Live Remix: Ania Psenitsnikova / David Toop
Ania Psenitsnikova
Ania Psenitsnikova is a visual and performance artist and curator. Born in 1981 in Estonia, since 2004 she traveled and learned butoh dance with Flavia Ghisalberti, Moeno Wakamatsu, Masaki Iwana, Daisuke Yoshimoto, and others and performed around Europe and in Russia. She completed a dance degree in Brighton and has been studying music independently since 1996, worked as an aerial dance artist since 2011 and bodywork therapist since 2015. Together with Rodina Art group she curated a series of exhibitions entitled “One Can Not Be Too Careful," exploring censorship in the UK, Germany, Belorusia and Russia, as well as an ecological festival - "Grow and Decay” - in Estonia, and took part in feminist and post-activist performances in Russia. Most importantly, she managed to combine all these activities with being a single mother. Her main interest is butoh and improvisation: a unique and magical tradition to live and act in the present, allowing spontaneity in life, and in the words of Tatsumi Hijikata: "to watch from the perspective of an animal, an insect, inanimate objects . . . value everything."
David Toop
David Toop has been developing a practice that crosses boundaries of sound, listening, music and materials since 1970. This encompasses improvised music performance, writing, electronic sound, field recording, exhibition curating, sound art installations and opera. It includes eight acclaimed books, including Rap Attack (1984), Ocean of Sound (1995), Sinister Resonance (2010), Into the Maelstrom (2016), Flutter Echo (2019) and Inflamed Invisible: Writing On Art and Sound 1976-2018 (2019). Briefly a member of David Cunningham’s pop project The Flying Lizards in 1979, he has released fourteen solo albums, from New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments on Brian Eno’s Obscure label (1975) and Sound Body on David Sylvian’s Samadhisound label (2006) to Entities Inertias Faint Beings (2016) and Apparition Paintings (2021). His 1978 Amazonas recordings of Yanomami shamanism and ritual were released on Sub Rosa as Lost Shadows (2016). In recent years his collaborations include Rie Nakajima, Akio Suzuki, Tania Caroline Chen, John Butcher, Ken Ikeda, Elaine Mitchener, Henry Grimes, Sharon Gal, Camille Norment, Sidsel Endresen, Alasdair Roberts, Lucie Stepankova, Fred Frith, Thurston Moore, Ryuichi Sakamoto. Curator of sound art exhibitions including Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery (2000), his opera – Star-shaped Biscuit – was performed in 2012.