Buoyancé – Tug(gle) presents itself as helium balloons connected to wheeled roboots on the ground, but represents the coexistence of numerous everyday dichotomies. As the audience is drawn towards the movement and reconfiguration of the balloons, their attention is gradually split between the gracefully gliding balloons and rolling robots, emphasizing the polarities of themes such as magic/machine, control/freedom, imploring a multi-layered perception of spatial cognition and physical sensations.
Buoyancé – Tug(gle) / Alan Pham, Yuxiao Li, Miyu Fukuoka, Ken Nakagaki - Photo: Ken Nakagaki
Buoyancé – Tug(gle)
Alan Pham (US), Yuxiao Li (CN/US), Miyu Fukuoka (JP), Ken Nakagaki (JP/US)
Credits
Alan Pham, was supported by the Odyssey Metcalf Fellowship Grant, Yuxiao Li was supported by the Quad Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, and Miyu Fukuoka was supported by the 2024 Student Summer Research Fellowship Program, jointly with the University of Chicago and the University of Electro-Communication.
