Friction Field Collaborative
The Friction Field Collaborative (FFC) is a space for performance, research, and dialogue at the intersections of choreography, composition, and technology. We work from the premise that collaboration is never seamless—nor should it be. In the frictions between bodies, ideas, and systems, we find the generative pulse of art-making.
Since 2013, we—choreographer Teoma Naccarato and composer John MacCallum—have created performances, installations, workshops, and discursive platforms that reimagine how people sense, connect, and co-exist. Our work merges custom-built biosensing and surveillance systems with experimental scores, giving rise to durational performances, livestream encounters, intimate one-to-one exchanges, and participatory practices. Across these diverse formats, we probe questions of synchrony, intimacy, and presence—challenging what counts as connection, and whose rhythms are recognized or erased in clinical, computational, and cultural systems.
Beyond our artistic projects, we have initiated platforms such as Provocations and Transversal Imaginaries, cultivating dialogue and critical reflection across disciplinary boundaries. These initiatives extend our collaborative ethos into pedagogy, publication, and public engagement.
The Friction Field Collaborative also offers consulting and advisory services, supporting research teams, cultural institutions, and technology developers in addressing the embodied, cultural, and ethical dimensions of emerging media. Drawing on our experience across performance, critical theory, and technical design, we work with partners to foster inclusive, sustainable, and imaginative approaches to innovation.
At its core, the Friction Field Collaborative is more than a partnership between two artists: it is a lab for transdisciplinary encounter. Here, choreographers, composers, philosophers, scientists, and technologists meet in deliberate dissonance. We embrace the uneven, the unsynchronized, and the unresolved as fertile ground for rethinking how we live, work, and imagine together.