Frequencies
Titanik A.i.R. X Sibbe Atrium
with Mareike Dobewall, Chanelle A. Bergeron, Leyya Mona Tawil, Andrea Nicole Lim Yi Zhuang, and Shakeeb Abu Hamdan
Immerse yourself in captivating Frequencies at Sibbe Atrium and enjoy experimental music free of charge by five international sound artists hosted at Titanik A.i.R artist residency.
Throughout 2025, Frequencies is a sonic living room for the residents and visitors of Turku. The iconic brutalist architecture of Sibelius Museum’s inner atrium (re)opens for free to the public, resonating with fascinating works of sound art and new artistic research.
Come to listen, stroll, and relax, enjoying Turku’s new Frequencies!
Frequencies is a new collaboration between Titanik A.i.R. artist residency and the Sibelius Museum funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
PROGRAM
April–Midsummer: Mareike Dobewall
July: Chanelle A. Bergeron
August: Leyya Mona Tawil
September: Andrea Nicole Lim Yi Zhuang
October: Shakeeb Abu Hamdan
Titanik A.i.R has brought international sound artists to Turku for over ten years. Run by the artist association Arte ry in connection with its contemporary art gallery, Titanik A.i.R. is the only sound art residency programme in Finland and one of the few in the Nordic countries. Allowing the artists time to focus on experimentation and research, the program hosts new connections with the local environment and cultural field. The collaboration with Sibelius Museum offers an opportunity to reflect, feel and learn through high-quality sound art from around the world.
The Sibelius Museum is the most comprehensive music museum in Finland. The exhibition work consists of presentations of the museum’s instrument collection, travelling exhibitions, and various collections representing music cultures, not to mention Finland’s most famous composer, Jean Sibelius. The Sibelius Museum occasionally hosts audiovisual exhibitions too, as in the new Frequencies programme. The museum building is one of the most original modernist creations of 1960’s Finland and is included in the Docomomo register selection of modern Finnish architectural masterpieces. Many different genres of music live within the museum. The Sibelius Museum is part of the Åbo Akademi University Foundation.
Visual identity by Nadiye Koçak.
ARTISTS
Mareike Dobewall
Mareike Dobewall is a director, stage director, musician and composer. She has worked in film, theatre, dance, music and installation art. In recent years she has focused on the qualities of sound in live performance. In 2021, Dobewall completed her PhD in Performative and Media Based Practices at Stockholm University of the Arts, specialising in opera with her dissertation Exploring the Scenographic Potential of Acoustic Sound in Site-Sensitive Performance. She is a member of the Society for Artistic Research, which promotes artistic research practices both within and outside academic institutions. Dobewall is also active in the International Alliance for Women in Music and Konstmusiksystrar networks. https://www.mareikedobewall.com/
Chanelle A. Bergeron
Chanelle Allesandre writes poetry and prose, composes atmospheric and improvised soundscapes, makes flower essences, takes 35mm film photographs, and occasionally works as a monitrice. She considers all of her work to be an experiment in translation: an attempt to give voice or body to the interstitial—to essences: to the subtle realms of feeling and vibration, which she views as the connective fibre between all things. Regardless of medium, Chanelle practices absolute trust in the spirit of chance, the guidance of curiosity, and the act of assemblage. Chanelle is devoted to fostering the filigree that is woven from creative collaborations and risk-taking in her artistic community. She is currently living beside the Quinnipiac river in the Northeastern United States.. https://www.chanelleallesandre.com/
Leyya Mona Tawil
Leyya Mona Tawil is an artist, curator, and cultural activist. She works in sound, dance, and hybrid transmissions. Tawil is Syrian and Palestinian; engaged in the world as such. Her works have been commissioned and presented throughout Europe, the Arab region, Russia, and the United States. Her sound installations and performance have been featured by institutions such as the Sharjah Art Foundation, Wysing Art Center’s Net//Work Digital Exhibit (UK), the Arab American National Museum (Dearborn), and Play House Laboratories (Detroit), and was nominated for a “Bessies” Award in Music (NYC, 2019). She is the founding director of experimental arts platform Arab.AMP, and has led TAC Temescal Art Center in Oakland-California since 1997.
Andrea Nicole Lim Yi Zhuang
Andrea Nicole Lim Yi Zhuang is a Singapore-born creative producer, multidisciplinary artist and experimental violinist interested in arts-based initiatives for social justice. She currently lives in Bidjigal, Sydney, Australia. Her work is based on listening, reflection and the complexity of identities. She was Creative Director of CuriousWorks from 20/21 before stepping down to focus on developing and re-shaping her independent music and art practice. She has worked and produced programming with The Center on Contemporary Art Seattle, Curious Works and the Sydney Opera House Homelands Tour, among others.
Shakeeb Abu Hamdan
Shakeeb Abu Hamdan is a Lebanese/British musician and visual artist based in Paris. He performs with an unorthodox setup of drums, bells and cymbals which he augments and amplifies with surface transducers, microphones, pitch and rhythmic modulation effects, modified megaphones and other electronic devices. His performances unfold along loose structures that leave space for generative accidents and improvisation, responding to the instabilities of feedback manipulation and other the unpredictable interactions built into his instrumental system.
Recent exhibitions at Beirut Art Centre and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, residencies at EMS, Stockholm and Les Instants Chavirés, releases via Cafe OTO’s Takuroku label and Tsss Tapes.
https://shakeebabuhamdan.com/