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FLIP THROUGH + HOW TO MAKE YOUR LANTERN
PERFORMANCE
(coming soon)
EVENTS
Soft Launch: Seattle Art Book Fair May 6-7, Washington Hall, Seattle WA
US Concert Premiere/Launch: San Diego May 26, 2023 – 5:00 pm Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater, UC San Diego, CA
THANK YOUS
Special thanks to Felicia, my family, and EDAM.
created on the unceded, traditional Coast Salish Lands, including the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations.
Made possible with generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts and SOCAN Foundation
ARTIST BIOS
Alex Mah is an interdisciplinary artist, composer-musician, and performer in dance. He lives and practices on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. His electroacoustic music investigates time and timbre and his written music explores embodied concepts such as chance, choice, and relationality in performance. He has performed in Canada, the U.S., and Germany and holds a BFA from SFU (Canada) and an MRes from Bath Spa University (U.K.).
Ilana Waniuk is a violinist with interests ranging from improvisation to visual arts. She is a founding member and co-artistic director of Tkarón:to – based contemporary/experimental music ensemble and presenting organization Thin Edge New Music Collective and Balancing on the Edge (multidisciplinary production company merging contemporary music and circus arts). Most recently, she is the curator/performer behind ‘Filaments’, an evolving concert program dedicated to collaboratively co-creating interdisciplinary works for violin, electronics and multimedia. Ilana divides her time between Tkarón:to – traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, the Mississaugas of the Credit; the Haudenosaunee; and the Wendat peoples- and San Diego where she is a grateful guest on the lands of the Ipai-Tipai Kumeyaay Nation. Ilana is currently a doctoral candidate in contemporary performance at the University of California San Diego.
