As a research-based artist, I am interested in the capturing, archiving and reconstruction of personal memories and the 'essence' of individuals. My transdisciplinary, 'polyphonic' research delves into the dual aspects of what remains and what is lost, exploring the grief of losing and the potential for reconstructing something new. Through mediums and materials such as installation, sound, voice, and AI technologies, I explore these themes alongside collective projects and graphic and printing techniques. I share my work through exhibitions, workshops, performances and radio broadcasts. I have recently had projects at Kunstinstituut Melly, Nest, WORM, SHIMMER, Roodkapje and Dordrechts Museum.
Radio Worm 25 Hour Radio Relay
A 30 minute performance made up of 60 second improvisations, live on air.
A Kind of Light
A Kind of Light is an experimental, sonic and performative response to Jabu Arnell’s ‘Turn off the Lights, Disco Ball #13: A Kind of Black’. During the three-hour durational performance, properties of light were used to activate bodies and voices as they relate to liminal spaces in the city. In line with Jabu’s creative process, the performance evolved experimentally, in an interplay between the space, language and sound. The performance took place in Jabu’s installation at Kunstinstituut Melly.
Open Field
An experimental performance where TiSiTi sculpted their voices in the landscape of Open Field - an exhibition merging the kinetic and listening practices of Elsemarijn Bruys and Femke Dekker. The work was performed at the opening of Open Field at Nest, Den Haag.
Sing With Your Mouthful
An absurdist performance inviting the audience to take a seat among the performers and eat, sing, talk and break the rules over three courses of an evening banquet. As the dinner proceeds things get messy physically and sonically. Can you eat while singing? Can you gargle with sound? Can you sit still? Can you uphold dining conventions and etiquettes? What happens when you don’t?
Openings
Self-curated exhibition, titled Openings, with 11 artists.
Sing With Your Mouthful
An absurdist performance inviting the audience to take a seat among the performers and eat, sing, talk and break the rules over three courses of an evening banquet. As the dinner proceeds things get messy physically and sonically. Can you eat while singing? Can you gargle with sound? Can you sit still? Can you uphold dining conventions and etiquettes? What happens when you don’t?
Sunday Mornings With...
During the Sunday Mornings With... Ceola invites you to join her in weaving a sonic installation throughout the building that Shimmer is housed in. Inspired by the deep listening practice of Pauline Oliveros, Ceola will lead listening and sounding exercises. In combination with recorded sounds from the building, we will intuitively create a live, site specific, sonic tapestry with our voices and / or our bodies.
The Things That Find Us
A collective exposed encounter
A Room with A View
Two installation works as part of a group exhibition - A Room with a View, Dordrecht Museum.
Aq Tushetii Residency
An artist residency in the mountains in Georgia ending in a live, filmed improvised performance as part of Mutant Radio's Remote Sessions.
Sounds from Ukraine Now
Sounds from Ukraine Now is a radio program in conversation with Ukrainian artists sharing art, music, and sounds from Ukraine. The show is hosted by Ceola Tunstall-Behrens, a British artist based in Rotterdam, and Clemens Poole, a US American artist based (until recently) in Kyiv. The show seeks to explore contemporary Ukraine through discussions with sound-based creatives.
Bird Wall, Sonic Witch Choir
Performance of Bird Wall by Sonic Witch Choir at O. Festival.
I Don't Perform For Time, Time Performs For Me
I Don't Perform For Time, Time Performs For Me is an hour long monthly radio show with Meghan & Ceola, two Rotterdam based artists with an attention to time. Through sharing audio works this show will explore and dissect artistic practices. A moment to be influenced by what you hear and for what you hear to influence how you listen. A moment to unravel our relationships with time.
Audio Stories at Boijmans Depot
Six fictional audio stories based on six objects from the collection at Boijmans Depot. The 3 minute audio stories are listened through the Depot's app and are available in Dutch and English. MaaMoo is an audio focused, creative collaboration between Ceola Tunstall-Behrens and Tjyying Liu, a sound artist and storyteller based in Rotterdam. Their work focuses on creating imaginative narratives that interweave space, architecture and art on the one hand, with sound and music on the other.
Rollercoasters Soundscape
An original, multichannel soundscape in Benjamin Earl's installation about rollercoasters. Part of the exhibition 'Architectures of Staged Realities' at Het Nieuwe Instituut, curated by Saskia van Stein.
Splintered Thoughts and Fragile Plots
Group exhibition curated by Tiiu Meiner & Rawad Baaklini. I exhibited a multichannel sound installation.
Staging Stasis - Radio Residency
Collaborative residency with Natalia Papaeva. Staging Stasis is a residency program established by Radio Stasis. Working through the medium of radio, the residency offers creatives based in Rotterdam the possibility to experiment and collaborate, while growing their local networks and engaging with the art community in The Netherlands.