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“The idea came to me that night that I wanted to become a Butoh dancer, I wanted to dance like you. I wanted to create a digital movement library to archive your dance notation forever. I began to research on the possibility of digital muscle memory, to feel your movement with electric shocks or, in scientific term, electro muscle stimulation. I was able to condition my muscle to move like you. I believe I was very close to you at this moment. I think I succeeded in teaching myself Butoh. It was as if our universe folded in time and we met and dance together for the first time.”

– Choy, Ka Fai. An Email to the Spirit of Tatsumi Hijikata:
Subject: Unbearable Darkness.”
Delivered on January 21, 2018, at 4:44 AM

Choy Ka Fai is a Berlin-based Singaporean artist. His multidisciplinary art practice situates itself at the intersection of dance, media art and performance. At the heart of his research is a continuous exploration of the metaphysics of the human body. Through research expeditions, pseudo-scientific experiments and documentary performances, Ka Fai appropriates technologies and narratives to imagine new futures of the human body.

www.ka5.digital