Name: Phygital D: Lu Yang – DOKU The Binary World | Show
Start: 2022-10-07
End: 2022-10-09
Location: West Kowloon

2000+ are interested

7 Oct 2022(Fri) - 9 Oct(Sun)

Location:West Kowloon

Map

West Kowloon, Cultural District, No. 18 Museum Dr, Tsim Sha Tsui, HK

About the event

Phygital D: Lu Yang – DOKU, The Binary World | Show Introduction

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A high-energy audiovisual experience with real-time motion capture, live performance and virtual avatars in Hong Kong and Sydney

This October, Shanghai-based new media artist Lu Yang premieres the live motion capture performance DOKU, The Binary World as a real-time collaboration between dancers in Hong Kong and Sydney. Interacting in a shared virtual environment, the dancers and avatars at Freespace and the Sydney Opera House shuttle simultaneously through multiple binary realms.

The high-energy audiovisual experience draws on Buddhist philosophy, club culture, video games and the aesthetics of anime. Embodying the avatar forms of Lu Yang’s genderless digital reincarnation Doku – Dokusho Dokushi, “We are born alone, we die alone” – the dancers present binary combinations of deities from the six realms of Buddhist reincarnation: Heaven and Hell, Human and Animal, Hungry Ghosts and Asura (Jealous gods). The performance includes music by Liiii and virtual visual effects manipulated live by an Xbox controller.

Lu Yang’s work has been presented around the world, and is featured in The Milk of Dreams show at this year’s Venice Biennale.