at the edge of connection is a site-responsive installation for sound and five performers. More
than two hundred sounds were recorded in the studio in which the work was later presented. Distributed through sixteen speakers, these recordings formed a continuously changing sound
environment, regulated in part by the audience and the temperature outside the building. At times, the composition became distinctly musical; at others, it remained so close to the existing
sounds of the site that it became difficult to distinguish the recorded from the present. Warmer
conditions accumulated sound, while colder temperatures opened longer intervals of silence. Each performer listened for a specific set of sounds and responded when they appeared. They did not know when their sound would return. Their movements emerged through this listening and waiting: sometimes as a visible response, sometimes as a held tension or almost complete
stillness.
Sound designer, collaborator: Rutger Muller
Performers: Etienne Graanoogst, Alla Kravchenko, Chen Mingjou, Edward Loyd, Daphne Witmer, Clarinde Wesselink
Costume design: Maïna Joner
Supervisors: Dana Caspersen, Susan Leigh Foster and Chrysa Parkinson.
→ at the edge of connection is winner of the international student pitch at Cinedans FEST’25, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
→ Being as Knowing, an article about at the edge of connection by Susan Leigh Foster, 2025
→ read and watch documentation, at the edge of connection, museum Huis Marseille
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