Hold On No More
Hold On No More is an interdisciplinary, evolving project that transforms lecture, sound, AI, and real-time media into an embodied, experimental exploration of the seen and unseen, the controlled and uncontrollable. It bridges digital and physical space, sound and memory, questioning where perception ends and where meaning begins. As it continues to expand, I’m trying to explore new ways of experiencing storytelling—through fragmentation, sensory overload, and poetic deconstruction.
The project began as part of the Hybrid Arts Lab Residency at Theater Mitu, where it developed through performance, installation, and research into embodied perception.
Hold On No More lies an investigation into:
Memory as a Fluid Construct
The instability of recollection, how memories shape perception but also distort, fade, or regenerate.
Bodily Awareness & the Unconscious
The gap between what we control and what controls us, from instinctive fear responses to unnoticed internal transformations.
Chaos & Control
The body as both a container of emotions and a site of disruption, where control is often an illusion.
Sound, Language & Perception
How sound alters memory and experience, with AI-generated text questioning language’s reliability.
Scientific & Poetic Experimentation
Chemistry, biological processes, and technology as tools for storytelling and reinterpreting physical and digital embodiment.
Hold On No More Installations @Theater Mitu
A multimedia installation expanding the performance into an immersive physical space. The installation deconstructs the text, visuals, and sound of the lecture, allowing the audience to navigate the themes through:
Hold On No More Lecture Performance
@2024 The UAAD Festival @2024 ¡Oye! Avant Garde Night
Hold On No More is a 10-minute lecture performance that explores how we perceive the invisible forces around and within us, while also delving into the dynamic relationship between chaos and control. The performance captures these intangible elements through the interplay of language interpretation, chemistry experiments, and the use of live visual and sound effects. Rather than offering a clear narrative, the performance creates a noise-filled environment, utilizing various sensory symbols to capture the invisibles.
By integrating new media tehnology, Hold On No More reimagines traditional lecture media tools, employing projector, desktop cameras, live sound, and visual effects to merge chemistry experiments with digital technology.
Expanded Research & Future Work?
This version of Hold On No More has been an introspective journey, excavating my own experiences and emotions to explore the unseen. Moving forward, I want to expand this work outward—toward the shared experience of audiences, the collective perception of space, and how meaning emerges when a group witnesses the same moment together. The next phases of Hold On No More will delve into:
Collective Perception & Group Experience – Exploring how audiences shape, alter, and reinforce each other’s perceptions when experiencing the same visual and sonic landscape. What happens when people sense and respond to the unseen together?
AI & Language Experiments – Further developing AI-generated text and sound, pushing the boundaries of machine interpretation, human emotion, and linguistic distortion to uncover hidden patterns in communication.
Audience-Responsive Sound & Visual Environments – Designing interactive installations where movement, proximity, and shared presence influence the unfolding of sound, imagery, and text, turning the audience into active participants.
Live Expanded Cinema & Performance – Creating an evolving, real-time performance that blends projection, spoken word, and sound manipulation, shifting the experience between individual and collective immersion.
Through these expansions, Hold On No More will shift from personal introspection to a communal investigation of perception, presence, and the boundaries between self and group consciousness.