PARTICIPATION Our Lady of The Cat–a Sonic Mystery PlayMedieval mystery plays were perhaps the most popular form of drama throughout the Middle Ages. These colorful outdoor pageants included song cycles and feudal-era special effects. Many celebrated the lives of saints and other luminaries. After priests were banned from these “unseemly” productions, it fell to the […]
PARTICIPATION Wear a Mask Mask William Shakespeare wrote while waves of Bubonic plague left thousands dead in England. Given this, it’s not surprising that in some of his sonnets Shakespeare imagines his own death. This was more than poetic convention—death from the plague was a very real, immediate threat. This Clowns and Fetuses’ video project […]
PARTICIPATION Mysteries of Catalina Island A sonic explication of things strange and wonderful in that lump of land looming in front of Angel’s Gate, including: the story of the giant humanoids unearthed by bizarre archivist Ralph Glidden; the haunted Avalon grocery store that has terrorized clerks for decades; the curious disappearance of socialite Eileen Jeffers; […]
PARTICIPATION Zzyzxzyzz is a collaborative listening study conducted by Aaron Bartell and Ian Wellman, currently focused on the electromagnetic sounds of everyday objects. The project explores an often unheard sonic landscape in the post-industrial world. Aaron Bartell, AKA AnalScubaHive, is a sound artist and co-founder of Triptronics Research, a biweekly experimental electronics series in Los […]
Zaq Kenefick is an artist usually located around Los Angeles. His artistic output is often centered around the tension between virtuosity and amateurism. He has been thinking about the things that are ignored, like ballet bars in a dance studio, the space between people making a phone call, or the body of a person playing piano […]
Yuri Bruscky (Recife/PE, 1985) is a sound artist and researcher. Develops artistic practices exploring imbrications between noise, language, sonic environments, and everyday life. Since 2010, through his experimental music label Estranhas Ocupações, he’s been releasing records, books, and organizing performances. Co-creator of the sonic arts festival Rumor and the seminar and residency program (Entre) Lugares Sonoros. […]
As an artist living in an authoritarian political environment, I see my work both as a tool to explore the ways in which political and cultural oppression influences the human mind, and as a possible way to find opportunities for resistance. Artist Location: Russian Federation Social Media: PARTICIPATION The Sound Of the Purge .Proposed work […]
Yozmit is a Two-Spirit singer and interdisciplinary performance artist. Through her ritualistic performance art, Yozmit combines theater, dance, pop culture, fashion, gender identity, mythology, and shamanism onto a single canvas. She sees her art as a form of research that helps define the unknown mysteries of her universe. Yozmit is currently based in Los Angeles and […]
Young Tseng makes work with mime, movement, and installation. His work comes out of the experience of shifting perspectives that can occur when, in the course of performance and preparing for performance, one is paying close attention — listening — to space, time, movement, stillness, and human and non-human presences. In everything he makes, Young Tseng […]
Yann Novak is an artist, composer, and curator based in Los Angeles. His work is guided by his interests in perception, context, movement, and the felt presence of direct experience. Through the use of sound and light, Novak explores how these intangible materials can act as catalysts to focus our awareness on our present location […]