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.

Technology in this work does not attempt to simulate or falsify consciousness; rather, it extends and facilitates a mode of intersubjective human becoming. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s sociogenic principle — that human consciousness emerges not from biology alone but from culturally mediated care networks — Enacting the Circle represents a manifestation of what Wynter calls “artificial kinship”: the mutual constitution of self and other through a shared approach to technics.

Originally created during an artist residency at Lobe 4DSOUND Studio and co-developed with Jay Hammond, sponsored by the Department of Performing Arts at Georgetown University. A 2026 iteration was presented alongside the keynote address “Triple Contingency and the Ethics of Collective Inscription” at the Center for Information Integrity, University at Buffalo.