2022 - # 12 Archiv-Erweiterungen. Digitale Umgebungen, de-koloniale Perspektiven und Mapping-Strategien

Hg.: Barbara Büscher, Franz Anton Cramer, Red.: Barbara Büscher, Franz Anton Cramer, René Damm, Verena Elisabet Eitel, Lucie Ortmann

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Envisioning Future Bodies: Choy Ka Fai’s experimental practice at the interface of choreography, media art and archival processes
Fai, Choy Ka; Ortmann, Lucie (2022) , S. 1-26
Berlin-based Singaporean dance and multimedia artist Choy Ka Fai experiments with digital mapping, the storage and transmission of choreography and Asian spiritual dance practices. He has built a comprehensive and growing archive of recorded choreographies from artistic, spiritual, folkloric, and pop cultural contexts. It includes avatars of dancers, field and video recordings of dances and rituals and interviews with various protagonists. Choy Ka Fai explores altered and expanded corporeal states and the relationships between bodies and both worldly and spiritual phenomena. In his work, organic, material and data-based bodies appear side by side on an equal level and futuristic and queer potentials of human and digital bodies are made visible. In conversation with Lucie Ortmann Choy Ka Fai emphasises the fundamental importance of the practise of archiving for his work. He talks about his methods of showing and sharing his extensive, collected and created material in constantly new formats, ranging from performance, video installation, lecture to digital games, and how he continues to develop it further. He also reflects on the challenging processes of transferring and translating spiritual practises and dance cultures to different contexts and audiences.