HOW Event | Pietra Grezza: audio-visual performance

 “I came down, against my will, from a great ravine / in the high mountains to this lower place, to be revealed within this little stone.”

-Michelangelo Buonarroti

|Pietra Grezza| is the site-specific experiment in a form of a live audio-visual installation performed with electronic instruments and vocal textures. Performance will create a pattern of fragmentary compositions of sound figures, each of them remains as a sound sculpture within Quayola’s Sculpture Factory. 

HOW Art Museum(Shanghai)，“Quayola：Asymmetric Archaeology——Gazing Machines”， Photography：1st-im studio

Using sound poetry as the connecting element to the sculptures, the artist let body speak through the expansive use of sound and conveys the fluidity of gender as a constantly changing, multivocal denotation. In this way, audio component becomes the sculpture's own space-sound existence as a poet-artist herself.

Redtown Sculpture Exhibition Space, |Urban phobia| audio-visual art performance Lena, Vasily, Eugenio, June 2017

Mao LiveHouse |Recharge art event|, Sound and live painting performance "Water Escaping" Lena, Eugenio, Vasily and Zhouzhou, November 2018

Yongfoo Elite |The Advent of Victoria Seou|, experimental sound theater: Lena and Eugenio, June 2018

MOCA |Slushat Diru|: Lena, Eugenio, Marlo, experimental sound laboratory, June 2018

“Sculpture Factory” of Quayola was inspired by the ‘non-finito’ technique of Michelangelo. This same concept of an unfinished oeuvre will be reflected by artists through sound, sculptures, poetry of Michelangelo and light art during the performance “Pietra Grezza” forging a dialogue with sculptures by Quayola in the exhibition space.

HOW Art Museum(Shanghai)，“Quayola：Asymmetric Archaeology——Gazing Machines”， Photography：1st-im studio

Windows Art Space, |Slushat Diru|- Lena, Eugenio and Marlo, site-specific sound laboratory, October 2018

Although Michelangelo’s poetry is not nearly as well known to the public as his sculpture, painting and architecture, it was an important facet of his creative life. For the “Pietra Grezza” artists choose poems what are centered around a few of the most prevalent and intriguing themes in Michelangelo’s repertoire: time, death, and the immortalizing power of art; the artist’s concetto (conception or idea) and the perfection of its realization; the reflection of the artist’s self in his creations; the tension between hiding and revealing, which relates to the subtractive process of marble sculpture; and a yearning for spiritual release, or elevation, from the human condition.

Lena Kilina

Russian sinologist, sound researcher and performing artist. Currently conducting doctorate work in a field of visual anthropology and urbanism in Brazil and China. Ambassador of the Shanghai World Music School. Visual and sound artist for the art-collective |Illumin8tors| and |Autoturk|. 

Vasily Betin

Conceptual artist, New Media director of “Sokaris studio” and part time lecturer at “Technoetics Arts” department of DeTao Master Academy.  His early works reflect on the feelings and communication through visual art. Recently with the rise of technological dependence of the society he moves his attention to the mediation of technology on our live through “conscious environments and objects” and interactive art.

Eugenio Altieri

Italian sound artist and music producer. His research is a constant mingling of environmental lo-fi sound recording, with retro and modern music production instruments and technologies, to create a unique, organic sound that he likes to defined Metahuman. Human lo-fi / Analog Warm / Digital Sharp. Lena and Eugenio has the sound duo |Slushat Diru|. 

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