State Of Insecurity is a music performance piece by Jessica Sligter, exploring the concept of 'care' in late liberalism. Its main character reminisces while playing with the remains of a dinner-party, while a second character delivers slivers of theoretical analyses, crooning against an austere landscape of electronics and modular synthesis.

 

Audrey Chen - vocals, objects

Jessica Sligter - vocals, electronics

Xavier Lopez - synthesizer

Nindya Nareswari - light design

 

Text, composition and direction by Jessica Sligter

Text includes quotes from E-Flux Journal "What's Love (or Care, Intimacy, Warmth, Affection) Got To Do With It?," Sternberg Press 2017, and "State Of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious," Isabell Lorey, Verso 2015.

 

Technical consultation by Annette Krebs,

conceptual consultation by Leil-Zahra Mortada,

and dramaturgical consultation by Fernanda Farah.

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This piece was funded by Norsk Kulturfond and Musikfonds Germany.