lovelike
lovelike is a mixed-reality audio visual performance by Jenna Caravello in collaboration with Celia Hollander, using motion capture and VR to compose music live. Throughout the 30-minute performance, Jenna rearranges the features of her avatar and liminal virtual world, and leans into desperation that feels like love. Reflecting on the dissociative experience of seeking approval from an absent lover, the duo weaves an experimental narrative and fragmented musical composition, weaving a melancholic composition in eight acts. Jenna performs in motion capture gear and VR HMD as an embodied avatar, interacting with virtual objects as proxies for audio effects and digital instruments while Celia monitors and organizes incoming clips in live audio software. Projected behind them is a view of the virtual world Jenna uses to improvise with Celia, both always visible in their roles as composer and virtual puppeteer.
