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"The Rupture Exists" is designed for an online performance collaboration where latency is present.

Clouds of coloured dots intersecting with each other are impossible and chaotic, but proceed softly and slowly, signalling in an animated score. Performers try to be "together" by emulating each other’s sounds, as synchrony is impossible. They perform with an electronic playback of low tones and white-noise designed to reflect both the invisibility, clarity and complexity of data clouds. Accuracy is a concept for one, not the group - sometimes this is exposed, but mostly, it resides in the cloud.

The title of the work is taken from Arundhati Roy's essay 'The Pandemic is a Portal’ (2020), which examines the possibilities of the major upheaval we experienced last year.