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Monday, April 30th, 7-9pm

Katherine Liberovskaya and Hitoshi Kojo
Sonic Video Performance Event
Ongoing event, audience is welcome throughout the evening


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This work will be composed in real time via found objects and materials collected beforehand by the artists together. These objects and materials, have been chosen in relation to presenting at the same time interesting sound-producing properties and visual qualities, will serve as both object and subject of the performance. With the help of microphones, samplers, various cameras and live processing software, their manipulation will form the body of the sound and the content of the moving image within an audio-visual dialogue in constant flux.

Katherine Liberovskaya is a video and media artist based in Montreal , Canada , and New York City . She has been working predominantly in experimental video since the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced many single-channel videos, video installation works and video performances which have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events around the world. As of recent years her work - in single-channel and installation video as well as performance - mainly revolves around collaborations with new music composers/sound artists, notably Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana, Zanana, and David Watson. Since 2003 she is active in live video mixing exploring improvisation with numerous live new music/audio artists including: Margarida Garcia, Barry Weisblat, o.blaat, Hitoshi Kojo, murmer, André Gonçalves, Monique Buzzarté, Anthony Coleman, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Alessandro Bosetti, Audrey Chen, among others. In addition to her art practice she has concurrently been involved in the programming and organization of diverse media art events, notably with Studio XX in Montreal (programming coordinator 1996-1998, president 2001-2003), Espace Vidéographe, Montreal and Experimental Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005, 2006, 2007) as well as the OptoSonic Tea series at Diapason in NYC.

Hitoshi Kojo (b. 1969 Ibaragi-ken , Japan ) has been making music compositions and paintings since early childhood. He graduated from the oil painting department of Tokyo Art University in 1993. Currently, he works in various artistic areas from traditional and contemporary methods to installation, performance. His projects often drift from scanning daily matters, trying to catch that elusive spark at the very core of a momentum. Since he moved his base to the surroundings of Lac Leman in Switzerland in 2004, his activity has expanded to all of Europe . He has worked on a number of collaborations such as Kodama with Michael Northam, Clinamen Tides with John Grzinich and EKU, The Epidemic Symphony with Maurizio Bianchi and Nobu Kasahara. His recording works have mainly been released under the name "Spiracle" since late 1990's. Some titles were released by anonymity. He has also founded the independent label of audio press named 'Octpia' since 2000, and has published 8 titles to date. For further information visit: http://www.octpia.com/kojo

 


 
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