Fili 周 Gibbons Public Presentation: Steps of Yu
© Fili 周 Gibbons. Photo : Paloma Dawkins
In partnership with Festival Accès Asie
Sound performance with cello and body movement and projection – Duration 40-50 mins. Free.
Fili 周 Gibbons is the 2024 artist-in-residence for Interval, a short-term artist residency program in digital media set up by OBORO artist-run centre and Festival Accès Asie, creative partners since 1999. In an approach inspired by incubators, the public will be able to experience the work Steps of Yu and meet the artist at the OBORO New Media Lab on Saturday, May 4, 2024.
© Fili 周 Gibbons. Photo : Paloma Dawkins
Fili 周 Gibbons (we/they) are a musician and sound engineer of mixed Chinese and Canadian ancestry based in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal. Their artistic practice is a synthesis of cello performance, audio creation, embodiment, and traditional memory systems — employing these as potencies for the expression of plural identities, and the transmission of cultural memory. Drawing from many years of practice in cello performance, improvisation and audio production, they frequently collaborate across genres with artists from Canada and abroad (Devon Bate, Paloma Dawkins, Yaya Diallo, Rajni Shah). Deepening their connection to sound further through recording studies (M. Mus, McGill University), they continue to explore audio practice through interdisciplinary collaborations, and community-oriented sound projects.
