Interdisciplinary Performance
Overview
Body Crysis is a ritualistic journey of metamorphosis, reflecting humanity’s collective transformation in response to the pandemic and environmental upheavals.
This hybrid, hyperreal performance merges dance motion capture, live music, and online gaming into a cross-border experience spanning Taipei, Melbourne, and a virtual space.
Co-produced by Taipei-based new media art collective NAXS STUDIO, Melbourne choreographer Harrison Hall, and media artist Sam McGilp, it features Taiwan’s experimental rock/folk band PrairieWWWW in a ritualistic performance.
Category
Interdisciplinary Performance
Hybrid Experience
Year
2022-2023
Showcase
2022 NEIGHBOURHOOD Festival
2023 SOFT CENTRE Festival
2023 Now or Never Festival
World Building
We drew inspiration from Taiwan's indigenous stories of stone births, mythology of giant, and the natural world's cycles of insect, we construct an imaginary world and Inviting audiences from around the globe to participate together.
The work is anchored in an online gaming narrative, with live dance and music serving as guides, leading audiences to experience this fictional ritual together.
During the performance, audiences from around the world connect together as an imagined community through art and technology.
In this increasingly complex and chaotic world, we aim to convey a bright and positive message through this piece of work.
Key Elements
This project blends multiple elements. While people at two physical venues enjoy live performances, online users dive into a virtual game, controlling avatars to explore a digital world together.
These three spaces—two on-site locations and one virtual realm—are not only happening simultaneously but are also interconnected.
The music and movement from the live performances influence the virtual space, while interactions within the digital world resonate back to the physical venues, creating a dynamic, real-time exchange that connects audiences across different locations.
Credits
LEAD ARTIST
Harrison Hall, Sam Mcgilp, NAXS STUDIO, Prairie WWWW
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PRODUCTION TEAM
[ TAIWAN ]
Co-Director: NAXS FUTURE
Art Director: HY.Feng
Project Manager: Chun-Ting Chen, HY.Feng
Administrative coordinator: Chun-Ting Chen
Lead Developer: Kuokpan Wong
System & Interactive Development: Kuokpan Wong, Yu-Jie Huang
Virtual Environment Design: Eg.lio
Virtual Character Intergration: Eg.lio, Wei Huang
Visual Effect Design: Wei Huang
Animation: HY.Feng
Chapter Symbol Design: Eg.lio
Key Visual Design: HY. Feng
Web Design and Program Execution: HY. Feng, Hung-Wei Lin, Kuokpan Wong
3D Visual Assistant: Felix Onorato
Co-Hosted: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
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