Glasser and Jonathan Turner Premiere CHARGE at The Kitchen Tonight

With Charge, Glasser's compositions both simulate and make use of the most personal sound source - the body - with beats and sound effects generated by her own breath and fingertips. Jonathan Turner's synchronized visual language will be replete with living and detailed organic imagery that references the natural world-images recognizable in texture and composition, yet abstract and alien in scale. Each sequence engages and augments a specific feeling and sensory organ, deepening the sacrifice of performer to audience. The duo premieres Charge at The Kitchen tonight and tomorrow, October 23-24.

In their previous collaborations Glasser [Cameron Mesirow] and Turner explored the tension of external relationships with objects and architecture. Charge reverses the focus, turning the body itself into a fragmented landscape that bridges emotional sensation with human experience. Technology and social media afford us passive vantage points into human activity, at the cost of social and sensual synergy. Trade the tactile and olfactory for a low-resolution edit of self. Choose whatever experience, fetish, relationship or body you can imagine and you are a click/swipe away from a willing partner.

Through a program of vocal and movement performances by Glasser and accompanying visuals by Turner, the audience will experience the body as a show. Performer and audience will be enveloped in a sensory macro-environment. Visuals will be abstract yet microscopically tactile. Sounds will feel spatially personal, as if Cameron is whispering directly in your ear. The effect will be performance as an intimate yet exotic embrace.

Charge will take place on October 23-24 at 8pm. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online at www.thekitchen.org; by phone at 212.255.5793 x11; or in person at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street), Tuesdays - Saturdays, 2:00 - 6:00 P.M.

Glasser has released two acclaimed albums, her debut breakout Ring (2010), and her dynamic sophomore release Interiors (2013). In a review of Interiors, Jon Pareles of The New York Times commented:"Glasser's lead vocals are buoyant, upfront melodies, approachable yet perfectly polished." Glasser is currently at work on her third full-length release.

Jonathan Turner is a New York based artist and director working in film, video, animation and photography. In addition to Glasser, Turner has collaborated with musicians Dutch E Germ and Pandreas, artists Pierre Soulage, Tauba Auerbach, Josh Kline and Amalia Ulman, and fashion designers Hood by Air and Telfar. As a solo artist and as a member of the art collective Yemenwed, Turner's work has been exhibited at MoMA, Tate Modern, and MOCA amongst various other museums.