Data Sensorium 1 - Environmental Migration is an experimental choreographic design project that expresses migratory data through movement and graphics. The work explores environmental migration data from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre with the intent to raise awareness on the relationship between climate change and disaster displacement. This excerpt features the iterative movement score for dancing the dataset row-by-row. For example, you will here me say “Wildfire: 3, 4. That’s 20 wildfires and 21,191 people displaced from their homes,” which cues Isabelle that she needs to perform the wildfire gesture 3 times before walking downstage 4 steps to logarithmically embody the larger, actual numbers. PERFORMANCE October 6, 2023 | ArtLab, Harvard University *Data Sensorium is a metaLAB (at) Harvard project with seed funding from the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE). The project launched in 2022 via residencies at the Harvard ArtLab and RoundAntennae (KT Nelson).
