This artistic research project challenges common notions of human-robot relationships by foregrounding the differences between humans and machines instead of obscuring them. Our diffractive performance-making practice brings together creative robotics, dance, and choreography to explore how humans and machines are always already entangled. Drawing on feminist new materialist concepts, Dancing with the Nonhuman harnesses dancers' kinaesthetic experience to probe into rigid subject-object boundaries and to mobilise and reimagine them.
A semi-structured improvisation with two dancers, two cube costumes, and one cube performer (cube robot).
The semi-structed, improvisational performance work was first performed as part of the exhibition SHErobots at the Tin Sheds Gallery, The University of Sydney, Australia, in December 2022.