VB29 – Natatorium
Vaneeesa Blaylock Company

VB29 – Natatorium

Vaneeesa Blaylock

VB29 – Natatorium

Compton’s Live / London
17 December 2011

Close-up of Vanessa Blaylock and Trilby Minotaur during the performance of VB29 - Natatorium. Blaylock and Minotaur float nearly motionless in the water, their faces just above the surface with the rest of their bodies sloping gradually into the water.
VB29 – Natatorium

In VB29 – Natatorium we consider the phenomenology of corporeality. We consider the avatar as a haptically instantiated being. Taking as our inspiration this summer’s coming London 2012 Games of the XXX Olympiad, and Zaha Hadid’s remarkable London Aquatics Centre for those games, our avatars experience the immersion and weightlessness of liquid space.

Avatars floating in water at the dock behind Compton's Live in London.
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