SCORE WRITERS:
XIMENA ALARCON-DIAZ is a sound artist-researcher interested in listening and sounding our sonic migrations. She composes immersive listening collective experiences and creates Interfaces for Relational Listening, expanding people’s sense of place and telepresence for the emergence of aural territories of memory and emotion. Mentored by Pauline Oliveros, she is a Deep Listening® certified tutor at the Center for Deep Listening (RPI), and works as Coordinator of Postgraduate Degrees at the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad de Antioquia. Through postdoctoral awards she created Sounding Underground; the telematic improvisations Networked Migrations; and the embodied telematic system INTIMAL. More
KUNCI’S SCHOOL OF IMPROPER EDUCATION Kunci Study Forum & Collective has since 2016 initiated School of Improper Education, a long-term collective learning process that works by exploring the historical remnants of various practices of study, in order to carve out an alternative form of collective and community based pedagogy. The school sustains “the alternative” by continuously questioning its reasons for existing and asking how we exist together, where we learn various vernacular vocabularies for studying together. Members contributing to the score: Panca Lintang Dyah Paramitha (she/they) is a Philosophy student and artist rooted in Jakarta’s suburban life, exploring discourses on women and violence through writing, research, and performance-making. Riyadhus Shalihin (he/him) is an artist who operates an affective Marxism within the research of labor and landscape, with recent works at Atelier Automatique, Bochum, Hellerau, Dresden, Ufer Studios, Affect and Colonialism, Berlin, Owlspot Theater, Tokyo. Samuel Bonardo (dia/they) is an artist—a wanderer of aesthetics in mundane moments and imperfections, shaped by the life of Javanese urban landscapes. More
SARAH HENNIES is a composer concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues including queer & trans identity, psychoacoustics, and the social and neurological conditions underlying creative thought. Her ground breaking audio-visual work Contralto (2017) explores transfeminine identity through the elements of “voice feminization” therapy, featuring a cast of transgender women accompanied by a dense and varied musical score for string quartet and three percussionists. She is the recipient of a 2024 United States Artists Fellowship, a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, and a participant in the 2024 Whitney Biennial. More
TOMOKO HOJO is an artist working within the fluidity between sound, music and performance. Recently, she has focused on making (women’s) silenced voices audible in history, with a particular emphasis on Japanese women with connections to the West, such as Yoko Ono and Sadayakko Kawakami. Her works have been exhibited and performed at venues including Issue Project Room, NYC, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Contemporary Art Center Aomori, Japan, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Tate Modern, London, Klang Moor Schopfe 2023. In 2023, she published Unfinished Descriptions, a documentation of a show based on research about Yoko Ono, through yoin press. More
CANNACH MAC BRIDE is an artist. They make things with writing, sound, performance, installation, and video. Their focus is on the relations – and regimes of power – embedded within different listening practices and the ontological understandings of sound, time, and environment that various listening practices carry with them. They are doing a PhD, based at CRiSAP, UAL, and co-editing with Taraneh Fazeli Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: For Access-Centered Practice.
BINT MBAREH is a sound artist with a focus on how listening and sounding (often in a cyclical feedback-laden way) can help erase borders between the past and the present, between our bodies and between geographies. She is interested in undermining the Israeli settler colony through her research into Palestinian sound and worship practices. Her work has been shown at the Tate Modern, The Lincoln Centre, Unsound Festival, the Sharjah Biennial and the Royal College of Art among others. More
ELAINE MITCHENER is a British Afro-Caribbean vocalist, movement artist and composer working between contemporary/experimental new music, free improvisation and visual art. She is founder of electroacoustic collective The Rolling Calf, with Jason Yarde and Neil Charles, and currently a Wigmore Hall Associate Artist. Regular collaborators include: George E Lewis, Jennifer Walshe, Tansy Davies, Sonia Boyce, Christian Marclay, The Otolith Group, Apartment House, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble MAM, Ensemble Klang, Klangforum Wien, Dam van Huynh, Moor Mother, Loré Lixenberg, Saul Williams, Pat Thomas and David Toop. More
MATANA ROBERTS is an internationally celebrated composer, performer, band leader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist, and mixed-media practitioner. Working across many contexts and mediums, including improvisation, music composition, visual art, dance, poetry, and theatre, Roberts is perhaps best known for their acclaimed Coin Coin project – a multi-chapter work of ‚panoramic sound quilting‘ mixed media performance work, that aims to expose the mystical roots and intuitive traditions of American creative expression, while maintaining a deep and substantive engagement with narrative, history, community and political expression within sonic structures. More
