Kaki King Collaborates with Visual Artist Giorgia Lupi For BRUISES + US Tour Dates

Still touring her groundbreaking multimedia show "The Neck is a Bridge to the Body," acclaimed composer Kaki King has partnered with information designer and visual artist Giorgia Lupi, author ofDear Data, to create an audiovisual interpretation of a frightening personal journey, turning fear into beauty, making sense of the unknown. Having previously worked together on a design project forHennessey, Kaki and Giorgia have continued to tap into what Giorgia calls "Data Humanism" to explore the emotional and cognitive uses of data.

Last summer, Kaki's three-year-old daughter was suddenly diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, turning her family's life upside down. After a blood test, she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), where her body attacks her platelets, a crucial part of blood clotting. The following weeks were a terrifying spree of platelet transfusions, courses of steroids, blood tests, and abject terror as Kaki and her wife watched their daughter's platelet levels rise and fall.

When her friend and fellow artist Giorgia Lupi learned what the family was going through, she proposed a creative exercise using music, art, and data - both medical and personal - to help Kaki bring a sense of clarity and calm to what was happening. The result is the beautifully cathartic "Bruises", an audiovisual "mapping" of the data collected as Kaki tracked her daughter's bruises and platelet counts, along with her family's stress levels.

Clinical records alone hardly capture the full impact the illness of a child has on a family. Can a softer and more empathetic approach to what we so coldly call "data" help us make sense of what's happening in our lives? Can data visualization help us emotionally as well as cognitively?

For a deeper and more detailed exploration of this project, read Giorgia's story on Medium.

Hailed by Rolling Stone as "a genre unto herself," Brooklyn-based composer and guitarist Kaki King has released 8 albums over the past 13 years. She has performed on every continent over the course of multiple world tours, and has presented her work in a variety of prestigious arts centers, including the Kennedy Center, MoMA, LACMA and The Met. She has created music for numerous film and TV soundtracks, including "August Rush" and Sean Penn's "Into the Wild", for which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score.

DON'T MISS KAKI LIVE ON TOUR!

3/1 - Kravis Center - West Palm Beach, FL
3/2 - The ArtsCenter - Carrboro, NC
3/10 - Robert Ferst Center for the Arts - Atlanta, GA
3/13 - City Winery Chicago - Chicago, IL
3/23 - Iridium - New York, NY
3/30 - Holland Theatre - Bellefontaine, OH
3/31 - Firehouse Arts Center - Pleasanton, CA
4/1 - Outpost Performance Space - Albuquerque, NM
4/3 - Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College - Durango, CO
4/5 - Kirkland Performance Center - Kirkland, WA
4/7 - Tower Theatre - Bend, OR
4/13 - Grounds for Sculpture - Hamilton, NJ
4/14 - The Colony - Woodstock, NY *
*= w/ Treya

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