The experimental time-based arts collective //sense showcases experimental community theater performances, exhibitions, and screenings. Counteracting the marginalization of time-based arts, //sense fosters a collaborative common ground for sound/video/performance/media artists to create gesamtkunstwerk through synergy. //sense encourages two maxims: “making good communities better” and “finding arts in all things.” //sense creates brave spaces for participants to unleash their imagination in artmaking through deskilling and unlearning.
Artist Location: Chicago, IL
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No-Input Mixing on the Astral Plane
A new media grouping of artist creating experiential art that blends together both audience and performer. Using invented instruments, no-input mixing, visual sonification, glitch remixing and pure noise, sound and visual components come together through a dynamic and collaborative improvisational scoring.
Video presentation Online October 29
and the home of the [placeholder] is a series of //sense’s experimental community theater works that explores the meaning of home through actions, performances, new media, technologies, and beyond.
“Placeholder” denotes a temporary state of unknown. It holds a value that is yet to be input, gathered, and defined. //sense, despite being a Chicago-based collective, houses members from all over the country and the globe. As newcomers, we explore the value and meaning of “home” together as it holds a special place in our hearts. To celebrate our diverse cultural experiences, we devise performance modules that reflect our upbringing and encounters. We explore how our diverse backgrounds and expertise create a harmonious space for us to co-exist simultaneously.
“Home” holds different meanings to us, and through our large-scale new media installation, performance arts, and actions, we create a superimposed state of a temporary “homecoming” and the generation of a new “home.” Opening the door of our “temporary new home” to the public, we invite participation and interactions. Participants and audiences are welcome to “knock” these portals and “seek” their individual paths, stories, and narratives that we create to their liking. No matter which journey they pursue in our theater, this new “home” is leading us to heal collective trauma, revisit memories, and make a good community better through arts.
This event showcased on 8/25/23 at Comfort Station, Chicago. We will present a complete video edit for soundpedro’s ACE.