Will It BOW? - Cluster Festival 2026
Kerrigan & Gage Salnikowski
Step into the living room—part set, part signal—as Will It Bow? unfolds in an uncanny broadcast. Channelling 1990s children’s TV and scored with analog synths, everyday objects are bowed and transformed. Equal parts instructional and deconstructional, the installation invites visitors to sit, follow along, and experiment with the hidden acoustics of the familiar.
Hosted and produced by Kerrigan and Gage Salnikowski, Will It Bow? educates, entertains, and distresses the audience with a mix of historical facts, atonal noise, and the science behind acoustics, accompanied by a roster of guest musicians and “Bowers”.
Opening Night: May 27 | 7:00PM
Will It BOW? is presented by Cluster Festival and Video Pool Media Arts Centre.
About the Artists
Kerrigan Salnikowski
Kerrigan Salnikowski, is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound artist, performer, and maker of instruments based in Winnipeg 1Manitoba Canada on Treaty One Territory.
Salnikowski's workiseeks to convey ideas and emotions that could never be expressed through tonality or conventional instruments, by creating and manipulating sounds never before heard; achieved through the development of his own instruments, the use of objects and architecture as resonators, foley techniques, "found sounds", electroacoustics, granular synthesis, percussive implements, and bowed objects, finding beauty in dissonance and discordance. Kerrigan Salnikowski is also a seasoned drummer, performer, and improviser in Winnipeg's music scene, having performed and toured with multiple local acts for over a decade.
Gage Salnikowski
Gage Salnikowski is a multi-instrumentalist composer, sound artist, and performer, based in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada on Treaty One Territory. As an autodidactic proficient in over 50 different instruments, Salnikowskrs work seeks to undermine the dichotomy between the colloquial and cultural academia.
Embracing the avant-garde towards sublimation of the visceral and brutalist. Through merzbau of sound art installation, input reactive live coding, circumentive scoring and performance techniques, Salnikowski plunders and corrupts the technicality he has honed through years as a music educator for decidedly anti-@cademic results. A diptych of the absurd and accessible,
Salnikowskr's work is equally at home performed in local bars as it is art galleries.
