CINDY CHEN + DEL LUMANTA
FRI 11 March 2022
7:00pm
This is a double-bill session featuring two performances.
CINDY CHEN
The practice of ‘sounding’ allows Chen to enact a distinct sense of place in real time, giving the audience a unique opportunity to actually hear the architecture which surrounds them. I have yet to experience one of these performances firsthand, and I’m eager to hear how the Nest responds.
— Angus Andrew
Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen lives and works in Sydney on unceded Gai-mariagal and Gadigal lands. Her artistic practice examines how embodied listening and sounding can extend experimental drawing as a multi-sensory, emplaced process. Through interactions with the sounds, surfaces, people and atmospheric contingencies of places, Chen develops listening, sounding and drawing as interconnected practices that engender connections and enact distinct senses of places.
DEL LUMANTA
Striking a balance somewhere between ambience and anxiety, Lumanta’s sound feels like a meditation on modern restlessness. I can never get enough of this sort of precarious duality.
— Angus Andrew
Del Lumanta is a Sydney based artist interested in skill share and intersections between art and music through independent community processes.
Through their solo and collaborative music/sound projects they have supported Kllein, Caterina Barbieri, Lucy Cliche, William Basinksi, Lawrence English, Jonathan Snipes, Rui Ho, Blues Control, Deerhoof, Container, Opal Beau, Aisha Devi and more. Their experimental works are varied and curious and have been presented at Dark Mofo, VIVID, Next Wave and Sydney Festival.
