Carmen-Sibha Keiso is an Arab multimedia artist and curator working in performance, video, and text. Their practice functions as a reflexive mise-en-scène, wherein current socio-political and global cultural industries are fused with the semantics of social performativity. 

Chiming millennial diaspora with contemporary cultural trends as an attempt to divulge the way in which we analyse the self within these spheres. Keiso employs a socially-collaborative and research based process, wherein they direct a form of 'theatre' involving practitioners from a multitude of disciplines.

Keiso directs ‘Read the Room’, an expanded literary practice space that hosts writing workshops, lectures, screenings, readings and exhibitions in Melbourne. In addition to the release of a feature length film in 2018, Keiso has sustained a documentative film practice, collaborating with local talent in releasing ‘MeowTV’ and the upcoming ‘WetBody Tour’. Keiso presented a lecture as part of the Writing & Concepts 2019 series at SIGNAL artspace and recently completed a directing course at HB Studios in NYC, alongside a mentorship with artist Keren Cytter as part of a professional development opportunity funded by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust. 

Keiso is currently working under renowned minimalist filmmaker and composer Phill Niblock and is undergoing an emerging writers grant that will be published in the fall by Montez Press UK.

Carmen-Sibha Keiso is an Arab multimedia artist and curator working in performance, video, and text. Their practice functions as a reflexive mise-en-scène, wherein current socio-political and global cultural industries are fused with the semantics of social performativity.

Carmen-Sibha Keiso

James Hoff's work encompasses painting, sound, performance, and publishing among other media. He has performed and exhibited his artwork extensively throughout the United States and Europe over the last ten years. As well as being an artist, Hoff is a co-founder of Primary Information, a non-profit arts organisation devoted to publishing artists’ books and art historical documents.

James Hoff

Kristen Gallerneaux is an artist, curator, and sonic researcher.

Kristen Gallerneaux is an artist, curator, and sonic researcher. She has published on topics as diverse as mathematics in midcentury design, the visual history of telepathy research, the world's first mouse pad, and car audio bass battles in Miami. Her monograph, High Static, Dead Lines: Sonic Spectres & the Object Hereafter is available via Strange Attractor and MIT Press, and she is a regular contributor to the Quietus and The Wire. Gallerneaux is also Curator of Communications and Information Technology at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit, Michigan, where she continues to build upon one of the largest historic technology collections in North America.

Kristen Gallerneaux

SJ Norman is a cross-disciplinary artist and writer. During the course of an eighteen- year career, he has worked extensively in Australia and internationally.

SJ Norman is a cross-disciplinary artist and writer. During the course of an eighteen- year career, he has worked extensively in Australia and internationally. In addition to his practice as an independent artist, he is the founder and co-curator (with his collaborator, Joseph M. Pierce) of the Indigenous-led experimental art festival Knowledge of Wounds, inaugurated in New York City/Lenapehoking in 2020. His writing has been published in literary journals, and has won or placed in numerous literary awards. His first book of fiction, Permafrost, is forthcoming with the University of Queensland press. SJ was born on Gadigal land.

SJ Norman

Gian Manik is a Naarm-based artist whose dextrous approach to image-making is characterised by an irreverence for genre and driven by a compulsion to paint. Interested in undermining the colonial properties arming the buttresses of historical painting, Manik ambiguates tradition through the representation of multivalent or tangential subjects.

Gian Manik

Xenosine, a project by Melbourne based artist Vijay Thillaimuthu, is centred on the manifestation of sound in the visual medium. Concerned with the exposition of electronic sound synthesis through visualisation, Xenosine provides all encompassing multi-sensory works & live experiences driven by heavy rhythmic progression by means of modular synthesiser & theremin controller. (Website)\[http://xenosine.com]

Xenosine

A gathering knot of permutations—the sound of something meticulously ruined and renewed.

CORIN is a gathering knot of permutations—the sound of something meticulously ruined and renewed. Composed and performed principally with just two synthesizers, Corin Ileto establishes a dialogue of mimicry with her machines that becomes near-cybernetic—an anomalous approach that is a result of er fascination with the nebulous region between machine and human. In CORIN’s live shows, sparse automated elements provide a frame around which she furnishes the rest of her imagined world— classically trained fingers sweeping between guttural rhythm and stratospheric melody. Again song mutates into contemplation: Is the human affecting the machine or is the machine affecting the human? \* \[Soundcloud]\(\[Bandcamp]\(https://music-corin.bandcamp.com))

CORIN is a gathering knot of permutations—the sound of something meticulously ruined and renewed. Composed and performed principally with just two synthesizers, Corin Ileto establishes a dialogue of mimicry with her machines that becomes near-cybernetic—an anomalous approach that is a result of er fascination with the nebulous region between machine and human. 


CORIN

DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a New York-based theorist, journalist, and curator, producing digital audio and extended media as Speaker Music and is a representative of the Make Techno Black Again campaign.

DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a New York-based theorist, journalist, and curator. He produces digital audio and extended media as Speaker Music and is a representative of the Make Techno Black Again campaign. His work explores the links between Black experience in industrialised labor systems and Black innovation in electronic music. On Juneteenth of 2020, he released the album Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry on Planet Mu, and Primary Information will publish his first book Assembling a Black Counter Culture in 2021.

DeForrest Brown Jr.

Steve Goodman is an artist, writer, under the name Kode9, a DJ and electronic musician.

Steve Goodman is an artist, writer, under the name Kode9, a DJ and electronic musician. His book Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear was published on MIT Press in 2009. In 2019, as a member of AUDINT, he co-edited Unsound: Undead published on Urbanomic Press. His sound installations have been installed at Tate Modern, the Barbican and Arebyte Gallery in London, CAC in Shanghai and more. In 2004 he set up the record label Hyperdub, and has released 3 albums, numerous mix CDs and remixes. He also runs Flatlines, a record label for audio essays, and the London based, experimental club events Ø.

Steve Goodman

With our friends at Unsound Festival, this month’s Mono-Poly sees us launch Unsound's INTERMISSION publication with readings and screenings, music and hosting; the first in a series of intimate Intermission events that will take place around the world.

6–9pm in the Collingwood Yards courtyard
LAUNCH: Intermission: Reflections on a Year of Upheaval (Unsound)
READING: SJ Norman, Machine Listening
SCREENING: DeForrest Brown Jr & James Hoff, Jade Foster, Steve Goodman, Kristen Gallerneaux
9–later in the Collingwood Yards basement [sold out]

MUSIC: CORIN, Xenosine, DJ Lillypad (ft Cordelia Crosbie) Always
FOOD AND DRINK: Gian Manik
VIDEOGRAPHY: Carmen-Sibha Keiso

>Sensuousness of resonance in the sacred de-basement,
>an Unsound grounding
>Solidarity - [Intermission](https://www.unsound.pl/en/intermission-book-and-album) -  softening the false binary of singular and multiple, crystalline and cute.
>Our shattered attention creates a hoard of perspectives: a terrazzo conglomerate of contradictions. Accumulated gap-filler.
>Core sample of complications. De-meditation of collective experiences.
>Quantum intentions, im/material confluence of symbiogenesis.
Occupying anarchitecture, smash-the-flow-state.
Semi-submerged in a Black Lake.
>Feasting on hostipitality.
>Sparkling-not-still fictions, a fangirl of the flames.
>Rabble ruse, sound no alarm. We weave frayed social fabrics
>Many many many hands make “lite-work”

To read more about Unsound's INTERMISSION publication, link [here](https://www.unsound.pl/en/intermission-book-and-album/news/unsound-intermission-digital-album-download-and-book-released-today)

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