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Hekateris Dance
Charlotte Gould
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Concept
Hekateris Dance is an Augmented Reality installation, converging past and present, to envisage a distant future, threatened by the extinction of many species on the Earth which has been impacted by climate change. Hekateris Dance acts as a provocation to imagine what we are becoming in a posthuman world beyond anthropocentrism where, as Rosi Braidotti asserts, we are in a state of becoming through the convergence of technology and organic matter in a “zoe/geo/techno assemblage”. This aligns with Donna Haraway’s proposition that we need to work in collaboration with other non-human beings to survive on a damaged planet. On entering the gallery, the visitor scans a QR code revealing a life-sized three-dimensional hybrid being which is transported into the exhibition space using Augmented Reality (AR) and is viewable through a mobile phone. The avatar invites participation in the ritual of dance, using contemporary movements but in homage to the ancient Greek dance of the Hekateris, as a celebration of the natural world. This practice-based research project explores how AR can be utilised through playful interaction and storytelling as a discursive tool to prompt audiences to take action in order to be part of the change in achieving net zero. The artwork was exhibited as part of the Constellations Exhibition at the 29th International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2024).
MEDIA DOWNLOADS
Hekateris Dance academic paper ISEA2024. PDF
Chthulucene_Hekateris papersubmission_cgould_ISEA2023. PDF
Gould TRACEY Journal V17 1 2024. PDF
Drawing Convergence Becoming Intellect webpage.pdf
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