HKNME: Hyperspace 超空間 by Viola Yip
31 JAN 2024/ 8.P.M.
Location: Multimedia Theatre M1060, L1, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Center, City University of Hong Kong 83 Tat Chee AvenueKowloon Tong, KowloonHong Kong SAR China
Free Admission.
Hyperspace is an installative telematic performance that speculates a possibility for simultaneous acoustics. Four performers, from Oslo, Montreal, Mexico City and Hong Kong, with each of them performs a feedback turntable developed by Viola Yip. The instrument highlights the acoustics of each performing space, which will be simultaneously transmitted, juxtaposed and spatialized as a performative hyperspace in the Multimedia Theater of the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong.
NME15: Sounding Tomorrow is presented by Hong Kong New Music Limited and supported by SoundLab, School of Creative Media
Performers: Noam Bierstone (CAN), Jennifer Torrence (NO), Diego Espinosa Cruz González (MEX) and Karen Yu (Hong Kong)
Instruments, installation and electronics: Viola Yip
Technical assistants: Tim Chan and Adam Pultz
Concept: Viola Yip
Viola Yip
Originally from Hong Kong, Viola Yip is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary sound artist and performer. She has been interested in creating new self-built musical instruments and sound works in the intersection of composition, performance, improvisation and sound art, exploring various relationships between media, materiality, space and our musical bodies in experimental music.
Her instruments and performances have been presented in music festivals and venues such as Issue Project Room in New York City, The Mannes School of Music, Look and Listen Festival, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Cycling ‘74 Expo, Hong Kong Arts Center, Sonic Arts Research Center at Queen’s University Belfast, University of Huddersfield, QO-2 Brussels, A L’arme! Festival Berlin, Moers Festival, Seanaps Festival Leipzig and Pinakothek der Moderne Munich.
She received an Honorary Mention from Giga-Hertz-Preis 2021 at Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.
NME15 is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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