Bio-Amendment

In recent decades, the idea of “enhancement” has become significant in our cultural. From smartwatches, heart‑rate monitors to smart remote control rice cookers, people line up for the newest gadget that claims to provide people convenience in life, and make people work faster, smarter. Yet this relentless pursuit of extension carries a paradox: as we acquire “superhuman” devices, we surrender the very faculties that define humanity—critical thinking, embodied practice, and the slow rhythm of learning. If instruments are extensions, the ultimate extension is internalization. What would it mean to embed an instrument directly into a musician’s body?

Bio-Amendment is a multimedia performance that will interrogate this very process by exaggerating the obsession of technology into the integration into the human flesh, dramatizing the metaphorical transformation of the human body into a cyborg instrument through a staged surgical process. The performance will be constructed with performers acting as surgeons, conducting “surgery” on a non-living anatomical model. Multiple sensors and cameras will be installed to capture performance actions and are then used for sound making.