Limina / Sensation 1

Mark Barden

studied composition with Lewis Nielson, Rebecca Saunders, Mathias Spahlinger, Jörg Widmann, Roger Redgate and graduated from Oberlin Conservatory, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and Goldsmiths College London. Mark Barden composes concert music and sound installations with and without live musicians. His works understand sound as a fundamentally physical phenomenon. By emphasizing the violence of sound production – grasping, hitting and scratching – he invites the audience not only to listen, but also to physically experience the sound. More recent pieces combine virtuosity with noise-based sound material, striving for an inward-looking complexity that, like microscope views of cells or atoms, is at once life-affirming and filled with a dizzying richness of detail. Commissioned works by leading cultural institutions and festivals (including Donaueschingen, Witten, Wien Modern, Goethe Institut) have been performed by Klangforum Wien, Ensemble intercontemporain, ensemble recherche, the Mivos Quartet, KNM Berlin, ensemble mosaik, Nicolas Hodges, and the Arditti Quartet, among others. He is professor of composition at the Detmold University of Music. His scores are published by Edition Peters.

Ligia Lewis

is a dancer and choreographer. She creates affective choreographies while interrogating the metaphors and social inscriptions of the body. Lewis’s work continues to provoke the nuances of embodiment. Her work has been shown at various venues and festivals, such as Abrons Arts Center / American Realness (New York), Flax / Fahrenheit (Los Angeles), Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and Tanz im August, presented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin). Her awards and honours include the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2018), a Bessie Award for “Outstanding Production” for minor matter (2017), and ImPulsTanz’s Prix Jardin d’Europe for Sorrow Swag (2015). Most recently, she was the winner of the Tabori Award in 2021. In 2022 she will show her latest group choreography Still Not Still at TQW.