Chris Swithinbank

union–seam is the sec­ond in a se­ries of ex­per­i­ments ex­plor­ing phys­i­cal con­nec­tions and shared spaces be­tween per­form­ers as the key de­ter­min­ing fac­tor for the work’s ma­te­r­ial and en­vi­ron­ment. The un­sta­ble space gen­er­ated by a fluid in­stru­men­tal ap­pa­ra­tus in com­bi­na­tion with the per­form­ers’ ac­tions calls for a re­liance upon and re­spon­sive­ness to not just the other per­form­ers, but the in­stru­men­tal as­sem­blage as a whole.

union–seam adapts and ex­tends local bond for the JACK Quar­tet’s 2016 res­i­dency at Har­vard Uni­ver­sity.