An exploration of the sonic character of alarms and the physical response they create, in collaboration with choreographer Brigette Dunn (LA) and visual artist Dasha Sur (Russia). Questioning boundaries, ownership and power as observed both locally and in the geopolitical scene, ALARM performs ideas of need, limit and transgression in the context of capitalist society, with its crises of inequality. The alarm, as a public performance of danger, sets an example for the violating body and its desire to disrupt and renegotiate the limits of its existence. Once it sounds, the divisions between self and other, between public and private, previously hidden in the background, are revealed, as are the networks and infrastructures protecting those boundaries. Amidst the city’s viscera concealing systems of protection, fear and power in infinite webs of wires and cables, ALARM implicates us in questions of difference, desire, and law.
ALARM Vignette #1 was developed in residency at The Watermill Center with the support of New Music USA, and presented by REDCAT Studio, LA (2017).
