On June 4 at 18.00 PUBLICS commissions a sound performance ‘Monivuotiset kasvit’ by Félicia Atkinson as part of the Coupling Exhibition.

Entrance will be on a first come first enter basis. The capacity for this event will be 80 people. Please arrive early and note we will not allow late entrance once the performance has begun.

For Félicia Atkinson, human voices inhabit an ecology alongside and within many other things that don’t speak, in the conventional sense: landscapes, images, books, memories, ideas. The French electro-acoustic composer and visual artist makes music that animates these other possible voices in conversation with her own, collaging field recording, midi instrumentation, and snippets of essayistic language in both french and english. Her drawings and installations are at the frontier of abstraction and figuration, thorugh a singular point of view, one, maybe animal or vegetal, or the myopic person she is when she removed her glasses, where objects and creature , as the Middle Age poet Sei Shonagon could put looking appear as ” things that are far yet near”. Her visual works is inspired by the drawings of John Cage as well as the works on paper of an Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell or Milton Avery: a landscape, or perhaps the blurred dream of it.

Atkinson  is graduated with a MFA with honours  from Les Beaux Arts de Paris. She lives on the wild coast of Normandy and has played music since the early 2000s.She has released many records and a novel on Shelter Press, the label and publisher she co-runs with Bartolomé Sanson. She has collaborated with musicians including Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Chris Watson, Christina Vantzou, and Stephen O’Malley, and with ensembles including Eklekto (Geneva) and Neon (Oslo). She has performed at venues and festivals including INA GRM/Maison de la Radio and the Philharmonie (Paris), Issue Project Room (NYC), the Barbican Center (London), Le Guess Who (Utrecht), Atonal (Berlin), Henie Onstad (Oslo), Unsound (Krakow), and Skanu Mesz (Riga). Her work has been commissioned by filmmakers (Ben Rivers, Chivas de Vinck) and fashion houses (Prada, Burberry).

She has exhibited in museums, galleries, and biennials including RIBOCA Biennale (Riga), Overgaden (Copenhagen), BOZAR (Brussels), Espace Paul Ricard (Paris), and MUCA ROMA (Mexico City).

Read more about Félicia here.