Oracle ————————————— Alt-Text for the Future
A performance at Mana Contemporary June 1, 2019
in collaboration with Mimi Yin and NiNi Dongnier
Alt (or alternative) text is close-captioning for the internet. It provides a text-based description of visual content and is used by screen reading software to help visually impaired users navigate content.
Can we describe what we see with only words? Possibly. Probably not. Can language alter our experience of what we see? Maybe. Probably yes. Almost definitely yes. Can we write what we want to see and make it so, simply by saying it out loud?
The Oracle (or, Alt-Text for the Future) is an experiment in composing a visual art form (choreography) through language and narrating movement as an act of predictive alt-choreography.
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Nuum is a collective of artists committed to a transdisciplinary approach to creating performance and participatory installations. Our members are multidisciplinary choreographers, composers, programmers, visual artists and interaction designers who practice each discipline through the lens of adjacent forms. In our work: Sound expresses space. Space expresses emotion. Bodies become objects arranged in space even as they remain fundamentally human. And objects converse through how they arrange themselves in relation to each other.