About this Event
Zhiyan Cai and Cheslav Singh teamed up to bring to life The Portal. What it shows, whether there is something on the other side - that's for you to find out!
Zhiyan Cai
Zhiyan Cai is a London-based digital artist and former architect. Her work explores the intricate relationship between culture and technology, history and the future, weaving Asian folklore with futurism and science fiction through a female perspective.
Using 3D rendering, holography, projection mapping, AR, and VR, she creates immersive visual experiences. Her art has been exhibited internationally in cities like New York, London, Rome, Hong Kong, and featured at major events such as Design Shanghai, London Design Festival, Milan Design Week, and Shenzhen Cultural Expo. This year, her visual work will be showcased at the Worlds Away Festival in California.
Cheslav Singh
Cheslav Singh is a Canadian pianist based in London with international performance and pedagogical experience.
He has performed internationally at renowned venues (Rome, London, New York, Naples, Paris, Toronto), on radio (RAI 3) and television in many different contexts, playing everything from Beethoven to free jazz. He has been recognized as being able to ‘construct solid geometric sonorities, very well planned…’ and his playing is said to be ‘…engaging and meditative…’ (Massimiliano Cerito, June 2022). Since 2011, he has been actively involved in contemporary classical music, having co- founded the audiovisual group a=b=x=y.
He has appeared as a composer, composing for solo instruments to a full symphony orchestra. He is also the co-founder of Our ‘PL’ace Foundation, through which, among other activities, he co-curates an annual International Audiovisual Art Festival in Poznań, Poland since 2015. In 2024, LightSounds took place across four countries, in the UK, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia.
He remains active in searching for extended playing techniques on the border between acoustic and electronic music, plays the organ, has a keen interest in tuning systems and is an active student of Gurbāṇī Saṅgīta, having had the immense fortune of being able to work with and for its foremost exponent Bhai Baldeep Singh since 2013.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St Paul's URC Church, 22 Newton Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 10.00 to GBP 13.70
