Family Dinner at Supermarket Art Fair
Family Dinner will be presenting an exhibition with the theme of process at Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm, Sweden. More information coming soon.
Artist, Musician, Educator
Family Dinner will be presenting an exhibition with the theme of process at Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm, Sweden. More information coming soon.
During Hache’s residency at Goethe Institut in Rotterdam I met Rei Kakiuchi. We connecting over the topic of making sound/music from shells and on Friday I will play a small part in his presentation.
In the last week of September, CORPO will host Family Dinner as we take over their studio for one week for a research residency. We will focus on the relation between food, the body and capitalism. There will be some public moments announced closer to the date.
On 9 & 10 September, Jin and I will be presenting our collaborative work, After December: A Letter from the Planet E during the MSP Presents event at Casco Art Institute in Utrecht.
I will be participating in an exhibition in Rotterdam presented by De Ijskast and Reading Room Rotterdam. Keep an eye on their social media channels for specifics about the event: https://www.instagram.com/readingroomrotterdam/
https://www.instagram.com/de.ijskast/
Juxtapose Art Fair is an international biennial for artist-run exhibition spaces and other independent projects. The event features exhibitions, performances, artist talks, discussion groups and more! Family Dinner will join to share our work in Rotterdam and beyond.
Hache Collective is will be performing at Jardin Rouge again this year (more info and tickets here). We will be doing two sets on Saturday evening in Zaal 100, presenting a ‘cyborg’ version of our ongoing cumbia project.
During Hache’s residency at Goethe Institut in Rotterdam I met Rei Kakiuchi. We connecting over the topic of making sound/music from shells and on Friday I will play a small part in his presentation.
https://www.goethe.de/ins/nl/nl/ver.cfm?event_id=24368908
Family Dinner is going to be a part of Not Just a Collective’s art zine library. A limited number of copies of our cook book will be available to preview or purchase at P-OST in Arnhem for the coming months. The opening for the library is by RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/not-just-a-library-opening-tickets-477309534667
The third week of December, Hache Collective will work from Goethe-Institut Niederlande in Rotterdam on our research project, Hache goes Cumbia. During Goethe Investigating, Hache will have a full week to make use of the studios- living, rehearsing, studying, and cooking together. We will use the time to further develop our research in cumbia- learning a full set of tunes, following workshops, and presenting our work to the public. There will be a public presentation of our work on Thursday 22 December at 19.00.
On the evening of 20 November, I will present an event combining elements of music, performance, text and projection. The featured piece is After December a string quartet which had its premier postponed due to Covid and will finally be performed in public. This event is supported by funds from the municipal government of Utrecht.
Koen Boeijinga and I will perform a spontaneous celebration of improvised music during the closing of AKA MAMA. Koen works with MOA and BUI and I work with Hache and Fire is Scary, both exploring different facets of experimental music. Our set will play on the energy of the room, picking out frequencies and rhythms from the air to weave a musical moment, unpremeditated and unexpected.
‘Named lover but not lover’ made a fire to heat the fire. a music video that I created with Fire is Scary will be part of the exhibition, a.k.a MAMA at Showroom MAMA in Rotterdam. The exhibition is a showcase of Team MAMA, a group of employees, volunteers and artists that make up MAMA.
Fire is Scary will be at Touchstone in Utrecht for an album release and pop up exhibition on 20 & 21 July. We will have physical copies of our album available and will host several listening sessions (16:00 & 19:00 both days) with drinks and snacks. There will also be installations from Sol Enae Lee on view.
From the 10th to the 17th of July I will be attending a residency in Northeast Spain. During my time there I will study with other composers and musicians and hopefully have some time and inspiration to work on creating new music.
The Fire is Scary album is officially up for sale now! You can send an email for more information on how to get your copy. We are still looking to do a release party when more of the group is in the Netherlands together. More info coming soon!
You can also purchase a copy of Fire is Scary at KIOSK in Rotterdam.
Hache will be gathering at Touchstone in Utrecht for a celebration/rehearsal/dinner/performance/???. We will let you know when we have the plan a bit more figured out- but save the date for now!
Family Dinner will be hosted by Melly and Eathouse for an amaro making performance and workshop on Friday April 22nd. Full info here: https://www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl/en/engage/1396-session-melly-x-eathouse-x-family-dinner
Note- RSVP required for the workshop.
Hache Goes Cumbia is an expansion of Hache’s study in classical, jazz, and experimental music to include cumbia music, a genre of popular and folk music from Colombia. For two months in the spring of 2021, Hache worked out of Casco Art Institute, taking a workshop with musicologist Ruben Pastor Perez on the history and rhythms of cumbia, arranging popular cumbias for their ensemble and beginning to combine improvisation and movement with early forays into cumbia. They continue to study and connect with musicians with a deep connection to cumbia and bring together elements of music, movement and theater.
