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The Museum Of Contemporary Art (MoCA) & The Industry Present: Hive Rise

The Museum Of Contemporary Art (MoCA) & The Industry Present: Hive Rise

A Physical Encounter With Sound Animating Protocols Of Interdependence

US Premiere Set For November 19 And 20 At The Geffen Contemporary At MoCA

Co-Created By Artists Ash Fure & Lilleth

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OCTOBER 27 — Today, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and The Industry — the company that represents “the leading edge of operatic innovation” (WIRED) — announce the November 19 and 20 US premiere of HIVE RISE, a new performance installation at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. HIVE RISE is an activated environment for bodies in sound. Conceived as a training ground for tactical listening, HIVE RISE animates protocols of interdependence in states of emergency. 

Debuting originally at Berlin's iconic techno club Berghain in January 2020, HIVE RISE reemerges in a site-specific staging composed and performed by Ash Fure, directed and choreographed by LILLETH, with scenic architecture by stock-a-studio, costume design by Carlos Soto, and lighting design by Kelley Shih. The Los Angeles production of HIVE RISE is organized by Alex Sloane, MOCA Associate Curator of Performance and Programs. Fure is a co-Artistic Director of The Industry, offering new directions for experimental opera. Tickets for HIVE RISE are free, with advance reservations.

“Co-creating HIVE RISE in the face of the ongoing violences around, inside, and between us holds many contradictions. And/but this process and performance aim to nurture an environment in which we might notice the urgency of our togetherness, and practice interdependence, cooperation, and care. Drawing wisdom from animal intelligences, somatic healing practices, and frontline tactics, the choreographies rely on slow, functional movement, sculptural tableaux vivant, and synchronized geometric formations that aim to co-regulate the nervous systems of the ensemble and audience alike.” — LILLETH.

In this performance installation, the MOCA Geffen warehouse is transformed into collective listening zones that are activated by human voices, subaudible subwoofers, architectural resonances, and psychoacoustic beats. Fure plays live on a rig of speaker cones that pulsate the air. And 14 performers with 3D-printed megaphones flock in formations throughout the crowd, modeling cooperation and sending slivers of white noise straight to the skin.

HIVE RISE has also partnered with French audio manufacturer L-Acoustics to further enhance the sonic experience in LA with L-ISA Immersive Sound. This spatial audio technology, utilizing concert-grade loudspeakers, will envelop the audience and provide a cohesive experience between the multi-dimensional listening zones within the installation at MOCA. Fure and sound designer Derek Williams used the L-ISA technology to create this unique immersion environment, so the audience is in the production with all of their senses.

"From our first conversation, we knew that this project would sound incredible reverberating through MOCA's warehouse space. More than ever, it is important for organizations to share resources and expertise to bring innovative projects, like HIVE RISE, to our collective audiences here in Los Angeles. MOCA is excited to collaborate with The Industry and with such a fantastic and diverse cast of LA-based performers working across theater, music, and movement." — Alex Sloane, MOCA Associate Curator of Performance and Programs.

“HIVE RISE debuted at Berghain, just weeks before COVID spread widely and ravaged the world. It's wild to feel its forces come alive again here, in Geffen’s expanse, with this formidable cast, after all we’ve endured since that moment. To be together in sound, in social hunger, in collective, calculated risk, brings fresh intimacy and intensity to the piece.” — Ash Fure.

HIVE RISE explores themes of cooperation and interdependence by reconfiguring the sonic, spatial, and social dynamics of listening. It calls upon listeners — participants, really — to tune toward the urgency of relation and active sensory observation.

WHAT: HIVE RISE

WHERE: The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

WHEN: November 19 and 20, 2021, at 7:30 pm

Ticket reservations open November 3 at 10am PST for MOCA and The Industry Members and November 5 at 10am PST for the general public.

