EdgeCut presents its inaugural show: a double bill of boundary-pushing new works by Kat Mustatea and Ka Baird that activate sound, movement, technology and linguistic practice. Presented on May 22nd, 23rd, and 24th at its brand new home, Edge Space, a coop for live performance experiments in SoHo.
When:
Thursday, May 22nd @ 8:00 PM (Doors: 7:00 PM )
Friday, May 23rd @ 8:00 PM (Doors: 7:00 PM )**
Saturday, May 24th @ 8:00 PM (Doors: 7:00 PM )
Where:
Edge Space, 457 Broome St, Lower Level, New York
**Friday May 23rd includes post-show Q&A with Kat Mustatea
About
This double bill will be the inaugural event for Edge Space, a new performance coop in SoHo, kicking off an exciting evolution of the space, with new programming, events, and artists-in-residence.
ielele by Kat Mustatea is a multi-sensory performance using the BodyMouth instrument. Drawing on Balkan folklore, the piece weaves dance, music, and storytelling into a series of vivid vignettes that conjure the lost histories and spectral voices of these mythical female figures.
a thousand miles of hungry static by Ka Baird is a new performance piece that explores the spectral forces of reality through various sonic encounters, physical movement, and colored light. The piece presents The Spectral in direct opposition to The Spectacle as a force that disturbs and awakens, rather than pacifies, us.
About the Artists
Kat Mustatea is a transmedia playwright and artist whose experiments with language, live art, and the computational uncanny articulate the absurdities of being human in an increasingly algorithmic world. Mustatea’s BodyMouth, a bespoke computational instrument, turns the body into an organ for speech. Wearing sensors on their bodies, dancers performs specific gestures in sequence to sound out words phoneme by phoneme, transforming the body quite literally into a mouth. BodyMouth is a finalist for the 2024 Guthman Prize, 2024 Lumen Prize, and has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, in Harper’s Magazine, and Gizmodo.
Ka Baird is a performer, sound artist, musician and composer based in New York City. a thousand miles of hungry static continues Baird’s investigation into sound's outer dimensions through performance. The piece features extended voice and microphone techniques, live-processed flutes, samples, feedback, fractured rhythms, and wearable MIDI interfaces that both trigger and manipulate sound. The performance embodies Baird’s signature tone that is simultaneously confrontational, mysterious, visceral, and humorous.