World Permiere

Colin Self inhabits many selves, among them: artist, composer, puppeteer, community organiser, singer, researcher, dancer, and “disidentifier.” This last one, self-described, helps when it comes to understanding Self’s output: there are many associations at play in their work, but attempting to focus or grasp onto one leads you down a rabbit hole of intermingling ideas. Simply put, Self and their work is vast and not so easy to identify. From out of this colourful practice, Self returns with the EP lemniscate (2024), their first new release since their album Siblings (2018) and its companion EP Orphans (2019). The stirring melodies and harmonies of opener “Parva Lux” concatenate with noisy club-drums in “Involution of Spirit” and the industrial pop chaos of “Darkness Visible.” At Rewire, they expand upon this release with the performance Gasp!, which is based on the forthcoming album on label RVNG Ltd.,  r∞L4nGc (2025). Presented as a triptych of music, puppetry, video, and text, Gasp! is the second opera in Self’s Shadow series – a work about trans-dimensional dialogue, spiritual guidance, and queer ancestry that showcases Self’s iridescent practice of song, movement, and spectacle.