Exercises on Displacement is a series of five events to be held in London over the course of 2019, in five different venues. The programme brings together more than 20 artists and ensembles: an international line-up of new commissions, performances and discussions around the theme of displacement. The events are staged through Tutto Questo Sentire (TQS), the collective funded in 2014 by visual artist Rebecca Salvadori with experimental opera singer Olivia Salvadori and composer & cellist Sandro Mussida.
First event is Execises on Displacement 1/5, on Friday 15 March 2019 at Cafe Oto.
Programme:
MIRCO MENCACCI
PAUL MODLER
JAN HENDRICKSE + SIMON ALLEN + SANDRO MUSSIDA
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COBY SEY + OLIVIA SALVADORI
REBECCA SALVADORI
SANDRO MUSSIDA
a project by TQS Collective
co-produced by Thirty Three Thirty Three
generously supported by Roberto Lombardi and the Italian Cultural Institute in London.
Mirco Mencacci is an Italian sound designer within the film, video art and music industry. He has designed, directed and supervised sound editing on over 400 movies involving directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni and Ferzan Ozpetek. Many of his film projects have premiered at major film festivals around the world, exhibited also at Guggenheim NYC, MOMA NYC, Pompidou in Paris, MAXXI Museum in Rome including Yuri Ancarani’s trilogy (“Il Capo”, “Piattaforma Luna” and “Da Vinci”), Paolo Benvenuti’s “Puccini and the Girl” and Antonioni’s “Michelangelo Eye to Eye”. In occasion of TQSV Mencacci will present a set of audio works through a surround sound 5.1 audio system.
Paul Modler is a researcher, musician and composer of computer-oriented music. He is a full-time assistant and lecturer at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG), Germany. His interests are in multichannel spatialisation, music interaction, gesture recognition and gestural control of music and improvisation techniques.
Felt is a supple solid product… an anti-fabric. It implies no separation of threads, no intertwining, only an entanglement of fibres obtained by fulling (for example, by rolling the block of fibres back and forth). What becomes entangled are the microscales of the fibres. An aggregate of intrication of this kind is in no way homogeneous: it is nevertheless smooth, and contrasts point by point with the space of fabric (it is in principle infinite, open, and unlimited in every direction; it has neither top nor bottom nor centre; it does not assign fixed and mobile elements but rather distributes a continuous variation). Deleuze / Guattari – A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. With Simon Allen (percussions); Sandro Mussida (cello); Jan Hendrickse (flutes, feedback and electronics).
Coby Sey, long-time collaborator with Mica Levi, Tirzah, Babyfather, Klein and Kwes, recorded work spans the realms of live instrumentation, sample-based productions and experimental music, melting recognisable motifs of hip hop, drone, techno, post-punk, fusion and more into a dubbed-out anaesthesia – as best evidenced on the Whities 010: Transport for Lewisham 10. For OTO, Sey will present a set based on the materials from the ongoing collaboration with experimental soprano Olivia Salvadori.
Olivia Salvadori is a classically-trained soprano, an operatic solo performer, and an experimental recording artist. She performed at Garage Gallery, Rotterdam; Hong Kong City Hall; Serralves Museum, Porto; Triennale Museum, Milan; Botanical Garden Rome to name a few. She shared collaborations with artists poets musicians such as Mark Fell, Kid Millions, Nanni Balestrini, Grace Schwindt.
http://oliviasalvadori.com/
Rebecca Salvadori is a London-based video artist with a long experience of filming environments following a non-hierarchical/chronological layering and sequencing of audio to footage. Her film work, including ambiguous short documentaries, artists’ portraits, music videos and AV sets, is both highly personal and wilfully elusive. Throughout the years, Salvadori has accumulated an extensive video archive from which she creates assemblages. This acts as the basis for filmic portraits of moments, people and environments. Her work has been shown at venues and festivals including Videodrome Paris (FR), III Point Festival Miami (US), Club to Club (IT), Macro Museum of Contemporary Art (IT), Barbican Art Center (UK), Festival of Film and Animation Olomouc (CZ), Festival IMAGES (CH), Crosstalk Video Art Festival (HU), David Lynch’s Silencio (FR), SCHNUCK Glaspalais (NL), Sophiensaele Theatre (DE).
Sandro Mussida is a London based composer & cellist whose work has been released through Sony Classical, Boomkat, Tapeworms and others. He works closely with Mark Fell, London Contemporary Orchestra and many other artists and institutions. His work investigates the relationships between tradition and innovation in music, active listening, the identity of musical languages and rites. His latest works involve historical, non-equal-tempered tuning systems questioning its perception by the western, standardized ear.