Mario de Vega (Berlin/Mexico)
HZL (Albro/Kudler; Florida/Philly)

Aux at Vox Populi Gallery
319 N. 11th St.
Phila, PA
8pm
Beer and water available
$7-10 sliding scale

Mario de Vega (Mexico City, 1979) presents a “monologue for 3-leg taxidermy totem and electronics.” No, we don’t know what that means either. Let’s find out together!

Through site-specific projects, sculpture, documentation of ephemeral interventions and publications, de Vega’s work overlaps relations between failure, vulnerability and simulation. He has performed and exhibited his work across Europe, Mexico, North America, South Africa, India, Russia and Japan. He lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City.

HZL is the long-running environmental electronics duo of Tim Albro and Jesse Kudler. This will be their first Philadelphia performance since 2008, we think. The two have been playing together since the turn of the century and as the duo HZL since 2005. HZL focuses on sonic environments, both in terms of local sound and the more subjective sense of place. The duo employs field recordings, radios tuned to local stations, recordings of the audience, open microphones, and feedback shaped by the performance space. In a very real sense, the group’s music is a collaboration with the space in which it performs. Eschewing a conventional stage or performance setup, HZL place themselves and their equipment in the center of the room, with the audience around them in a circle and speakers placed in the corners of the space.