'Exuvie' AV Performance by Noémi Büchi and Brigitte Fässler Premieres at CTM Festival, Emphasizing Sensory Depth
Earlier this year, Noémi Büchi and Brigitte Fässler debuted their audiovisual piece 'Exuvie' at the CTM Festival, with plans for a European tour ahead. This work emerged from a partnership with dancer Rebeka Mondovics, evolving into a comprehensive album and audiovisual experience. The artists deliberately refrain from using AI-generated visuals, opting instead for footage of Mondovics set against mountainous landscapes. The term 'Exuvie' signifies the molted skins of animals, delving into themes of memory and change. Büchi focuses on sensory experiences rather than intellectual interpretations, crafting a space where sound and visuals merge. By emphasizing duration and physicality, 'Exuvie' mitigates the challenges of competing audiovisual elements, continuing Büchi's investigation into materiality and its ties to early 20th-century visual music and 1960s expanded cinema.
Key facts
- The audiovisual performance 'Exuvie' by Noémi Büchi and Brigitte Fässler premiered at CTM Festival earlier this year.
- A European tour for the performance is forthcoming.
- The project originated from a choreographic collaboration with dancer Rebeka Mondovics.
- Both artists reject AI-generated imagery on ethical and aesthetic grounds, using physically filmed material instead.
- The title 'Exuvie' refers to shed animal skins, metaphorically exploring bodily memory and transformation.
- The work emphasizes sensations over intellectual meaning, employing slow pacing to avoid sound-image competition.
- Büchi's discography includes a 'materiality' trilogy: 'Matière' (2020), 'Matter' (2022), and 'Does It Still Matter?' (2024).
- Audiovisual performance as a field traces back to early 20th-century visual music experiments by Oskar Fischinger and Viking Eggeling.
Entities
Artists
- Noémi Büchi
- Brigitte Fässler
- Rebeka Mondovics
- Oskar Fischinger
- Viking Eggeling
- Nam June Paik
- Stan VanDerBeek
- Max Mathews
- Constantin Basica
- Michel Chion
- Ana Carvalho
- Cornelia Lund
- William Moritz
- Gene Youngblood
- Nicholas Collins
- Lev Manovich
- J. Coulter
- Claudia Gorbman
Institutions
- CTM Festival
- NERO Editions
- fluctuating images
- Indiana University Press
- E.P. Dutton
- Leonardo Music Journal
- MIT Press
- Organised Sound
- Columbia University Press
- Revista MUZICA
Locations
- Europe
- Berlin
- Germany
- Bloomington
- United States
- New York
- Cambridge