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Liminal Lines is a live embodied electronic music performance by Viola Yip for her self-made wearable instrument and her body movements. It explores a choreography between sound and movements, beyond the traditional notions of techniques and executions. This wearable instrument, in the form of a dress, is made of various audio cables that allows audio signals to pass through. Her body, when wearing the dress, facilitates a wide range of distances, pressures, and speeds through her body movements.
Shades of Edge is a new work and continuing collaboration of poetic exploration by performer-composer Aine Nakamura and visual artist Olivia Ting. They have each shared their stories about their respective physical experiences apart from the able-bodied, through assistive hearing devices, treatments and recovery. The present state becomes a constant negotiation between the before and after conditions of the body. The use of mask and fabrics allows a retreat from surface boundaries and connects with depth of undefined selves to open a space for shared experiences and emotions. Sound and sight and touch become facets of the reality of our bodies and experience. There are many explanations and understanding of a truth. Senses together reveal a rich and thoughtful embodiment of our existence. Seeing becomes hearing becomes voicing becomes touching becomes listening... becoming feeling.
About the Artists
Viola Yip is an experimental composer, performer, improviser, sound artist and instrument builder. Her instruments and sound performances have been presented in music festivals and venues such as Issue Project Room (NYC), The New School (NYC), Look and Listen Festival (NYC), DiMenna Center (NYC), CCRMA at Stanford University, CNMAT at UC Berkeley, Center for New Music (SF), Constellation (Chicago), Cycling ‘74 Expo, Hong Kong Arts Center (HK), Sonic Arts Research Center at Queen's University Belfast, University of Huddersfield (UK), QO-2 Brussels, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Moers Festival, Currents/ Festival für aktuelle Tiefkultur Köln, Kunst Station Sankt Peter Köln, A L’arme! Festival Berlin, DARA String Festival Berlin, Seanaps Festival Leipzig, ZiMMT Leipzig, Festival für Immaterielle Kunst Hamburg and Pinakothek der Moderne München. She received an Honorary Mention from Giga-Hertz-Preis 2021 at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Künstlerhaus Villa Waldberta stipendium in München as well as an residency at Studios für Elektroakustische Musik, Akademie der Künste Berlin.
Singer, performer and composer Aine Nakamura creates an art of voice and body, focusing on nuanced possibilities of voice and weaving of stories. Her solo performances include "Under an Unnamed Flower," the winning work for site-specific performance at the 2022 Venice Biennale, and her performance project "Circle hasu We plant seeds in the spring of mountains" at Berliner Festspiele's 2022 Theatertreffen. Awardee of the Fulbright Fellowship (Berlin 2021-2022). Current Ph.D. student at U.C. Berkeley.
Olivia Ting is a visual artist whose work has been shown internationally. After receiving degrees from Pomona College and Art Center College of Design, she worked as a graphic designer. Her work expanded to video projection design for dance productions, for which she had been nominated four times for Isadora Duncan Awards. Her recent audiovisual short film “Into Beethoven’s Soundbox” has been screened in San Francisco and Seoul, Korea. She received her MFA Art Practice from U.C. Berkeley.