Suga’- A Live Virtual Dance Performance

2021

Immersive live performance

Duration: 25 mins

Description:

Suga’, is a collective immersive experience that features live dance performance as volumetric video in social virtual reality space. The journey transports us through the historical reality of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade and  the establishment of the sugar industry, which has had a lasting legacy on our world today. Suga’ weaves together movement, family stories and cultural heritage to imagine virtual environments as a site for healing and reclamation of spaces that were historically filled with pain and injustice. The performance takes place in Mozilla Hubs where audiences navigate through the virtual world. Suga' utilizes low-cost hardware and open-source software that allows artists to perform from their own living spaces.

The experience can be viewed via web browser, with or without VR headsets. 

Suga' premiered in August 2021 at the Art Gallery of SIGGRAPH virtual conference and was presented at Gray Area Festival in October 2021. It will be presented at the New Frontier exhibition at Sundance Film Festival in January 2022. 

My role:

This is a collaborative work in which I am the lead artist, providing the concept, creative direction, and writing as well as being the primary performer appearing as live-streamed volumetric video.