Emergency Contact

ex · EMERGENCY CONTACT 1 (live)

A personal account of life as a game of distances, written at a time when the restrictions associated with the pandemic were gradually being lifted. A collection of sound extracts, digital interface jingles, 2000s pop loops and self-tuned streams of consciousness.

This “emergency contact” opens up a contradiction: both the emergency contact as a code that overcomes distance, like a loved one, and the contact as anonymous, autonomous, emergency. This means that urgency acts here as a common denominator. Between a call to emphasise identity and another to divide it. A project in progress between lyric poetry and performance that will also take the form of a book in the near future.

A male-presenting artist performs into a microphone while seated at a table with audio gear, DJ controller and several stands with an audience seated behind him in a studio space.

A male artist leans over a table adjusting a laptop and music equipment in a sunlit room, with microphones, stands, towels, a pillow and seated audience members visible in the background.

A male artist performs to a microphone, looking at a sheet music stand.

A male artist performs to a microphone, reading annotated poetry on a sheet music stand. An over-the-shoulder shot.

A detail shot of a poem called "delay timer" with various pen and marker annotations. In the blurry background we see a make artist in a red sweater, very blurry.

Emergency Contact
live performance, variable duration

Work in development.