Joëlle McGovern
sound design composition multichannel installationperformer & performance maker*
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SUB BODY
HAUT YC Festival, Copenhagen, 2023(link)
Artist, dance and choreography: Alvilda Faber Striim
Sound design and composition: Joëlle McGovern
Scenographer: Sven Buse
Costume: Jonathan Evald
Production support: Helene Duch Kjaer
Public dance performance staged in a padel court in an industrial area in Copenhagen with a 4 channel composition.
ex-peau-sition
BOZAR, Brussels, 2019(link)
Dance and choreography: Mădălina Dan
Performers: Johanna Ackva, Mădălina Dan
Music composition: Joëlle McGovern
Tactile choreographies inspired by Brancusi’s sculptures, performed on the participants’ bodies over three days at BOZAR, Brussels for the exhibition ‘Brâncusi. Sublimation of Form’. Music compositions performed live with the choreography.
Infiltration
Haus Der Statistik, 2019Dance and choreography: Farina Meyer, Nora Amin
Live sound and installation: Joëlle McGovern
Speaker transducers and electrodynamic exciters attached to metal plates, cast boxes and other remnants of the abandoned Haus der Statistik to create invisible speakers of various acoustic properties with a soundscape recorded from the building.
Earthbound Squatters
Uferstudios, Berlin, 2017Dance and choreography: Carrie McIlwain, Johanna Ackva, Josephine Brinkmann, Farina Meyer, Sarah McKee, Pauline Payen, Érica Zíngano
Live sound and installation: Joëlle McGovern
Sound installation and composition performed live with pouring water and dancers’ piss.