union–seam is the second in a series of experiments exploring physical connections and shared spaces between performers as the key determining factor for the work’s material and environment. The unstable space generated by a fluid instrumental apparatus in combination with the performers’ actions calls for a reliance upon and responsiveness to not just the other performers, but the instrumental assemblage as a whole.
union–seam adapts and extends local bond for the JACK Quartet’s 2016 residency at Harvard University.
![The JACK Quartet rehearsing with tied together string instruments on tables.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/jack-quartet-union-seam-324by178-5f3cac.jpg)
Ari Streisfeld, John Pickford Richards, Kevin McFarland, and Christopher Otto of the JACK Quartet rehearsing union–seam.