This video has been shortlisted out of 23,000 international submissions in the top 125 for the YouTube/Play competition in collaboration with Google and The Guggenheim in NYC. The Jury consisted of Takashi Murakami, Stefan Sagmeister, Nancy Spector, Animal Collective and many more. See the shortlist at http://www.youtube.com/user/playbiennial
This video was made in collaboration between Dana Haim and Learke Hooge Andersen. We made this during our MA Textiles Futures course at Central Saint Martins in London.
The video was part of a biomimicry project where we were very much inspired by the glowing creatures of the deep sea as well as weird formations in the human body to inform new approaches in design. We wanted to create a kind of hybrid of the two using this costume that we made specifically for this video. We used several kinds of recycled materials to create the costume such as left over tights, ribbons, and beads. The dancer in the video is Supitchanga Vanasirikul.
