The B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance embraces convivial and interdisciplinary experimentation that co-mingles art, technology, media, science, performance, radical creativity and [insert your practice here]. Located on basement level 2 of the Roser ATLAS Center, the B2 community researches and practices intellectual/creative risk-taking, form-bending, art-making, community building and social engagement. Facilities include the Black Box Experimental Studio and four studio labs equipped with some of the very latest media production and performance technologies. Part of the ATLAS Institute, B2 encourages collaborations, methodologies, and productions that traverse borders and disciplines and build/unbuild the unimagined/re-imagined.

The Kate Bush Factor”(working-title) is a proposed dance/media collaboration between Madison Palffy and rick h m. Since 2019, the two have been engaged in experimental, choreographic processes exploring themes of identity, queer theory’s dis/embodiments through improvisational technique, and disorientation as an embodied strategy for practicing anti-normativity. The first manifestation of their performance research, “Show Pony”, found the two utilizing equine imagery and embodiments as inspiration for unfolding possibilities for identificatory performance beyond gender binarism. Their current research cycle is similarly intent on presenting methods of embodying ideas of identity by means of blurring boundaries: between self and other, between emptiness and fullness, between intent and impulse. With “The Kate Bush Factor,” Madison and rick aim to uncover what embodied knowledge might be hidden within queer ancestry/iconography in a choreographic study of Kate Bush’s iconic dance music videos.