I dance the body electric
Remember us mentioning that electrically-conductive body paint a little while ago? If so, you might remember thinking “well, OK, but what the hell would you actually use it for?” – I know I did.
Well, here’s your answer – or one of them, anyway. Take one large perspex box covered with hundreds of of little electrical nodes that are linked to some sort of synthesizer engine, and add one painted-up and limber dance-trained young lady with a willingness to experiment and make some noise; add them together, and you’ve got something you might have seen in Buck Rogers… if that series had been more prone to episodes set in strip clubs or techno-artist squat-communes. Observe:
[via PosthumanBlues; apologies to Walt Whitman for the headline]
May 28th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
“If so, you might remember thinking “well, OK, but what the hell would you actually use it for?” – I know I did.”
The crowds I run in, I never wondered.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:27 am
hey! where are the dance steps there?.. hmm.. lol
but, actually .. it’s so great!