This is a research project (2022 - 2023) where we, Lisa Colette Bysheim and Sophia Gatzkan have been researching how to use technology as a tool to transform the gaze and perspectives, to look at power relations between the female body, language, sculpture and text/sound.

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We explored the potential between the analogue body and the technological extension of the body through sound and video projection. We discovered that parallel realities could be created through fragmentation of an image, body, text and sound. These fragments had the potential to open up “viewers” imagination and inform associative thinking. We experimented with different approaches of filming the body as a landscape; working with closeups of micro-movements of the body as a superimposed gaze. Through various meshing/glitching processes we discovered that this had to potential to challenge and play with the perception of time and space— a glitched feedback loop and delayed translation of the language through the impulses of the body.

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As we began exploring technology as an extension of the body, larger questions around fiction and reality began to arise. We encircled the subjects of control, manipulation, technology, influences of the body, intimacy and desire. A reoccurring and important theme has been the gaze — how the body is looked at, but also working with the performers gaze as an informative choreographic material that changes the reading of situations. Another important discovery in our research has been our interest in the female body or femmembodiment, as well as erotic aesthetic.

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