Audrey Chen

As a 2nd generation Taiwanese American (born 1976) living in Berlin, Audrey Chen`s work continuously explores the displacement of story and history due to the migration and integration processes, loss and adoption of language, untold stories, and how the past can be accessed through inherited and lived experience. Her practice is deeply intertwined with this act of invocation, calling upon the physical body to remember beyond the limitations of its own memory. Through extreme, un-processed hyperextensions of her voice in tandem with the chaotic glitch of a Ciat Lonbarde “Fourses” synthesiser, she invokes a highly amplified joint resonant body/space transforming itself in a feedback loop of imagination, touch, vibration, sound and aural sensation. For over two decades, she has been touring extensively, appearing worldwide and aside from her solo concerts, Chen performs currently in her longest running duo project since 2005 with Phil Minton; as BEAM SPLITTER with trombonist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø; as MOPCUT with Lukas Koenig and Julien Desprez; with electronic music artist Kaffe Matthews; with American sound artist Nick Klein and as a duo for voice/live digital process with Mexican sound artist Hugo Esquinca.

She has shown her work at festivals/venues such as: Festival Beyond Innocence (Osaka, JP), Maerzmusik, CTM Festival, Berghain, (Berlin, DE),  Unsound Festival (Krakow, PL), 2PI Festival (Hangzhou, CN), Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville/FIMAV (CA), Festival Ecuatoriano de Música Contemporánea (Quito,Ecuador), Meteo Festival (Mulhouse, FR), Angelica Festival (Bologna, IT), Zacheta National Gallery (Warsaw, PL), Museé du quai Branly, Radio France (Paris, FR), Auditorio de Tenerife (Tenerife, ES), Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires, AR), Teatro Fondamenta Nuove (Venice, IT), DOM (Moscow, RU), Wien Modern, Wiener Konzerthaus (Vienna, AT), Lille Opera (Lille, FR) and Robert Wilson's Watermill Center (Water Mill, NY, US) among many others.

Writing for The Wire, Julien Cowlez describes her practice as »uncompromising and idiosyncratic music, tightly disciplined yet acoustically wild and heavy with implication. Her ultra-verbal vocalising, often reminiscent of the visceral and emotionally charged sound poetry of François Dufréne or Henri Chopin, exposes physiological aspects of utterance that are concealed within standardised articulation and day to day speech. Fleshy, breath-driven and flecked with spittle, Chen's voice emanates not just from her mouth but from an ensemble of upper body surfaces, channels, passages, and cavities.«

www.audreychen.com

Dietmar Lupfer

Dietmar Lupfer (DE) conceptualizes and curates art projects in public spaces and designs media art spaces, as well as exhibitions in the fields of robotics, bioart and new media. His works include the EU project Crash Test Dummy and Urban Mutations, blending architecture, new technologies, and media art. He was the builder of the mobile studio Cocobello, which was presented as a concept at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale, and a hemisphere for Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau. He developed Sensefactory, an immersive installation, and directed performances like Skate14_14 in Berlin. He is also the Executive Director of the media installation „art_life“ by Richard Siegal, first premiered at the Museum Lenbachhaus in Munich. As co-founder and Artistic Director of Muffatwerk and the Muffathalle Betriebs GmbH, Lupfer oversees interdisciplinary programs merging art, technology, and science, collaborating with leading artists in music, media, performance, and hybrid arts.
www.muffatwerk.de
 
Dietmar Lupfer 
Dietmar Lupfer (DE) konzipiert und kuratiert Kunstprojekte im öffentlichen Raum und gestaltet Medienkunsträume sowie Ausstellungen in den Bereichen Robotik, Bioart und Neue Medien. Zu seinen Arbeiten gehören das EU-Projekt Crash Test Dummy und Urban Mutations, das Architektur, neue Technologien und Medienkunst miteinander verbindet. Er war Bauherr des mobilen Studios Cocobello, das als Konzept auf der 9. Architekturbiennale in Venedig präsentiert wurde und einer Hemisphere für den Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Er entwickelte Sensefactory, eine immersive Installation, und leitete Performances wie Skate14_14 in Berlin. Des Weiteren ist er Executive Director der Medieninstallation „art_life“ von Richard Siegal, die im Museum Lenbachhaus in München präsentiert wurde. Als Mitbegründer und künstlerischer Leiter des Muffatwerks und der Muffathalle Betriebs GmbH betreut Lupfer interdisziplinäre Programme, die Kunst, Technologie und Wissenschaft miteinander verbinden und arbeitet mit führenden Künstlern aus den Bereichen Musik, Medien, Performance und hybrider Kunst zusammen.
www.muffatwerk.de

Raqs Media Collective (IN):

Raqs Media Collective (*1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta) The word “raqs” in several languages denotes an intensification of awareness and presence attained by being in a state of revolution. Raqs take this sense to mean ‘kinetic contemplation’ and a restless and energetic entanglement with the world, and with time. Raqs practices across several media; making installation, sculpture, video, performance, text, lexica, and curation. Raqs enjoys playing a plurality of roles, often appearing as artists, occasionally as curators, sometimes as philosophical agent provocateurs.

Raqs have shown at Documenta, the Venice, São Paulo, Istanbul and Sydney Biennales. They have had solo shows at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, K-21, Düsseldorf, Whitworth Gallery Manchester, MUAC, Mexico City, Mathaf Museum of Modern Art, Doha and at Proa, Buenos Aires, amongst others. They have curated editions of Manifesta, Shanghai Biennale and the Yokohama Triennale. Most recently, Raqs were finalists for the design competition for the 22nd July National Memorial in Oslo, Norway.

www.raqsmediacollective.net

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Pierre-Luc Senecal / Growlers Choir (QC/CA)

www.growlerschoir.com/

Growlers Choir is the most famous growlers choir in the world. Composed solely of metal vocalists, Growlers Choir blends metal and experimental music in a way that is unique and groundbreaking. Hailing from Montreal, Canada, the 13 metal vocalists ensemble was founded by composer Pierre-Luc Senécal in 2018. Fascinated by extreme metal as well as a variety of throat singing techniques, Growlers Choir showcases the sonic potential of the voice and demonstrates its extraordinary properties, both sensual and monstrous.

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