Body Here, Polyphonic Motions

Body Here as part of Polyphonic Motions is a research project collaboration between the Care-full Design Lab of RMIT University and Fog Theatre of VV, centring artists with intellectual disability and how the tool is shaped by their responses and experiences.

Body Here is an app designed with and for artists with intellectual disabilities and can be run with a computer or tablet.​

It is for artists who work with movement and dance. It also helps artists connect and collaborate from different locations. ​

Playing with the tool can encourage creativity, healthy motion and connecting with friends and other artists, and across different types of virtual and physical spaces locally and globally.

Body Here uses a web camera to show artists in a session of art-making or performance.

Effects can help dancing be even more expressive and fun. Some effects allow the artist to create a digital painting by moving or dancing.

Please visit www.bodyhere.art to download and learn more about the app, and see video about how it was made on Youtube. 

RMIT Researchers:

Alan Nguyen, Jaz Hee-Jeong and Kate Geck

More about the Care-Full Design Lab and their projects. 

Polyphonic Motions is supported by The Australia Council for the Arts ‘Reimagine’ Sector Recovery Fund and the Department of Social Services.

Header image by David Hansen.

Image description: of performer India smiling gleefully while trying to reach up to a paper plate held high above her head by another performer. She's wearing an equally joyful sunny yellow top.

Related links:

• Fog Theatre
• Power Up!