Phygital D: Lu Yang – DOKU, The Binary World - Panel Discussion: “Beyond Binaries: Digital Performance in a Post-COVID Era”
Shanghai-based new media artist Lu Yang premieres the live motion capture performance DOKU, The Binary World in 2022 as part of the West Kowloon’s Phygital D dance programme. Collaborating with dancers and production teams spread across Hong Kong and Sydney, they utilise real-time Motion Capture technology to demonstrate how to control multiple digital avatars in bizarre shared virtual environments.
Lu Yang remotely joined a pre-performance panel discussion in conversation with Karen Cheung, Ex-Acting Head of Contemporary Performance, Performing Arts Division, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Stuart Buchanan, Head of Digital Programming at Sydney Opera House, as well as other guest speakers from our co-producing partners, to discuss the form of performance in a post-pandemic era and reveal the now and future of the avatar form – DOKU, as long as offering insight into the creative process of Lu Yang’s art piece.
Date and Time:
28 September 2022 (Wednesday)
7:00pm–9:00pm
Venue:
Online and in-person at Eaton HK
Language:
This event was conducted in English
Speakers:
Lu Yang, Artist
Karen Cheung, Ex-Acting Head of Contemporary Performance, Performing Arts Division, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (Hong Kong)
Stuart Buchanan, Head of Digital Programming, Sydney Opera House (Australia)
Moderators:
Matthew Spisbah, Artistic Director, Exhibitionist, Producer of DOKU, The Binary World (Hong Kong)
Ashley Lee Wong, Artistic Director, MetaObjects, Producer of DOKU, The Binary World (Hong Kong)