Victoria Keddie | DRIFT CHOIR

May 1 - 30, 2025

Opening Reception | May 2, 5-8pm

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Places |

Juan’s Place, Bogota, Columbia

Various/Artists, 19 Essex, New York City, US  + exhibition

Liebig 12, Liebigstraße 12, 10247 Berlin, Germany + exhibition

Stellage, Kipselis 49, Athens 113 61, Greece

 

May 1 / 15:00-19:00 I  Opening Reception at Liebig 12, Liebigstraße 12, BERLIN with Stellage, Athens. In conversation with Mike Hentz (Minus Delta t / Van Gogh TV) and Dr. Cornelia Lund (fluctuating images). Performances by Victoria Keddie, Frank Bretschneider, Requiem fur Demokratie

 

May 2 / 17-20:00 I Opening Reception at Various/Artists, 19 Essex, NYC with Juan's, Bogota

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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.​

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From May 1 to 30, 2025, Victoria Keddie will link four locations—New York (Various/Artists), Berlin (Liebig 12), Athens (Stellage), and Bogotá (TBA)—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.

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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.

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As part of the project, "Stay Tuned" assembles a choir of voices between 1000 Hz and 200 Hz. Participants are 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.