Thi is a short lecture I gave for MIT as part of the Immersion In… series at MIT.nano. Discussed my work tracking movement in space without capturing the dancer’s body shape. This creates an artwork of the traces movement creates without many of the social and political constructs that seeing the body that is producing the movement. This work also allows the AR audience member to step into the movement, be present in and contribute to the choreography. The research I shared in this lecture explores collaborative place-making and new ways of artistic and political togetherness through the digital and the dance space.
“What does it mean artistically and politically for dance to take advantage of the boundary between physical and digital space? In the MIT.nano Immersion Lab, Dr. Adesola Akinleye has been tracking movement in space without capturing the dancer’s body shape. This creates an artwork of ‘pure movement’ without many of the social and political constructs that seeing the body that is producing the movement would impose on the meaning of the movement. This work also allows the AR audience member to step into the movement, be present in and contribute to the choreography. Her research explores collaborative place-making and new ways of artistic and political togetherness through the digital and the dance space.”
Watch the lecture below