SPRING 2025
May 1-30, 2025
Drift Choir (2025)
Juans Place, Bogota, Columbia
Various / Artists, New York City, US
Liebig 12, Berlin, Germany
Stellage, Athens, Greece
Exploring presence and connection beyond conventional communication models. For 30 days, the cumulative work builds without pause in a closed circuit system between locations in Athens, New York, Berlin, and Bogotá through a continuous exchange of sound and image...
Drift Choir amplifies involuntary gestures, fragmented speech, and environmental sounds as legitimate forms of communication. It facilitates real-time, two-way transmission, enabling participants from different locations to connect through presence, voice, and non-verbal exchange. This model draws on research into assisted communication systems, including Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) technologies and conversational methods used in studies of motor disabilities. Rather than simplifying communication for efficiency, Drift Choir creates opportunities for unpredictability, where noise, distortion, and interruption become not barriers but generative forces of connection.
May 1
All systems ON
15- 19:00 Opening at Liebig 12, Berlin, DE
15:00 : artist talk in conversation with Mike Hentz( Minus Delta t/ Van Gogh TV) and Dr. Cornelia Lund (fluctuating images)
20:00 : Kultur am Dorfplatz, Galilaa Kirche, Berlin, DE
Victoria Keddie, Frank Bretschneider, Requiem fur Demokratie
May 2
17-21:00 Opening, Various / Artists, NYC, US
with performance by Juan Betancurth in Bogota. Playback from Berlin and Athens.
Exhibitions open at Various / Artists ( NYC) and Liebig 12 ( Berlin) with projections, two-way video, and camera exchange with scheduled interactions with Stellage (Athens) and Juan's place ( Bogota).
Full programming to be announced (or not, depending. not everything is scripted here). More soon...
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June 2
Victoria Keddie, Grischa Lichtenberger
Kantine am Berghain, Berlin, DE
Raster-media
Tickets here: https://raster-media.net/shop/merch/tickets/various-artists-raster-debut-02-06-2025/
Recently released "Pashal P'Shaw" records are available withRaster Media (DE) and in the US at the Walker Art Center, IDEA 3 museum store. More on project
Read:"Sound and Architecture: A Dialogue of the Improbable and the Intimate," part of the Sounds of Space series in the Walker Reader.
Listen : Noon to Midnight: SOUND WINDOWS Radio .A 12-hour new music marathon at Walt Disney Concert Hall based on the theme of field recordings.
PAST:
March 12, 2025 6:30 - 8:30pm EDT
Art und Weise: Beyond the Aperture
Artists in Conversation: With Victoria Keddie and Liz Flyntz
Goethe-Institut New York, 30 Irving Place New York, NY 10003
Deep Listening Series, Parkside Lounge, NYC
January 31, 2025
SOUND QUESTS 2025: Daytime Viewing
The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
Seminare and film screening with David Rosenboom, Victoria Keddie, and Gabriele Marino
This program celebrates the work Daytime Viewing by Jacqueline Humbert and David Rosenboom.
Daytime Viewing (1979-80) is an extended narrative song based on a casual analysis of daytime television drama and the audience phenomena such programming addresses. The piece explores the use of fantasy as a survival mechanism against loneliness, illustrating the human compulsion to inflate the mundane to mythological proportions. A central female character weaves tales, using threads of personal experience and the idea of TV as a friend, as a mantra, and as a transformational window between imagined spectacle and the pedestrian plane.
Originally released as a private cassette edition [recorded, 1982; Chez Hum-Boom release, 1983] documenting the collaborative performance piece of the same name by Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom, this work is available on vinyl and digitally via Unseen Worlds Records.
Victoria Keddie and Scott Kiernan's collaborative project, E.S.P. TV, celebrated this release by revisiting the work via live broadcast performance, "Daytime Viewing-Prime Time, as part of their exhibition, WORK at Pioneer Works, (NY/US) February 10-March 26, 2017. The exhibition was curated by David Everitt-Howe.
For this program, E.S.P. TV invited six contemporary artists working across media in performance, video, sound, and fashion to interpret six characters depicted in the Daytime Viewing teleplay for a live televisual fashion show. Erica Magrey, Heidi Jien Jouet, Dana Bell, Johanna Herr, Shana Moulton, and MV Carbon reinterpreted the original character studies of Daytime Viewing in a live broadcast event. The newly transferred video and photographs of the original performance by Humbert and Rosenboom were integrated into the larger exhibition set in large-scale projections, monitor playback, and a real-time, live-to-tape mix. The full piece was taped and mixed during the actual event for television broadcast — both online and on Manhattan cable TV.
Both works will be screened again for this event, along with a new video-poem by Rosenboom and Keddie. A panel discussion on this work and its influence and the work of Rosenboom and Keddie, will be discussed with moderator Gabriele Marino.
