This installation approaches the body as a living database, where memory, culture, and experience do not remain fixed but continually surface, fragment, dissolve, and reform. Emerging through autoethnographic practice and improvisation, the work dwells on the body as a site of accumulation and transformation, carrying traces of both traditional and contemporary movement languages within a shifting digital landscape.

Across two screens, the work unfolds as an ecology of embodied recall. One screen holds moving traces from a 32-day improvisation practice; the other reveals the patterns, rhythms, and states that emerged across time. Memory appears here not as something stored intact, but as something unstable and alive — glitching, looping, fading, pausing, and returning in altered form.

A live improvisation entered this field as an active force, not simply accompanying the installation but intervening in it. In dialogue with the screens, the live body reactivated and disturbed the material, reshaping the formation of the database in real time. The work becomes a space where presence, residue, and digital reflection fold into one another, asking how embodied memory is continuously rewritten through performance.

Project Details

• Year: 2025
• Role: created and performed by Yuxi Jiang
• Type: installation-performance
• Venue: ARC, Glasgow

Credits

• Editing & Tech support: Siyao Li
• Supported by SGSAH and the University of Edinburgh, College of Art.