Shock Lines trio
Shock Lines is an experimental collaboration bridging live music performance, small sculpture, and art installation.
Shock Lines is composed of glass artist Caitlin Dubler, sound artist & cellist Natasha Dubler and percussionist Niki Johnson.
Shock Lines brings three distinctive understandings of material, transformation and gesture into dialogue through each artist’s respective craft. By mutually challenging the strict conventions of each individual practice the collaboration opens new avenues for play across disciplinary forms.
Shock Lines (self-titled)
Shock Lines is a visceral exploration of the resonance and materiality of glass. Moving between performance and installation, the work features suspended glass-sandstone sculptures and immersive surround sound. Audiences are invited to explore the gritty, crumbling textures of glass in the installation, followed by a 45-minute performance of percussion and live electronics. Rumbling, crunching and scraping, Shock Lines reimagines the strength and fragility of glass through sound.
Shock Lines premiered at the David Li Sound Gallery in Melbourne on October 19 2023.
Refract
Refract: Cello and Glass (2022).
Glass, percussion, cello.
Through an experimental process of fusing glass and Hawkesbury sandstone, Caitlin’s work engages with the geological nature of glass and its ancient histories of pyrotechnical play. The unpredictable kiln firing process reveals gritty textures and iron oxide hues embedded within the glass and stone. Sonically this opens a rich palette of sounds - crunching, scraping, ringing. Responding to a provocation of sculpture as a site of material transformation, Natasha and Niki unfold a series of conversations refracted through the sound and materiality of glass.
Refract premiered in April 2022 with Backstage Music.
