Review: INITIUM/FINIS by Nicole Higgins DeSmet
Do you "Dream of Electric Sheep"? Have you read Snow Crash? Is Metropolis in your Netflix que? A fan of Louise Brooks perhaps? In the tradition of retelling myths, this sci-fi noir uses elements of cult classics to create something familiar, but foreign. The piece opens with creator and performer Kristin Arnesen narrating a creation myth in Sanskrit, the visuals are psychedelic and the soundscape a collision of tradi…