Presented for the first time in Berlin, Impromptus is a collection of audiovisual excerpts from Margherita Pevere's organically manipulated film footage Liquid Debris with sound by Ivan Penov. Pevere and Penov's long-time creative collaboration has delivered a series of short audiovisual pieces based on improvisation. Penov sculpts compositions out of hidden qualities of noises, filthy sonorities, discarded sonic material. He creates new sonic entities out of all the remains of old recordings, new recordings reconverted in "bad ways" giving a new poetry of what has been considered unwanted and unpleasant. Pevere manipulates 8mm, 16mm and 35mm found footage using organic and chemical processes. She corrodes 8mm film with her own gastric juice, cultivates sprouts and moulds on 35mm film and obliterates images on 16 mm footage in a way that echoes her Works on Paper, first erasing the gelatine and then writing on it.

Deeply fascinated by biological processes, Margherita Pevere is a visual artist and researcher investigating decay and transformation as they are common destiny of human and non-human matter. Her practice features a unique combination of organic and technological materials: she grows bacterial cultures, manipulates paper and photographic film, collects organic relics, captures ephemeral lights with digital video and plans to store a digitized collection of memories on bacterial genome. Pevere is now pursuing her PhD at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design at Architecture in Helsinki (FIN).

In Berlin she actively collaborates with the DIYbio group BioTinkering e.V.. Most recent exhibitions include the Article Biennial – i/o lab, Stavanger (N), curated by Hege Tapio and Nora Vage; the Dutch Design Week – BioArt Laboratories, Eindhoven (NL), curated by Jalila Essaidi; State Festival, Berlin, curated by Daniela Silvestrin.

Ivan Penov (1985, Macedonia/Italy) is a composer and audiovisual artist. His works focus on a structural interaction between sonic and visual logics and poetics, extending the sound forms in visual compositions and sonification of visual phenomena.

His artistic creations has been exhibited at International Computer Music Conference (Ljubljana), Musiques et Recherches (Bruxelles), Sonorities @ Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, KcEMA in Kansas City, Logos Foundation in Ghent, Synchresis (Spain), STEIM (Amsterdam), New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, Understanding Visual Music (Brasilia), Estonian Music Days (Tallinn), GLEAM (Glasgow) and others. He published a complete resynthesis of the first Polish tape piece “Etiuda na jedno uderzenie w talerz [Study on 1 Cymbal Stroke]” by Włodzimierz Kotoński (Aracne Edizioni, 2014) and performed various multimedia pieces by Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Kaija Saariaho.

Parallel Asteroid is a duo of the Vietnamese Lan Cao and Gregor Siedl from Austria.

Their latest recording „Itinerary“ was released in March 2016 and contains a selection of composed pieces and exemplifies the soundworld of Parallel Asteriod.

Parallel Asteroid have been featured at international festivals and venues around the world, amongst others – festival Krieg Singen at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, FIME-Festival Internacional de Música Experimental in São Paulo, Ftarri Tokyo, Porgy & Bess Vienna, Festival Ankunft Neue Musik Berlin, Strom Festival Cologne, Musiknacht in Cologne, Frischzelle Festival for Intermedial Performance, 5th anniversary Festival at Quiet Cue Berlin, Stadtgarten Cologne (Double concert with Zeena Parkins &Ikue Mori), Artists in Residence Programm:Hotel Pupik (Scheifling), Institut Francais Hanoi etc.

Parallel Asteroid have been touring extensively in Europe, Brazil, Japan, China, Taiwan and Vietnam. For their projects and cooperations,they have received grants from – Bundeskanzleramt für Kunst und Kultur, Österreichisches Kulturforum Tokyo, Kulturamt Niederösterreich, Österreichische Botschaft Hanoi, Institut Francais, ON-Neue Musik Köln, Ministerium für Kultur in Nordrhein-Westfalen (MFKJKS-NRW), Rhein-Energie Stiftung.

With their two educational projects and workshops in collaboration with Domdom Center for Experimental Music and Art in Hanoi, Parallel Asteroid has helped educating and inspiring young artists in Vietnam.

Misha Shkurat is a member of Nisantashi Primary School and a visual artist from Kyiv. He explores classical video feedback techniques using an analogue LZX-based videosynth and a live camera combining multiple feedback loops and creating complicated patterns.