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Isabella Ong


SELECTED WORKS
Errant Stars

Lucy in the Sky with Debris

Phases (Melaleuca Cajuputi)

Weathering With Us 
Íchni


SELECTED WRITINGS
To Draw a Line

ARTIST BIO + CV
Mark

Íchni 

2018
INSTALLATION, PERFORMANCE



     
       
Íchni is a mixed-reality scenographic space exploring how a heightened awareness affects our movements. The performance space consists of a series of playable sculptures and a digital projection that makes visible the effects and propagations of the movements; creating an affective feedback loop between body, movement and space.

The metal sculptures are embedded with physical sensors that capture the forces of the movements. The design of each sculpture is based on rudimentary geometry that evokes playful use—e.g. the seesaw—thus inviting actions.

The word íchni (meaning ‘traces’ in Greek) encapsulates the notion of movements and notational markings. Physical movements—usually so fleeting—are captured into data, then translated and visualised to heighten the awareness of our actions and affect the manner in which we move through a generative environment.

A self-orchestrated choreography emerges from the interaction between the physical and digital as the performer progressively finds complicities between the mechanics of the body, the sculptures and its environment. Íchni is thus conceived as the other performer—an improvised performance between the body and its negotiation with the environment.















CREDITS

In collaboration with Alexandra Niaka, Marianna Chrapana
Project developed at the Design for Performance and Interaction programme at The Bartlett, UCL
EXHIBITIONS

Here There 2019
Video Showcase
Today Art Museum, Beijing
2019.10.15 —2019.11.03

Bartlett Fifteen 2018
Video Showcase
The Bartlett, UCL, London
2018.12.11—2019.01.11

Graduate Project Faire 2018
Live Installation
Here East, London
2018.12.14


PUBLICATIONS

ĺchni: Devices for a Joyful Architecture
Journal Article
Published on LAF: Observation and Representation
Mark