Victoria Keddie & Chloe Alexandra Thompson

Victoria Keddie: Fracturing stages voice at the edge of collapse. Extreme strain and emotional force push vocal cords beyond their limits, producing cracks, rasp, and breathless fragments. A neural machine and analog synthesizer—extensions of the artist’s vocal language—process these ruptured moments, dissolving them into a dense, abstract spatial field. Voice becomes a fragile, powerful acoustic force, unfolding, fragmenting, and collapsing in real time. The series began with a constrained vocabulary of American English diphthongs, which shaped earlier experiments in treating voice as material rather than speech. Chloe Alexandra Thompson: Investigations in Untitling Thompson will expand upon her work with voice, synthesis and field recording towards a generative abstraction around shared experience including relation to diasporic identity through abstracted poetic allegories focused on relationality and agency using sound. Referencing disintegration, glitch and error as modes of entry into these conversations around gaps or breaks in continuity, as well as the thrivance that grows from these, taking at its heart that survivance is sanctified and ensured through the ever-changing relationship of knowledge and tradition to that which is more than human. --- Victoria Keddie is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans sound, video, installation, performance, and linguistic research. Her practice investigates the architectures of communication—acoustic, spatial, and technological—and how language and sound shape human experience. For over a decade, she co-directed E.S.P. TV, an international platform for hybrid media and broadcast-based performance. Her work has been exhibited and performed globally, with sound releases on Chaikin Records, Fridman Gallery, and raster media. Keddie’s recent fellowships include the NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Music/Sound, the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, and the Bemis Center Sound Art and Experimental Music Fellowship. Alongside her independent practice, Keddie teaches and develops new curricula in sound studies and spatial sound design, including her current work with the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design, where she contributes to research and pedagogy connecting sound, space, and technological mediation. Chloe Alexandra Thompson is a Cree interdisciplinary artist, director and composer. Her practice explores listening as a way of knowing and relating which is shaped by Indigenous resonance, spatial perception, and embodied vulnerability. Working with psychoacoustic tones, algorithmic systems, and sculptural spatialization as materials, she composes spaces that shift awareness, inviting deep relational encounters between bodies, technologies, and land. Thompson’s work has been presented by CTM Berlin, MUTEK (Tokyo & Montreal), Onassis Foundation (Greece & USA), ImagineNative, Pioneer Works, PICA, Performance Space New York, among others. A current Onassis ONX Studio member, she has participated in residencies at Pioneer Works, MIT OpenDoc Lab with the Indigenous Screen Office of Canada, and HERVISIONS x Arebyte (UK).