For more information, please visit: ​​https://theindustryla.org/projects/hive-rise/

HIVE RISE

Co-created by Ash Fure and LILLETH

Co-presented by MOCA and The Industry

Composition and music direction – Ash Fure

Direction and choreography – LILLETH

Scenic architecture – Laida 'Xavi' Aguirre / stock-a-studio 

Costume design – Carlos Soto

Lighting design – Kelley Shih

Sound design – Derek Williams 

Video design – Hana S. Kim 

Dramaturgy - edxi

Performers – Eliza Bagg, Jay Carlon, Destefano DeLuise, Ash Fure, jeremy guyton, Kasper, Kelci Hahn, Joanna Lynn-Jacobs, Sharon Chohi Kim, Jasmine Nyende, Rayne Raney, Tianna Nicole, Davia Spain, Kalean Ung, Taylor Unwin

Executive Producer - Elizabeth Cline, The Industry

Stage Manager – Morgan Johnson 

Costume Associate – Parisjoy Jennings

Scenic Associate – Delaney McCraney

Megaphones – Matter Design

Visual Identity –ALL PURPOSE

Communications – Sounding Point, for The Industry 

HIVE RISE premiered at Berghain in Berlin, Germany, January 2020. Co-commissioned by CTM Festival and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Curated and Produced by Dahlia Borsch.  

HIVE RISE is presented in L-ISA Immersive Sound technology by L-Acoustics.

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ASH FURE (Composer + Co-Creator) 

Ash Fure is a sonic artist who blends installation and performance. Called “purely visceral” and “staggeringly original” by The New Yorker, Fure’s full-bodied listening experiences open uncommon sites of collective encounter. Operating outside language or story, Fure shapes charged multisensory atmospheres that listeners and performers navigate together. Recent immersive productions include HIVE RISE (2020), commissioned by Club TransMediale (CTM) and premiered in Berlin's iconic Berghain club; Filament: for Trio, Orchestra, and Moving Voices (2018), commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and premiered in New York’s Geffen Hall; and The Force of Things (2017), an installation opera, premiered at Peak Performances, that wrestles with the rising tide of climate dread inside us. Fure is a co-artistic director for The Industry, an Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College and holds a PhD in Music Composition from Harvard University. A finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Music, Fure is the recipient of two Lincoln Center Emerging Artists Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rome Prize in Music Composition, a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Prize, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant for Artists, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, a Darmstadt Kranichsteiner Musikpreis, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Columbia University.

 

LILLETH (Director + Co-Creator)

LILLETH is an artist, director, and choreographer based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn) and Berlin. They direct and choreograph large-scale somatic sound-theatre. In collaboration with composers, dancers, designers, and organizers, LILLETH visions social sculptures that aim to transport us to a more liminal, visceral, dream-like state. Through visual dramaturgies, slow, functional movement, geometric sigils, utilitarian tasks, and precisely composed sound, LILLETH co-creates embodied rituals in a collective effort towards release and liberation. Through these wordless, sensorial theatrical experiences, they aim to create a somatic release for and with their collaborators and audiences through process and performance. LILLETH is the co-creator at You Are Here alongside Rad Pereira, and consults across myriad cultural institutions as performance director and creative producer. LILLETH's work has been shown at Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kitchen NYC, Berghain x CTM Festival Berlin, NOWNESS, American Academy in Rome, DAAD Galerie, Bushwick Starr, National Sawdust, Superblue, P-E-O-P-L-E Festival x Funkhaus Berlin, Abrons Art Center, Ars Nova, and myriad site-specific locations. 

 

THE INDUSTRY

The Industry is an artist-driven company creating experimental productions that expand the traditional definition of opera. Through ambitious interdisciplinary collaborations in new contexts, The Industry produces works that defy boundaries and inspire new audiences for the art form. The Industry believes that opera can be emergent and responsive to new perspectives and voices, and that opera plays an essential role in shaping civic identity. The Industry serves as an incubator for new talent and for artists predominantly based in Los Angeles.

Founded by director Yuval Sharon in 2010, The Industry has premiered critically acclaimed large-scale and site-responsive productions Crescent City (2012), Invisible Cities (2013), Hopscotch (2015), War of the Worlds (2017), and Sweet Land (2020). The Industry recently expanded its artistic leadership, appointing sonic artist Ash Fure and interdisciplinary artist Malik Gaines as Co-Artistic Directors with Sharon for multi-year tenures expanding the artistic range of the organization.

 

THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (MOCA)

Founded in 1979, MOCA is the defining museum of contemporary art. In a relatively short period of time, MOCA has achieved astonishing growth; a world-class permanent collection of more than 7,500 objects, international in scope and among the finest in the world; hallmark education programs that are widely-emulated; award winning publications that present original scholarship; groundbreaking monographic, touring, and thematic exhibitions of international repute that survey the art of our time; and cutting-edge engagement with modes of new media production.