I remember what the machine remembers what I remember

"Data leaves our separate bodies and returns as a shared (if corrupted) memory.

Bodies of data, amalgamated and discorporate.

Our incantation invokes the memory.

If this festival is a venue for dissolving the hard boundaries of ourselves,

Do you feel connected or displaced?

Will your body, or your machine, hold the memory of this space?

When 4 bodies continue into the future as a single body, do we have the cultural technologies to make this harmonious?"

I remember what the machine remembers what I remember : 我記得住機器記住我記住的 is a live performance and installation fostered by collaborative working friendships and exchange between choreographic and technology artists in Australia and Taiwan - Ming-Chieh LEE, Nasim PATEL, Roslyn ORLANDO, and Zi-Ping TIAN.

The artist group was first formed through an open call for the 2022-2024 Taiwan and Australia Choreography and Technology Exchange Program curated by Matt Cornell for Critical Path and C-LAB. After their global premiere in Taipei and Taichung, Taiwan in 2024 the performance was remade for Liveworks and will make its Australian debut. Leaking in and around the porous spaces of Carriageworks across the festival, a cross-cultural artistic team occupies the slippery spaces between the real and the virtual, meaning and language, and body and machine.

See this performance at Liveworks, Performance Space's flagship festival of live art taking over Carriageworks from 22 - 26 October 2025.

Image Credit: Body Data Loop, C-LAB FVL Dome, 2024. Photograph by David CHEN. Courtesy of C-LAB.