Alex Zhang Hungtai + Katya Shirshkova + Catharina Evens

Alex Zhang Hungtai

Alex Zhang Hungtai is a multi-disciplinary artist focused on improvisation and its correlation with the unconscious. After retiring his project Dirty Beaches, Zhang has been focusing on explorations of improvised music, free jazz, and his role as a composer. H Katya Shirshkova

Katya Shirshkova

Katya Shirshkova is a France-based performance artist, vocalist, composer, and educator whose practice unfolds across performance, experimental music, and installation. Working with voice, noise, movement, and collective processes, she explores the porous boundaries between language, silence, sense, nonsense, and the non-verbal.

Through performance, composition, and installation, she approaches the voice as both a sonic material and a performative medium, investigating the ways in which sound, language, and the body continuously negotiate meaning. Alongside her artistic practice, she develops workshops centred on collective vocal practices and embodied approaches to sound.

Her work has been presented throughout Europe at venues, festivals, and institutions including Les Instants Chavirés (Paris), KRAAK Festival (Antwerpen), Super Flux Festival (Tours), Périscope (Lyon), Appleton Festival (Lisbon), ENSA Bourges, EESAB, and Musikakademie Rheinsberg (Germany), among many others.

Katya regularly collaborates with artists and musicians including Louis Laurain, Yurii Kuznetsov, Roxanne Métayer, Jérôme Joy and more.

Catharina Evens

Catharina Evens is an experimental electro-acoustic pianist who seeks to discover an alternative sonic palette for the acoustic piano. She does so by, amongst other things, manipulating acoustic sounds live using electronic equipment, amplifying them and having them resonate through the piano’s entire soundboard and strings.