Living Organism:
Cecilia Biagini & Aimée Niemann
2-28-20
Up until 3-20-20
Living Organism: An installation that is both aural and visual.
Based on a series of improvisations, we develop movement sequences and noises that exist to create the ecosystem of our immersive environment. We transform the space, changing perspectives with a quality of softness over and around us.
As spiders webbing over existing webs, we build up our surroundings with tape, saran wrap, thread, and violins. It is a sticky and woven landscape of man made materials, that morph into organic matter.
Sounds are born out of the movements and shapes we create and vice versa. Shadows and glimmering reflections intensify the nature and drama of the landscape. While working in our “garden” we live in a nonsensical ritual. The interplay between acoustic and amplified noises creates a hum that surrounds our audience and draws them into our ecosystem.
Aimée Niemann is a performer, improviser, and educator.
An explorer of new sounds, she is the founding member of Du.0, a "gesamtkünstwerk-chamber-noise" violin duo with Charlotte Munn-Wood. The duo will premiere two new works by composers Leah Asher and Scott Wollschleger in the winter or 2020.
As an improviser with a background in dance, Niemann investigates sound through its direct correlation to movement. She is a collaborator with The How theatre company, a cross medium, improvisation focused group of actors and musicians, and is a creative director and violinist in the dance collective Artists by any other Name. Niemann composes graphic scores that are used as structures for interdisciplinary invention and the unearthing of new sounds.
Niemann has collaborated with composers Aleksandra Vrebalov, Anthony Coleman, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Emily Praetorious, Paul Elwood, and Steven Long. She has toured internationally and has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, (Le) Poisson Rouge, and Roulette Intermedium.
A passionate teaching artist, she teaches violin at Third Street Music School Settlement.
Niemann received a B.M. in Violin Performance from the University of Northern Colorado and a M.M. in Violin Performance from New York University. Originally from the prairies of Colorado, she currently lives in Brooklyn New York.
Cecilia Biagini (b. 1967, Buenos Aires, Argentina) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY since 1998.
Cecilia Biagini's work lies in an abstract model where an intuitive poetic field seeks a path of engagement for ideas to converge. Her work extends through a range of media including painting, sculpture, photography and sound. Biagini explores the properties and relations between abstraction and construction and states she “cannot avoid the nature of improvising with tools, as she creates a system that allows [her] to work beyond [her] expectations.”
In 2017 Biagini was selected by the New York City Percent for Art Program for a permanent Public Art commission at the Nuyorican Poets Café in NYC. The same year, she created a visual and sound installation in collaboration with Dolores Furtado, Ultimate Nature, Clemente Soto Velez, NYC.
Her latest solo exhibitions included: Agua Viva, Ruiz Healy Art, SA Texas (2019); Unidad de Acción, Galeria Van Riel Buenos Aires Argentina (2018); Marginals Figures, Pentimenti Gallery Philadelphia, PA (2017), Abstract Rationale Praxis Gallery, NYC (2015), Far Edge Ruiz Healy Art San Antonio, TX ( 2013)
Her Work has been included : Bridges & Walls/Walls & Bridges, AC Institute (2019); Cut N Mix, Museo del Barrio, NYC (2015) curated by Rocío Alvarado; Dirty Geometry, Mana New Jersey, curated by Osvaldo Romberg (2014); La Fuerza Débil, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Curated by Silvia Gurfein, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015); Geometría Argentina Contemporánea, Curated by Rodrigo Alonso y Constanza Cerullo, MACBA, Buenos Aires (2013).
Her works are included in notable private, public and corporate collections internationally including Toyota Research Institute in Cambridge MA, The University of Texas at San Antonio, The New York Public Library, South Texas Money Management, Alliance Bernstein in New York, The Department of Homeland Security in Washington D.C, The Ministry of Education in Buenos Aires, Argentina and The Museum of Contemporary Art, MACBA in Buenos Aires, Argentina, among others.