Lai-Pyne (eek), Jake Starr, Yanti Peng.
Curated by Audrey Jo Pfister
at Blindside
GUAI
Interactive motion capture and sound installation
Creative Concept & Sound Design by Mindy Meng Wang & Monica Lim
Coding and Technology by Qiushi Zhou and the School of Computing, University of Melbourne
Avatar Design by Henry Lai-Pyne
Lighting Design by Giovanna Yate Gonzalez
Set Design by Savanna Wegman
Commissioned by Melbourne Fringe 2023 with the support of Footscray Community Arts and the University of Melbourne.
6 Across, 6 Down
2-channel video install
Commissioned by SOFT CENTRE
Installed and exhibited at SOFT CENTRE UNFURL 2022, Closing Concert V, The Calyx, Sydney Botanical Gardens
27/11/2022
Bridget Mary Chappell, Fresh Waterfalls
accompanying film/animation
full project details:
Commissioned by the City of Melbourne
Vinyl released on Heavy Machinery Records
https://heavymachineryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/undertow
30/10/2020
~ The accompanying video serves as an extension to the critical story telling of Undertow. This compositional extract, Bridget’s accompanying text, and the film’s direction speaks on the exploitative history of the Birrarung River through colonisation and how this force is still ongoing. The film continues Bridget’s process of data abstraction and subversion with a focus on Colonial cartographic iconography, illustration, and image creation. The bridge between past and present colonial efforts is represented with the evolving motif of the ornamental frame - a seemingly illustrative branding and beautification of settler cartography. Through this frame, we can see distortions (perhaps devolution) to the fidelity of it’s material and the geographical images it attempts to neutrally portray. ~
SKINS
Live audio visual film performance
Commissioned by AsiaTopa and Exhibitionist
Performed at ACMI
30/03/2022
SOFT CENTRE VIVID 2023, Carriageworks
Brand ID and Animation Assets
SOFT CENTRE pres. UNFURL, 2022
Brand ID and Animation Assets
Hextape, Toyota
music video
Released on Anterograde
https://anterograde.bandcamp.com/album/toyota
8/3/2020
video for Roy Mills: Dissociation from LP:Hell Beckons For Ye Who Ain't Repenting
This album and all of its dedications are in direct support of the Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation & the Mogo Local Aboriginal Land Council.
All revenue raised will be split evenly between: Mogo Local Aboriginal Land Council (Mogo LALC): https://bit.ly/2W1JRhH Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation: https://bit.ly/2WrLEeT
soi (4) : visuals in-situ feat. Ham
track id: Lensk - Strained
AsiaTOPA: Sinofuturists 2020 (promotional video)
w/: Mat Spisbah :)
Performances:
Lu Yang New Work Premier: "Delusional World" - 6th March 2020 - Federation Square
Alex Wang & Chill Chill - 26th March 2020 - Melbourne Recital Centre
Howie Lee & Teom Chen - 27th March 2020 - Melbourne Recital Centre
WHOLE: event series
Visual Identity
with Jack Nelson
SOI: event series
Visual Identity
with Ham Laosethakul ... until the next ... <3
track: Gooooose - Plasma Sunrise
terra - Naarm (the return to Bolte Bridge) - 2020
fundraiser for Bushfire Relief for Wildlife Rescue : AUD 375 donated <3
Performing Lineup:
- Bayard Cooper (live) w/ Performance by Ece Yavuz, Joe Newton-keogh and Miles Lee.
Choreography: Ece Yavuz
- Siri
- Negative Thought Pattern (live)
- Shiga Mioko
- Cypha (live)
- Hextape
- DJ Mum
- Voss
- surprise guest: Kétia (Lisbon)
no shutdown :)) (10:00pm ~ 11:00am)
executed with:
Ghostello, and Maurice Galactica
