faster than light

"We built a queer spaceship. We are returning home." Kentaro Kumanomido and Thomas Anthony Owen, first artists in residence of the EMAP/EMARE platform at the Onassis Stegi, invite us on a performative journey along the margins of consciousness.

“faster than light is an intermedia project focused on the intersections of technology, identity, consciousness, trauma, and survival. We'll pick up shards of fragmented code belonging to a mythical operating system whose name has been long-forgotten. We'll brew a pot of something strange, in order to entice, through scent, this memory of our remembering. Lately the wind has been heard whispering a string of letters sounding something like freeeeedoommmm.”

Kentaro Kumanomido and Thomas Anthony Owen are improvisational choreographers based in Europe. Together, they form the core of electric shepherds (est. 2015), an art-as-research collaboration focused on creating femme-forward contexts for radical queer embodiment, new media practices, and quasi-mystical encounters.