Erin Gee
Photo credit: Elody Libe
Erin is the mentor for you, if you are interested in: ASMR, feminist/queer theory, extended electroacoustic or notated music performance and scores, singing/voice, emotional materiality, quantum physics and quantum computation, DIY musical instruments, collaboration.
Canadian performance artist and composer Erin Gee (TIO’TIA:KE – MONTREAL) takes inspiration from her experience as a vocalist and applies it to poetic and sensorial technologies, likening the vibration of vocal folds to electricity and data across systems, or vibrations across matter.
Gee is a DIY expert in affective biofeedback, implicating the body of the listener as part of her cybernetic systems in place. Through principles of emotional labor, emotional measurement, emotional performance, and emotional reproduction, she has made work in neural networks, choral composition, ASMR, virtual reality, networked music performance, and robotics foreground issues of critical empathy, unconscious sensory programming, and divisions between emotion and reason.
Gee’s work has been shown in solo exhibition and concert at MacKenzie Art Gallery (CA) and Vancouver New Music (CA), as well as group exhibitions and performance at Karachi Biennale (PK), Toronto Biennale (CA), Ars Electronica (AT), MUTEK Festival (AR/ES/CA), LEV Festival (ES), Darling Foundry (CA), and NRW Forum (DE).
She is currently a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholar and doctoral candidate at Université de Montréal, articulating feminist methods for composing through biofeedback music. She is also artist in residence at the Institut Quantique de l’Université de Sherbrooke in partnership with Sporobole artist-run centre (CA).
