Oceanic
“Oceanic” is a live-improvised dance performance and projection mapping new media performance. “Oceanic” is inspired by the artist’s awareness and experience with a concept aspect of Afro-futurity and how it is received by audiences from many different backgrounds, social layers, and stories. The film illustrates her appreciation of entanglement and diasporic aspects in Afro-futurity and society. She encouraged dancers to concentrate on their feelings and let their bodies flow. Each dancer also wore a word that resonates with them individually during the session. The artist built a world through each dancer’s instant reaction to sounds and improvised body movements related to her study of many different aspects of human beings and nature as a space and a structure that contains feelings and spirit. Since the overall documentation process was a total improvisation, one of the collaborators behind a camera jumped into the circle and danced. His appreciation and instant body reaction led him to move along with the sound freely. Viewers are also encouraged to question and consider the sacredness and empowerment of Afro-futurity. The film allows viewers to reconsider the boundaries between appreciation and appropriation of the concept and culture.
+Featured Artists
(Sound)
Mwanjé-The Devine Moor Mother, Nappy Nina Maassai, Orion Sun, Antonia Gabriela -Made A Circle Moor Mother, Nicole Mitchell- Vultures Laughing Ibeyi- No Man Is Big Enough For You Irreversible Entanglements, Tcheser Holmes - Who Sent You/Ritual
(Dancers)
-Chibuck Artist Collective & Chicago Krump Dance Movement
Rachel Johnson aka Prysm aka Lady Ice
Dion Randel aka Icrisis aka Bushido
Kiana Cook aka KSEE aka Street Kaution
Tavares Marshall aka K-Dizzle aka Kid Bushido
-Uncommon Ground Artist Collective
Orlando De Leon Jr. aka Juice
Kierah King aka Kiki
Sara[Sa.da]aka Calypso
Chris Cunnane aka Criss-Cross
(Video Documentation & Composing, Sound Mixing & Editing, Graphic Animations)
-Video Documentation/ Editing/ Graphic Animations
Elisabeth Yoon Ju Seonwoo aka Kerberus aka Baby Rexx
-Soundscape Composition and Sound Mixing
Elisabeth Yoon Ju Seonwoo aka Kerberus aka Baby Rexx
Oceanic
10 minutes and 20 seconds, Mixed New Media Projection Improvised Dance Performance Video, 2022