Distant Pairs: Francesco Cavaliere & Tomoko Sauvage - UZU CIMA PART II

Wednesday, February 16th at 8pm ET, ISSUE is pleased to stream a new collaboration between Italian Turin/Berlin-based visual artist, writer and sound producer Francesco Cavaliere and Japanese Paris-based musician and artist Tomoko Sauvage. The duo’s new work will stream on ISSUE’s site.

Notes from Francesco Cavaliere & Tomoko Sauvage on "UZU CIMA PART II":

Long-time collaborators Cavaliere and Sauvage, having often worked in distance, share their recent curiosities including thoughts on rhythms inspired by Circadian rhythms and breathing and ephemera that can become their new instruments.

Francesco Cavaliere is a visual artist, writer and sound producer born in Tuscany, Italy, in 1980. He lives and works between Berlin and Turin. His works are capable of enlivening his listeners' inner states through a polymorphic activity that combines writing, sound, voice, drawing, sculpture, which together stimulate the imagination, undertaking long journeys crossed by ephemeral presences. He writes sound stories and music based on particles of sound, noise and language, often integrated with installation and scenographic elements or live performance, showing a particular taste for the most diverse forms of exoticism. Over the years he has developed a veritable dictionary to catalogue the metamorphic beings that inhabit his own abstract fantasy universe: hybrids of objects, animals, plants, planets, trails, cosmic objects and physical and perceptual phenomena generated by glass, minerals and voices, recorded and performed with digital and analog technologies. "I am a talking scribe ... my voice is a cloud, my pen hisses."

Tomoko Sauvage is a Japanese musician and artist who is best known for her long-time experimentation on unique hybrid instruments combining water, ceramics, sub-aquatic amplification and electronics. Sauvage’s research is grounded in live-performance practices embracing unpredictable dynamics of materials while incorporating ritualistic yet playful gestures, improvisation with environments and the use of chance as a compositional method. Sauvage’s performances have been presented internationally including RIBOCA (Riga), V&A Museum (London), Manifesta (Palermo, Marseille), Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid), Roskilde Festival, Centre Pompidou Metz and Nyege Nyege Festival (Uganda). Her installation piece has recently been exhibited at Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE) and Galerie Chantal Crousel (Paris). Her third solo album Fischgeist was recorded in a water tank in Berlin and published by bohemian drips in 2020. She lives and works in Paris since 2003.

During the Winter, 2022 ISSUE is continuing to commission artists as part of the Distant Pairs series, producing collaborative work at a time when the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has drastically impacted their ability to travel and perform, and altered the nature of collective work and performance. Pairing artists in disparate locations who cannot work together in “traditional” ways, the Distant Pairs series examines the collaborative process, methods of working, and partnership amidst these constrained conditions.

Full Distant Pairs Series Schedule*

Puce Mary & Drew McDowall: Thursday, February 3rd
Michiyo Yagi & Jan Bang: Wednesday, February 9th (Co-presented with AvanTokyo)
Francesco Cavaliere & Tomoko Sauvage: Wednesday, February 16th
Devin Kenny & E. Jane: Thursday, February 17th (Co-presented with Harvestworks)

*All Times 8pm ET