taut: Tomie Hahn and Melanie Klein Held In-Tense

This weekend at FTM10 (Feminist Theory and Music conference) at University of North Carolina in Greensboro, I witnessed "taut", a collaboration conceived and performed by Tomie Hahn and sculptor Melanie Klein. Tomie and Melanie wore rockclimbing harnesses and supported the weight of each other using bike tires bound together by industrial-strength rubber bands. Tomie played the shakuhachi while the two women swayed and held in tension: articulating togetherness, strength, and presentness through sound, sight, and embodiment.

Program notes:

keep the line
betwee us
well traveled
xxxxxxxxbuzzing
xxxxxxxxxxrattling



It was an elegant, in-tense performance. I look forward to seeing future collaboration between Tomie and Melanie.

I also had the honor of performing with Tomie in a free improv set with my improv trio Pinko Communoids. Media and report of this show will soon to be posted.