“Water Always Goes Where It Wants to Go” is an ecoperformance short film of the body in synergy with the storied landscape of water. How can we go back to something we already have? We are born out of water, and water constitutes our body, our territories, and our myths. Mapping water through the body, in between transitory space for waters, the short film investigates the relationship between the self, its embodied and somatic dialogues, and these physical and symbolic waters, questioning how can we return to our first water, the common body.
WAGWIWTG can be seen as an embodied dialogue, ongoing somatic dialogue between flesh and water, occurring at different places, at different states of water. Motion multiplied by time becomes form. Just as water which has no form can give form to everything, motion of the body can give form to space.
The age of metaphors is over; the mythic power is real. Live mocap and 3D scenography can extend the reach of the mythic power to the eyes and minds of the audience. To transcend traditional limits of the society-nature binary, technology generates new means to connect with our shaman ancestors and experience shape-shifting as avatars. To sensualize the ancestral connection and to make the performance narrative, we seamlessly blend the dancer and their incarnations as the 3D avatar.
New embodied experiences can emerge when we integrate aesthetics, ecology, shamanism, and technology with bodily practices such as Corporeality and Sonorous Intuitive Emotional Language. Together, Alina and Yiou seek to map the corporeality of our common water, co-imagining an ancient future of water and human beings.
Submission Category: Linguagem Digital > CG Video
Medium: CG Short Film / Video Art
Duration: 4 min 46 sec
Artists (group): Yiou Wang, Alina Tofan
Rokoko motion capture
Unreal Engine
Blender
Houdini
