You are invited to witness Corpus Sonos by Amy Kingsmill and Justin Snyder, a visceral performance combining the disciplines of musical improvisation and body ritual. This is the third iteration of this work and the first time the duet has been performed in Los Angeles, having previously been performed in 2014 at Panopoly Lab, New York, and in 2013 at Mori and Stein Gallery, London. Both Kingsmill and Snyder are both accomplished performers, Kingsmill coming to LA for this performance from London, England after having performed recently at Karachi's first Art Biennale and Tempting Failure's Biennale of Performance Art and Noise; and Snyder traveling from Detroit, recently having performed at The Kennedy Center and the Shanghai Concert Hall. Corpus Sonos is a performance work that merges sound and movement as one intertwined experience. This transformative piece joins the two performers and creates one instrument of flesh and sound. Lying on the floor, Kingsmill is attached by meat hooks which pierce her flesh and are connected by ropes that lead directly to the sound source of the toy piano. The performance is entirely improvised physically and sonically, commencing with a trance-like single note on the toy piano that transpires into a duet in which Kingsmill's movements are an embodied response to Snyder's playing and vice versa. The demarcation between leader and follower is blurred as each flows from one state of mind through a process of complicit trust and a physical and auditory push and pull. The choreography and sound experience are constantly in flux, inviting the audience surrounding the performers into a ritual that is completely different each time. BIOS AMY ELIZABETH KINGSMILL Amy Kingsmill is a radical queer London-based performance artist producing both minimalist pain-based ritualistic performance, and strongly visual works which present costume as an installation on the body. Her work focuses on transformation and transcendence, combing beauty with arrestingly visceral actions. Since graduating from Central Saint Martin’s (2013) Kingsmill has performed Fairytale at the first Karachi Biennale (2017), Bleeding Skirt at Tempting Failure International Biennale of Performance Art and Noise (2018), Journey at Spill Festival of Performance (2014), Corpus Sonos at Panopoly Lab New York (2014), Trance Dance at Franko B’s Untouchables (2015), Bloom at Liquid Rooms, Venice (2018) and presented a collaborative work, Tender Blood, with Sheree Rose (2015), and also cohosted Methodologies in Body Art (2017) with Sheree Rose and Rhiannon Aarons as part of LADA DIY+. https://aekingsmill.carbonmade.com JUSTIN SNYDER Justin Snyder has worked with artists from many diverse mediums, including collaborations with dancers, poets, performance artists, visual art software engineers, and laser artists. An advocate of new music, he has worked with composers including Libby Larsen, Paul Schoenfield, William Bolcom, Jonathan Dove, Jake Heggie, John Musto, Tucker Fuller, and Mohammed Fairouz and has performed on Czech Radio and the BBC Radio. Some of the venues Justin has performed at include The Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, the United States Supreme Court, The Tank (New York), the Barbican Main Hall and Barbican Pit, the TED conference stage, Mori + Stein Gallery (London), Panoply Lab (New York), The Horse Hospital, Sadler's Wells (in performance with Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal), City University New York, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (for the 50th Anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts), Harvard University, the Mexican Cultural Institute (D.C.), Teatro del Lago (Chile), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), Shanghai Concert Hall, Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera House, and the National Center for the Performing Arts (Beijing). Justin is also the co-founder, along with Irena Menk, of ESCforescent- an artistic endeavor born out of a desire to escape the ordinary and actualize new dimensions of perception. Escforescent explores the concept of synesthesia by developing multisensory projects with the fragrance market. Their focus is on immersive experiences via unique combinations of our various senses. Justin studied at the University of Michigan and completed his second masters degree in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. www.justinsnyderpianist.com