Gino Robair’s artistic practice examines how systems of human interaction are influenced by perceptions of materiality. His PhD research at the University of California, Davis focuses on papermaking as a form of embodied choreography; a performative process that puts artists in conversation with their tools, materials (plant fiber, water), and ambient environment (air temperature and humidity). The results of this interaction are ephemeral memory objects carrying traces of their materialization that can be used as resources for interpretation within a performance context. As a composer and percussionist, Gino has recorded with Tom Waits, Anthony Braxton, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, John Butcher, Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Otomo Yoshihide, and the ROVA Saxophone Quartet. His opera, I, Norton, based on the life of the self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States, has been performed throughout North America and Europe.
https://www.ginorobair.com
