HORTUS SONUS

Hallveig Ágústsdóttir is an Icelandic visual and sound artist living in Ghent, Belgium, we met in 2010 and have longed for a collaboration together ever since. Beginning of september 2014 we finally took our first steps towards the exploration our mutual worlds: sounds - organic materials - paper - silence - rhythm -intensity, the delicate...

SYBIL[ARIA]

Sybil[aria] murmurs - mumbles - whispers - song - an oracle Sybil[aria] as in Sybilla meaning prophetess and aria - air - luft - sound - being transported by means of breath. she:  “with frenzied mouth utters things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaching to a thousand years with her voice....”...

LUNAlia

LUNALIA, lunalala, lunala, lunal, luna, la lune. luna: as in moon, tree, moth. alia: almost as in non-normative forms of speech. maja jantar is and so is a.rawlings predictive, predicative During the course of one full moon cycle angela rawlings and maja jantar mumbled - murmured - sighed - screamed - sung - whispered -...

Waves wAsh oVer thE Signal

   Nathalie Alessi: musician Maja Jantar: voice / video / scenography The waves wash over the signal of the incoming train is a project based on Skrjabin’s preludes Op.11. It has taken shape during our artistic residency at the Centro Studi per le Arti e le Lettere di Bogliasco. Skrjabin lived in Bogliasco for almost...

wEIss

Weiss is a variable and multi-applicable concept in voice, text, image and performance. Weiss can be called an instant composition alternating between different media, making use of video footage between documentary and abstraction, but also playing with the different aspects of voice and the physical presence of the performer. This project can be placed in...