Blue/Unhook, supported by is an interdisciplinary feminist song cycle and performance experience that asks the questions: What complexities and possibilities happen when we unhook from the realities, communities, self-concepts and norms we’ve come to know?

Blue/Unhook interdisciplinary chamber work that views bodies, music, texts, and space as equal contributors in the design of the piece. By exploring ‘unhooking’ through a 3-part, 25-minute song cycle scored for guitar, string quartet clarinet, soprano, visual installation, room, and spectator- composer, Krists Auznieks; playwright, Erin Lindsay; soprano/researcher, Meghan Lindsay; and visual artist/scholar, Aaron Richmond seek to challenge confines of genre, while respecting the skills, comforts, and needs of the collaborators.

Through this collaborative approach to composition, Blue/Unhook will culminate in two scores- one musical, one spatial; one visual installation; and one project book that shares the collaborative learnings through a series of essays and dialogues. The artistic work follows the story of an isolated woman whose body, life, possessions, past, present and future are devoured by the colour blue in a collision between human and spirit that is both terrifying and free.