Image: Rift Photography
Image: Rift Photography
Persistence of Vision, is new dance and live animation project created in collaboration with video artist and filmmaker Tee Ken Ng.
It is a live animation created in real time before an audience and experiments with physical visual illusions, existing in the liminal space between the permanence of film and the transience of dance. It reflects the creative leads shared fascination with illusion, while deliberately revealing the mechanisms behind image-making.
Thematically, the work explores entropy and its relevance to human, environmental, and systemic change—both natural and manmade. A concept resonant in today’s context of climate crisis, systemic instability, and cultural transformation. In a time marked by disruption and uncertainty, the work speaks to both personal and collective experiences of impermanence. In the context of deepfake media and AI-generated imagery, the work also serves as a timely critique of illusion and image-making. By exposing its own mechanisms, Persistence of Vision invites audiences to consider how images are constructed and what that means in a digitally mediated world increasingly defined by questions of perception, authenticity, and truth.
Choreographer and collaborator: Laura Boynes Animator and Collaborator: Tee Ken Ng
Performers: Zendra Giraudo and Ella-Rose Trew
Composer: Rachael Dease