Work in progress… Surging Verticality

Coming together for the third time, now at Performance Space, we have begun to develop small experiments around the conversation between somatic bodywork and the crafting of body-centred technologically mediated or augmented audience experiences. Seeking moments of transformation of the ordinary. It’s not as easy as you might expect. The idea that I had originally conceived was slowly dissected and reformulated as we began to test materials and insert the body. The body as always is the ultimate test. My doctoral thesis had this tenet at its core. Yet I was still surprised at how radically the body (the experience of individual bodies) can affect conceptual understandings or imaginings.

Video of Catherine having her movement initiated and supported by the tensioned cloth attached to her heels, after being guided by Maggie through a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement of lifting her heels and arms.

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About Lian Loke

Lian Loke (NSW) is a researcher at the UTS Interaction Design and Work Practice group (IDWoP), where she has been researching vocabularies for designing with movement and gestural interaction, inspired by approaches such as Laban notation, Body Weather and Ashtanga Yoga. Lian’s research practice involves a close study of experience-in-interaction as a tool for designing and evaluating interactions between people and machines, as exemplified by her work on Ross Gibson and Kate Richards’ ‘Bystander’ project.

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