between systems and grounds (Paula Matthusen + Olivia Valentine)
Ritual is (Tuli Bera + Scott Rubin)
We have an incredibly special CLEAT Series tonight with two duos, Tuli Bera / Scott Rubin and between systems and grounds.
between systems and grounds is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Paula Matthusen (Middletown, CT) and Olivia Valentine (Des Moines, IA), who began working together in 2015 when they met in Rome, Italy. Through their joint project, they have produced two albums and performed and exhibited work in venues spanning art and music venues across the US and internationally.
This performance at CLEAT celebrates the third album release by the duo, Live from the Davis Street Drawing Room (Carrier Records), which was performed and recorded at the inspiring space developed by Anne Wilson.
Tuli Bera and Scott Rubin invite the audience to reflect on rituals in their lives. Their morning routines, their favorite recipes, their commutes, their creative practices, their anxieties, the cycles of thoughts running through their minds, their healing practices… What is sacred, what feels meaningless, what is left in the past, and what needs to change?
This performance is a chronicle of the friendship and interdisciplinary collaboration between Bera and Rubin. Drawing from their practices in movement, viola, choreography, composition, improvisation, electronic music, and live projections, the performers present a weave of vignettes, each offering a new angle of reflection.
Music at 8pm!
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
Tuli Bera is a Chicago-based performer, choreographer, producer, and dance educator. Their artistic voice is an emulsion of their technical prowess and honest expression of identity. Since moving to Chicago in 2016, they have committed to creating public experiences that foster authentic self-exploration. Bera is informed by various styles of dance, which have led them to feel most comfortable as an improviser. They lead with curiosity and lean into transforming as they navigate through, collaborate, and create within the Chicago arts landscape.
Scott Rubin is an interdisciplinary artist and improvising violist whose work interrogates relationships between sound and movement through analog and digital means. His recent projects have involved collaborations with musicians, dancers, and visual artists, often incorporating interactive acoustic/electronic improvisation, expanded performance practices, motion sensors, and live video. In these projects, he engages themes of intimacy, control, and the sublime.