Join us on Facebook Live on Thu 22 October at 8pm and experience our latest FACT Together commission You, Copiphora Gorgonensis, created by MICHAELBRAILEY.
You, Copiphora Gorgonensis an hour-long meditative experience for online audience focusing on interspecies relationships, psychoacoustics and presence.
Over five stages, participants undergo a metamorphosis into Copiphora Gorgonensis, a grasshopper-like insect that - despite 650 million years of evolutionary divergence - miraculously shares our human inner ear structure. Listening, insectoid body-modding and time travel are used to position the interconnected sounding present within the vastness of space and evolutionary time.
You require:
- An hour of free, undisturbed time.
- Enough comfortable floor space in which to sit, lie down, and be on your hands and knees. A yoga mat is recommended.
- A laptop, or similar large-screen device, with screen brightness set to full. The sound of this piece must be played out loud (do not use headphones). Adjust the volume to a comfortably loud level.
Your space must be:
- As dark as possible (night-time experience is recommended)
- As quiet as possible (closing doors and windows is recommended)
