runtime / a performance in two threads

A live audio-visual performance exploring the loop between memory and motion

Part of the in.sight performance series

May 9, 10, 16, 17 – 8:30pm

Torn Space Theater – 612 Fillmore Ave, Buffalo

Presented by Groupwork and Torn Space

Supported by the Cullen Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts

runtime initiates the in.sight performance series—an ongoing investigation into technology-mediated expression and embodied systems of code, light, sound, and space.

Structured in two movements—one contemplative, one kinetic—runtime traces memory not as something fixed, but as something performed: accessed, executed, and ultimately transformed. Data dissolves into atmosphere. Archive evolves into signal. A body navigates through stored time.

Drawing from Groupwork’s background in ambient rave design and environmental curation, runtime blurs the boundaries between signal and surface, score and system. The performance moves not forward but through—looping, refracting, synchronizing.

runtime is recognition through repetition—meaning built from echo.