A Space Where Your Voices Can Live

Lise Haller Baggesen (1969) is a Danish born, Amsterdam trained, Chicago based interdisciplinary artist. Her hybrid practice includes writing, installation, performative, sartorial, and textile-based work. She is the author of Mothernism, and exhibits internationally, most recently with her refuseniks wearables, the variety show Boulevard Dreamers, and the multi-media performance HATORADE RETROGRADE: THE MUSICAL. She is an alumni of the Rijksakademie van Beelden Kunsten in Amsterdam, and holds an MA in Visual and Critical studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a recipient of the Dutch Royal Prize for Painting and  a nomminee for the Joan Michell Foundation’s Emerging Artist Grant, and had residencies at Banff Centre of Arts and Culture and at the Danish art Workshops (SVFK). Upcoming shows for 2023 include the solo exhibition APOCALYPSTICK  at Le Confort Moderne (F) as well as the premiere of her multimedia performance A Space Where Your Voices Can Live for Malmö Konstmuseum (SE) and Roskilde Festival (DK). 

Naima Karlsson is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician based in London and Sweden. Her practice interweaves sonic and visual forms into a dialogue led by interests in repetition, improvisation and the abstract relationships between language, symbol, image and sound. With a strong interest in minimalist uses of tone and arrangement, combined with an inherently organic approach to playing - Naima calls on concepts of “Organic Music” proposed independently by two major influences to the artist: the composer Julius Eastman (1940-90), and her grandfather the jazz musician Don Cherry (1936-95). Improvisation is at the core of the artist's musical process, combined with playful contrasts of repetition, composition, acoustic and digital sound. Her main instrument is the piano, as well as percussion, vibraphone, organ and keyboards. Naima is also an archivist and coordinator for the Estate of Moki Cherry and Cherry Archive, and has studied piano in the tradition of her grandfather Don Cherry, with her uncles Eagle-Eye and David Ornette Cherry, and with Mexican pianist and improviser Ana Ruiz. 

Sanna Blennow is a choreographer, performer and educator, always curious to challenge formats and crossbreed artistic expressions. Sanna’s work has a sense of belonging (in-)between black box & white cube, in that very grey zone, where the realm of expanded choreography smiles with ugly teeth for experimental approaches. Sanna holds a BA in choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts (2011), and a MFA in Critical and Pedagogical Studies from Malmö Art Academy (2019) Currently Sanna is collaborating with dancer Elise Brewer (SE), artist Maria Westmar (SE), choreographer Mikko Niemistö (FI), & artist Cally Spooner (UK). In the future, Sanna dreams about connecting a beak of ambition and wings of desire to navigate between the Nordic countries and The Americas, where Sanna’s melting heart beats in a syncopated rhythm.

Adriana Camacho is a contrabassist active in the improvisation and free jazz scene, where she has played in national and international festivals, cycles and forums dedicated to this music, such as the Bosque Sonoro Museum of Modern Art CDMX, the Cervantino Festival, Chalton Gallery in London, Ugo Cara Museum of Modern Art. and Knulp Forum in Trieste, Italy, Pavilion 02 in Venice, Italy, Resist!Vienna Festival, Austria, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros among other forums. Her search in the field of improvisation has led her to have constant collaborations with several musicians, poets and plastic artists. Such as poet Anne Waldman, Elliott Levin, Guro Moe, Phillip Greenlief, Aram Shelton,  Antonio Gritón among other artists. She is currently a double bass player for several groups: Cihuatl, Kóryma Band, Sociedad Acústica de Capital Variable, Eyi Xochimeh, Cataratas del Niágara, Sesión Libre Trío, Cuerdas no tan Cuerdas, Los Verdaderos Subterráneos, David Contreras Trío and her solo project Loope.