concept  :

Founded in December 2000, LiminaL projects is a multi-media installation and performance collective based in Toronto, Canada. Our mandate has been to create a series of immersive environmental spaces that explore the concept of "limen"; a word used to describe a metaphorical threshold between two different states or realities. Our installations are constructed specifically to accentuate the dynamic relationship between fusion and disharmony. Sound, sculpture, textile, painting, drawing, digital imagery, video, and movement are the various mediums in which we work. In the process of installation we fuse these elements together to create site-specific autonomous spaces which are designed to house an aural and visual interactive performance. Our live and recorded sound is assembled through an integration of electronic and organic material. Live voice, three computers, sampling units, effect processors, and found objects such as: tree branches, sewing machine motors, trains, static, radio waves, elevators, live drums, marbles, and water are key components and textures of our sound. Our performances are improvisational instant compositions that ultimately seek a multi-disciplinary vision that finds its balance through containing duality and paradox. Each visual and aural element serves as a doorway into the liminal zone, where primal and timeless ambient soundscapes spontaneously intersect with delicately visceral sensory spaces. 02.2002

collaborators  :

Jackson Two Bears works as an independent musician, painter, digital image/video, and installation artist. Jackson's work explores a variety of subjects ranging from native spiritualism to virtual reality. Through a collage of multi-media, performance, and installation, Jackson's work engages realms of meditative vision quests, medicine art, and shamanistic ritual. Jackson is currently pursuing a master's degree at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC. Tanya Doody is a sculpture, installation, and video artist. Her research has led her to explore ancient cultures and their symbols. While engaging in the creation of organic sculptural forms out of paper and ceramic, she co-designed and developed the past year's LiminaL environment. Looking to nature as her mentor, Tanya continues to develop her own language through simple forms and the use of organic materials. Since the fall of 2001, Tanya has added found sounds to her list of materials, sculpting sound collages that add yet another texture and layer to the collective LiminaL sound. Susanna Hood works as an independent dancer, choreographer, singer, and composer in Toronto. She is also the artistic director of her interdisciplinary performance company, hum dansoundart. hum was founded in May 2000 to house her solo and collaborative work. Her interest lies in exploring the movement of sound and the creation of a performance language that is a hybrid of dance and sound to amplify and communicate the experience of the human instrument. Tom Kuo has a solid history of working intensely in projects combining aural arrangement and spatial design environments. Ranging from muti-sensory artistic settings to electronic music performances, his current work can be found under the productions of wabi as well as with LiminaL. An accomplished turntable musician, Tom has allowed the LiminaL project to propel him into composing sound through the digital interface of a computer. It is a desire to communicate a deeper consciousness of mind through music that compels him in his work.