“io 0.0.1 beta is an interactive, semi-autonomous technological artifact that, in partnership with its human associates, performs a deliberately amplified staging of a socio-technical network—a network in which primary protocol is improvisation.” #io001b
“This cyborg is exploded in space, spilling its components and organs across the stage… It’s freakish, as if, say, a violin’s soundbox had severed itself from the rest of the instrument and crawled across the stage.”
“We’re being transformed, across porous borders, through language. Soon, those of us who lived through this, might share these as shorthands. ‘Variant’ means something. It has a texture and resonance and feel and vibe that can’t be captured by a Merriam-Webster.”
#scenesfromtheendoftheworld
“Those of us involved took community, solidarity, resilience, trust and empathy for granted. It’s not just that the groundwork of trust and safety was never established for the group… but that we lazily subscribed to the dogma that the nature of improvisation would itself somehow save us.
See you this evening at encounters!
“Spiky, tense, and confrontational, focused on succinct lines and dense textures, refusing to surrender to common forms and narratives, and often sounding disruptive and anarchistic.” — Eyal Hareuveni, Percorsi Musicali
“This is the time. And this is the record of the time.” — Laurie Anderson
#scenesfromtheendoftheworld #postmodernslippage
Collectivism, Violence, Imagined Utopias and Improvisation
This Friday! (12.06.2026) I’ll be performing solo at encounters, Berlin. Feels like it’s been a while since I last performed solo (it is the first time since the release of uᴉɐƃ∀ ʍǝN sI plO sI ʇɐɥM). It feels good to be out doing this again.
ℹ️ www.busterandfriends.com/performances
