Digital Exploration of the Expansion by Kofi Oduro


Digital Exploration of the Expansion is a presentation and performance of a speculative fiction through live coding[1], creative coding, and other mediums that explores how the body can be reimagined. A speculative scientific report [2] made me think of producing a work that challenges the notion of what humanity is based on. What biology, what culture, what geology will occur if we thought differently? Thinking into the digital nature of my work, what if this realm was also controlled by how we used technology and how it uses us. By taking on a digital exploration that expands what is considered “body culture,” maybe we can engage in dialogues that expand past our normal range of ideologies. By adding sound and poetry, we will be adding a multisensory experience that engages the various senses[3], an integral part of our bodies that have to be included in any exploration of the body.


Illestpreacha (Kofi Oduro) is an Experiential Storyteller that transforms sounds, data, words and code into experiences that nurtures discussion, reflection, and interaction. With a decade plus of performance, event & audiovisual production, he takes inspiration from endeavours that are not normally together to create a harmonic experience for audiences.

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Žilvinė by Brigita Gedgaudas

Žilvinė is a screen-dance film investigating the connection between ancestors, nature, and descendants through the reimagination of the Lithuanian folktale, “Eglė Žalčiū Karalienė”. Drawing on pagan Lithuanian relationships with land and nature, the dancer takes on the persona of the “King of Serpents” (a character in the folktale) becoming all at once human, natural, and mythic. Combined with natural and drawn elements, Žilvinė creates a space where the past, present, and natural live with and around each other, reconfiguring relationships between ancestral and contemporary knowledge.

Brigita Gedgaudas is an emerging, interdisciplinary, trans*, and diasporic-Lithuanian artist. Eir practice draws on his engagement in W*acking (queer street dance) and Lithuanian folk dance. Embracing indeterminacy, Brigita engages with in-betweenness as they explore contradictory experiences of gender and cultural identity through experimental realms of dance and digital worldbuilding.

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