Xeno-Euphoria (2025)
Single-Channel Video, 4:00

Xeno-Euphoria is a single-channel video exploring the ecstatic experience of becoming alien to oneself. Set in a cyber-industrial arena, dancers gather around two central figures engaged in a ritualized performance. Inspired by McKenzie Wark’s notion of rave culture as a space where rhythm dissolves identity, the work treats the body as something malleable, unstable, and transformable.

The central figures drift in and out of sync, mirroring and distorting one another as their forms shift between human and machine. Surrounded by pounding sound and flickering visuals, their bodies become both unified and fragmented. Dance functions here not as expression but as transformation, a site where identity unravels through motion. Xeno-Euphoria imagines the rave as a techno-spiritual environment, a space of liberation, disorientation, and radical becoming.

Xeno-Euphoria was made possible with generous support from The Virtual Imaging Technology Lab (VITAL) and Department of Dance at Western Michigan University.