Lydian Junction is a cohort of five artist practitioners with different specializations, working at the intersection of performance, video art, installation, music and dance: director Sarah Cameron Sunde, dancer Dages Juvelier Keates, video artist Karla Carballar, composer Christopher Berg, and actor Oliver Burns. Each of the Lydian Junction have between 13-40 years experience working locally and internationally in their individual mediums. They came together in 2011 to experiment with forms and content creation. Since then, they have been making interdisciplinary experimental live art works that honor each individual while striving to find a collaborative practice that can sustain itself in the modern economy. Lydian Junction has developed performances for The End (UNTITLED #4), Cornelia Street Cafe (UNTITLED #4.5), Brooklyn Arts Exchange (WHAT COUNTS), Hybrid Theatreworks (REVOLUTION), and Figment Festival on Governor’s Island (TO THE TABLE). Their work has received support through residencies at New Georges and 3LD Art & Technology Center and will be featured in the upcoming second edition of a new printed photography journal about theatrical design, CHANCE.
BORN FOR NOTHING is Lydian Junction’s experiment in interdisciplinary creation, which brings together the protagonist in Knut Hamsun’s novel Hungerand humanity’s relationship to water, in order to probe the contemporary relationship of art to suffering and sacrifice. Dutch water expert Edgar Westerhof will help the artists investigate methods of survival as they create an evening-length mixed-media performance (visual art, new-form opera, dance, video art). The completed piece will have a four-week run in New York City in early 2015.