CENTER[O]POSITIVE

CENTER[O]POSITIVE is a performance-installation by POLLUX, the duo of Nick Dunston and Min Yoon, integrating post/butoh dance, banjo+feedback, experimental vocals, resonant objects, and live electronics into a field of constant variation. Feedback—sonic, physical, visual—becomes an unstable archive, shifting perception live in real-time. Loops distort memory; rhythm collapses beneath its own weight. Improvisation activates erosion, accumulation, and rupture, allowing memory and perception to reorganize live.

The premiere evening-length performance reflects the duo’s name POLLUX: mythical mirroring entities coming from elsewhere —sound and movement echoing, folding into each other, breaking apart again. This piece meets in instability—on the stutter, the crack, the unexpected opening.

The duo’s work is informed by an improvisational, experimental, research-driven practice — in the context of an audio-visual installation/performance shaped by feedback, trails, and counterpoint. By embodying each audio source (resonant object) with ontologically related, but independently playing sonic and embodied material, the result is a constantly developing combination of sounds that interact and fold into each other. The audio sources are unsynchronized, running at long loops of independent time frames, creating constant variation while still maintaining a cohesive sound. This evolving counterpoint is even further excited by the visual components, with the bodies and still and moving images placed around the space, to exist in dialogue and perpetually become the past as a new collaborator — a way of making memories live for the audience.

CENTER[O]POSITIVE is inspired by magnetic charges and forces that are undeniably felt even if invisible. What is positive, what we move toward and against, what is truth, what is our shared reality — shifts in tension and finds temporary counterpoints. CENTER[O]POSITIVE comes with Nick’s experiences in creating instruments and sounds, and expands this into a sound installation with bodies. Min is searching for new risks, confinements, and subconscious impulses to emerge with repetition and feedback in post/butoh dance. Moving away and returning to folk expressions — our prior and future expressions — magnetizes POLLUX into new centers.

• 60 Minutes