Abstract
Haocheng firmly believes that the life of art and the art of life are one. Similarly, designer praxis and research are inseparable as they are driven by inquiries into humanity and pursuing how we construct the world with its gifts and traumas from history. His research is in new cross-disciplinary genres and forms as well as combinations of body, natural with graphic design and technology. This project experientially investigates choreography and typography in Chinese philosophical thought—using the context of contemporary art. In particular, it explores the ways in which choreography and typography may overlap in the assumed infinite realm. By dissection the performance HEY, his practical performance project at the 2023 Melbourne Fringe Festival, was used as the main project of critical discussion and research. How to stimulate and externalize the subconsciousness of the body, and explore the potential similarities and connections between the nature of body movement and Chinese philosophical thought? This project will develop a speculative conceptual framework for identifying and mapping productive resonances between the phenomenology of the body and the disciplines of graphic design, exploring choreography as a novel practice area within the discipline of graphic design. He is expanding his interest in typography and experimental performance study from a multidisciplinary approach and trying to draw appropriately from multiple different disciplines to redefine the problems outside of the cultural, design, technique, and body boundaries and trying to reach solutions based on a new understanding of arts and body situations that surround us.
Presenters
Haocheng ZhangStudent, Ph.D Researcher, Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
VISUAL, TYPOGRAPHY, GRAPHIC, DESIGN, CHOREOGRAPHY, DANCE, CHINESE, PHILOSOPHY, EMBODYING, INTERDISCIPLINARY
