Sai Rapoports

What is gained and what is lost when trying to represent, translate or imprint the living body and its movement?

The fascination with feeding our bodies into machines has never been more prevalent. Moving between expansion and reduction, Leftovers is a critical exploration of how the ephemeral live art of dance might survive, flourish, be traded or become extinct in a computational environment

Shai Rapoport is an Israeli multi-disciplinary artist, creative technologist, and mover. In the past two years he has been exploring the ever-changing connections and disruptions between computational processes and the physical sensory reality. His background in dance-theatre and performance has informed this journey full of compiling errors, conversations with arguably intelligent entities, and fights over who’s in control. He aspires to build a bridge that will allow audiences-spectators-users to have an observant and reflective perspective on human-machine interaction, presence, ephemerality, and the accelerated changes we are going through as human kind