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.
