Name: meakusma presents : holland andrews & yuniya edi kwon + karen willems
Start: 2026-03-19T20:00:00+01:00
Location: rue crickx 13, 1060 Brussels, Belgium

meakusma presents : holland andrews & yuniya edi kwon + karen willems

Holland Andrews (they/them) and yuniya edi kwon (she/her)
are composer-improvisers, vocalists, and interdisciplinary performance makers based in Brooklyn, New York. Their collaborative practice is an emergent and embodied extension of their lives as ritualists, spiritual practitioners, and partners. Holland, a multi-instrumentalist and producer, arranges music for voice, clarinet, and electronics, harnessing the power of these instruments to address themes of vulnerability, catharsis, and healing. yuniya, in her work, connects sound, movement, and ceremony to explore transformation, transgression, and mythology’s ability to both obscure and reveal. Their co-created opera-in-progress, How does it feel to look at nothing, is a transdisciplinary space of convergence for their shared life, queer-trans family, and beloved creative lineages, grounded in the foundational questions that connect and inspire them. Separately, their work has been presented by The Whitney, REDCAT, PICA, ISSUE Project Room, Dia Art Foundation, Performa Biennial, Roulette Intermedium, Civitella Ranieri, and others. Holland and yuniya are both Guggenheim Fellows, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Awardees, Creative Capital Awardees, and United States Artists Fellows. How does it feel to look at nothing will have its world premiere in Fall 2026 before touring internationally.
Holland Andrews – voice, clarinet, electronics
yuniya edi kwon – violin, voice, small instruments
Work sample (audio)
karen willems
'THERE ARE THOSE WHO CONFORM AND THOSE WHO CONFRONT AND NEVER STOP TRANSFORMING'.
From the child with the marching drum grew an unconventional drummer, percussionist, composer, and musician.
Karen Willems is active in various fields. Her expressive, physical drum and percussion technique brought her to Yuko, Zita Swoon Group, Mauro, Zwerm among others. With her project Inwolves she took the first steps towards the discovery of the essence of her own music. Her solo project ‘Terre Sol’ elaborates on this.
Her aim is to find music in which she could find herself as a spiritual being as well as a creative artist. She is concerned with the essence of her own work, the perception of her own personality and the further development of sound as an art of fusing different aesthetics and genres.