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LORIN'S PROMENADE THROUGH THE ART BASEL 2024
The international curating network VIDEOCITY BASEL, founded in 2013 by the curator and cultural manager Dr. ANDREA DOMESLE, experiments worldwide by “conquering” public everyday places, further developing exhibition formats and making video art previously known from the gallery and specialist festival context accessible to a broad audience free of charge. Videocity regularly goes on tour with current social issues and two cycles of Ukrainian video art. In collaboration with musicians from different styles, silent films are accompanied musically in spontaneous live acts, which turns the flow of images into a new experience. https://www.videocity.org CargoSpaceConcerts
ARTISTINTHEWORLD travels through the art world with the aim of photographing as many artists as possible in their studio, always with their backs to the viewer. The homage focuses on connecting people, respecting them, appreciating them, celebrating the diversity of life in terms of background, experience and perspective, and thus making a reality visible in a series of special encounters. In these short meetings we share the studio with the common goal of taking the best possible photo. The photo series with 6200 photos includes the PLAYLIST (600 agenda drawings), linkMap (120 drawings and zines), 6 AITW HUBSA AIR'S, 100 HUBSA ROCKS, POP-UP shows and murals worldwide. https://artistintheworld.com
ROBIN BECKER is a Rotterdam-based artistic researcher working at the intersection of music composition, performance and visual art. He explores experimentalism as a strategy of resistance, relying heavily on methods such as indeterminacy, improvisation and collaboration. He completed his master's degree at the University of Amsterdam in 2022, his bachelor's degree at University College Roosevelt, and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. Since then he has exhibited and performed at Nieuw Dakota-Amsterdam, AVL Mundo-Rotterdam, and Pictura-Dordrecht, among others. In 2023 he had his first solo exhibition at WOLk-Rotterdam. https://www.instagram.com/rbn_bckr
Sound artist ASAKO FUJIMOTO is interested in sonic representations of nature,
algorithmic composition, new media, audiovisual installation performances and
theater/film collaborations. After musical beginnings in the New York electronic music scene with analog and digital synthesizers and acoustic field recordings, she appears as a singer in solo projects and has worked with several groups on tours and releases. Living in Europe, she began working on sound design for multimedia art installations, spatial audio and algorithmic compositions exhibited at e.g. ZKM, European Capital of Culture, Venice Biennale, Athens Digital Art Festival, Hermitage Museum, etc. https://asakomusic.com CargoSpaceConcerts
FILIPPO GILLONO is guitarist and improviser. He is an active member of the experimental and improvised scene in Turin and Berlin. Over the past years he has been working internationally with the trio Naso 2, the italian collective Pietra Tonale, Salmoni. He recently joined the contemporary ensemble GAME and an advanced master in contemporary music led by Ictus ensemble at KASK conservatorium. CargoSpaceConcerts
BO HELLER is a transdisciplinary artist from Hamburg based in Rotterdam. In his serial and project-based works, he uses experimental methods to examine material processes and loops at the interface of analog and digital media technologies. He is particularly concerned with the material basis of images and our perception of them in the context of a constantly escalating flood of images. Conceptually, he often interweaves references to the mind and brain sciences with emancipatory theory. He completed a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and also studied philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. https://www.instagram.com/xxheller CargoSpaceGallery CargoSpaceConcerts
After completing his master‘s degree in fine arts and new media with a focus on stage design in 2008, the French media artist MAXIME LETHELIER developed his works in various areas as interactive installations, augmented stage design for theater or interactive visual solutions for music or video content. He explores real-time data sets, monitors them in online databases, implements custom sensor solutions, focuses on using personalized and handcrafted display techniques to fuse these artistic aspects. He collaborated with several theater groups and musicians to create transmedia projects.
NIKI NEECKE, born in Freiburg DE, grew up in Basel, lives in Berlin, studied at the Basel School of Design and “Audio Design” with Wolfgang Heiniger and Thomas Kessler at the Basel Music Academy. He works as a freelance musician, sound designer and composer for stage, film and sound art internationally and for various forms of theater, in long-term collaboration with well-known directors at state theaters as well as in the independent scene, including contemporary, concert setting of silent films, conception and realization of walk-in, interactive sound installations and sound game objects under the labels “SONOgames” and “Useful_Updates”. http://nikineecke.ch
ANITA MAÏMOUNA NEUHAUS Dancer, performer, TV presenter. She uses the body to reflect on identity, freedom and other complex issues. She dances to think, but also to heal. Wind, heat, stinging cold and strong emotions are some of her driving forces. When she dances, one might think of: ice skating, capoeira or other practices that have crossed time, the ocean and many other obstacles. PerformanceDrives
EERO SCHOCH, born in Basel in 2002, is a young talent with South Korean/Swiss roots, both parents successfully working in the fine arts. He dedicated himself to demanding piano music early on. At the age of 19 he began performing with advanced professional students at the Basel Music Academy. His free spirit and well-balanced, casual, passionate approach to music and art brought him into contact and collaboration with many important and interesting personalities in his early years. CargoSpaceConcerts
Trio Caos was formed in 2023 comprising of three musicians with distinct cultural and musical backgrounds. Teresa De Broeck, a Belgian-Portuguese flutist, Alina Mayer Whitla, a Canadian-Romanian cellist who grew up in Ireland and Valerio Tesoro, an Italian pianist from Rome. They study together and as a trio at the Hochschule für Musik Basel with Anna
Gebert and François Benda. As chamber musicians they have been particularly active and have developed a special passion alongside each other. By participating in competitions, playing regular concerts and making recordings, they have begun a promising career together. CargoSpaceConcerts
MARJA VAN PUTTEN, Amsterdam, influenced by the period of squatting and the feminist movement, concentrates exploring the boundaries of materials on the combination of paint and textiles, alternating between coarse and fine, fine brushes or brooms, small sequins and frayed pieces of fabric, large stitches on the canvas, etc. Through unusual combinations and juxtaposition of contrasts, an underlying tension can be felt in her abstract works. She loves large works to combine monumentally large shapes and very small details in one piece. She is currently working on 3D works to make her work even more formally radical. She also organizes art projects.
