SONCITIES is thrilled to partner with Modern Art Oxford x EMPRES to present dry run no.1 (2023) by Anouk Albrecht (composition and interface and interaction design) and Elise Ludinard (choreography and movement).
The collaboration between Elise Ludinard, a dancer from Brussels, and Anouk Albrecht, a sound artist based in Nuremberg, experiments with the interplay of speed and a triggering of sound, additively exploring the space around the moving body. Radio microphones attached to the dancer continuously transmit audio signals to a mixing console, where they are mixed live. The performers navigate the sonic environments of the various body parts, which periodically become entangled in feedback and begin to structure the space. Sound becomes a kind of location determination in a constant negotiating between technology and physicality.
Tickets will be made available soon here, via Modern Art Oxford.
Elise Ludinard (left) and Anouk Albrecht (right) , dry run no.1, Heizhaus, January 2023
Biography for Anouk Albrecht
Anouk Albrecht (*2001) is a German sound and performance artist, born and raised in Freiburg near the French border.
Her research-based work focuses on the temporal structuring of space through the use of sound performance, installation, video, and text. Anouk operates at the intersection of analog and digital media, with her works constantly oscillating between movement and stasis. She employs self-constructed technological apparatuses adapted to the body to explore and rearrange the relationships between performer and audience. In doing so, she intertwines technological modes of functioning with social processes.
After graduating from high school in 2019, Anouk relocated to Paris to work in the studio of Patrick Loughran, a US American ceramic artist. Since 2020, she has been part of the sound collective "Dynamic Acoustic Research", with whom she has performed at institutions such as Lenbachhaus Munich, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, and the House of World Cultures in Berlin. Her solo work has been shown, among others, at the Kunstverein Nuremberg and the Raumschiff in Linz, Austria. In 2022, she collaborated on field recordings on the greek island of Lesvos, and participated in a residency program at the Floating University in Berlin. Recently, Anouk was awarded a scholarship for the summer academy in Salzburg in 2023. Currently studying sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg in the class of Michael Stevenson, Anouk Albrecht lives and works in Nuremberg, Germany.
Biography for Elise Ludinard After graduating from SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) in 2018, Elise started touring internationally, joining the company bodhi project (AU) for one year. She then worked with Maria Campos & Guy Nader, Francesco Scavetta, Lisi Estaras and José Agudo.
She now works as a performer for different companies: HIMHERANDIT (DK), Milla Koistinen (GER), Cie Marinette Dozeville (FR), Eva Borrmann (GER). She created her own work, the solo "TANKROOM" in 2020, and the group piece "Theraland" (dance-architecture) in 2021.
She co-created and curated the Brussels-based dance festival "TOP FLOOR Festival", a self organised and donation based event. In Brussels, she became co-founder of the HOEK collective (2019), an improvisation based dance research.
Warm thanks to Dan Hulme and Professor Jennifer Walshe in the Faculty of Music / EMPRES, Dr Diana Rodriguez-Perez at SONCITIES; and Sara Lowe and the staff at Modern Art Oxford for their support of this event.