January 23, 2025
Guest Artist, “ Signals and Structures: Language, Sound, and the Broadcast Space” Medientheater der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin // Georgenstr. 47, 10117 Berlin. 18:00.
January 18, 2025
Metamorphosen, Salon Sophie Charlotte, 18-24:00
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin
Victoria Keddie created the sound installation "Pshal P'shaw" as an artist-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt. The project originates from a phonetic experiment the artist carried out in the institute's laboratories and translated as a poetic and complex composition. How does an artistic work come about in a scientific environment and which translation processes are at work?
A workshop discussion with Victoria Keddie, artist, New York C, Eike Walkenhorst, curator INHABIT, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics Frankfurt/M. and Cornelius Abel, laboratory director at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt/M., moderated by Hansjakob Ziemer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
A live performance follows the discussion inside the Science Forum Atrium at 23:00
Pshal P’shaw, limited edition vinyl record with printed matter ease, raster media (DE)
An exploration delving into phonetic expression's auditory and rhythmic nuances through an amalgamation of text, sound, data, and customized learning software. The project originated during a residency at the Max Planck Institute of Empirical Aesthetics in 2023.
Fall Issue, Walker Reader, Walker Art Center/ Contemporary Art Museum, Minneapolis
Each year, the Walker Reader presents an evolving series comprised of original scholarly essay, interviews, videos, special projects, and unruly permutations that illuminates the art and ideas that reshape us and our world. Im contributing a bit of writing on my work with sounding spaces for an upcoming series for the Fall Issuer, which features artists inspired by, or created in tandem with architecture/built environments.
In addition to this online publication, copies of my record, P’shal Pshaw, will be available at the Walker Art Center/ Contemporary Art Museum store.
November 2, 2024, 4 PM
Liz Gerring ‘s Installation, The Joyce Theater's 'New York Center for Creativity and Dance’, Studio 1, NYC
This showing of Liz Gerring’s Installation 11.2.24 will feature live sound design by Victoria Keddie and dancing by Brandon Collwes, Cecilia Whalen, Cemiyon Barber, Hannah Straney, Mariah Anton-Arters, McCall Atkinson, Michael Greenberg, Nelson Mejia, and Truth Colón.
https://forms.gle/pBZHpuzfLNpa68Dh8
November 16, 2024, LA Phil, Los Angeles + online
LA Phil will present the 2024 edition of the Noon to Midnight program. The daylong festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall was curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid and based around the theme of field recordings. As part of this event, there is a feature of my work in the Sound Windows collection. More soon as all goes live.
OLDER NEWS
October 17, 2024, 8:30 pm The Stone, NYC
Daniel Carter- Lea Bertucci-Laura Ortman trio / Victoria Keddie-Laura Ortman duo
Daniel Carter (saxophone, violin) Lea Bertucci (saxophone, violin) Laura Ortman (violin, Apache violin) Victoria Keddie (electronics, bells, violin)
September 19-29th, "For the Record" Various Artists, 19 Essex St, NYC
For the release in the US, I will be exhibiting a sculptural sound installation, For the Record, at Various Artists Gallery in New York City. For this, I have incorporated custom lathe cut “singles” of selected arrangements from the album played back through a 1982 Rockola Jukebox, and further manipulated by microphone-based custom software in the room.
Friday, September 27 at 7 PM
Live performance within the installation, incorporating my neural instrument sounding 28 voices in dialogue with my modular synthesizer.
Various/Artists is a project space operating throughout the Fall 2024, directed by Garret Linn & Scott Kiernan. Open Thurs-Sun | 4-8pm or by appointment.
September 25, 2024 Radio Ravioli/ WFMU
Guest artist, Radio Ravioli, on the radio and online at WFMU.org
September 13th and 14th, The Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago
I was invited to reimagine a part of the soundtrack for, Prometheus’ Garden by animation legend, Bruce Bickford. Prometheus' Garden is a 2008 film by the acclaimed clay animator Bruce Bickford (1947–2019). Inspired by the Greek myth of Prometheus, a Titan who created the first mortals from clay and stole fire from the gods, Prometheus Garden immerses viewers in a cinematic universe of dark and magical images, unfolding in a dreamlike stream of consciousness of competing characters engaged in a violent struggle for survival. I am one of 28 artists including members of Osees, Sonic Youth, Bauhaus, The Residents, Foetus, TV on the Radio, Psychic TV, and Lightning Bolt, each creating a minute of sound for the 28-minute film. More information and tickets:https://cuff31.eventive.org/films/66a3df3775d8be009f18aaf4
September 3 2024 Tiger D and KUZU. fm
Guest artist, Tiger D, on the radio and online at KUZU.fm
May 16-July 28, 2024
Contact Zones: Pamela Breda, Victoria Keddie, Sajan Mani,
Museum Angewandte Kunst [MAK], Frankfurt, Germany.
