Mami Wata

tentatively "explorations of WATA"

Through this interactive piece we will explore the parallel existence, and intersections, of industrial histories and African mythologies and modernity. The world will be populated by uncanny combinations of the exotic and the technological, the pure and the polluted, the past and the future. Users interact with the piece by learning gestures that will correlate to changing animation/ footage and shifting video rates.

Technologies, methodologies & techniques to explore:

Concept
Mami Wata as commodity/ deity
Globalization
popular cultural icons
water: ocean, lakes, rivers, streams
Utopia / Dystopia

Technologies
MAX/MSP
Adobe Premiere
Photoshop
Film / Editing techniques

Methods
Time
Gestural body movements
Choreography
Body Movement / Screen movement

Techniques
Underwater footage
Green Screen

Images
Wiki image of Mami Wata
American Museum of Natural History - "Creatures of the Deep"

Dance Videos
Yemaya - Orisha
Oshua
fused Afro-uban & Afro-Brazilian secular dance formsC

Bibliography
In progress