The KCAI Crossroads Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice presents, The Performative Loom: sound, rhythm and experimental making, a collaborative project shared between the KCAI Fiber Department led by Pauline Verbeek-Cowart, students in Advanced Audio-Vision led by Dwight Frizzell, and students in Space Between Papers led by Marie Bannerot McInerney.

Taking into account the experiential relationship between academia, art, community, and labor that took place during the experiment of the Black Mountain College and the interdisciplinary nature of the Bauhuas model, The Performative Loom: sound, rhythm, and experimental making is a collaborative project that hosts various large scale methods of fabrication with linear elements while activating the human body as the central tool. Participants will undertake a series of choreographed movements in response to soundscapes and instruments created with handmade paper to construct large scale sculptural objects.