Hello 2022! See you Saturday, March 5th evening at Ivester Contemporary located in the Canopy Complex - 916 Springdale Rd, Austin, TX 78702 for some video presentations and community chat about our upcoming 2022 activities.
Ariadna Ortega (b. 1997) is a Mexican cellist and improviser who graduated from the University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2021. Her interests range from classical and contemporary academic music to experimental music. She has played in diverse orchestras and ensembles from baroque to contemporary music, as well as commissioned and released music from young Mexican composers.
Ariadna has played on several stages of Mexico City, including Nezahualcoyotl Hall and the Blas Galindo Hall. She has been part of festivals like SA' Oaxaca, Leon cello festival and the DECODA Chamber Music festival in 2018. In 2019 she organized an event at the Music Faculty in UNAM, for promoting improvisation and experimentation in classical musicians, called SLAM. She has also collaborated with short films and pop artists in Mexico.
As a free improviser Ariadna has played with different ensembles with whom she recorded an album called "Aristas" featuring two cellos and electronics, a piece for cellist and reader with violin, improvising with objects and voice, and has played in venues in Mexico City such as Pizza Jazz, in the Action and Performance festival and the Sound Plus festival.
Ariadna Ortega’s video will feature her performance of 2 pieces by young Mexican composers:
"Untitled for cello and electronics"- Tobías Álvarez
"Punto y Línea (Dot and line)" - Fermín León
Samuel Hee Chan Lim, based out of Oakland, CA, is an artist that focuses primarily on ambient music compositions and video pieces. Kactus Kooler (탄산선인장), is a music project that encompasses psychedelic pop songs as well as tape-loop based ambient pieces. He also enjoys circuit bending and ultimately breaking any electronics he comes into contact with.
Ivester Contemporary is an Austin-based contemporary fine art gallery committed to connecting people with leading local and regional artists and ideas. Rotating exhibitions are focused on creating a context for contemplation, deepening appreciation for the visual arts, and facilitating a dialog between the artist and their viewers. Ivester Contemporary is located within the Canopy Creative Complex in East Austin, a central hub for artists, gallerists, and other creative types.“Our primary mission is to introduce the artists that we represent to a supportive and interested community. It is our goal to promote meaningful experiences with the visual arts so that artists can continue to engage with an ever-growing audience.
It is also our belief that through the arts we are offered the space and opportunity to form a deeper relationship to ourselves, to each other, and to the world. We strive to curate a program and to cultivate a space that enriches Austin’s appreciation for the visual arts."