Edge of a Cloud is an audiovisual performance that creates an interplay of immaterial architecture operating between light and sound. Exploring the dynamic and ephemeral aspects of light and sound to offer breath, movement, and sentience to non-human forms and objects. Featuring a shifting soundscape by Alexandra Spence; tactile objects amplified to merge with sounds made by resonant bodies, field recordings, and digital processing, slowly unravelling into ambient landscapes. A parallel light installation by Elia Bosshard uses film and drawing projected as light to build shifting spaces around the stage, echoing the journey through sonic environments. The work takes influence from the pairing of two texts, ‘The Waves’ by Virginia Woolf and ‘Vibrant Matter' by Jane Bennett, exploring the relationships between the vibrancy and agency of objects, sound and ecology.

Alexandra Spence

Alexandra Spence is a sound artist and musician living on unceded Wangal land. Through her practice Alex attempts to reimagine the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation. Her aesthetic favours field recordings, analogue technologies and object interventions.

Alex has presented her work in Australia and abroad including BBC Radio; Ausland, Berlin; Café Oto, London; EMS, Stockholm; Punkt Festival, Kristiansand; Standards Studio, Milan; AB Salon, Brussels; Radiophrenia, Glasgow; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Sound Forms Festival, Hong Kong; MONO, Brisbane; The Substation, Melbourne; Soft Centre, & Liveworks Festival with Liquid Architecture, Sydney. She regularly collaborates with MP Hopkins as Banana, they also co-run the Sydney sound series Humming Grotto.

She has released her music with Room40, Longform editions, Mappa, More Mars (Banana), and Canti Magnetici, receiving Bandcamp recommendations and reviews in the likes of The Quietus and The Wire Magazine: "Her sense of field is broader. It's as if she is trying to capture a whole landscape of sound entire... We ought to spend more time with Alexandra Spence, with our ears simply & honestly open.”

Elia Bosshard

Elia Bosshard is an artist and scenographer whose work investigates the felt, but often unseen, relationships we have with space and place, encompassing site-specific installation, sculptural scale models, drawing and writing.

Bosshard has presented solo exhibitions at Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydenham International and Articulate Project space, and worked across theatre, dance, music and opera with credits including Deutsche Opera Berlin, Sydney Festival, Resonant Bodies Festival, Ken Unsworth and the Australian Dance Artists, Ensemble Offspring, Siteworks Festival, and Belvoir St Theatre 25A.