Pianist, improviser and composer ELI WALLACE lives in Brooklyn, NYC. He leads his own projects and co-productions with like-minded artists, with a preference for free improvisation, and enjoys elaborate piano preparations, which, according to John Lewis (The Guardian) :“...push the boundaries of the prepared piano”. His compositions use notation strategies to expand the way sound is produced and how ensembles interact. Over the last decade he has appeared on dozens of albums and performed at venues such as The Stone in New York NYC, Roulette in Brooklyn NYC and Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL, Mizzou International Composers Festival, Columbia, MI, and Cave 12 , Geneva, Switzerland.
https://eliwallacemusic.com CargoSpaceConcerts
The pianist XICORIBAS, during his bachelor's degree in classical piano and master's degree in improvisation in Barcelona and then his master's degree in live electronics in Amsterdam, found his way of composing, producing generative electronics with varying levels of noise or unpredictability, with a strong focus on sound art, experimentation and improvisation. His music draws on a wide range of styles from nostalgic impressionism to harsh noise, ambient maximalism, samplephonics to instrumental post-punk, all under the influence of the unpredictable. CargoSpaceConcerts
FMD, ForumMusikDiversität Schweiz
Vielfalt, Farbigkeit und Abwechslung im Musikbetrieb entstehen, wenn die Chancengleichheit von Frau und Mann ernst genommen wird, Brücken gebaut, Minderheiten gezielt gefördert und der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt werden. Die Tätigkeiten des FMD richten sich an alle im Musikbereich Tätigen und Interessierten
Das FMD, ForumMusikDiversität Schweiz geht aus dem FrauenMusikForum FMF hervor, das 1982 im Zuge der zweiten Welle der Frauenbewegung gegründet wurde. Das FMD ist Kompetenzzentrum für den Themenkomplex Musik, Gender und Diversität und macht sich öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit in diesen Bereichen zur Aufgabe. www.music.diversity.ch
ANMARI MËTSA YABI WILI
Living and working on board of her cultural freighter Lorin in CH/FR/DE/NL, she has been initiating her projects with an avant-garde, interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking character since 1987, after receiving a.o. the music prize from the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation, initially exclusively as a concert pianist. From 1990 to the present time, she has developed as a composer, performer with or without voice and as a visual artist to become a conceptual artist. In Holland she has initially made a name for herself as a visual artist through exhibitions at Art Rotterdam, Aanschouw Rotterdam, the Kaalstaart Festival in Breda and Amstedam, and the NECK OF THE WOODS gallery, Rotterdam. Interdisciplinary performances followed in Koffie&Ambacht, Roodkapje, Worm etc. Collaboration with international media, Alex Buess, Barbara Doll, Karin Dornbusch, Saskia Edens, Sonja Feldmeier, Aleksander Gabrys, Charlotte Hug, Adrian Laugsch, Eung Kwang Lee, Heinrich Lüber, Ueli Michel, Niki Neecke, Pauline Oliveros, Kaija Saariaho, Marianne Schröder, Shazeb Arif Shaikh, James Tenney, Lotta Wennäkoski, Jürg Wyttenbach, Iannis Xenakis, Agata Zubel and others. In 1998 she founded the ensemble LE DONNE IDEALI with, among others, Pauline Oliveros Portrait, KOREAexchange, ScAnDiNaViAnCoOkIeS, Giornate delle donne ideali and guests on International Women's Day and POLAND - WHERE ARE YOU?! In 2002 the syndromics variation band followed with works by, among others, Alex Buess, Conlon Nancarrow, Iannis MËTSA YABI y sus DRIVINGSOUNDS and intensifying the visual disciplines, she creates the production facility Kulturfrachter Lorin and founds her art company d r i v i n g s o u n d s & a r t s. Their activities take place in the cultural centers of Europe, North/South America and India. Since 2020 she has been President of the FMD, ForumMusicDiversity Switzerland.
www.drivingsoundsandarts.com www.lorinspromenade.com www.musicdiversity.ch