Alice Li
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Nodding, scratching, waving hands, twirling pencils, shaking legs ...... Our bodies are constantly in rhythm and are often in a state where the mind is disconnected from the body's reason. The unconscious shaking of the body is often associated with natural bodily regulators such as tension release and resistance to blood clotting. Our focus is on the rhythms of the body's unconscious movements and the exploration of the body's continuous rhythmic and contagious movements.
Using objects and sound as media, the work combines a variety of sensory devices with digital programming techniques to amplify and transform these inviolable fragments of physical movement into a visual and auditory language. Through field research and the accumulation of samples of real behaviour, we have extracted a series of unstable structures that cause the body to shake, allowing these structures to drive the
body to move and compose a rhythmic sound that guides the user through a second movement. This creates a cyclical and continuous sensory experience over many repetitions. Each shake of the user's body is an improvisation and sensory representation of uncertainty, where the unconscious rhythms of the user's body are transformed into audible body movements.
The team hopes to get people to pay more attention to the body itself and the actual embodiment of the act of shaking by revealing the possibilities and fun of the body.