AGF (Antye Greie Ripatti) / Lani Asunción
Photos: AGF: Aino Vaaranen [2021], Lani Asunción: Sasha Pedro
AGF (Antye Greie Ripatti)/ Lani Asunción
Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 8pm
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street, Boston
Music: 8pm
Admission: $15 / $10 for students and Non-Event members suggested
No one turned away for lack of funds
Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston are pleased to present the Boston debut of the sound artist poet and electronic music producer, Antye Greie (AGF), and the Boston-based interdisciplinary artist Lani Asunción.
About the artists
AGF aka Antye Greie-Ripatti is a sound artist, poet, and electronic music producer. Her work inhabits an augmented space where pounding {Berlin} experimental after-techno, spoken word, abstract video art, feminism and radical ecology create a self-sustaining environment. Originally from East Germany, she started to develop a DIY approach early on, while also using her voice to fight against oppression by supporting marginalized communities and calling out injustice, most recently through female:pressure, a support community and promotional platform for female-identified electronic musicians. Currently based in Northern Finland, Antye founded the local arts organization Hai Art in Hailuoto. Since its inception in 2011, Hai Art has been involved in numerous sound-related projects, focusing on working with children. Antye acts as its director, curator and workshop instructor. Active since the early 90's, she has collaborated with the pioneering French composer Éliane Radigue, German legends Gudrun Gut and Ellen Allien, British avantgardist Kaffe Matthews, Finnish techno producer Vladislav Delay, and classical composer Craig Armstrong.
Lani Asunción (b. Redwood City, CA) (they/she) is a Boston based interdisciplinary multimedia artist creating socially engaged public art, working both independently and collaboratively with other artists and community partners focused on decolonization practices. Their work weaves a visual language guided by historical research, community engagement, and experimental performance connected to their identity as a queer multiracial Filipinx-American. Using ritualized performance, Asunción integrates transmedia storytelling through new media technologies such as video, augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), photography, printmaking, and experimental improvisational sound works that encourage conversations that facilitate healing and collective empowerment in the face of cultural violence, oppression, and ancestral intergenerational trauma in the midst of the climate change crisis.
This performance is co-presented by Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston.
