“I have said before
that the music is the words
and the words are the music
It is all there for you to understand if you
can
and for you to feel, regardless
It is the feeling that is the sign of the
beingness
the stimulation
movement is the key to the one-ness.”
-Sun Ra, “The Endless Eternal Universe”
Espírito
4 minutes and 44 seconds, Dance Performance-based 3D motion graphic animation, 2022
“Espírito” is an experimental 3D animation composed of 3D scanned body movements of dancers from BIPOC and LGBTQIA communities. Artist's motion-captured dance performance interacts within space arranged by nature like 3D scanned dancers' body movements. The artist believes that technology and digital databases are archives of the stories and histories of individuals and represent the integrity of diversity. Elisabete Yoon Ju, a.k.a. Kerberus, is from a multicultural family and is a non-binary woman of color. She embodies an idea of a body as an instrument creating frequency within memories and rhythm in sounds, and body movements in physical and metaphysical space to manifest not only assimilating own sacredness yet also others.'
While the artist moves through space, they embody and practice simply holding the space by their presence and honoring individuals' stories that echo over movements and digitally scanned bodies. The artist explores a digital space with rhythmical and sonic responses, such as their body movements illustrated by two deities in the film. Viewers are encouraged to reshape a relationship between their own present and individuals, space, time, the world, and beyond.
(Screened at Digital Body Performed Final Screening Event, Chicago, December 2022,
Poly Reality Hybrid Pipeline Virtual Salad, Chicago, December 2022)
3D Scanned Archiving Body Movements
3D Scanned Archiving Body Movements
3D Scanned Archiving Body Movements
3D Scanned Archiving Body Movements
Artist Interacting with 3D Scanned Body Movements
Artist Engaging With 3D Scanned Body Movements