# Laetitia Sonami - Your Presence Is Required: Performance, Control, and Magnetism

- Institution: University of California, Berkeley
- Department: Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium
- Speaker: Berkeley Center for New Media
- Year: 2013
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design, Music
- Source: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/sonami)
- Licence: none stated by the source
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Composer, performer and sound artist Laetitia Sonami presents an overview of work carried out over three decades, including her legendary "lady’s glove," wire writings, hijacked plungers and current attraction to uncontrollable interfaces.

The trajectory of Sonami’s research is guided by careful attention to the notion of presence in both the staged performative works and its concomitant gesture of embodiment in installations. Exploring invisible media on the electromagnetic plane, Sonami’s unique approach questions the validity of “efficiency” long associated with the medium. Rather, she poses a series of questions which invite viewers to discover new behaviors through erratic performance, and to project imagined connections onto networks of silent copper.

## Lectures

1. [sonami3](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ia/sonami/aa053c4bf41b), 1 h 15 min (Video)