REMOTE CONTRIBUTORS
While the Mumbai Twelve are working with the Visual Disobedience group in India, these artists will be contributing work remotely using new media technology.
Sammy Chien
Sammy Chien is a filmmaker, sound artist, DJ, and researcher who lives and works in Taipei and Vancouver. As Featured Artist at the 2010 Autumn Tea in Vancouver, Sammy worked with other artists to create real-time sound sculptures sampling tea service audio, ambient noise, and live vocalizations. Most recently, he created real-time sound art for the PUSH New Media Midnight Tea held at the EM Fine Art Gallery on August 24, 2012. Visit him on the web.
Kenji Siratori
Kenji Siratori is Japanese avant-garde writer and sound artist. His first book, Blood Electric, was acclaimed by David Bowie and Dennis Cooper. He has collaborated with several artists including David Toop, Andrew Liles. In 2007, he and Natasha Marin released their experimental album, Morifuso (Hypermodern Records). He currently enjoys creating sound art using computer improvisation.
Khadijah Queen
For the Mumbai Tea, Khadijah Queen will contribute a 12-minute video in four parts incorporating sound, poetry and drawing. The video will relate thematically to the art ritual, and also to the ideas of accumulation and dissolution.
Khadijah Queen is the author of two poetry collections, Conduit (Black Goat/Akashic 2008) and Black Peculiar, which won the 2010 Noemi Press Book Award. Her writing is published widely and has exhibited artwork at the EYEDRUM Gallery in Atlanta, Cuchifritos Gallery in NYC and the Seattle Art Museum among many other places. Visit her on the web.
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