Fabricating Performance

Performance is presented as a process of fabrication. Reciprocally, fabrication is presented as a process of performance. A circularity of human body-gesture and computer machine-gesture leads to the construction of notational spatial artefacts. Space is constructed through the transforming conditions of dance, and performance is constructed through the transforming conditions of architecture. The project is a spatially interactive design system. Driven by the motivation of a participating performer/designer, body movement is tracked, analysed and translated into tool paths for fabrication by a robotic armature and an industrial CNC pipe bending machine. Discrete construction elements are fabricated in response to the dancer/designers performance. The generative cycle of construction encourages bodily interaction and the aggregation of a form of spatial notion that described repetition, rhythm and pattern. ’Fabricating Performance’ qualifies movement in space and raises questions of how these qualitative motion segments can be articulated in a quantitatively physical manner. Project Page interactivearchitecture.org/lab-projects/fabricating_performance Research Background interactivearchitecture.org/fabricating-performance-a-dance-of-circular-feedback-processes-in-constructing-spatial-notion.html About Creator： Interactive Architecture Lab @ Bartlett School of Architecture UCL http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/