GILDED BODIES
2022, Digital Installation
Gilded Bodies is an interactive digital performance inspired by anime magical girl transformation sequences. Reflecting upon the hyper-aesthetisation of Asian femininity within video games and anime the piece layers magical, digital forms onto the viewer presenting them with a newly gilded, reflected version of themselves. The viewer finds themselves crystalized in the liminal state of transformation, caught between normality and magic, between physical and digital and encourages viewers to embody and consider the experience of the Asiatic female as a hyper-aestheticised form. Gilded Bodies is an interactive digital performance inspired by anime magical girl transformation sequences. Reflecting upon the hyper-aesthetisation of Asian femininity within video games and anime the piece layers magical, digital forms onto the viewer presenting them with a newly gilded, reflected version of themselves. The viewer finds themselves crystalized in the liminal state of transformation, caught between normality and magic, between physical and digital and encourages viewers to embody and consider the experience of the Asiatic female as a hyper-aestheticised form.
Audio by Ben Dixon