Kadet Kuhne

In the brief moments before a hate crime occurs, a young woman imagines her escape.

A collaboration between Kadet Kuhne & Alba G. Corral.

Based on concepts of emergent strategy, Sym envisions a response to individual resistance that shifts the focus toward collective interdependent metamorphosis, becoming-with others’ intricate, non-linear, tentacular structures, and the embrace of change as adaptive transformation.

Hold your breath for this tempestuous ride through bondage, suspension and the power of the mind. Electrical impulses produce reactionary states in this adrenaline-packed spectacle, as charged sonic frequencies express various states of embodied dissonance and willful determination. Fight or Flight features a bound figure in flight, held in position by an unrevealed source. This unknown source points to whether or not the figure is in a consensual position with the goal of addressing what one may feel bound or liberated by, and what choices may be involved in those conditions. The universality of experiencing internal and external limitations, discomfort and anxiety in one's own skin and the trappings of mind contrasted by determination and liberation of spirit is explored.

This is the story of the first martyr of free speech. Socrates is on trial for his life. He will be put to death. 2,500 years later we remember his words.