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Moving Matter
During a two-week residency at CloudDans Lab in Den Haag, I had the chance to research the interconnection between the human body and a particle system in the form of a water simulation. Diving into Touch Designer and Unreal Engine allowed me to translate real-time body motion into a digital water avatar.
Inspired by the multiplicity of water and its possibility to make me feel so many different emotions, I had the goal to translate this to the audience through empathy. Along the way I realised, that the audience will always empathise rather with the conductor. But how to isolate the water from the dancer, without it just becoming a projection?
Code: Josse Vessies
Video & Editing: Albert Rask
Thanks to Isabelle Chaffaud, CloudDans Lab
This project is supported by the
Makersregeling of the Gemeente Den Haag
© 2024, Leon Lapa Pereira
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Aris Leon Lapa Pereira (he/him) is a cross-disciplinary performance researcher exploring the boundaries of performative life. Deeply embedded in the landscape of Artistic Research, his personal practice is consistently informed by philosophical inquiry. By merging mechanical and technical knowledge with performative elements, he engages with multiple disciplines with genuine enthusiasm.
Currently focused on the de-romanticisation of nature, Leon investigates the Rights of Nature—specifically, the rights of water—in collaboration with the Embassy of the North Sea. Through this partnership, he co-founded the Confluence of European Water Bodies, a growing network of activist organisations that support his research into intercultural relationships and intimate connections with water.
Alongside this, he is a curator at the Instrument Inventors Initiative (iii) and co-founder of the WASTELAND Festival, where he leads research and performance curation through an ecological lens. Co-creation and collaboration are not just professional principles for Leon, but also sociological commitments—central to his Resonant Bodies Residencies, where these concepts are deeply explored.
For Leon, co-living is a vital practice that is increasingly endangered by today’s polycrisis. He is, therefore, continually seeking methods and tools to cultivate honest, careful, and communal environments.
