There’s art at this year’s South by Southwest Festival, friend. Deep within the maelstrom of what the annual multimedia Festival has become, bright within its corporately commercial tracks and chockablock schedule of “Advertise HARDER!” how-tos, working in concert with the music and films and comedy and the other meaningful expressions of human creation that are still, we dare to suggest, what ultimately drives the whole sprawling thing – there’s art.
“The way we improvised movement,” said Wang, “was to imagine our bodies transforming into the figures in our art, and move in ways we thought such figures would move. There is a notion called metempsychosis, which means the migration of the spirit from body to body, especially from a human to another species or vice versa, which frequently appears in mythology.