Artist Silas Riener's Thinging explores overlaps of movement and language

If you're ready to move on from the well-worn philosophical question "If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?," then try this one: If a thing has no name, can it still have meaning?

That's the question dancer/choreographer/filmmaker Silas Riener explores in his new work Thinging, onstage at 7 p.m. Wednesday at EMPAC.