![]() Sound studies scholar, art anthropologist, sound event organizerĪcademically trained in performance studies, Adel-Jing Wang is an associate professor in the College of Media and International Culture at Zhejiang University. ![]() (Charlotte Hug, Slipway to Galaxies (2011), Live Performance and Installation, “Mercurial Touch”) Guests (Charlotte Hug, opening performance at CAA, Hangzhou) The intervals between the cultures offer new spaces for thought and creativity. The musical result will, however, always be sustained and imbued by the inner rigor or the sensuous pull of the formal language of the Son-Icons created in Europe and China. During her solo live-performance at the opening she navigates musically with voice and viola in the unknown space in between. In the exhibition at the CAA, she will juxtapose the drawings from Europe and the new Son-Icons created in China. The installation celebrates the transitions between land and water, day and night, life and death, as well as the transitions into the apparently impossible. A new deep relation and interaction between the ephemeral visual shapes and sounds evolves from these experiences. She draws with both hands and her brushes dance in the rhythm and pulsation of the visually uncharted territories.Ĭharlotte brings her art installation “Son-Icons – Visual Sounds” from Europe, which shows sound drawings. An essential inspiration is also the numerous Chinese persons painting with water on stone in public spaces in China – creating temporary calligraphy. Supported by Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Councilĭuring her three-month artist residency in Shanghai and Hangzhou, Swiss inter-media artist and musician Charlotte Hug will create new Son-Icons inspired by her research in Chinese Calligraphy, artistic encounters with masters of Calligraphy, Chinese musicians and discussions with scholars and artists. Son-Icons – Visual Sounds from Europe and China Wednesday to Friday 11AM- 5pm/Saturday and Sunday 2pm to 5pm – Mon& Tues Closed.Studio Residency Artist Charlotte Hug Solo Project Special thanks to John Brennan and from the Cork Dockyard George Smith and Joe Forde, Art Trail for the artist residency in 2005 and Sirius in 2008, Pro Helvetica and Stadt Zurich Kulture for their financial support. ![]() She collaborates with performers such as Joan Jeanrenaud, Maggie Nicols, Barry Guy, Phil Minton, Larry Ochs, Evan Parker, Elliott Sharp. ![]() She has collaborated with composers of the ICST: Institute for Computer music and Sound Technology, Martin Neukom, José López Montes, the photographer and film maker Alberto Venzago, the actor André Jung and the theatre and opera director Jossi Wieler. Charlotte Hug is member of the “London Improvisers Orchestra”, and founded the Stellari String Quartet, a string quartet with the leading British exponents of free improvisation Philipp Wachsmann, Marcio Mattos and John Edwards. What has resulted is an unmistakable and distinct tonal language. She also specializes in combining the sounds of viola and voice. Hug seeks to develop instrumental techniques to their fullest possible extent, which includes the soft bow technique, by means of which she can play up to eight voices on her instrument. Charlotte is known for her solo performances in distinctive locations such as the ice tunnels of the Rhône glacier, the half demolished bunker in Berlin Humboldthain, the House of Detention – a 250 year old former prison in Farringdon in London, the hot healing sulphur springs beneath the former luxury hotel of Verenahof in Baden, Switzerland and the dockyard in Cobh on the Irish Atlantic coast. Through a retuning and re-stringing of the viola, Hug brings physicality to the sounds she creates. Working with a combination of viola and voice, she creates a third kind of sound quality. Sound and the body interacting with external space, is what drives Swiss artist, Charlotte Hug to create installations and perform concerts of music and sound. Slipway to the Galaxies audio-visual, Son-icons and sound installation is inspired by the Cork Dockyard in Rushbrooke which captivated Charlotte Hug during her residencies in Ireland which have been ongoing since 2005 with organisations such as ArtTrail and Sirius Arts Centre. Opening reception Thursday 9 September 7:00pm (Special performance at 8:00PM) – Exhibition runs until Sunday 3 October Slipway to the Galaxies – New Works by Swiss Artist/Performer Charlotte Hug
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