futurasa
futuRasa is a mixed reality performance installation performed by a dancer covered completely in white clothing and body paint positioned in front of a white vertical rectangular canvas. A 3D animation is projected onto the hybridized surface of her body/canvas. The dancer performs a series of slow, archetypal gestures based on four rasas. Rasa is a term from Hindu aesthetics that defies precise translation, but can be described as “juice”, “flavor”, “emotion”, “essence.” Rasa is arguably an archetype of sensate emotion. The gestural rasas are utilized as the basis for both physical choreography and kinetic 3D animation, which is projected back onto the canvas of the body, creating a poetic interfusion of sensate embodiment across a physical-digital spectrum. The small, integrated theatrical format explores contemporary iterations of futurist performance forms – i.e. extreme, innovative, self-contained performative syntheses of body and machine.
MIXED REALITY PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION
2007
futurismo
Futurismo is a series of 3D images developed in the creative research process for FutuRasa. The impetus for the series was an exploration and deconstruction of the forms and methods utilized in 20th century futurist paintings, toward initial discovery of an expansion and evolution of these gestures within the context of a 3-dimensional canvas. The series explores fusion of stasis and motion, light and materiality, surface and depth, time and space. Created using Maya.
3D IMAGE SERIES
2006
