Cadre
Photos by George Mulcahy
Scan Lines multimedia performance features Cristal Sabbagh and Jasmine Mendoza’s with butoh-inspired movement. The score is performed by Anton Hatwich and Paul Giallorenzo on upright bass and synthesizer with electronics respectively. The visual synthesis is designed and modified live by Kim Alpert.
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Kim Alpert combines analog and digital technologies, movement, music, and interactivity, to create sculptural and performance-based video systems. Kim's visual practice centers on humanism and inquisitions into psychology and spirituality - understanding and translating the impact of visual language to create meaning and peace.
Kim uses synthesis, feedback, and found footage to weave dream tapestries both recorded and improvised. A significant part of Kim’s performed work is in collaboration with improvisational musicians, blending pre-rendered content with live visualizations. She performs in collaborative and cross-discipline works such as Mike Reed’s Flesh and Bone, Ken Vandermark’s Momentum, The Instigation Orchestra, and with her project Scan Lines.
Previously, kim has served as a curator for Elastic Arts and the Around the Coyote Festival. She continues to serve the arts community through her work on the board of Experimental Sound Studio. Kim’s consulting practice supports other artists and arts organizations as they grow. She is an arts residency alumni of the Chicago Art Department as well as Signal Culture.
Kim holds a degree in Digital Art & Design from Full Sail University and was inducted into their hall of fame in 2013. Kim’s work has been on display at SOFA Expo, The Stony Island Arts Bank and Facets Cinematheque. Her interactive room, Bodyphonic, a gesture driven instrument and longitudinal sound visualizer, is on permanent display at the National Music Center of Canada.
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Originally from Long Island, NY, Paul Giallorenzo is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, producer, and sound designer using piano, synthesizer, keyboards, and electronics in a diverse range of contexts with a wide array of Chicago and international musicians in improvised, avant-jazz, experimental, and electro/acoustic music and sound, regularly performing locally and throughout North America and Europe. His work can be found on the Chicago-based Delmark Records and Austin-based Astral Spirits labels, as well as various other imprints including Leo Records (UK), Not Two Records (Poland), and 482 Music (NY). Paul is also a presenter, organizer, and co-founder of the music venue/art gallery Elastic Arts, producing hundreds of creative music concerts and art events in Chicago since 2001.
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Bassist, improvisor and composer Anton Hatwich has made his home in Chicago since late 2002. He has performed, recorded, and toured the world with many of the leading lights of the city’s fertile improvised music, free jazz, and indie rock communities, including Keefe Jackson, Josh Berman, Frank Rosaly, Nick Mazzarella, Ryley Walker, Leroy Bach, Mars Williams, Jason Stein, Avreeayl Ra, and Fred Lonberg-Holm. Hatwich also performs regularly in both New York and the San Francisco Bay Area, maintaining ties with artists such as Aram Shelton, Jaimie Branch, Kyle Bruckmann, Ben Goldberg, Joshua Smith, and Hamir Atwal. He has appeared at many of the world’s top music festivals, including the Chicago Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Pitchfork Music Fest, Solid Sound, Pop Montreal, Green Man (Wales), End of the Road (Wales), Into the Great Wide Open (Netherlands), Le Guess Who (Netherlands) Ring Ring (Serbia), and many others. Since 2015, Anton has been a member of the Instigation Orchestra, which is a collaborative group of Chicago and New Orleans musicians organized by guitarist Steve Marquette, and connected to the larger Instigation Festival.
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Jasmine Mendoza is an interdisciplinary movement and performance artist who finds it important to deeply listen to the body. Jasmine is interested in developing work that’s driven by sensation and groove. Her process for creating is inspired by improvisational techniques, mall gestural movement, delicacy, text, exploring soft and thick textures, effort, quick vs slow movement, and stillness. Aside from dance making, Jasmine is a lighting designer and production stage manager who works closely with artist of all mediums assisting with the production of performances at Links Hall and Constellation.
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Cristal Sabbagh is an art educator at Adlai E. Stevenson High School, a fine artist, and interdisciplinary movement artist. Her work is motivated by a multitude of areas such as: film, culture, history, death/rebirth, hip-hop, butoh and improvised sound. In Cristal's performances her goal is to organically transform her body, & display authentic emotion. Butoh has allowed her to connect to memories, her ancestors, and to her spirit. In essence she's expanded her consciousness and she'll continue to bring forth more offerings to her audience. Cristal is part of Marie Casimir’s Djasporas dance collective, which performed at the Instigation Festivals in Chicago and New Orleans, the Instigation Orchestra. She is also currently in a dance collective with Wannapa P Eubanks, called Body Strata, which develops works alongside Renee Baker’s Chicago Modern Orchestra Project. Cristal has studied with many butoh masters: Daisuke Yoshimoto, Katsura Kan, Kayo Mikami, Natsu Nakajima, Koh Morobushi, Tadashi Endo, Yumiko Yoshioka, The Tamanos, Ken Mai, and Diego Pinon.