Prospectus for a future body – Can we design future memories for the body? Is the body itself the apparatus for remembering cultural processes?

Prospectus For a Future Body proposes new perspectives on how the body remembers and invents technological narratives. Central to the project is the study of body movement in dance: How it can evolve, adapt or re-condition to possible futures?

Proposal 01

Eternal Summer Storm explores the concept of muscle memory transfer as an form of cultural documentation. This concept prototype speculates on a future digital library of body movements or dance techniques that can be experienced beyond the audio-visual conventions. Eternal Summer Storm attempts to recreate legendary Japanese dancer Tasumi Hijikata's Butoh dance, choreography and experience in ‘A Summer Storm’ (1973) from archival footages.

Other projects by Ka Fai Choy:

►Bionic Movement Research Archive ►Notion: Dance Fiction ►Synchrometrics