This online performance by Archie Reid will feature the use of a “technological aid to metamorphosis,” a prosthetic synthesizer hacked into a modular synthesizer system. Butoh dance will guide the music. Through the figure of the serpent, I will explore shedding, an act of rebirth. The live performance will be accompanied by video feedback, like an ouroboros biting its own tail.
Archie Reid is an emerging transdisciplinary artist and Master’s student-researcher in Visual and Media Arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). He is a member of the Hexagram research network for arts and technology and of the cyberfeminist artist centre Studio XX. In 2014, he completed an internship as assistant curator at La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse. Since 2013, he has taught visual and media arts to young audiences and now focuses on teaching technological arts. For his Master’s project, he collaborates in his research-creation practice with technological aids to metamorphosis. He also works as a graphic designer for artists’ books and on analogue music projects. He lives in Montreal.
