Holland Andrews + yuniya edi kwon

Holland Andrews (they/them) and yuniya edi kwon (she/they) are composer-improvisers, vocalists and interdisciplinary performance artists based in Brooklyn, New York. Their improvisational performances - combining vocals, violin, clarinet, electronics and ritual percussion - are raw, spiritually intense, harmonically daring and emotionally cathartic.

Holland Andrews (they/them) is a singer, composer, producer and performer whose work focuses on the abstraction of operatic singing and extended vocal techniques to create soundscapes that embrace both catharsis and dissonance. Andrews arranges music for voice, clarinet and electronics, often highlighting themes around vulnerability and healing. By merging live arrangements of vocals and clarinet with synthesizer and electronic music produced by Andrews, they create a realm of live performance that is boundlessly present and expansive. Notable musical collaborations include Nils Frahm, Son Lux, Christina Vantzou, William Brittelle, Peter Broderick and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste. Andrews also develops and performs soundscapes for dance, theater, sound installations and film. Her work has toured internationally with artists such as Bill T. Jones, Sonya Tayeh, Dorothée Munyaneza and Will Rawls. Two of her sound installations are included in the Whitney Biennial 2024 exhibition and will be part of the Biennial's performance program. Andrews is a Guggenheim Fellow, Creative Capital Award recipient, Foundation for Contemporary Arts awardee, and United States Artists fellow.

yuniya edi kwon (she/her) is a violinist, vocalist, and interdisciplinary performance artist based in New York City. Her practice combines composition, improvisation, movement, and ceremony to explore transformation and transgression, ritual practices as a means of queering space and lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, veil, and reveal. In addition to her ever-evolving interdisciplinary solo practice, she collaborates with artists from various disciplines including The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Senga Nengudi, Du Yun, Tomeka Reid, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Degenerate Art Ensemble. She has performed with Roscoe Mitchell, Mary Halvorson, Moor Mother, Nicole Mitchell, Shahzad Ismaily and others. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, Creative Capital awardee, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation for Contemporary Arts awardee, Arts Fellow at Princeton University, Civitella Ranieri Fellow and United States Artists Fellow.