EXMO presents: Kari Watson

Kari Watson performs the UK premiere of their solo work Fuse. Fuse combines modular synthesizers, a quadraphonic speaker array, and unhoused speaker cones distributed throughout the room to create a live spatial audio sound sculpture. Custom wearables including an XLR snake tie Watson’s body into the setup. Modular instruments sit atop custom ceramic tables made with visual artist and ceramicist Paige Schlosser, designed so cables can be woven in and around the surfaces. Watson takes theorist Donna Haraway’s cyborg as an origin point for the project: a figure of synthesis and hybridity, where humans and machines are enmeshed and the boundaries between body and environment are continually unsettled. Fusemakes that unsettled boundary audible, asking where the performer ends and the surrounding system begins.

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