Shock Lines
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Thursday, 1 May 2025
3:00 pm
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Canberra Glassworks
11 Wentworth Ave, Kingston ACT 2604, Australia
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General Admission $40,
Concession $40
Shock Lines is a visceral exploration of the resonance and materiality of glass.
Rumbling, crunching, and cracking.
Shock Lines is an interdisciplinary collaboration between glass artist Caitlin Dubler, Canberra-born percussionist Niki Johnson, and sound designer Natasha Dubler that works across installation, performance and musical composition. Their self-titled work features suspended glass-sandstone sculptures, live percussive performance, and immersive surround sound.
Shock Lines is a site-specific journey through Canberra’s Glassworks and a deep dive into the world of glass music. It also features excerpts seminal works for glass instruments by Mozart, Annea Lockwood, Ros Bandt and Eugene Ughetti.
Shock Lines is performed daily at 3pm from Wednesday 30 April – Saturday 3 May. (duration 50 minutes)
PROGRAM
Audiences are invited to hear glass in a new light. Beginning with a sound-walk through CG with a curated playlist of glass music across the centuries – from Mozart’s 1791 composition Adagio in C Major for the Glass Armonica, to Australian sound sculptor Ros Bandt’s 1983 composition Soft & Fragile. Followed by a live performance for glass percussion and live electronics, the Shock Lines trio explore the strength and fragility of glass through sound.
ARTISTS
Percussion & composition – Niki Johnson
Sound Design & composition – Natasha Dubler
Glass Artist – Caitlin Dubler
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This concert is generously supported by Department of the Exterior fashion boutique.
Photo credit – Renata Dominik
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Thursday, 1 May 2025
3:00 pm
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Canberra Glassworks
11 Wentworth Ave, Kingston ACT 2604, Australia
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General Admission $40,
Concession $40
ARTIST Learn more about the artist
Artist Shock Lines
Shock Lines is composed of glass artist Caitlin Dubler, sound artist & cellist Natasha Dubler and percussionist Niki Johnson.
Shock Lines brings three distinctive understandings of material, transformation and gesture into dialogue through each artist’s respective craft. By mutually challenging the strict conventions of each individual practice the collaboration opens new avenues for play across disciplinary forms.
Artist Niki Johnson, percussionist-composer
Niki Johnson is a percussionist and composer-performer whose musical practice incorporates contemporary classical repertoire, improvisation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and performance art. She is a current PhD Candidate at Monash University, where her research explores percussionists’ collaborations with sculptors and designers, and the process of co-creating, and composing for new sculptural instruments. Her main research project is Shock Lines, a collaboration involving Niki as percussionist-composer, glass artist Caitlin Dubler, and sound designer Natasha Dubler. Niki also works with clarinettist and composer Solomon Frank in the experimental music and theatre duo Throat Pleats. This collaboration explores shifting animalistic power dynamics, balloons, hoses, and vacuum cleaners.