03 — A Sonic Afternoon at NOoSPHERE Arts

This event is part of Sensing Change, a citywide Festival presented by Art Switch Foundation and Transparent Eyeball. This year’s edition explores how humans and more-than-humans perceive and participate in change – exploring ecological systems and geological shifts to embodied knowledge and cultural transformation.

Drawing from process philosophy and resilience thinking, Sensing Change invites new ways of knowing - beyond screens and data sets, through collaboration, intuition, attention, and care.

The afternoon will kick off with a live performance by Dan Gorelick, interpreting and embodying geological timescales through improvisational sound and movement. The work explores four geological stories, through a live-scored soundscape featuring acoustic cello with live effects and computer music movement to emphasize the lower (somatic / felt) sound frequencies. The performance will oscillate between human and non-human time, reflected through movement. This sound piece will be accompanied by a dance performance by Akane Little, ALYXÅNDRA, and Luna Beller-Tadiar.

We will continue the afternoon with an activation by artist Riitta Ikonen, inviting visitors to a participatory afternoon on a New York rooftop, marking the seasonal transition as the garden and city prepare for the coming winter. Participants will be introduced to a series of large, hand-sewn wool blankets shaped like autumn leaves. These wearables invite visitors to wrap themselves in, rest beneath, or simply observe the changing elements of the outdoor space. Ikonen will be present to introduce the work and guide participants in this collective gesture towards the change of seasons.

Accompanied by a sound bath healing by Mel Rio, the gathering explores the interplay between human and environmental cycles, attuning to yourself and the subtle indicators of seasonal change.

PERFORMANCE by Dan Gorelick

Dan Gorelick blends classical cello and computation to create immersive experiences and improvisational performances. He explores how to make the computer as expressive as the cello, embracing broader definitions of technology. His practice investigates human and non-human timescales (biological, geological, deep time and others), encouraging us to connect more with ourselves, each other and the natural world.

MOVEMENTS by Akane Little, ALYXÅNDRA, and Luna Beller-Tadiar

Akane Little

Akane Little is a Brooklyn-based dance artist approaching the body and performance as an altar-portal for transmuting energy and channeling worlds. Since 2023, they have been a core member of the LEIMAY Ensemble under the direction of Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya.

ALYXÅNDRA

ALYXÅNDRA is a commitment to worlding impossible stories and willing those stories towards justice; a protest, a prayer, a positive obsession; meeting the madness of the moment; disabled and deranged; desire’s little bitch; so trans and brown and mad it hurts; on their way to believing and meaning it; trying very hard not to take this bio too seriously; failing falling in love anyways; a reminder: no such thing as final form.

Luna Beller-Tadiar

Luna Beller-Tadiar (she/they) is a queer mixed-US-Filipinx multi-media artist and performer who works in movement, words, and images. Her work excavates a body language made up of fragments: remnants of lands, peoples, relations, and machines. Drawing on movement training in aikido, capoeira, tango, and contemporary dance, she takes inspiration from queer collaborative fabulation; from postcolonial Filipino practices of mimicry and re-use; and from contemporary interfacing of the body and technology.

ARTISTIC ACTIVATION Riitta Ikonen

Riitta Ikonen is a four-time Telluride Mushroom Festival Costume Competition winner, and her interdisciplinary collaborations explore contemporary humans blundering in the terrestrial realm. Ikonen’s first book (created with Karoline Hjorth), Eyes as Big as Plates, was nominated for Best First Photobook in the World at the Paris Photo / Aperture Awards. She has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, the London 2012 Olympic Park, and the PyeongChang Olympics, among other venues. Born in 1981 in Finland, Ikonen completed her BA at the University of Brighton and her MA at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. She is a member of the American Stinkhorn Society (A.S.S.) and spearheads the ongoing @seachanges_rockaways series while lecturing, exhibiting, and performing around the world.

SOUND BATH by Mel Rio

Mel Rio is a featured Teacher/Instructor, Sound and Vibrational Healing Practitioner, Tibetan and Himalayan Singing Bowl Consultant & Merchandiser. Responsible for hosting and performing both private and group sound bath sessions, sound meditations, sound healing classes, reiki healing sessions.

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