Julian Bonequi - PULSE
EXPANDED NARRATIVES FOR ENSEMBLES AND ORCHESTRAL CONDUCTING
How to address the materialization about the intangible ­ that experiment about reading, interpretation and representation of sound and image? If "in the animated cinema there is no real movement to register", it is - in the shiver of the bodies and the details of the living, in the captures of the naked gestures and breathing, as well as all those little pauses, patterns and silences in between - what is not. Loneliness, madness..., death?, the portrait of that other reality and the hallucination of the interior. The pulse conducts what is alive, and our research refers to the viscerality of the organic creation.

Lauren Moffatt - The Unbinding  
The Unbinding (Stereoscopic 3D video, 2014, loop) presents a world made up of fragments of archived images. Conceived in the form of an installation, this stereoscopic video work, projected in passive 3D, reveals a figure whose face, hands and hair change with each of her movements and who is contained within a constantly reconfiguring loop. Inspired by cubist portraits, surrealist collages, Philip K. Dick’s “scramble suit” and time loops and time machines from 20th century science fiction, this work offers an reflection on the everyday activities of appropriation and sampling made possible by digital technologies and networks. It raises the question of how we construct our own worlds through different media.

Julian Bonequi [Mexico, 1974] works with channeling improvisation, mixed reality installations and new-media art education. Curator and founder of Audition Records, currently runs the artist-in-residence project at GIS, an experimental art house-studio based in Mexico City. He has performed under the conduction of the London and Berlin Improvisers Orchestra, William Parker, Vagina Dentata Organ, and played with Gudrun Gut and Joachim Irmler, Ute Wassermann, Joachim Montessuis and Paal Nilssen-Love. In 2015 his work was launched into space alongside works of Mats Gustafsson and Pierre Henry. For PULSE, Berlin-based guest improvisers will be announced soon. 

Audrey Chen is a Chinese-American artist using cello, voice and occasional analog electronics. Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her work is improvised and her approach to this is extremely personal and visceral. Her playing explores the combination and layering of the homemade analog synthesizer, preparations and traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements into a singular ecstatic personal language. Over the past decade plus, her predominant focus has been her solo work with the cello, voice and electronics, but she has more recently begun to shift back towards the exploration of the voice as a primary instrument.

Lauren Moffatt (b. 1982) is an Australian artist working between video, performance and immersive technologies. Her works, often presented in multiple forms, explore contemporary subjectivity and connected bodies as well as the limits between virtual and physical worlds. Over a number of years she has developed a body of work pivoting on stereoscopic photography and video and informed by the history of cinema and broadcast technologies.

Lauren is interested in how the dimension of depth in moving image can be used as a storytelling device. Her works have been screened and exhibited most recently at Daegu Art Museum (KOR), Museum Dr. Guislain (BE), SAVVY Contemporary (DE), FACT Liverpool (UK), the Werkleitz Festival (DE) The Sundance Film Festival (US) and at the ZKM (DE). Lauren completed her studies at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney, Paris VIII University and Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains. She currently lives and works in Berlin.