The hetronormative space in which 3D and video game culture exists needs destabilising. This is a motion capture archive, a database of queer movement and an open source tool for artists. It’s a hub for movement to exist in a space created for those who subvert gender and sexuality norms, a place created solely for queer expression.
Experts believe that between 70–93% of communication and language is non verbal. How we communicate and express ourselves is undeniably not just through what we say but how we walk, dance, move, and gesticulate. The ongoing process of creating this archive is to allow queer people to define themselves through action, physicality, body autonomy, self expression, and freedom.
The archive, initiated by Sam Aldridge, co-founder of IOR50 Studio, began in London but will be an on-going, open space for the documentaion of queer movement. A first batch of open-source motion capture data is available for public download here:
Capturing Queer Movemenet Open-Source Motion Capture Data
The work’s presentation is accompanied by a specially-commissioned mix from Monster, whose omnivorous taste for euphoric club and pop tracks offers a sonic home to the archive’s movements. Monster is a member of Polish womxn electronic music network Oramics.
Archive: IOR50 Studio, Club Quarantäne
Sound: Monster
Dancers: James Boswell, Amelia Kay, Sakeema Crook, Yannis-Arthur Koba, Denis Muresan, Anairin Kaines , Jacob O’Connell, Benjamin P Holloway, Seren Mehmet, Sam Aldridge, Giacomo, Dak Mashava, Lulu Perulli, Aaron Porter, Mascpeach, Adam Frost.5444