Enacting the Circle

Enacting the Circle is a participatory performance developed for immersive audio environments. Participants enact a live, embodied process of co-creation in which their improvised gestures, interpersonal negotiations, and shared intentions generate emergent sonic spaces through haptic feedback, gesture tracking techniques, and aural attunement exercises. The work centers Synthball, the gesture and play-based media controller I developed with Rebecca Uliasz.

Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s sociogenic principle — the idea that human consciousness emerges not from biology alone but from linguistically mediated care networks — Enacting the Circle examines the possibility of what Wynter calls “artificial kinship”: the mutual constitution of self and other through a shared approach to technics.

Co-developed with Jay Hammond during an artist residency at Lobe 4DSOUND Studio, sponsored by the Department of Performing Arts at Georgetown University.