Seeds | Llupe, Felix Almes, Elsa Blanc-Brude, Nataly Hulikova & Aaron Maar

Isabel Lewis, a SEEDS guest in August 2023, guides the Klasse für Performative Künste and Friends with support from Lissy Willberg at the Fine Art Academy in Leipzig (HGB Leipzig). Llupe has extended the invitation to Isabel to invite Felix Almes, Elsa Blanc-Brude, Nataly Hulikova, and Aaron Maar representing different sound positions from her class in the Media Art Department of the HGB. These artists have various backgrounds and approaches but come together here around a deep interest and embodied research practice into expanded sound performance and its potential to instigate intense aesthetic experience. Felix Almes works collaboratively with a collective he initiated called Splatters of Noise and presents for SEEDS an excerpt from a live broadcast of a durational sound performance; Elsa Blanc-Brude will perform live with self-made metal instruments, vocals, and effects pedals; Nataly Hulikova shares an excerpt from a live sound performance that is a collaboration with Vienna-based writer Alina Sauernheimer; and Aaron Maar shares a new sound composition that collages field recordings and electronic sounds and textures.