Alice Prum

The resulting archive of my everyday movements is presented through the medium of the film. This medium allows to communicate the dynamic character of the space and the human body through a dynamic mode of representation. The narrative of the film unfolds through my daily routine within the domestic space in order to account for a wide array of gestures within a constrained space. The poetic element of translating everyday movement by bringing them into the digital space is conveyed through the dialogue that describes my movement’s journey from the physical to the immaterial. 

Space and Movement exist in a state of constant influence of one another. Without movement, space has no use and without space one cannot move. As the body leaves traces of movement, we can read it through the intensity of the lines. The joints are the points from which traces are formed, areas with concentrated amount of joints such as the hands create a denser line work. While these moving points seem detached from the flesh of the body, their way of moving reflects the unique history of the recorded body. Movement itself translates a complex heritage made up of the influences of origin, injuries, abilities, ageing of the body as well as external context. For example, while the technicalities of walking are similar, each of us walk in different ways and each of us walk differently in different spaces.

The role of the archive is to develop a prototypical method of archiving movement. It is not intended to implement new norms and standards but to allow individuals to record their own movement and challenge their spatial environment.

Motion capture is used as a tool to gather the data of motion. Therefore, the motion capture suit becomes the physical extension of this tool and transforms the body into a site that negotiates between the digital and physical self. As the motion capture suit allows me to move in a non-physical space I question the boundaries of my body. The bodysuit becomes a second skin which defines our body as the space we inhabit through movement. Thus movement extends beyond the physical limits of the body as a continuous expression of the self and negotiates the continuous conversation between the digital and physical. Consequently, the motion capture becomes a measurement tool to read space through movement and questions the representation of the body in space. As the body leaves traces of movement, we can read the body through the intensity of the lines. The joints are the points from which traces are formed, areas with concentrated amount of joints such as the hands create a denser linework.