27 May 2024 I 8PM
Jenny Gräf · MV Carbon · Victoria Keddie
KoncertKirken, Blågårds Plads, Copenhagen, Denmark
29 June 2024
Pshal P’shaw artist talk and live performance
Museum Angewandte Kunst [MAK], Frankfurt, Germany. in conjunction with raster media and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
PAST
April 4, 2024
14th Ende Tymes Sound Festival, TV Eye, New York City (US)
February 22, 2024
Low-End live
Bemis Foundation,Omaha, Nebraska (US)
January-March 2024
Bemis Sound Artist-in-Residence
Feburary 12, 2024
Abasement series: Live performance
Artist Space, New York City, NY
November 16, 2023
Fire Over Heaven
Outpost Artists Resources, 1665 Norman St., Queens (US)
Victoria Keddie (new work for synthesizer and vocal transients)
Che Chen: Ring Modes (solo guitar)
November 10, 2023
electroFLUX: media art and music
FEED, 1301 State Street, Erie, PA (US)
November 3-5, 2023
im a pause im a fiction im a pervert im a dream
Canal Projects, 351 Canal, New York City (US)
part of the 2023 Performa Biennial
Friday, November 3, 7:30pm *sold out
Saturday, November 4, 7:30pm * sold out
Sunday, November 5, 2:30pm & 7:30pm
September 18, 2023, 7 PM
Sounding Bodies: Romany Dear, Juan Betancurth, Victoria Keddie
Judson Church, as part of The Movement Research Center, 55 Washington Square S, New York, NY
July 13 – August 25, 2023
Interior Resonances
10th Anniversary Show curated by Regine Basha
Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery, New York City, New York
June 23-25, 2023
Sentimental Bits: Encountering Perception
Dir Gloria Hockner with Kay Taavitsainen/ Music design /live sound: Victoria Keddie
Ballhaus OST, Berlin, DE
Guest speaker, Vilem Flusser and the Arts, UDK, Berlin, DE, May 12, 2023. Link
Guest Artist, Platform Lecture Series, Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland, April 20, 2023
2023 INHABIT Artist in Residence March 1-July 1, 2023
Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Link
Realistic Utopias, KØS Museum, Køge, Denmark December 17, 2022 -June 15, 2023
Sensory Feedback, is part of an exhibition Realistic Utopias, at KØS Museum, curated by Ulrikke Neergaard with guest curator and researcher, Irene Campolmi.
Artists: Hassan Khan (ET/UK), Caroline Monnet (Anishinaabe/FR), Cooking Sections (UK), benandsebastian (DK/UK), Alessandra Ferrini (IT/UK), Alexandra Pirici (RO), Victoria Keddie (US), Dawit L. Petros (ER/CA), Pedro Reyes (MX).
Link to Museum site
Electrona in Crystallo Fluenti (Label: Fridman Gallery/NYC)
Mastered by: Jessica Thompson, LLC Mixed by: Daniel Neumann
Side A. 40.7128° N, 74.0060° Fridman Gallery, New York, New York, May 28, 2020. Side A of the album is from a live recorded session at Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery NYC, as part of the Solos Festival on May 28, 2020.
Side B. 41.5048° N, 73.9696° Fridman Gallery, Beacon, New York, May 1, 2021. Side B is a live recorded multi-channel session from outside of Fridman Gallery, 475 Main Street, Beacon, NY on May 1, 2021.
Liner notes consist of a short text by poet and writer Marianne Shaneen. This written work stems from her initial response to witnessing a live session as a member of the audience.
Link to media
“Sensory Feedback I” Echoes and Reflections
Curation: Cobi van Tonder Label: Acoustic Atlas
This album starts with a conversation about echo: the myth of Echo a cursed nymph, who loses sovereignty over her voice so that she can no longer do anything but ‘repeat the last of what is spoken and return the words she hears. (Ovid, The Metamorphoses, book III, v (tr.A.S Kline). Athanasius Kircher, in Phonurgia Nova (1673), defined two meanings for echo—in the first case echo...
Artists: Iti, Dorit Crysler, Juliana Venter, Natasha Barret, Sharon Phelan, Aurélie Ferrière, Rob Brinkworth, Nora van Tonder, Victoria Keddie, Cobi van Tonder.
My composition involves the Utopian architecture built by the collective, Ant Farm at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA (c.1971). to sound the building as an encapsulation of presence. By listening to and recording the building, I was able to focus on a kind of macro/micro existence. Here, agency and presence overlap where a building’s facade within an academic forum, exists simultaneously with its derelict state, inhabited by birds and stalactites, emerging organic matter, and material decay.
Album cover images by Nat Loyola, design by Claudiusantibodies.; Mastering by Jim Green.