Artists Space

Benjamin, Kendall is a poet and noise maker from Atlanta, Georgia living in Brooklyn, New York. https://on.soundcloud.com/wk3sn1dLrURtKt2u6

Julia Santoli is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician, and organizer. Santoli creates immersive and precarious environments with voice, feedback, electronics, and installation. Her approach to vocalization integrates embodied practice with an attention to close listening and empathetic response, in compositions and structured improvisations often tipping the scales between resonant clarity and extreme sonic states. https://www.juliasantoli.net/

Austin Sley Julian is a visual and sound artist, improviser, and performer born in Brooklyn, NY. Using prepared guitar, handmade instruments, discarded artifacts and debris, Austin Sley Julian creates moving, physically jagged, harsh gestures that hurl at their audiences. Through these kinetic sounds and sculptures Julian strives to convey a physically unstable energy in his work that reflects the technological society in which it was created. In Julian’s work, structures are constructing and deconstructing in the same gesture. Sounds float and sink in the same note. Image is viscerally close and encompassing, all in the same moment. Julian’s work shows an attraction to the aesthetic that is created by this dichotomy between rhythm, structure, and total collapse. His work strives to keep the audience in a constant conflict between these polar extremes. Austin Sley Julian as an artist is aiming to evoke feelings of anguish, frustration, and inherent conflict to confront the ugly instability of this condition with realism and “pessimistic optimism”. austinsleyjulian.com

Vida Vojić aka vida voyage, is a music and performance artist, 'alchemical drummer' and writer from Gothenburg, Sweden. Her current performance work focuses on drumming as a means of amplifying input, triggering physical vibration and awakening alternate states. This work is enriched by her vocal, scenographic, and poetic explorations that draw upon her research into theology, posthumanism, music as magic, alternative conceptions of time and the nature of change. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkdDpR5v2Rg

Neil Young aka Neil 'Cloaca' Young (b. 1976) is an artist - mostly a musician and filmmaker - living in what is currently called Los Angeles (aka Gabrielino-Tongva territory). An active improviser and collagist, Young's output takes many forms as experimental cinema, audio recordings, compositions and performances, utilizing a variety of tools and media. A musician with no formal training but years of experience as a percussionist, noisemaker, and performer, Young’s solo and collaboration projects include: Bromp Treb, Fat Worm of Error, Gloyd, Carbus, Playbackers, and Muscle Beach, as well as ongoing participation in Los Angeles WoodWind SkillShare (LAWWSS) and the Berkeley Gamelan. As a filmmaker, Young has made many experimental performance and collage films and videos of varying lengths, including several shorts in collaboration with composer Jessica Pavone, and his most widely-seen work is the feature-length portrait film Milford Graves Full Mantis (2018) made in collaboration as co-director with friend and longtime Graves student Jake Meginsky. Since the late 90’s, Young has been programming screenings, performances and other hybrid experimental art events focusing on building community with other artists that value enthusiastic, inquisitive and activated audiences. Solo and in collaborations, Young has exhibited and performed at High Zero, ICA Boston, The Stone, EMPAC, Block Museum of Art, Rotterdam, NMAAHC, Ann Arbor Film Festival, SXSW, CPH:DOX, Anthology, National Sawdust, Kunstencentrum Belgie and Instants Chavirés as well as countless basements, bars, lofts, living rooms, closets and art spaces all around North America and Europe. Awards for filmmaking include the Best International Documentary Award at In-Edit Barcelona and Best Documentary Feature at Oak Cliff as well as the Independent Vision Jury Prize at the Sarasota Film Festival. He has been awarded the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship (for film) and has participated in residencies at Uncool in Switzerland, Signal Culture in upstate NY, CTRI Innovations, and Deplayer in The Netherlands. His audio recordings can be found in circulation on many labels such as Feeding Tube, Load, Ikuisuus, Artsy, Ecstatic Peace!, Ultraeczema. With limited forays into publishing small run-editioned objects on his own imprints Carbus Tapes and Yeay! Plastics. https://tinyurl.com/bromptreb