cesc-medien-kunst-labor2022_CoralieVogelaar

Coralie Vogelaar

In many of her recent works, Dutch artist Coralie Vogelaar questions the advances and potential of current emotion recognition technologies, often collaborating with dancers and performers. The dancer's movements in this installation visualize intense emotions that are multi-layered and sometimes even chaotic. The way she moves is sometimes reminiscent of robotics, then again of the "Authentic Movement" technique invented by choreographer and dancer Mary Starks Whitehouse in 1950, which works with free associations of the body, bringing more emotional energy into the seemingly cold/structured world of technology. After all, emotion comes from the Greek "emotere," which means "energy in motion." In this field of tension, we need to decode the body that speaks to us.