NERVOUS/SYSTEM is the third project in a triptych of new performance works by Schneider and Company with a core ensemble of collaborators (following YOUARENOWHERE and AFTER). Borrowing concepts from physics and philosophy like loop gravity, eternalism, and block time, the narrative structure of NERVOUS/SYSTEM attempts to collapse linear time, putting effect before cause and pushing us to think about our realities and how we as humans affect one another in profoundly new ways.

Andrew Schneider took a break from rehearsals of NERVOUS/SYSTEM at MIT to discuss the project for this short video. Interview was filmed by the MIT Audio Visual Production team, additional performance footage provided by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), and edited by Heidi Erickson.