Music is a kind of polythinking. Electronic music is irreducibly multiple – the merging of human and machinic consciousness into a form of emergent organic-artificial intelligence. Maybe one of the reasons we love it so much is that the extending of subjectivity into the electronic paradigm allows us to speculate on the possible futures existing beyond the limits of the singular, fleshy, human subject.

Similarly, DJing too represents a kind of proliferation of thought, where alternate production has always exceeded mere party-making to forge new identities, new feelings; new forms of social, sonic, temporal and physical relation. Multiplicity emerges out of the shadows in the boundary-ignoring bringing-together of disparate elements in a recoded space of exception.

Above all, the dancefloor is a place for polythinking, an extraterritorial enclave where normal rules for living are temporarily suspended, and you can be (with) someone other than yourself, in the embodied agency and rhythm methodologies of collective experience.

Co-curated by Rainbow Chan and Jannah Quill. This event is an aftershock from Liquid Architecture’s 2017 Entering Tone tour of Taiwan reconvening Betty Apple, Enderie, Jannah and Chunyin in a reprisal and extension of their performances at Sublate in Taipei.