In July, we will welcome Iris Garrelfs and Jenn Kirby who are working collaboratively on a new project and will be spending time in the studio on ‘Embodied Dialogues’, a performance project that merges body movement, wearable technology, and extended vocal improvisation.
The performance features Kirby’s Sensor Dress, a wearable instrument equipped with capacitive touch sensors and motion tracking, that generates sound through the performer’s movement, and Garrelfs’ unamplified voice. Garrelfs moves among the audience, activating the dress’s sensors to trigger an array of pre-recorded sounds—ranging from electroacoustic and body-sourced sounds to environmental recordings—while her vocalisations remains unprocessed, sounding out in the space. The project aims to create an intimate and immersive dialogue between performer, audience, body, voice, and space.
During the residency, the collaborators will develop a more bodily understanding of the dress’s behaviour and how the different sounds interact with each other. VotE will be announcing further details on this residency soon. In the meantime, please check out the websites of both artists to find out more about their extraordinary work at the intersection of voice, wearable technology, body, performance, mixed media and composition