TESTU COLLECTIVE

+ YOKO MURAKAMI

MAY 11-13, 2023
8PM
$20 in advance / $25 at-the-door

existence in time is transitory

existence in time is transitory is a site-specific performance imagined by intermedia artists Serena Stucke & Dan Tesene of Testu Collective and movement artist Yoko Murakami for the black box of Triskelion Arts. Joined by percussionist Nava Dunkelman and movement artist Tyrone Bevans, the work will question the sense of time, the definition of space, and logic of order. The piece will feature modular lighting sculptures and live sound installations created by Stucke and Tesene, activated by Murakami and Bevans through movement, and live experimental sound by Dunkelman and Stucke, all in constant correlation.

Please be advised of sensitive content, including high-intensity sound and rapid movement of light, which some may find challenging.

Testu Collective is an NYC-based intermedia art group founded by Dan Tesene and Serena Stucke. Testu creates experimental videos, concept soundtracks, audiovisual experiences, and performance art installations. Testu has produced site-specific installations and curated works for Triskelion Arts (Brooklyn), Wallplay On Canal (NYC), Flux Factory (Governors Island), Sound Pedro (Los Angeles), Chashama (Brooklyn), CTM Festival(online), Ars Electronica(NYC), Ace Hotel(NYC), The Shed(NYC), Pleamar Festival(Buenos Aires). Most recently, Testu released their first audiovisual EP ‘Influence of the Electric Field’ and created music videos for Clarice Jensen’s latest album ‘Esthesis’.

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Yoko Murakami was born in Tokyo, Japan and was raised between the 2 cultures of Japan and the US. Currently based in New York City, Yoko creates movement-based work in forms of site-specific installations and experimental film. Finding the surreal in the mundane, she is constantly exploring new perspectives and intersections between creative mediums. Her new venture into experimental film has led to her works being selected and screened in film festivals in Seoul, Moscow, Naples, Belfort, Cyprus, Mexico City, and Lincoln Center in NYC, just in 2022. She is a contributing artist of Testu Collective since 2018.

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Nava Dunkelman is a percussionist and improviser based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother. Her musical approach is innovative and dynamic, combining virtuosity and intuition. Meticulous in an intrinsic way, she uses her distinctive sound palette to explore and give life to a vast spectrum of musical possibilities. Nava's current projects are electro-percussion experimental noise duo IMA with Amma Ateria, and percussion duo NOMON with her sister Shayna Dunkelman. She also has performed and collaborated with Fred Frith, John Zorn, William Winant, Ikue Mori, Brandon Seabrook, Angélica Negrón, Pauchi Sasaki, and gabby fluke-mogul and many others. She has performed classical and contemporary pieces with the William Winant Percussion Group, Joan Jeanrenaud, San Francisco Girls Chorus, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and others.Nava studied percussion under Eugene Novotney at Humboldt State University before attending Mills College, where she studied with William Winant, Fred Frith, Maggi Payne, and Zeena Parkins.

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@nldunk

Tyrone Bevans is dancer, choreographer, Illustrator and printmaker. He is currently dancing for The Fabulous Waack Dancers and Joya Powell’s Movement of the people. In the past Tyrone has performed and collaborated with artists such as Christal Brown, Chafin Seymour, Maya Orchin, Vessels, FunkanometryNY, and Karla Garcia. As a mover Tyrone investigates space, risk, and play with one’s physical vernacular in order to access personal freedom.
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