Meet the Creators: Katherine Skovira and Nicole Paris

Meet Katherine Skovira and Nicole Paris, 2021 Discovery Grant recipients from the Opera Grants for Women Composers program. Written for beatbox artist, mezzo-soprano, ensemble, and electronics, ?this is my Body draws on the writings of Shoshana Zuboff, author of Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This opera asks questions about the unregulated power and delimitation of surveillance capitalism and art’s role in articulating thoughts on rights to digital privacy, agency, and the body.