Lief Hall, AXIS XS | 2010 | 20min | AV Performance | Canada
AXIS XS is an improvised vocal-noise performance piece and digital opera of sorts that merges computer animation and shadow artworks to create a surrealist landscape of light and sound. The vocal improvisations re-imagine and montage an array of vocal traditions and styles, and mimic sounds of landscapes and machines in order to create new abstract narrative forms.
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Lief Hall, born 1981 in Nelson, BC, is an audio-visual artist, musician and curator living and working in Vancouver, BC. Hall graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2005 with a Bachelors Degree in Integrated Media, majoring in animation. Since then she has exhibited her video and performance works at galleries such as VIVO, Access, The Western Front, Helen Pitt and Truck. Her latest film 25/27 was part of the Cartune Xprez DVD compilation, which toured the United States and Canada. She was the curator of Lucky’s Gallery from 2006-2008 and continues to organize art and music exhibitions independently. Hall’s current musical projects include improvisational sound art trio Glaciers, dark electro duo Myths and her self-titled solo voice works.
