{"id":5706,"date":"2021-04-27T09:05:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T07:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/?p=5706"},"modified":"2022-01-04T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T14:36:50","slug":"artist-talk-wherever-the-sunbeam-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/artist-talk-wherever-the-sunbeam-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Talk: Wherever the Sunbeam falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/p>\r\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<h3><strong>Artist Talk: Wherever the Sunbeam falls<br \/>With: Kenji Hirotomi, Yankun Yang, LealVeileby<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong>May 22, 2021, 17:00 (CEST) \/ 11am (EST), online<strong><br \/><\/strong><br \/>The talk will be held in English and on Zoom.<\/p>\r\n<p>In this online conversation, artists Kenji Hirotomi &amp; Yankun Yang (US) and LealVeileby (PT\/SE) will discuss their work with curator C. Grace Chang.<\/p>\r\n<p>Our latest exhibition, Wherever the Sunbeam falls (May 8\u2013June 6), features these artists&#8217; explorations of speculative futures and presents from BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ perspectives.<\/p>\r\n<p>From photon lasers and Barbarella to artistic partnerships, these duos will talk all about the exhibition in this virtual sit-down.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<h4>ARTIST BIOS<\/h4>\r\n<p><br \/>The Portuguese-Swedish artist duo <strong>LealVeileby<\/strong> consists of Ant\u00f3nio Leal (b. 1976, Lisbon) and Jesper Veileby (b. 1985, Karlstad). They are based in Malm\u00f6 and have been collaborating since 2011. They both hold MFAs from Malm\u00f6 Art Academy. They have had Solo shows in both Sweden (Sk\u00e5nes konstf\u00f6rening 2018, Konsthall K 2014, Galleri Pictura 2012) and Portugal (Espa\u00e7o Campanh\u00e3 2018 &amp; 2013). Their works have been shown at numerous video art festivals and group shows in Portugal, Sweden, Spain, Brazil and Denmark. They recently received two-year working grants from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee (2021 Veileby, 2020 Leal), the prizes Aase &amp; Richard Bj\u00f6rklunds Fond from Malm\u00f6 Art Museum (2019) and Sven and Ellida Hjort\u2019s Exhibition Grant from Sk\u00e5nes Konstf\u00f6rening (2018). In 2017 they were the winners of Fuso &#8211; Video Art Festival and their work is represented at the MAAT Museum in Lisbon.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Yankun Yang\/\u6768\u7131\u711c: Yankun<\/strong> (b. Chongqing) is a New York-based architectural designer, computational designer, and digital artist. He worked as an architectural freelance designer for 5 years with various firms in the United States\u2014but now he focuses on the spatial boundary between digital and physical media, particularly how people interact with two worlds of things. His architectural design background has made him a unique artist who emphasizes spatial relationships in digital art. In 2020, Yankun received his Master of Science in Advanced Architecture Design from Columbia University.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Kenji Hirotomi\/\u5e83\u51a8\u5065\u5150: Kenji<\/strong> (b. Tokyo) is a New York-based music producer, sound artist, sound designer, and audio engineer. He completed his Master&#8217;s Degree in Music Technology from New York University in 2019. His thesis explored and created a modular synthesizer that served as a generative computer music system controlled by real-time noise data from metropolitan cities around the world. Kenji is also an electronic music producer who has been releasing music since 2018 under the alias Tomiken. His first EP &#8220;Outer Journey&#8221; was released by Taihe Music Group on various streaming platforms and received recognition in the underground scenes for his highly-produced and unconventional electronic music.<\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this online conversation, artists Kenji Hirotomi &#038; Yankun Yang (US) and LealVeileby (PT\/SE) will discuss their work with curator C. Grace Chang. 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