Chen Yi Studio: Current/y

A live performance mixing art, dance and technology, where a dancer comes face-to-face with her digital twin.

Current/y is an immersive work by Taiwanese artist Chen Yi combining live performance, motion capture, game-engine technology, lasers, large-scale projection and an immersive spatial soundscape.

Equipped with XSENS motion capture sensors, a dancer controls her avatar in a real-time duet, interacting with a constantly shifting virtual world projected across a vast screen. Moving through the work as if scrolling through a social media feed, the performer enters a space governed by data and algorithms, where clicks, followers and attention become measures of human value – a kind of currency.

Part of Chen Yi’s ongoing Current/y series, the work continues to explore the idea of value in an age of rapid technological change – from cryptocurrency and online communities to misinformation, digital authority, surveillance and the economies of attention.

Artistic Director of Chen Yi Studio, Chen Yi’s work explores issues surrounding human desire, existence, data, environment, politics, economy, and society through the observation and comparison of tangible substance and virtual consciousness.