Friday, June 23, 2023
7:30pm doors / 8pm sound
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Lime Rickey International performs material from The Train—a work developed during her Tarek Atoui Sound Residency at the Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE). The superconciousness of transdisciplinary artist Leyya Mona Tawil, Lime Rickey International uses voice, microphones, interactive surfaces, and elements of dabke to build hybrid performances and sound compositions.
Stefan Tiefengraber presents his latest sound-performance project, DOWM. With three walkmans, three effect pedals, two mixers, a mini-synthesizer, microphones, and several feedback loops, he creates a noisescape that ends in silence and emptiness. In this project, Tiefengraber refers to his artistic method of working, which he implements not only in performance but also in his installation projects. He extends the predefined functions of the devices he uses by experimenting with them and creating unconventional applications. Combined with the audience’s perception, this experimental attempt to explore old and new materials leads him to new and unpredictable results.
Leyya Mona Tawil [Lime Rickey International] is an artist working with sound, performance, and hybrid transmissions. Tawil is a Syrian, Palestinian, American engaged in the world as such. Her work has been presented throughout the US, Europe, and the Arab region. Tawil was the 2020 ISSUE Project Room Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow for her NOMADIC SIGNALS series, which continues into 2023. Her work Lime Rickey International's Future Faith, commissioned by Abrons Arts Center (New York City) and the KONE Foundation (Helsinki), was nominated for a 2019 “Bessies” Award in Music (NYC). Recent residency/engagements include Wysing Art Centre/British Council (UK), Sharjah Art Foundation’s Tarek Atoui Sound Residency (UAE), The Poetry Project (NYC), JAM3A Festival (Detroit), TBA:22 (Portland), and Yucca Valley Material Lab’s Music Residency Program. Tawil is also the director of TAC Temescal Art Center (Oakland) and the Arab.AMP platform.
Stefan Tiefengraber’s work ranges from kinetic sound installations and interactive installations to audio-video noise performances. He experiments with the modification of devices that are originally manufactured for other purposes. After six years working for a TV and film production company, Tiefengraber moved to Linz, Austria, in 2010 to study at the University of Art and Design. Residencies include a one-year cultural exchange at the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul (2012–13) and a six-month residency at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA Changdong, 2015). He has served as a jury member of the Prix Ars Electronica (2020) and received an Excellence Award at the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival (2021). His work has been shown at the Japan Media Arts Festival (2021, Tokyo), Galerie gerken (Berlin), Ars Electronica Festival (Linz), TodaysArt (2014, Den Haag), New Media Gallery (Vancouver), 16th Media Art Biennale WRO (2015, Wroclaw), Blaues Rauschen (Bochum), and elsewhere. He is a co-founder of Tresor Linz, where he has been the organizer of sound art concerts since 2016.
Photo of Stefan Tiefengraber by Verena Mayrhofer
Photo of Lime Rickey International by Steven Pisano