The Movement Lab presents: the Artificial environments / environmental Intelligence Festival
The Ae/eI Festival features work-in-progress installations and performances in the Movement Lab every day during the week of February 21-28, all of which are free and open to the public. It is guided by the question, what happens when we close the loop on the constructed binary of nature and technology?
Artificial environments / environmental Intelligence Festival Night 7:
Becoming Kinmakers
Created by Laura Hyunjhee Kim & Surabhi Saraf
Tuesday, February 27th | 6:30pm
Under the endless night sky that dizzies the depths of emotions, Kinmakers apni (Saraf) and aurum (Kim) weave a world. In this performance, notions of time, space, and place are mercurial—moving, melting, and enmeshing from within and out. Becoming Kinmakers is a live multimedia immersion devised from a shimmering fuzzy felt-rhythm between two performers. They speak and move through the fluid language of a shapeshifting blob to touch the soft edges of a mysterious, yet-to-be-explored story of kinship in the making.
Doors open at 6:00 PM and showing begins at 6:30 PM
Capacity in the lab is capped at 40 audience members. Attendees who have RSVP'd before the event will have priority, and admission will be determined on a first come first serve basis on arrival. If you RSVP before the event but you arrive late, we reserve the right to give your spot to someone on the waitlist.
Attendees who have not RSVP'd will be put on a standby waitlist if they arrive in-person before the event.
Laura Hyunjhee Kim (lauraonsale.com) is a Korean-American multimedia artist who creates post-disciplinary performances to reimagine on/offline (non)human interactions. Kim received numerous awards, including the Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award and the Black Cube Video Art Award, and has shown work around the world, recently including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, KADIST, Athens Digital Art Festival, and the Theatre of Digital Art Dubai. She is the author of “Entering the Blobosphere: Musing on Blobs” (The Accomplices) and coauthor of “Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object from the Onto-Tales of the Digital Afterlife” (Open Humanities Press). Kim is an Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts in Global Performance Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas, living and working in the company of neighboring songbirds, squirrels, and wild rabbits of Texas.
Surabhi Saraf is a media artist, composer and founder of Centre for Emotional Materiality. Her practice explores our complex relationship with technology using embodiment as a tool and the body as a site for transformation. Surabhi is the recipient of the Eureka Fellowship Award by the Fleishhacker Foundation (2015), the Djerassi Resident Artist Award (2012) and the Artist + Process + Ideas Residency at Mills College Art Museum (2016). She was a 2019 Technology Resident at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, and 2020 resident at HarvestWorks, NY. She has performed at the Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Biennial, Greece, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, NETMAGE 10 International Live Media Festival (Bologna), and Soundwave Biennial ((5)), SFMOMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Her videos have been shown at TIMES SQUARE, New York, Blanton Museum, Austin, the Hunter Museum of American Art Chattanooga, TN among others. Surabhi lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.