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Doppelgänger


2016 / 05:00 / choreography

2021 / 39:00 / choreographic performance


This is me, talking to my future. A double, made of echoes and reverberations.

I relive a life of leaving and returning through conversation with a past self. 

Doppelgänger is a duet manufactured out of time delay. A real-time stream of the performer is algorithmically manipulated as it appears in a life-size projection. The resulting duet vacillates between a simple canon of delayed repetition and the illogical sense that the live feed is responding to the past or perhaps even anticipating the future.

A friend once told me, that a true conversation, must by necessity, travel long distances...



By NUUM Collective (NiNi Dongnier, Tiri Kananuruk, Nuntinee Tansrisakul, Mimi Yin and Yuguang (YG) Zhang) 

Music Excerpt from Sonata No. 5 in C Major by Baldassare Galuppi

Pianist: Cheng-zong Yin

Photo: Maria Baranova


Supported by the MAX: Media Art Exploration. 

Special thanks to Media Commons of New York University. 



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