“Entanglements that Matter”
IVANA RAY SINGH
“Entanglements that Matter” is an electronic music and performance-art experience by artist Ivana Ray Singh, inspired by concepts of quantum physics and intersectional feminism.
Inspired by the concept of Agential Realism by physicist Karen Barad - which proposes that entities emerge from their interactions instead of pre-existing - the artist generates sound and performative-sonic "intra-actions" created by her body in various relationships, using contact microphones, samplers and drum machines, with lyrics that seek to project a desired reality from an eco-feminist and interspecies collaboration point of view. A live performance that takes us from ambiental and noisy electronics, towards electro and techno.
The result of a 6-week artistic residency selected and awarded the EX Aterriza grant by the Las Cigarreras Cultural Center in Alicante, the work-in-progress was shown at the EX Day Festival on June 10, 2023 and A Love Supreme Festival at Konvent, September 2023. It has also been awarded a Musical Research Grant by the Cultural Department of the Catalan Government (OSIC).
Full performance video here.
ENTANGLEMENTS THAT MATTER
“Ivana Ray Singh, aka Lucy Tcherno Ivanenko, is a multidisciplinary artist, cultural agitator, vocalist and DJ born and raised in Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain (1985). She is a member and permanent resident of Konvent (Art community and Cultural Centre in Cal Rosal, Catalonia)
Her disciplines are electronic music and performance art and their intersection, in dialogue with thought practices. Her solo project is electro-techno with vocals.
Her two current main projects are Amas: a collaborative laboratory of electronic music and performance art; inspired by the traditional pearl divers of Japan, portrayed as a metaphor for divers of the unconscious.
And Fetitxisme Sònic (Sonic Fetishism): a podcast and events platform to support emerging dissident sound creators via the concept of composing from a single sound that is a “sonic fetish” to the artist.
The co-founder and ex-director of Màgia Roja label and cult venue in Barcelona (2007-2017), she began her own artistic career in 2017, inspired by the Jungian metaphor of Alchemy as the process of individuation, and metaphysics in general, she seeks to project desired and more beneficial presents and futures through fiction (hyperstition).
ENTANGLEMENTS THAT MATTER