ROMY RÜEGGER was an artist and writer, friend of animals, plants and the extraterrestrial, rhythms and sounds of intersectional feminist languages and movements of confronting, unlearning and creating. In their work and writings language is being engaged as touch and encounters, as much as imaginations that document politics of memories, of unsettled lives and deaths. Shy published several monographs, including an artist record. Heir writings, scores, scripts, poetry and experimental prose has been published, translated, staged, collected and performed internationally, under shape shifting names. More
GINGER BROOKS TAKAHASHI is a transdisciplinary artist and educator. Her performance, installation, and site responsive works examine our relationships to the mediums that connect us. These public projects are platforms for intimate interaction, an extension of feminist and queer praxis. Most recently, she created a permanent public artwork for Schenley Park, Pittsburgh; and with Dana Bishop-Root for Counterpublic, St Louis. Exhibitions include Carnegie Museum of Art, 2020; Oakland Museum of California, 2019; Tensta Konsthall, 2015; Brooklyn Museum, 2013; Museo Tamayo, 2010; New Museum, 2009. More
WORKSHOP FACILITATORS:
VIVIAN WANG is a composer, sound artist and musician who reconfigures intermediate spaces and works across a range of sonic practices in art, culture and space. Her current practice investigates existential human states, the basis of her ongoing research in breath and sound perception. Two new interactive works involving kinetic and sculptural installation feature in M+ Hong Kong in the exhibition Shanshui: Echoes and Signals. Wang’s immersive sound installations include Priests & Programmers, commissioned for the inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2019 and Alt Human, an octophonic work for Ekko Festival 2021 in Norway. More
KAY ZHANG is a transdisciplinary artist who works in-between sound, performance, curation and research. Kay is a member of Kollektiv international Totem (KIT), River Oracle and Arka. She fosters collaborations with composers, visual artists, theatre and other art disciplines, in formats and discourses including intercultural identities, care practices, cooking gatherings and sound ecology. Through their practice they explore the borders of sound performance experiences using improvisation, field recordings, transdisciplinary forms of curation and the integration of cultural understandings. Kay is part of the curatorial team at Les Complices* in Zürich. More
ANGELO CUSTODIO is a research-based artist experimenting with voice and performance. He creates sonic experiences from a crip~queer perspective, informed by critical theory and embodied knowledge. Trained as a classical singer, Angelo explores the relations between poetics and technosomatic ways of voicing. Through listening, he develops sonic encounters with the vulnerable, opening ’cracks’ to wild(er) spaces that utterly invite freer ecologies of living. Currently a tutor at Sandberg Institute, he holds space for regenerative movement and relational understandings of the bodymindvoice, with a focus on systemic failures and towards alternative corporealities. More
JULES STURM is an independent scholar, working in the interstices of academic and artistic sites of knowledge production. Jules is also a senior researcher and lecturer at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in the field of Art Education. Jules has a background in philosophy (MA, University of Vienna) and cultural analysis (PhD, University of Amsterdam). She works internationally as a collaborator in (artistic) research projects with a special focus on embodied theories, artist teaching, and critical pedagogy. Jules aims to re-train academic practices of writing and teaching towards artistic forms of learning from, within, and beyond diversity.
IRENE REVELL is a curator, researcher and writer with a longstanding interest in sound and listening. With Sarah Shin she is co-editor of Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear (Silver Press, 2024), and currently Lecturer on the MFA Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2019 with Primary Information she republished Womens Work (eds. Alison Knowles & Annea Lockwood, 1975-8), and she continues to research the use of text instruction in contemporary practices.
FRANZISKA KOCH is an artist, sound performer, educator, improviser and organizer. She works on sound performances, sound translations, experimental exhibition and workshop formats based on collective, experience-based and improvisational practices. She is co-founder of the experimental record and art bookstore OOR Records and co-curates with Aio Frei OOR Saloon, a production context for queer-feminist listening practices. Franziska is a lecturer for artistic practice in the BA Fine Arts and the Soundminor at ZHdK.
AIO FREI is a non-binary sound artist, sonic organiser, collaborator and researcher, passionate cook and sometimes graphic designer, interweaving sonic curation, collaborative composition and collective listening settings, research based essayistic sound works and printmaking. Since many years, they are interested in the ‘ethics of listening’, emancipatory possibilities in the sonic realm, forms of improvisation and relational composition. They co-founded OOR Records (2014-2022) and with Franziska Koch they curate OOR Saloon, a production context for queer-feminist listening practices. More