In Moving or Being Moved, postmodern dance theory by Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer is put to work while a woman cleans the house in a motion capture suit. The everyday performance of domestic labor is transported into a surreal game world where an emotionally responsive AI chatbot refuses to provide answers. Sabine Gruffat uses motion capture technology to translate movement into data that can then be unbound from the human body. What happens to movement when it is divorced from affect and feeling? What happens to dance without embodiment? How does mood and emotion influence movement?

With support by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

Credits Stereo Music: The Birth of Venus ©1982 Musica International (dba of Ciani-Musica, Inc.) (ASCAP) Composed and Performed by Suzanne Ciani. From the album Seven Waves on the Seventh Wave label. Soul Girl ©1973 20th Century written by Joel Biel and Performed by Ahmad Jamal. From the album Ahmad Jamal '73. All other music composed and performed by Sabine Gruffat T ext: Trisha Brown Accumulation (1971) Yvonne Rainer No Manifesto (1965) Thomas F. DeFrantz in DeFrantz, Thomas F., and Anita Gonzalez, eds. Black Performance Theory, Duke University Press, 2014. IP Soft's Amelia, Human AI Research studies of motion in relation to affect and mood