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Kairos is a theatrical song-cycle bringing together performers and musicians from the worlds of opera, electronic and experimental composition, in a futuristic staging created with avant-garde fashion studio Boudicca. Following the poetic schema of Zeros + Ones- a Cyber-feminist work by Sadie Plant written in 1997. The libretto was written around the theme of the digital women and the New Technoculture. Kairos, performed through a cycle of nine songs mixed with free improvisation parts, refers to technological developments, post-humanist writings, and cybernetic theories. Over recent years, artist-musician Anat Ben-David has evolved a hybrid working-practice she calls OpeRaaRt, developing ‘sonic images’ shaped through dynamic combinations of sound, word and movement. Kairos  was devised through a series of collaborative workshops, and previewed at Stanley Picker Gallery in January 2017 and received its first major public presentation on Wed 5 July 2017 as part of the Reveal Festival at the Victoria and Albert Museum, following a performance in collaboration with Hazira theatre in Jerusalem. The work allows change and adaptation to different performance conditions and environments.  Kairos signified a ‘time-lapse’; an indeterminate time in which everything happens at once at the present moment. The human instinct of marking the present, with an improvised act of creativity is the supreme moment of the ‘Now’, manifest through the urgent, demonstrative act of self-expression.