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ONLINE PERFORMANCES: Queering Sound 2021 - Macho / Raviogi (Marty Drake + Christine Casullo) / THAT CLOUD + K Craig / Jan Swinburne / Simon Grab + Rafał Pierzyński / John 3:16 / Jassie Rios

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The 21st annual staging of performance / sound + digital arts / spoken word / visual art focusing on LGBTQI+ / post-gender-identified / supportive allies + queer artisans.

MACHO (DETROIT)
dirty. gritty. stormy. witchy. punk. Riot Grrrl.
members: helen - vox. guitar. / annie - vox. drums. / luckey – guitar.
interests: spells, witchcraft, crows, revolution, beer.
machodetroit.bandcamp.com/
instagram.com/macho_detroit

RAVIOGI (MARTY DRAKE + CHRISTINE CASULLO)
Marty Drake is a queer experimental multi-media artist from Takoma Park, MD. SpringStream is the ambient soundtrack to a video of a small stream on the first day of spring 2021 The music by Raviogi (Marty Drake + Christine Casullo) includes RAV drum and AirDidge as heard underwater, with added Air Didge and processing in Ableton Live 11. Filmed and recorded at Rachel Carson Greenway, MD.
martydrake.bandcamp.com/
youtube.com/channel/UCX64GQoii1YUmBrkM8eyiSA

THAT CLOUD + K CRAIG (MANCHESTER)
Birthed out of a virtual-tour support request, a subsequent social-distance live performance, and recording purposes, THAT CLOUD is a collaboration by JS Adams (BLK w/BEAR) and Christopher Mathews-Larsen (Grave Nature) as THAT and Chris Videll’s Tag Cloud project. The two videos presented are from their La Règle des Tiers release.
thatcloud.bandcamp.com/
K Craig is an artist working primarily within the field of experimental film and animation, involving multiple projections, found footage, performance, and sound. The films and installations explore themes including the body, the Sublime, nostalgia, and the unknowable, to create immersive fictional worlds. He is part of A.R.C. Soundtracks, an audio/visual project exploring the further reaches of experimental, improvised drone.
cargocollective.com/kcraig
arcsoundtracks.bandcamp.com/

JAN SWINBURNE (TORONTO)
Canadian artist whose interdisciplinary practice uses traditional and digital media. Swinburne approaches all media from a painter’s sensibility with a focus on visual code systems and complexity as an aesthetic framework. Swinburne's digital work is oriented to meta-exposure and image and sound de/re/generation in the form of music/video-painting.
janswinburne.com/
janswinburne.bandcamp.com/releases

JOHN 3:16 (PHILADELPHIA)
JOHN 3:16 is Philippe Gerber, whose Heat From A Deadstar existed between 2004-2009 and has worked with Rick Harte/Ace Of Hearts Records (Boston). As JOHN 3:16, Gerber has released numerous works via Alrealon Musique, Flood Records, 75orLess, White Label Music, Venus Aeon, Classwar Karaoke, and more. He has collaborated with artists such as Pas Musique, TheUse, Rasplyn, Anthony Donovan, and Mark Harris.
john316.bandcamp.com/
john316experience.com/

JASSIE RIOS
2018 Guthman Musical Instrument Design Competition winner for her GramFX program, Rios is a sound artist working at the intersection of computer music, sculpture, and drawing. Her work oscillates between states of representation and fragmentation, acoustic and electronic, object and process, and takes the form of site-specific, interactive sound/light installations, collage, video, photography, text, performance, and works for internet and paper.
instagram.com/djjassie/

SIMON GRAB (ZÜRICH) + RAFAŁ PIERZYŃSKI (ZÜRICH)
Returning changed. Under_standing somewhere else. Reconnecting the stories and worlds within and between us. The experience of the other, oblique reality in the shift of perspective is disorienting, fragile, collective, touching in the absence of touch, its notouch. Non-touching reveals and expands ideas of touch, borders and bodies, asking for more capacious we. The choreography matters in terms of space and in time, gesturing towards other worlds, entering corpo-virtual, trans-reality, Touching: The Alterity Within.

‘All touching entails an infinite alterity, so that touching the other is touching all others, including the “self,” and touching the “self” entails touching the strangers within.’ - Karen Barad

Credits:
Choreography by Rafał Pierzyński
Performance :: Rafał Pierzyński & Mira Rojzman
Sound :: Simon Grab
Light and Phones :: Andri Schatz
Projected VR :: ArchLevel
Dramaturgy :: Kathrin Veser & Marc Streit
Drone performance :: Joachim Korus
Costume :: Martyna Kołtun & Yana Slattery
With the voice of Karen Barad reading 'Meeting The Universe Halfway'
With the sculpture 'Lavender Spell' by Christopher Füllemann
Costume Advice :: Dopamina Rebis FX
Video :: Nora Smith
Pictures :: Olivia Schenker

*The title of the work inspired by Karen Barad's lecture 'On Touching: The Alterity Within', embodied with their permission.

In co-production with Tanzhaus Zürich

Supported by :: Stadt Zürich Kultur, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, MIGROS Kulturprozent, Foundation Nestlé pour l’Art, Fonds culturel de la Société Suisse

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All proceeds to benefit the artists + selected charities.