Forage Friction
Fri, Jun 21
|Makati
Time & Location
Jun 21, 2024, 9:00 PM GMT+8
Makati, La Fuerza Plaza, 2241 Chino Roces Ave, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
About the Event
ARTIST BIOS
Elvin Brandhi (UK)
Elvin Brandhi is an improvising lyricist and beat producer instigating projects of improvised socio-aesthetic overflow expanding haphazardly with circus intent. The main body of her education takes shape via contextual shifts and collaborations, as alternative to institutional micro-mythological artistic specialization and ladder climbing self-optimisation. Her practice involves performing wherever and whenever possible, composing audio-sonic essays, videos, sample-based beats and theatrical public hacking. She uses sound and image as an expansive gestural-emotive language transgressing intrinsic systemics and inherited syntactical etiquettes. Her performances are unyielding bursts of erupting animation where her caustic stream of consciousness cavorts with restless, glitched out heaviness. She currently has no base, expanding sonic mutation as a constantly morphing communicational
code.
She performs in various collaborations such as ‘Yeah You’, which was released on Alter, Slip, Opal, Psychik Dancehall and Good Food. Other groups include ‘Bad@Maths’, ‘INSIN’, ‘Gailvn Keiln’, User Syndrome, BAHK, (a collaboration with Daniel Blumberg), Pollution Opera (with Nadah El Shazly), and Soul Sick (with DJ Scotch Egg), among many collaborations. In 2017, she was given a PRS Oram Award for Innovative Female Musicians; which funded her ongoing portable studio project, making albums anywhere anytime without anyone, battery-op In the interest of de-formalising music production, increasing the accessibility of spontaneous self expression without having to compromise on the quality. During autumn she was a fellow of Raw academy, Senegal’s third session ‘The five elements: Hip-hop Aesthetics and Politics’ co-ordinated by the journalist-rappers ‘Journal Rappé’ focusing on the affective power of artistic expression through socio-historical cultural perspectives. She co-founded the collective ‘0n est Malade’ in collaboration with Tabara Korka Nydie, who’s film was selected for Gorré Film festival.
In 2018 she was an artist in residence for three months at Haven for Artists, Beirut. She took part in the collective living project ‘Mingling for Chimera’ lead by the performance activist group ‘Young boys Writing club’ which took place in Sicily, Alcamo. She has collaborated with ‘Hizz’, Cairo based cassette label, and finished a residency with Nyege Nyege, Uganda.
Link to interview: https://borshchmagazine.com/identity-rupture-with-elvin-brandhi/
Bandcamp: https://elvinbrandhi.bandcamp.com/
Tengal (PH)
TENGAL is a composer, media artist, curator, and cultural instigator, engaged in research-based production that bridges art, technology, and society. Tengal started as a musician and composer with a penchant for game theory and algorithmic structures. His compositional works, such as the Gangan Series, have been performed all over Europe and Asia. Since 2005, he has initiated various projects in Manila and across Southeast Asia. Notably, he founded the art organization SABAW Media Art Kitchen, a curatorial platform specializing in sound and media art. In 2008, he established the Philippines' first international media art festival and symposium, WSK Festival of the Recently Possible. From 2017 to 2018, Tengal curated the exhibition "INTERSTICES: Manifolds of The In-between" and served as the guest director for the "Self-reflexivity: Thinking Media and Digital Articulations" exhibition at the Tokyo Media Art Festival MeCA | Media Culture in Asia, initiated by the Japan Foundation. Tengal co-created the international platform NUSASONIC, a creative collaboration between YES NO KLUB, WSK Festival of The Recently Possible, Playfreely/BlackKaji, CTM Festival, and the Goethe Institute. Nusasonic was a multi-year project that explored a wide spectrum of experimental sound and music cultures in Southeast Asia, fostering dialogue not only within the region but also with Europe. Recently relocating to Berlin, Tengal served as curator-at-large at Art Laboratory Berlin and played a significant role as co-curator of the project "Hackers, Makers, Thinkers", and "Radyo Somatodelia: Experiments in Sonic Animism."
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