Infinite Body

At the intersection of live music, scenography, and installation, the performance “Infinite Body” by musician Andrew Bunsell and visual artist Marie d’Elbée is inspired by the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences. These experiences are characterized by a sensation of floating outside one’s body and perceiving one’s own body from an external or detached point of view. Such experiences are often associated with near-death experiences as well as “Astral Projection,” a metaphysical experience during which the “astral or mental body” separates from the material or physical body.

What occurs in these experiences where our relationship to time, our environment, our body, and ourselves is shaken and ultimately seems to dissolve? What happens, what do we see and hear when the boundaries that previously defined our existence fall away? And to what extent does the experience of self-dissolution into the multitude, among free-falling stellar bodies, reveal new subjective possibilities, new modes of existence, and other forms of consciousness?

Through the use of sub-bass frequencies and technoid rhythms, the performance “Infinite Body” explores transitional and unprecedented states, fields beyond the limits of everyday reality.

Andrew Bunsell is a composer, live musician and cultural producer. He focuses on the involuntary, pre-form states and the transmutation of creative forms. Andrew is published by Mute and Hands In The Dark. He has presented his work at the Barbican (London), Café Oto (London) and the MALBA Museum (Buenos-Aires), among others. He is also the founder of London’s Dalston Studios and Dalston Music Festival.

Marie d’Elbée is a visual artist, composer and cultural producer. Inspired by transcendental states, her work interrogates the relationship between an organism and its environment. She researches entrance points to infinite space, moments of transformation where matter collapses and all interconnected bodies dissolve into one. Her work has been shown across the UK and in France, Argentina, Belgium, Greece and the US. She is also the founder of Open Source Contemporary Arts.