“Sound at Sunset started as a series of free sound events, held in the back parking lot space of Sunset Terrace. Curated by artist Soledad Muñoz Fiegehen, the event’s primary focus is in the opening of instances of cultural creation through experimental music performances and sound-art explorations, in order to instigate a greater sense of community. With a loose and ever-changing format S@S – which is celebrating its 7th session – took many forms, and even crossed the water, for session 4 in the Sunshine Coast (changing its name for a night to Sounds at Sunshine). The series has featured the participation of numerous local artists: Alexi Baris, Maya Beaudry, Jaymes Bowman, Aileen Bryant, John Burgess, D.Tiffany, Stefana Fratila, Steven Hubert, Paul Lucas, Chandra Melting Tallow, regularfantasy, Daniel Rincon, Ellis Sam, Jonathan Scherk, Chad Thiessen, Young Braised and x/o. For this special instance Sounds at Sunset will be held at the iconic artist run centre VIVO for Swarm. In order to keep up with the occasion, it will be held in a multi-room environment (including the parking lot) and its aim will be, once more, to showcase the diverse faces of performance, installation, visual and sound art in order to create strong collective experiences that give people a much needed sense of *togetherness.*”
-Soledad Muñoz Fiegehen
VIVO is located in the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in a warehouse space at 2625 Kaslo Street south of East Broadway at the end of E 10th. Transit line 9 stops at Kaslo Street on Broadway. From the bus stop, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight decline. The closest skytrain station is Renfrew Station, which is three blocks south-east of VIVO and has an elevator. From there, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight incline. There is parking available at VIVO, including wheelchair access parking. There is a bike rack at the entrance. The front entrance leads indoors to a set of 7 stairs to the lobby.
A wheelchair ramp is located at the west side of the main entrance. The ramp has two runs: the first run is 20 feet long, and the second run is 26 feet. The ramp is 60 inches wide. The slope is 1:12. The ramp itself is concrete and has handrails on both sides. There is an outward swinging door (34 inch width) at the top of the ramp leading to a vestibule. A second outward swinging door (33 inch width) opens into the exhibition space. Buzzers and intercoms are located at both doors to notify staff during regular office hours or events to unlock the doors. Once unlocked, visitors can use automatic operators to open the doors.
There are two all-gender washrooms. One has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The other is a single room with a urinal and is wheelchair accessible: the door is 33 inches wide and inward swinging, without automation. The toilet has 11 inch clearance on the left side and a handrail.
To reach the bathrooms from the studio, exit through the double doors and proceed straight through the lobby and down the hall . Turn left, and the two bathrooms will be on your right side. The closest one has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The far bathroom is accessible.
Soledad Fátima Muñoz is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher born in Canada and raised in Rancagua, Chile. Her work seeks to highlight the historical materiality of textiles and their role in shaping our collective memory. Through her large-scale weavings, sound installations, and audiovisual projects, she hopes to create instances that contribute to the construction of a more equitable society and the production of new archives of resistance.
In addition to her material works, she utilizes different forms of cultural production as part of her practice. In 2014, she started Género, a record label focused on the distribution of women's work in the sound field. Then in 2017, she co-founded CURRENT Symposium, which is an ongoing interdisciplinary multi-day music and electronic art symposium featuring free events, panels, exhibitions, and workshops. More recently, in 2019, she co-created "La Parte de Atrás de la Arpillera'' a collection of interviews with Chilean arpilleristas and textile workers, whose experiences tell the history of resistance in this country.
Muñoz is currently working on her project Woven Memory / Memoria Entretejida, a series of site-specific installations and exhibitions planned around large-scale copper wire weavings, which commemorate the lives of those still missing and murdered during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile.
Soledad received a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduated from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, has a diploma in Textile Arts from Capilano University and studied Film at the ARCIS University of Santiago in Chile. She is the recipient of several awards, including the City of Vancouver Emerging Artist Award, the New Artists Society Merit Scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Emily Carr University President's Award, and the Textile Society of America's Student and New Professional Award.
Photo by Kati Jenson
Aileen Bryant is a Vancouver-based performer with a focus on the manipulation and composition of vocalization.
minimalviolence* is the collaborative project of Vancouver artists A. Luk and Lida P, formed in the autumn of 2014. Creating together and living together, the duo derives inspiration from artists such as Chris & Cosey, who blur the lines of music, art, and personal partnership.The pair’s creative process is marked by their casual environment, focus on hardware composition, and equal division of labor in writing and production.
Slow Riffs, also known as Local Artist, as previously delivered EPs for Rhythm Section International and Proibito. The only previous appearance under the Slow Riffs moniker was on a cassette release on Mood Hut back in 2013 (the MHC000 tape). Vancouver’s Mood Hut label will soon release a new EP from Ian Wyatt’s Slow Riffs alias. The forthcoming 12″ is a dub-minded ambient affair, described by the label as “for healing use only.”
Tommy Genesis is an artist from Vancouver, BC. After receiving her BFA at Emily Carr University with a concentration in Film & Sculpture, Tommy began to pursue music. She recently signed to an Atlanta based record label Awful Records, and spends her time in-between cities making things.
José Ignacio Betancourt Simán is a Salvadorean multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver. Born in postwar El Salvador, Ignacio grew up amidst the remaining fears and silences of this conflict, which he experienced from the security of a stable home. He studied Media Arts at Emily Car University, from where he graduated in 2014. He has shown his films in various international animation festivals and performed live visuals with musician Daniel Majer. Ignacio’s visuals examine the fading line between our internal worlds and reality, facilitated by technologies. A home to take refuge from responsibilities and sufferings and facilitating indulgence in our own identities. Landscapes are accompanied by Daniel Majer’s shifting sound compositions.
Nathalee Paolinelli‘s practice is rooted in and inspired by play and experimentation, and aims to share the simple joys of vibrant colours, textures and shapes combined in adornment. This playfulness extends across her artistic practice, and in both these realms she aspires to challenge material form by creating complex, layered and spirited configurations often from the lesser-noticed stuff of everyday life. Nathalee holds a BFA from Emily Carr University (Vancouver), and attended the Staedelschule (Frankfurt) as a guest student. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally.
Sebastian Muñoz is an interdisciplinary designer. His practice explores a variety of media from architectural interventions to electronic interactivity. He was born in Canada and grew up between this country and Chile, graduating in 2008 from the school of Architecture and Design of PUCV in Valparaiso. Some of his work can be found at The Zayed National Museum, the Whyte Museum in Banff and MUCYTEC in Chile.