Final product for Egg Dance

Process

Egg Dance is a performance art piece inspired by "SOLITARIUM" + "UNIWENTÉ” by SUMITO SAKAKIBARA (2016). I was drawn to the animation transforming and morphing into different things. This is a collaborative piece made by me and my friend RV. This is his instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/rvvandres/

This project was made with procreate and Premiere Pro.

The human experience is one that is constantly altering and evolving based on the situations we are in. Environmental factors and events have an impact on all of our behaviours, attitudes, and beliefs. We may find that in order to live and thrive when placed in a new environment, we must adapt to it. This adaptation may alter our personalities, thought processes, and social relations. As we step inside a room, our identities change and we change according to who we want to identify as. A deliberate decision to change our behavior, attitude, and identity towards certain things can come from personal growth, education, or exposure to new concepts.  

Thus, for our assignment, we wanted to explorethe performative approach and wanted it to revolve around an egg. An egg can transformand change depending on the circumstances it is placed in, just as the human experience iscontinually evolving and changing in response to our surroundings. The propercircumstances, such as warmth, moisture, and nutrients, can cause an egg to develop andform. The yolk supplies the essential nutrients for growth and development, while theeggshell shields the growing organism from its surroundings. Similarly to this, externalinfluences on human experience can either support or inhibit our ability to grow anddevelop. 

To represent this reformation experience concept, we felt that having two contrasting environments with distinctive features in each one was an efficient way of signifying the change of environments in everyday life. In one animation, we have a bright neon-colored bright cubic space. It depicts several fast-motion small loops of abstract elements with an ever-changing character in the middle representing one’s self. As in the other, it’s a monochrome dull environment with abstracting visuals. The animation portrays a tree in the middle with surrounding water-type small loops. There are so few visual elements in this one that it contrasts with the other. We felt that by having a longer duration film, we could implement that influence of adaptation; that we’re adapting and reforming ourselves to the looping animations. With one animation being adapted to the other one appears, it gives the audience a sense of distortion as they were in the process of adapting to the old one, they are faced with a new visual setting. Lastly, as the video progresses we see a dissolve and mixture of both animations into one, representing that reform and adaptation. As we get used to environments we adapt and evolve into a new individual self. 

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