Inscription - Disembodied prosthetics

Inscription is our upcoming hybrid composition for non-representational kinetic objects and human performer.

In inscription we are exploring how non-representational kinetic objects might evoke affective responses, a sense of kinship, and perceived intent through their physical movement. The project examines how kinetic sculptures can embody human-like movement patterns while preserving their own distinct otherness.

By integrating motion data captured from human performers, the figures seek to mimic some characteristics of human movement, potentially facilitating experience of relation and intentionality with and in non-human forms in performances that blend kinetic figures with human performers, light, and sound.

The projects understands movement as cognition and as mechanism of understanding intent, Movement is not only a translation of goals into action, but an embodied process that allow us comprehension. Movement, our own and observed, are fundamental to intersubjective understanding, allowing us to feel and interpret actions rooted in our own bodily experience.

In this context, and utilising imagery such as disembodied prosthetics, the kinetic sculptures operate as disconnected yet empathetic extensions of a human performer. The kinetic sculptures have abstract, non-representational forms that invite viewers to engage with movement beyond familiar shapes. Suggesting that perception is an active, embodied process, the project proposes that motion itself, separate from anthropomorphic likeness, can provoke reflections on kinship, embodiment, agency, and the boundaries of self.