European premiere

Myriam Bleau is a digital artist, composer, and performer based in Montréal. She considers technology as a collaborator in, rather than just a tool for, her performances and releases which take music and sound as their point of departure to explore strange cybernetic realms. Across her audiovisual performances, interactive installations, and video works she uses code and machine learning as well as physical devices and machines to explore the porous space between the virtual and tactile world. The output of her experimentation with these technologies is a sound defined by a vast spectrum of microtonal frequency, idiosyncratic rhythm, and extraordinary space. At Rewire she presents Hypermobility, an audiovisual performance which combines dance music allusions with volumetric laser projections, hyperkinetic patterns of digital synthesis in Supercollider are visualized through a laser beam creating sculpted planes of light above the audience. The performance seeks to capture the frantic and addictive sense of movement that defines contemporary western personhood – the tourist and the business-person alike – with a keen attention pointed at the alarming environmental impact of this desire for constant travel and change.

Co-presented by MUTEK. The presentation of this work was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.