Artists Tze Yeung Ho, Kholod Hawash and Josh Spear, who were chosen as the recipients of our Compositions for Actions 2024 Open Call, will bring their performance project lipsync serenades for softer occasions to 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning. 

Composer Tze Yeung Ho and textile artist Kholod Hawash have collaborated to create an interdisciplinary performance piece based on two original love songs created for the project, together with British performance artist and DJ Josh Spear. 

As Spear takes main stage for the work as a lipsync artist, Hawash’s embroidered garment will reflect the dynamic personality of the live performer through various symbolisms tied to the theme of queer love in the meeting of influences borrowed from Arabic mythology, a reimagined continental European renaissance and contemporary Finnish fashion. This exchange of metaphors in the visual, textual  and musical contexts between the three collaborating artists will be crucial in the initial phase of  this interdisciplinary work.

The two new compositions by Ho have been pre-recorded for the performances in 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning. The compositions feature soprano singer Linnéa Sundfær Casserly and lutenist Tomas Laukvik Nannestad, both of whom are experts in historically informed performance practices for renaissance and baroque music. Together with Josh, Tomas will perform live on a theorbo in conjunction with the pre-recorded tracks. Linnéa Sundfær Casserly, Tze Yeung Ho, Kholod Hawash and Josh Spear were also part of the Altersea Opera by Lap-see Lam at the Nordic Pavilion in the Venice Biennale, Foreigners Everywhere,  2024. 

lipsync serenades for softer occasions at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning on Thursday 27 February and Friday 28 February. First performance at 7-7.30pm, second performance at 8-8.30pm (on both days). Book your free ticket via this Eventbrite link!

Photo: Kholod Hawash