Marina Rosenfeld
b. 1968
Marina Rosenfeld is an artist and composer based in New York. Her installation, sound and performance works have been widely commissioned by institutions in Europe and North America, including solo projects for the 2010 Liverpool Biennial; the 2009 Performa Biennial of Performance; the 2009 Holland Festival (Amsterdam); Whitney Biennials 2002 and 2008; the Tate Modern (London); and the Kitchen (NY). Festivals programming her work include Ultima Festival (Oslo); Äänen Lumo Festival (Helsinki); Donaueschingen Musiktage (Donaueschingen, Germany), Ars Electronica (Linz), Faster Than Sound (Aldeburgh, UK); Wien Modern (Vienna), Musikprotokoll (Graz), Pro Musica Nova (Bremen), Maerz Musik (Berlin), Mutek (Montreal), Vancouver New Music Festival, and Los Angeles' Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology, among many others. While still a student at CalArts (Los Angeles) in 1993, Rosenfeld first created the Sheer Frost Orchestra, a graphically scored musical performance realized by 17 women on floor-bound electric guitars, deploying nail-polish bottles as sensitive sound-producing implements. This performance, always created in situ with the collaboration of local perfor…
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