What do we hear when phrases break, directives dissolve, and continuity is withheld?

For our last and fourth night of What Is: noncompliance, we centre durational pieces in our practise of refusal and disobedience.

The program is split into two parts.

1. THE WORKSHOP at 4:30 PM: how to become an insubordinate listener with Nidus. A durational workshop on listening protocols, cochlear and not, paranoid and distracted, primed, hallucinated and algorithmicized, deep and shallow alike, to brainstorm together how to wield listening as an ongoing, situated, political practice.

2. THE PERFORMANCE at 6:30 PM: Nidus performs tectonic sounds that drift between minimalist and maximalist electronics and improvisation, followed by a performance that turns sonic structure inside out with multi-disciplinary artist Shara Lunon

3. THE INSTALLATION: Christina Dovolis’ Sidewalk 3000 will be playing throughout the festival. Sidewalk 3000 is a short experimental film depicting countless scans of Toronto’s sidewalks—captured one pass at a time with a portable paper scanner.

Workshop tickets include access to the full night.

PWYCA $20, $25, $30

Workshop + Concert Tickets - https://www.showpass.com/confirm-humanity/

Concert Tickets - https://www.showpass.com/confirm-humanity-ii/

Fest Pass - https://www.showpass.com/what-is-noncompliance-fest-pass/