21/05/2022
Doors at 20:00
Event starts at 20:30
iii workspace
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Raw Dates is an interdisciplinary improvisation series in iii’s program organized by Wen Chin Fu and Riccardo Marogna. Raw Dates aims to open a playground for a group of performers/improvisers to present unexpected and mixed ‘blind date’ lineups in the broadest multi-disciplinary sense. Lineups will be social and artistic experiments at work. The audience is presented with a work-in-progress scenario; the process of real-time creation. All process, no expectations. The curators, performers and the audience themselves are invited to take their chances, risks, and trust the results.

Lineup: Johanna Monk, Lucija Gregov, Lung-ssu Yen, Mei Yi Lee

Johanna Monk
Johanna Monk is a musician, writer and performance artist, born in Montreal in 1967, living and working in Rotterdam since 1994, frequently in collaboration with her artistic and life partner Vanita Monk. As a musical instrumentalist, composer and producer, Johanna combines the extended techniques of the avant-garde and the harsh brutality of pure sound with a melodic sensibility that betrays her roots in folk music, while also continually developing non-standard ways of unifying content-based prose, poetry and storytelling with creative music and visual performance.

Lucija Gregov
Lucija Gregov is a cellist, musician and improviser whose work describes and explores new sonic landscapes. Her visceral approach to improvisation proposes a distinctive way of creating, co-creating, thinking and performing in and about current sonic dynamics.  Through many interdisciplinary collaborations, she seeks to push the boundaries of traditional cello playing which further extend her interpretation, technique and ideas. She has been developing projects and researching in the field of classical music, electro acoustic music, noise, improvisation, experimental music, radio and sound art, as well as community art. She is an active member of ‘RE#SISTER’ collective, ‘Hydra Ensemble’, ‘Batavierhuis’, ‘Ma’ and creator and curator of ‘Sonosphere’ radio programme and live events series at WORM, Rotterdam.  For the year 2022, Lucija is a recipient of curatorial residency ‘Hamburger Community of Live’ at Roodkapje, Rotterdam.

Lung-ssu Yen
Lung-ssu Yen is a contemporary dancer & artist based in the Netherlands, who graduated from Codarts University of the Arts and did his internship at Scapino Ballet Rotterdam. He is currently a freelance artist working in Europe. 

Mei-Yi Lee
Percussionist and Performer based in the Netherlands. After achieved her bachelor degree at the National Taiwan University of Arts, she moves to The Netherlands to continue her postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In 2013 she concluded the “Konzertexamen” degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, Germany, with the support of the Fonds Podiumkunsten and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds from The Netherlands. She is highly interested in experimental music, interdisciplinary, collaboration with different field of arts such as dance, theatre, visual and performance art. As performer, she is dedicated to experimental collaboration with composers and artists from other media. Through intensive collaboration, the goal is to stimulate the evolution and development of new possibilities for percussion instruments, both acoustic and electronic, and to transform the traditional concert experience. Currently she is a member of SonoLab, Paper Ensemble, Herz Ensemble. and she has been one of the guest performers for different ensembles. In 2017/ 2018 season she is part of Ontdekkingen collaboration in Veenfabriek Music Theater.

Raw Dates #8 is presented by iii with financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL and The Municipality of The Hague.