Volumetric Representation of Performative Spaces

Research Publication
 

Abstract: This research examines how digital volumetric representation transforms the experience, perception, and persistence of performative spaces. These ephemeral spaces, generated in real time through the body in action, are reconfigured when captured using technologies such as LiDAR scanning and 3D modeling. Through a live performance in which the audience scanned the space from multiple perspectives, a fragmented and collective three-dimensional scene was constructed. The thesis thus proposes an alternative to conventional documentation systems, such as photography, by questioning the relationship between presence and digitalization. Drawing on Auxiliadora Gálvez’s notion of somatic space and Jara Rocha’s concept of volumetric regimes, the research explores how these technical tools condition what is visible, mediated, and constructed as spatial memory. It proposes a digital archive that is unstable and closer to the logic of the living.