Intimate Estrangement:

“i am a synesthetic, perpetual weaver of textures and imaginations.”

Katrina Burch (CA)
is a visual artist, pianist, producer, and electroacoustic composer. The moniker Yoneda Lemma (since 2013) is inspired by the erotics of abstractions. Weaving between reciprocities of life and poetry, its forms are often kaleidoscopic and personal, containing discrete elements and life histories that repeat into phantasmagoric impressions. Multivariate sources are culled from field recordings, composed instrumentals, and synthetic and/or algorithmic improvisations.

1. What work are you presenting?
KB: I am presenting a composition of audiovisuals and poetry that is the soft culmination to four years of healing a traumatic abortion.

2. What is your personal approach to your art works?
KB: I seek to understand how every art form intersects through the abstract. I am a synesthetic, perpetual weaver of textures and imaginations. I fall through the earth in pursuit of cosmic manifestation; and as my spine gently twists back to zero, I breathe deeply into art's ethos, in the ecology of my work.

3. What is alien to you?
KB: We are all alien, with the exception of when we can think and become as a community.

4. How do you change perspective?
KB: De-emphasis on the “you” – I meditate.

Katrina’s artistic work is often led by her earlier experiences as an archaeologist excavating along the Peruvian north coast desert. Her educational background includes an undergraduate degree in Buddhist studies and Indigenous studies, and master’s degrees in Anthropology and Archaeological Science. In philosophical spirit, Katrina aspires to bridge these worlds into sensorial ethnographies of cosmic diplomacy, with an emphasis on the sonic, political frequencies, and anthropologies of care.

One of the works that Katrina Burch will contribute is a video and live music improvisation, streaming on the opening night; In Waves (Aqua Mercurialis). Her compositional experiments aim to touch invisible spaces between thought: sonic tracings of discretized memories, and impressions from infinitesimal changes. In flux one might hear slow transformations of a baby’s voice in silent tempo, their soft breath impressing upon the ears of the heart.

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