Mia Zabelka (at)

Mia Zabelka

Since her first release Somateme on Berlin’s Edition RZ, Austrian violinist and composer Mia Zabelka brings intensive and experimental approaches to the archetypally classical sound object of the violin, using both physical and digital extended techniques (prepared objects in the strings, howling, an array of live electronics) to hone her own instrumental language. Her previous collaborators include Elliott Sharp, Dälek, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros and Lydia Lunch. She has given concerts and performances at many Festivals throughout Europe, America and Asia. Numerous CD, vinyl and video releases.

REFRACTION

Mia Zabelka (AT) – E-violin, electronic devices, alien objects

Tina Frank (AT) – video synthesizer, camera

Tina Frank and Mia Zabelka share a fascination and engagement with de- and reconstructing sound and image in an ongoing process of concrete abstraction. Refraction is the first public performance of these two artists who wander along boundaries between analogue and digital modes of expression, creating elemental audiovisual worlds comprising minimalist elements and global overviews of sight and sound that come together in an explosive, fragile event in the performance space. Opacity and transparency, light and dark, dissonance and melody collide in a reconsideration of opposition, constantly challenging supposed notions of perceptive norms. Refraction refers both to the audiovisual materiality of Frank, Zabelka’s work and to processes of socio-political disintegration, reflecting the fragile and fragmented times we inhabit and simultaneously proffering an audiovisual flicker of hope. Frank and, Zabelka’s collaboration portrays possibility and transformation, overcoming thresholds in the intermedial generation of new spaces of creative reflection.

Co-Kuratiert mit dem Todaysart Festival aus Den Haag.



Diese Veranstaltung ist Teil der We Are Europe Festival Kooperation!