EMBODIED FREQUENCIES by Performance in Flux presents artists Francesco Misceo, Ruben Barrios-Rodríguez, MarieVic, and the duo Yiou Wang & Alina Tofan, offering a contemporary view of performance art through video and focusing on how the body’s movements are transformed through the screen. At its core, it understands performance as a practice that activates the body in time — something that happens, transforms, and leaves a trace.

The selected works share a focus on the body as a site of meaning while revealing the wide range of approaches performance can take today. Here, performance unfolds as atmosphere within desert landscapes; as ecological memory shaped through water; as a critical reflection on identity within terrain; and as an immersive, technology-driven dialogue between the body and the natural world.

• Water Always Goes Where It Wants to Go from Yiou Wang & Alina Tofan
• Beyond the Echo by Francesco Misceo
• Hŏmō - Hŭmus: The Cadet in Wadi Rum by Ruben Barrios-Rodríguez
• Blowing Riccardo by MarieVic

Water Always Goes Where It Wants to Go
Artistic concept: Yiou Wang & Alina TofanDirector & Media Artist: Yiou WangMotion Capture Ecoperformance: Alina TofanComposer: Raven TaoProduced by: Mixanthropy Art Tech Studio & Plastic Art Collective

Water Always Goes Where It Wants to Go is an ecoperformance video artwork of the body in synergy with the storied landscape of water. How can we go back to something we already have? We are born out of water, and water constitutes our body, our territories, and our myths. Mapping water through the body, in between transitory space for waters, the video art investigates the relationship between the self, its embodied and somatic dialogues, and these physical and symbolic waters, questioning how we can return to our first water, the common body.

Beyond the Echo

Artist: Francesco Misceo 

Beyond the Echo is a video that bridges the gap between the physical body and the natural world, creating an immersive experience where movement, technology, and nature converge to evoke a profound sense of connection and reflection. Through the fusion of dance, generative art, and real-time visual effects, the piece explores the delicate relationship between humans and the environment at a time when our planet’s biodiversity faces unprecedented threats.

Through the use of new digital techniques such as generative art and creative coding, the installation underscores the importance of preserving biodiversity while fostering a deeper connection between the human spirit and the Earth. It is a meditation on the profound impact of nature on personal well-being and the urgent need to listen—beyond the echo of our daily lives—before it fades away.

Hŏmō - Hŭmus: The Cadet in Wadi Rum
Artist: Ruben Barrios-Rodríguez

The performance is presented by La Cadeta, a character from the universe of Hŏmō - Hŭmus: The Body Is Field and the Field Is Body, a personal project by the artist. Dressed in a lace garment, a Prussian bronze helmet crowned with hair, and a mask made of soccer balls, laces, and fringes, she ventures into the Wadi Rum desert in southern Jordan to connect with the sand, the dust, the movement, and memory.

La Cadeta, Homo-Humus: El cuerpo a la vez campo, y campo a la vez cuerpo  [The Chain, Man-Earth: The body is at the same time the field, and the field, at the same time, the body] challenges gender identities and masculine constructs in the Caribbean with the artist’s queer perspective. A figure in coloured fringes emerges in and out of the periphery amidst the arid landscape of the Valley of the Moon, seemingly as delicate as filigree, yet as solitary as a warlord. Masculinities that are decadent, ornamental, and transient are laid bare in the Jordanian desert of Wadi Rum, in the artist’s video performance.

Blowing Riccardo

Artist: MarieVic

‍Blowing Riccardo takes place in an aircraft boneyard in the Mojave Desert, where decommissioned planes are left to decay. Garments are introduced into this environment and exposed to the wind. Lifted, twisted, or suspended, they move without support, caught between animation and collapse. The work holds this condition, where the garment detaches from the body and becomes a moving form within the landscape.