PARTICIPATION P(h)o(n)em(e)_shortA phoneme is the basic element of the majority of the languages all around the world. What are the vocal limits and their relation to the geographical boundaries? Hearing them is like hearing our roots and how much these are connected throughout the history. Exploring them could emerge our imagination of their future sound […]
PARTICIPATION Performance October 29 at Torrance Art Museum’s Nomad II Moirology Channeled experientially and epigenetically, are muted soundpoems inscribed on tablets of sound batting. muwaren chose to mashup and arrange performances of 忆故人 (Remembering an Old Friend) and 秋江夜泊 (On a Boat in Autumn Night by the River) performed by Singaporean composer and guqin master […]
PARTICIPATION An hiatus For the past two years, I’ve explored some of the stories that live in my stomach and diaphragm. As I probe the memories, myths, and metaphors that shape my understanding of my body, I wonder: how do these stories bear witness to trauma and violence? How can I rewrite these stories? How […]
Sam Anthem is a sound and performance artist who approaches art and life as a fool and a guest: a fool because they are critical of status quo knowing; a guest because they walk on land and move through space that is never their own. Accordingly, as an artist who unclaims and resists “craft” and “mastery,” […]
Ilias Liosatos started by studying materials’ science and his passion for the sound led him to work with a stringed instruments’ maker. Since then he immersed himself to that abstract feeling of controlling each step of a sound objectmanufacturing. Indeed the control of such a process is limited to “abstract” which ever since has its unique […]
comar muwaren grew up inside an animal hospital. After long days, in Catholic school, comar returned home to bark in cages and to assist his father in birthing, operating on, and in euthanizing beloved pets. Now, a sick puppy themself, comar takes on the ancient-ish role of auto-moirologist (a funereal actor compensated to lament, eulogize and […]
Ajani Brannum (they/them) is an artist working between performance, writing, digital media, facilitation, and divination. Guided by a commitment to psycho-spiritual inquiry, Ajani examines the stories that structure our being-in-the-world. Ajani has presented work at REDCAT, Human Resources Los Angeles, Los Angeles Performance Practice, Pieter Performance Space, Highways Performance Space, on tabletops and screens, in classrooms, […]
PARTICIPATION Performance October 29, 2023 at Torrance Art Museum’s Nomad II Jacob Wolff’s work and practice is heavily focused on the interdisciplinary. Specifically taking tropes of 20th and 21st century western art music and distorting and accentuating them using dance, theater, performance or visual art to highlight the strange and corrupt parts of the music. […]
PARTICIPATION Installation & Performance October 29 at Torrance Art Museum’s Nomad II Visual artist Betsy Lohrer Hall makes works on paper, installations, and site-specific interactive projects. She has a longstanding interest in process and impermanence; this is expressed in a variety of ways, from delicate repeated marks on paper, to her use of simple, fragile materials such […]
PARTICIPATION Interactive Activation April 9 – June 4th: Here Hear, 2022 in proximity, in real time This is a series of sound-sensitive, site-interactive activities that will take place in and around Angels Gate Cultural Center through June 4. Betsy Lohrer Hall and several collaborators will consider the physical experience of sound perception, experiment with sound […]