film/video
Stepping into Machine

2022, film, 10'

Stepping Into Machine presents a future of society’s changing relationship to technology – changing from being linked to labour, to a coexistence with technical devices. The presented case of the ‘bionic step’ is an illustration of how permeable dance cultures relate to technological developments. These dances, in turn have shaped a new canon for how movement is performed, across digital spaces and bodies / avatars; in front of our phones and stepping into our machine selves. While machines keep progressing in their quest to understand feelings, they leave behind a trace of images and movement that are constantly reincorporated by human performers to engage in choreography as a medium, as a pledge and as an expression of faith – not in its spiritual sense – but as an action you take with your whole body to try to engage with another entity, a network, a consciousness or a device.