The Floating Life|UNTAMED by yuyang cheng
Super Shorts London Film Festival
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20m
The Floating Life Performance｜山海浮生 is an award-winning, multi-sensory immersive physical theatre show, created and directed by artist Yuyang Cheng in 2022 as her graduate work in Architecture Association School of Architecture Spacial Performance design (AAIS).
This signifies a life voyage, profound and poetic in its silence, as a multimedia artist and director, Cheng combines contemporary dance and multimedia and installation including AI as her poetic language which explores bodies as a unique medium in urban spaces, natural landscapes and the spiritual world under the oriental context. Imagine that your spiritual world and body coverage into a whisper towards nature. Our body landscape become the medium discusses the uniqueness among urban space, landscape and spiritual world. Dancing with the soul throughout a lifetime. We are just like a grain of dust floating through a silent journey towards the shimmering light at the end of darkness...
Running time: 00:20:50
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