Cybernetic Entanglements

Cybernetic Entanglements is a new work built around a new wearable musical instrument shared and performed by Ken Ueno and Viola Yip. The instrument is neither costume nor prosthesis, but an operative component of a cybernetic circuit in which the performers’ bodies function as part of the machine itself. Rather than treating technology as an extension of the body, the work presents a dynamic and permeable relationship in which body and machine continuously co-constitute one another.