Posters credit: Caro Nebbia
A door in the mountain
Saturday, December 17, 2022
3pm CT - 10pm CET - 6pm ARG
Inspired in the poem "A door in a mountain" by Jean Valentine, this concert series envisions a space that unites four intergenerational female, non-binary, and other underrepresented gender identity artists from different parts of the world, in different art mediums: writing, music & visual art.
Connecting artists through the globe in a virtual space where they will be creating and improvised piece altogether. Hoping to create together a more decentralized, open, and accessible artistic world.
FEATURING
Vic Bang, electronics (AR)
Tomomi Kubo, ondes martenot (JPN/ES)
z.vektor, visual artist (MX)
Tsering Yangzom Lama, writer (NPL/CA)
Vic Bang
Vic Bang is the artist, composer and sound designer Victoria Barca from Buenos Aires, who produces rhythmic and textured compositions from sample processing and the use of virtual synthesizers. Her work captures the micro-sounds of the world, simultaneously crystalline and organic, carefully arranged into unique sound sculptures.
She has released records on labels such as Moon Glyph, Kit Records and Abyss, and has played live at numerous festivals and cultural venues of the experimental music scene from Buenos Aires.
Tomomi Kubo
Tomomi Kubo is a Ondes Martenot player, Improviser and composer, based in Spain. She has been involved in a wide variety of activities, such as collaborating with Orchestra, Chamber music, contemporary dancers and theater companies, as well as the accompaniment to films and TV drama music. After graduating from Kunitachi College of Music, Tomomi Kubo went to France to study Ondes Martenot at Conservatoire France National Boulogne-Billancourt and graduated from the school with highest honors. She studied the instrument under Takashi Harada and Pascale Rousse-Lacordaire. Through these activities, she tries conveying the joy of Ondes Martenot, a marvelous instrument.
Official website: www.tomomikubo.net
Tsering Yangzom Lama
Tsering Yangzom Lama’s debut novel, WE MEASURE THE EARTH WITH OUR BODIES, is a New York Times Summer Reads Pick and a finalist for The Scotiabank Giller Prize, and longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and The Toronto Book Award. She holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and a BA in Creative Writing and International Relations from the University of British Columbia. She currently lives in Vancouver, Canada. Tsering’s writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Malahat Review, Grain, Kenyon Review, Vela, LaLit, and Himal SouthAsian, as well as the anthologies Old Demons New Deities: 21 Short Stories from Tibet; House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal; and Brave New Play Rites. She is also a co-founder of LhakarDiaries, a leading English-language blog among Tibetan youth in exile. A recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Tsering has been a resident at the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay AiR, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Lillian E. Smith Center, Art Omi, Catwalk Institute, WildAcres, and Playa Summerlake. She was selected as a 2018 Tin House Novel Scholar. A lifelong activist, Tsering is currently a Storytelling Advisor at Greenpeace International, where she guides and trains offices around the world in narrative strategy.
Z.vktr
Anahy Cabrera (Z.vktr) through multimedia art explores psychic phenomena derived from direct sensory experiences through contact with technological media. Her creative process lies in the interpretation of existing phenomena and concepts to a metaphorical representation using technological media as catalysts of sensations. The adaptation of his aesthetics has focused on definitions such as: austere, monolithic, amorphous and laconic.)