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Click for stream CCRMA presents a livestream performance by Thessia Machado in New York City, NY.
Thessia Machado is a visual/sound artist, instrument builder and performer whose work plumbs the materiality of sound and its effect on our shifting perceptions of space. She creates circumstances in which to mine the matter of her pieces for their innate physical properties and the sonic and visual relationships that can arise from their interactions. In improvised and composed performed works, the ensemble of things is augmented by a dynamically responsive and intentionally unpredictable human element. Electronics are usually implicated.
Machado’s sculptures, drawings and sound installations have been broadly exhibited both in the US and Europe; most recently in a solo show at the Arts Club of Chicago in early 2019. She has performed with her handmade and modified instruments in both respectable institutions and in dilapidated basements and experimental spaces throughout Brooklyn and beyond.
She was awarded the Berlin Prize at the American Academy in Berlin and the Artists Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2017.
Machado has attended residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Homesession, Barcelona, Yaddo, Ipark, NARS Foundation, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. She is a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Experimental Television Center and The Bronx Museum. In the fall of 2019 and again in the spring of 2021 Machado was a visiting faculty member at Bennington College, VT. During the fateful spring of 2020 she helped coax righteous/joyous sounds from the students in the Sound Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
http://thessiamachado.com
Cost: FREE