Transdisciplinary artist yuniya edi kwon presents a sonic intervention for voice, violin, viola, cello, and double bass. A confluence of queer-trans Korean and Taoist ritual technologies expressed through a diasporic-experimentalist lens, the work uses composition, improvisation, and fierce oracular vocal performance to momentarily destabilize fixed assumptions of impossibility. In its place emerges the tremor: dangerous in its oscillating emptiness, bursting with revolutionary potential.
yuniya edi kwon composer, violin
Holland Andrews voice
Joanna Mattrey viola
Lester St. Louis cello
Henry Fraser double bass
“Absolutely stunning” – The Wire Magazine
“[yuniya edi kwon], with her virtuoso violin and equally virtuoso voice, is a revelation…” – Jazz Magazine Paris
“Operating well outside the lines of familiar tuning and tonality, yuniya edi kwon’s own virtuoso violin and glass-shattering vocals formed the centre of a shockingly original, perfectly realised storm.” – Crack Magazine
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.
yuniya edi kwon is a transdisciplinary artist working across composition, improvisation, poetry, movement, and visual art. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, Creative Capital Awardee, Arts Fellow at Princeton University, Bessie Awardee, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Awardee in Music/Sound, Civitella Ranieri Fellow, Watermill Center Baroness Nina von Maltzahn Fellow for the Performing Arts, and United States Artists Ford Fellow.
Her work has been presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dia Art Foundation, Performa Biennial, New York Live Arts, Under The Radar Festival, National Sawdust, Roulette Intermedium, Harlem Stage, Asia Society, On The Boards, Rewire Festival, Monheim Triennale, and others. She has performed throughout the Americas and Europe, including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Kennedy Center, Big Ears Festival, Kaufman Center, Wexner Center, SESC Pompeia, Barbican Centre, Jazzfest Berlin, Festival Sons d’hivers, Festival Banlieues Bleues, moers festival, and more.
She collaborates with artists of diverse disciplines, including The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Senga Nengudi, Du Yun, Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born, Tomeka Reid, Holland Andrews, Degenerate Art Ensemble, Kaoru Watanabe’s Bloodlines Interwoven, Kenneth Tam, PinkNoise Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, and LEIMAY.
