Friction Field Collaborative
In the Friction Field, no encounter is fully smooth—by design. It is the grain of the contact, the uneven pulse, that drives new ways of making and imagining together.
Friction Field Collaborative (FFC) is a meeting ground for ideas, bodies, and systems in deliberate dissonance. It operates where performance, technology, and philosophy intersect—where difference resists resolution, and tension becomes a generative force.
Immersive Performance
Our performances and installations invite audiences into immersive spaces where choreography and sound design meet biosensing and surveillance––revealing the poetics of movement, pulse and presence.
Cross-disciplinary Research & Exchange
Through workshops, reading groups, and online platforms, we harness deliberate dissonance to generate new ways of thinking, moving, and collaborating across performance, technology, and research.
Consulting & Design for Performance Tech
Interactive and immersive technology solutions for creative and corporate clients—custom software, projection mapping, biosensing, and multi-channel video.
Current Projects
This site is currently under construction. Please follow the links below to our projects sites, spanning performance, research, and public engagement.
III
III is a series of performance-installations that explore the materiality and musicality of the heart. Using bespoke biosensing systems, durational structures, and experimental scores, we examine how the rhythms of the body resist dominant logics of coherence, synchrony, and control. In these works, intimacy, aliveness, and presence are measured not by productivity or transparency, but by friction, delay, and the subtle traces of what remains.
Im/mediations
Im/mediations investigates how we exist together in mediated and virtual contexts. Through livestreams, multi-camera installations, and fragmented bodies in space, we explore stillness, silence, and absence as forms of connection. These works ask: when presence is distributed, incomplete, or deferred, what persists between us? How do our interactions retain meaning when filtered through technology?
Interstitial Listening
Interstitial Listening is a multi-sensory practice for tuning awareness to how rhythms emerge in movement and music. Through tasks such as tapping, breathing, walking, or improvising with an unpredictable metronome, participants attend to the temporal gaps—or interstices—that open up between themselves and others. These interstices are sites for noticing habits, cultivating responsiveness, and exploring what it means to perform together in time.
Transversal Imaginaries
Transversal Imaginaries is an evolving platform for rethinking how we learn, research, and create across disciplinary, institutional, and cultural boundaries. It responds to the urgent need for more responsive, relational, and imaginative forms of knowledge-making in the face of global crises—from climate collapse to systemic injustice to the fragmentation of academic life itself.
Who We Are
Teoma Naccarato and John MacCallum have been collaborating since they met in 2013. Their collective work draws on their backgrounds in music composition, choreography, computer science, and creative writing, as well as their deep interest in performance art and philosophy. Their practice merges bespoke biosensing and surveillance systems with experimental scores to question how people sense, connect, and co-exist. Presented internationally in theaters, galleries, film festivals, and online, their projects probe the politics of synchrony, intimacy, and presence—foregrounding friction, stillness, and dissonance as generative forces for aesthetic and philosophical exploration.
Teoma Naccarato
Choreographer & Media Artist
John MacCallum
Composer & Interactive Systems Designer