Liminal Performance Space
2020
Virtual
Digital installation / Remote performance platform
Initiated during the Covid pandemic, Liminal Performance Space was a projection-based digital performance environment designed and programmed by Fernanda D’Agostino, and activated by the In/Body collective (D’Agostino, Sophia Wright Emigh, and Jaleesa Johnston), among other international performers. Developed to overcome the restrictions of quarantine, the platform used live video feeds via Skype to bring collaborators together across continents and time zones, transforming remote separation into a site for experimentation.
Described as a “house with many rooms,” the installation was at once studio, theater, instrument, and dream-space. Its empty digital chambers came alive only when occupied by performers, whose gestures and sounds animated the architecture into immersive ritual space. In/Body performances within Liminal Performance Space combined movement, projection, and sound to explore ancestral trauma, ecological listening, and embodied transformation, blurring the line between stage and life.
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Design, programming, creative direction: Fernanda D’Agostino
In/Body collective: Fernanda D’Agostino, Sophia Wright Emigh, Jaleesa Johnston.
Other collaborators: Juju and Lisa Kusanagi.
Additional sound contributions: Guillermo Galindo, Cornell Library of Ornithology, U.S. National Forest Service Archive of Field Recordings, traditional musicians of Abruzzo, Italy
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Tags: Installation, Performance, Multi-channel film installation, Sound / Composition, Collaboration, Embodied research, Experimental performance, Interdisciplinary research
