Writing with Her Body: Transference of Movement, Spectacle and Meaning through Technology
When the American dancer Loie Fuller first appeared in Paris, she created a sensation. Her performances combined her graceful physical presence with the latest in stage technology, including lighting devices and gel colours (for which she often owned patents), augmented by prosthetics and vast quantities of silk that extended her body and the flow of her movement. The Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé, inspired by her performance, described her as 'writing with her body' providing a rich starting point for the transference of literary concepts into performance.
Drawing on practical research work in networked art-making and motion capture developed by the Visualisation Research Unit at the School of Art, Birmingham City University, this presentation deals with the issues that arise when the moving body combines with technology to create new meaning to Mallarmé's phrase.
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