JNK in 6 panels
Wendy Yu, JNK in 6 panels, 2022. Video, 15 seconds looped. Dancer: Joe Newton Keogh.
JNK in 6 panels, was developed out of an artist residency with the Centre for Projection Art in 2020. The work takes inspiration from the academic writings of Anne McDonald and Andre Lepecki who wrote that dance embodies the experience of morning through its ephemeral nature. In this sense the design of this work represents a capturing of the dance that has past.
The creation of the work additionally stresses an intention for hyperlocality. This particular work features a local Melbourne dancer who was filmed in and designed for the specific dimensions of Collingwood Yards. Other iterations of this work follow similar intentions hyperlocality by emphasising the importance of using local dancers. These have included collaborations with local street dancers of Boston, Cincinnati, New York, Brooklyn, Warclaw, Beijing, Shanghai, Sydney, Tasmania and Hong Kong.
JNK in 6 panels is presented as part of the Body-Cities program as curated by Centre Of Projection Art artistic director Priya Namana for FRAME: a biennial of dance 2023, and can be seen on the 20, 21, 22, 23, 26 March, 4.00 pm – 5.00 pm on the Bunjil Place Outdoor Screen.
Wendy Yu
Wendy Yu is an interdisciplinary artist who works at the intersections of dance and urban media art. With particular consideration of elevating local street dancer's through computer systems, she designs and builds large-scale immersive experiences for public spaces to broadcast dance to a wider and more diverse audience. Yu holds experience as a choreographer and dancer as well as an experience designer for web applications and motion design.
Acts Of Holding Dance (2022 iteration), Wendy Yu. Photo courtesy of the artist_1
Acts Of Holding Dance (2022 iteration), Wendy Yu. Photo courtesy of the artist_2
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