The body is an electrical emitter, receiver and network station. Interconnected points vibrate with pulse messages; somewhere amongst the thought, signals and the noise of action there is some obscure deity called us.
Starting from a shared appreciation of the creative possibilities of Michaela Davies’ art-music explorations, Bad Seed James Sclavunos and the Australian avant-garde cellist explored how control might be exerted over musicians via EMS (electrical muscular stimulation). The resulting experimental productions marked the beginning of an exploration by the two artists into the role of the body in performance and whether physical agency and humanity are as closely tied together as most would expect.