Incantation
Sian Fan
Incantation is a digital performance combining dance, motion capture and videogaming to explore liminal states, magic and myth in the digital age, and the commodification of the Asiatic body.
Creeping into the den of a part-plant, part-human creature, the work meditates upon being caught between worlds, a state that extends as much to our existence as mediators between physical and virtual realms as it does to the experience of growing up between cultures.
The work interrogates how spiritual and ancient beliefs can coexist with technology, infusing lore and legend with videogame aesthetics to mix modern and mythological stories.
Credits
Incantation by Sian Fan
Audio by Ben Dixon @ From The Deep Audio
Funded and supported by Creative Lab, a partnership between London College of Fashion, UAL and East London Dance
Sian Fan
Sian Fan is a British/Chinese interdisciplinary artist currently based at Somerset House Studios. She has exhibited internationally with venues including Tate Modern, British Council, and the V&A, as well as producing work with Channel 4, the BBC and Facebook.
Her work combines movement, the body and technology to explore embodiment, spirituality and human experience in the digital age. She is particularly interested in the uneasy synchronicities between Asian and cyborgian bodies; in popularised depictions of Asiatic bodies in anime and video games; and in the thresholds of human identity where one exists as both and neither at the same time.
