Victoria Keddie is a multidisciplinary artist delving into sound, video, installation, and performance.
She will spend april and may as artist in residency at Liebig12 working on the project Drift Choir _Human Connection in a Polyphony of Place a transmission-based system that explores human connection beyond conventional communication models in collaboration with artists, researchers & further locations / initiatives spread across the globe.
Drift Choir, Human Connection in a Polyphony of Place
May 1 – 30, 2025
May 1 _All systems ON:
3 to 7pm Opening Reception @Liebig12, Liebigstraße 12, BERLIN _with Stellage, Athens
Places:
Juans place, Bogota, Columbia
Various / Artists, 19 Essex, New York City, US
Liebig 12, Liebigstraße 12, 10247 Berlin, Germany
Stellage, Kipselis 49, Athens 113 61, Greece
Victoria Keddie´s new project “Drift Choir, Human Connection in a Polyphony of Place” +
4pm – artist talk/conversation between Victoria, artist Mike Hentz (Van Gogh TV / Minus Delta t) , as well as Dr. Cornelia Lund (fluctuating images), as part of the exhibition opening (further related opening times / detailed infos about the project here).
May 2 /17-20:00 I Opening Reception with exhibition also by LOVID, Various/ Artists, 19 Essex, NYC with Juan’s place, Bogota
May 7 / 20:00 I Stellage with Maria Chavez, Stefan Goldmann, Mike Kitcher
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Drift Choir is a transmission-based system connecting Athens, New York, Berlin, and Bogotá in a month- long exchange of sound and image, running from May 1–30, 2025. It forms a closed-circuit network where listening, response, and acoustic presence constitute the core of participation. Rather than privileging clarity, efficiency, or reach, Drift Choir explores presence and human connection through a polyphonic play of space—where signal and noise, voice and place, dissolve into one another.
From May 1 to 30, 2025, Victoria Keddie will link four locations—New York (Various/Artists), Berlin (Liebig 12), Athens (Stellage), and Bogotá (Juan’s place)—through a continuous exchange of sound and image.
The system amplifies involuntary gestures, ambient interference, and environmental resonance as expressive forms of communication. Sirens, footsteps, fragments of speech, the hum of appliances—these become as vital to the transmission as intentional voices. Through real-time, two-way channels, participants across cities engage in shared live programming and informal, drifting exchanges, forming a distributed intimacy that resists simplification. Here, interruption and distortion are not errors, but vital textures— carrying not just messages, but atmospheres.
Drift Choir draws from research into assisted communication systems, including AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) and conversational models used in studies of motor disabilities. The system doesn’t aim to optimize or streamline communication. Instead, it opens a space for unpredictability, where permeability becomes presence, and interference gives form to relation.
As part of the project, “Stay Tuned” assembles a choir of voices between 1000 Hz and 200 Hz. Participants were invited to contribute a single tone within their vocal range. These imperfect, resonant tones overlap with environmental sounds and transmissions, creating an accumulative composition that is both human and planetary in scale. In this thickening sound field, tuning is less about precision than about attention— about attunement to one another and to place.
Full schedule
Liebig 12 (Berlin):
1 MAY 2025: 16-22:00 Opening event. Mike Hentz (Minus Delta t / Van Gogh TV) Dr. Cornelia Lund (fluctuating images), Victoria Keddie (raster media) , Frank Bretschneider (raster media), Requiem fur Demokratie
21 MAY 2025: 18-20:00 Melissa Dyne live
30 MAY 2025: Closing event/s
Stellage (Athens): all times at 20:00 start
7 MAY 2025: Maria Chavez, Stefan Goldmann, Mike Kitcher
15 MAY 2025: Jay Glass Dubs, ML, Vittoria Totale
21 MAY 2025: Yorgas Helmet, Mia Ghabarou
28 MAY 2025: TBA
Various/ Artists (NYC):
2 MAY 2025: Opening event/s
30 MAY 2025: Closing event/s Live performance by Rebekka Palov
Juan’s Place (Bogota):
2 MAY 2025: Opening performance
3 MAY- 30 2025: Interjections and performing with spaces
Victoria Keddie is a multidisciplinary artist delving into sound, video, installation, and performance.
For over a decade, shewas Co-director of E.S.P. TV, exploring the televisual medium for performance.
Her work uncovers hidden narratives within ordinary artifacts and spaces, emphasizing their role in shaping our collective story. The examination of acoustic phenomena and language are recurring themes in her work. Keddie’s current projects navigate the acoustic complexity of phonology, of language and dialects and the sounding of speculative architecture.
Keddie has performed and exhibited internationally. Recent fellowships include the NYSCA/NYFA for Music/Sound (2022), the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (2023), and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Sound Art, and Experimental Music Fellowship (2024). Keddie was a highlighted speaker and performer at the Salon Sophie Charlotte,Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften in January, 2025. Sound work released with Raster Media (DE) Chaikin Records, (US), and Fridman Gallery (NYC/US) >> Interview, KAPUT MAGAZINE, 2021