Of Formless Formations_2024

Of Formless Formations is a collaborative acousmatic & dance performance that unfolds into a spatialized sound installation for visitors to explore. The three works (h2.er (harmony); If All Else; I Fall, & Impending Bloom) use water as a lens to trace the relationship between art and apathy; materiality and decay; resonance and harmony; and the aural possibilities of care in the Chthulucene (Harraway). Departing from one of the planet's most endangered rivers (Colorado, US/MX) and its industrialization, the space echoes harmonic compositions in sound and body, using field recordings of water and sonic textures to create a contemplative space for the performers and viewers to experience.

In this work, the performers have been asked to channel their inner waters; using contained individual and porous collective body formations to shape their own forms. The concept of water as a form expands to the moving body through a post-human feminist and speculative realist perspective and understanding of the hydro-commons through embodied water circuitry, containment, and the resonance of its ebbing.

The name of this project is a direct reference to the book Formless Formation: Vignettes for the End of this World by Sandra Ruiz and Hypatia Vourlousmis (2021), as it aligns with the themes I'm exploring, such as the cross over of performance and critical aesthetics and political thought.