Marea Hildebrand will speak on the concept of School of Commons (SoC), the future of learning and international peer-to-peer learning from her experience as the founder of School of Commons.
Fire is Scary, a collective of musicians and artists, is conducting research on the subject of translation, while participating in SoC. Fire is Scary will speak about their working methods and ways of working, researching translation through music recording, performance, workshops and exhibitions within the commons-based environment of SoC.
For more info head over to: https://campusgegenwart.de/commons-fuer-wen-ist-die-kunst/
Fire is Scary will present workshop for students of the HKU MAFA program. This workshop will explore translation as an artistic method, based on the research project Fire Is Scary: Translations of Sound and Image. The session will include activities in various approaches to translation and interactive discussion around the topics of translation and the borderlands (living between/across cultures). Fire Is Scary will share their experience of working with translation, offering practical examples of how translation can function as an artistic method. The workshop will be a moment for co-learning and collective research through experimentation and dialogue. By participating in this workshop, you will gain insight into using translation as an artistic method and have the opportunity to begin to imagine, along with other participants, how you might apply these methods to your own practice.
Sol Enae Lee and Fire is Scary will present an exhibition at Bradwolff Projects in Amsterdam. The exhibition will include works by Sol Enae Lee, a visual album of music that I wrote for Fire is Scary, a workshop on translation and two performances of music from Fire is Scary.
https://www.bradwolffprojects.nl/exhibition/upcoming-exhibition-sol-enae-lee/
Fire is Scary is offering a workshop on translation as an artistic method, based on their research project Fire is Scary: Translations of Sound and Image. The workshop is open to jongeren (18-35 year olds) and will be held in person on Saturday November 20th (afternoon- time TBD). The session will include presentation of work in different formats, interactive discussion and dialogues around the topics of translation and the borderlands (living between/across cultures).
Fire is Scary is offering a workshop on translation as artistic method, based on their research project Fire is Scary: Translations of Sound and Image. The workshop is open to all ZHdK students and will be held online on Tuesday November 16th from 16.00-17.30. The session will include presentation of work in different formats, interactive discussion and dialogues around the topics of translation and the borderlands (living between/across cultures). RSVP to fire.is.scary2021@gmail.com by November 14th for the link to participate.
Charli Herrington and I will be hosting Family Dinner, an online residency around the themes of sharing, hospitality and gifts. During the month of October, we will work together with 11 other artists and cultural workers in discussions, workshops and other activities. At the end of our time together we will assemble a cook book publication and present a pop-up exhibition.
Sunday September 12th we will be playing an improvised set, based on our research with cumbia at the @four.sisters.project in Amsterdam West. We start at 17.30 but be sure to join at 16.00 to catch Breathing Sites by Angelo Custódio and Yara Said. See you there!
Family Dinner , a collaborative project between myself and Charli Herrington, will be at the second edition of the Souls for Food Market in Berlin. Charli will be selling a zine containing two recipes from our forthcoming cookbook and trading tastes of amaro in exchange for stories about gifts, sharing and hospitality.
http://artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/souls-for-foods-market-second-edition
Fire is Scary will present an in-progress session from their research project Fire is Scary: Translations of Sound and Image on July 20th from 18.00-20.00, with guest speaker Rory Pilgrim. The session will include presentation of work in different formats, interactive discussion and dialogues around the topics of translation and the borderlands (living between/across cultures).
Save the date for a streaming fundraiser event for Vanity Lane. Vanity Lane is an absolutely incredible production from my friend, La’Toya Princess Jackson. I had the honor of writing music for the first act of this ballet back in 2018 and it is nice to see it take on new life as a musical film.
Get your tickets here:
Fire is Scary (a collective including myself, Sol Enae Lee, Agustin Faundez Rojas and Ariel Sin Yu Lee) will present early stages of our work on translation and the borderlands (living between/across cultures) at Moiza Zaal in Utrecht. This part of the project is being headed up by Sol Enae Lee and will features images, a short video and a demo of the music we are creating together.
RSVP: https://datumprikker.nl/event/subscribe/ptxkpxbwitkybna9
I will be performing in a Gamelan ensemble alongside saxophonist, composer and improviser Koen Boeijinga. Gamelan is an Indonesian orchestra made up of xylophone-like instruments with metal bars, gongs, and other percussion instruments. The music will not be traditional, but rather newly composed in a different idiom by Koen. It is also important to recognize that the Netherlands colonized Indonesia up until the middle of the 20th century, which likely explains how this set of instruments came to be present in this country.