About this Event
Join us for a studio performance and live recording at Midnight Tea!
Li(sa E.) Harris (b. 1981, Houston, TX) is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and researcher who uses voice, theremin, electronics, movement, improvisation, meditation, and new media to explore healing in performance and living. She is the founder/creative director of the multidisciplinary creative arts studio Studio Enertia. Her awards include a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts and the 2021 Dorothea Tanning Award in Music/Sound from the Foundation for Contemporary Art. Her recent solo exhibitions include Unlit: Sof Landin (Ballroom Marfa,2023), D.R.E.A.M.= A Way to Afram (Diverse Works,2023), and This is the Day (Lawndale Art Center, 2024). Learn more about her work at https://lisaeharris.com
Hailed by The New York Times as “a player of formidable expressive gifts,” Katinka Kleijn enjoys a genre-defying, interdisciplinary career. Classically trained, she cultivates an exploratory practice at the intersection of improvisation, composition, visual art and performance art. Much of Kleijn’s work illuminates the cello’s anthropomorphic qualities, often by placing the instrument in thought-provoking new contexts. In 2019, Kleijn and cellist Lia Kohl waded with 30 cellos in Chicago’s Eckhart Park Pool for their devised work Water On the Bridge. Similarly, Kleijn’s The Body as a Variable Resistor (2021) shares a 9V synthesizer circuit between a cello and its player. Kleijn often presents her projects as co-constructions with the performer or audience, as in her situation-based composition Forward Echo, for 11 improvisers (2019), performed at Big Ears Festival by Ensemble Dal Niente. A Drag City recording artist, Kleijn is a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and International Contemporary Ensemble, and presented solo multimedia presentations at North Carolina Performing Arts, Library of Congress, and the Momentary Museum at Crystal Bridges American Museum of Art. Learn more about her work at www.katinkakleijn.com
Photo Credits:
Li(sa E.) Harris: Maria Jose Govea
Katinka Kleijn: Aliya Ultan
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Midnight Tea, 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, United States
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