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Brunswick Music Festival 2025 - Tiana Khasi/Returning to Meghalaya
Mar
7
6:30 PM18:30
Residencies, Tiana Khasi, Cecilia Sordi Campos, Inciting Joy

Brunswick Music Festival 2025 - Tiana Khasi/Returning to Meghalaya

Tiana Khasi/Returning to Meghalaya
Presented in partnership with Brunswick Music Festival

Tiana Khasi/Returning to Meghalaya showcases the soulful storytelling of Naarm-based future soul artist Tiana Khasi. Positioned in the context of her wider residency project at correspondences, Inciting Joy, with visual artist Cecilia Sordi Campos, where Tiana will explore intersections between her live performance, group singing practice, and community work more deeply, this rich and layered performance expands upon her critically acclaimed 2019 debut EP, Meghalaya, leaning into her deep love of vocal harmonising that is grounded in and honours her Samoan and Indian cultural heritage. Before and after the performance, guests are welcome to explore the exhibit in the space featuring sounds by Tiana and images by co-resident artist Cecilia.

For this special one-night-only performance, Tiana will be joined by Liona Tatafu, members of the Halo Vocal Ensemble, and guitarist Ryotaro Noshiro. Percussionist to be announced.

Date: Friday, 7 March 2025
Location: Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country correspondences 39 Sydney Road Bulleke-bek (Brunswick) VIC 3056

Proceedings:
—6:30-6:55 pm Entry via the Sydney Road front entry until 6:55 pm. Hereafter, access is via the laneway at the rear of the gallery. Our volunteers will direct you. 
—7:00-8:00 pm Performance approx.
—8:00-9:00 pm Drinks, conversations with the performers and opportunity to explore the resident artists' exhibit. 

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Acknowledgements
We respectfully acknowledge the Sovereign Custodians of the land and waters upon which we live and work, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging. We extend this respect to all First Peoples.

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Artist bios

Tiana Khasi Photograph: Daniel Grima

Tiana Khasi is a Meanjin (Brisbane)-born, Naarm (Melbourne)-based future soul artist. A trained vocalist whose voice has been described ‘as venomous as it is honey-sweet’, Tiana’s music pays homage to her heritage while exploring a forward-thinking blend of soul, jazz and pop. Her debut EP, Meghalaya – titled for Meghalaya, India, the land of the Khasi tribe whose name Tiana proudly bears – arrived to critical acclaim in 2019. In 2020, Khasi released a follow-up EP, Meghalaya – The Remixes, a project that invited friends and respected collaborators to explore playful interpretations of her songs. Featuring contributions from Sampology, Melbourne’s Horatio Luna, So.Crates, Best Foot Forward, choicevaughan and Benny Salvador from Aotearoa as well as London-based label mate Street Rat, the remixes arrived dance-floor ready, breathing new energy into the music and representing community and collaboration at its core. 2024 will see the highly anticipated return of Khasi's music, brimming with the promise of pop innovation and soulful storytelling. With her unique blend of venomous yet honey-sweet vocals, she is poised to once again captivate global audiences and redefine the boundaries of contemporary sound emerging from Australia.

Please visit Tiana's website for more details.

Website: https://www.tianakhasi.com/about
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tianakhasi/?locale=en_US%2Cen_US

Cecilia Sordi Campos Self-portrait

Cecilia Sordi Campos is a Brazilian-born, Australia-based photographic artist, writer and researcher. My practice is positioned in the field of socially engaged art, autofiction and expanded documentary. She works with both lens-based and camera-less photography — such as lumen prints from biomaterials — as well as moving image and creative writing to process her propositions. Her projects recognise ‘narratives of the self’ that sit outside the limitations of colonial narratives as resources in the development of visual vocabularies to represent complex experiences of womanhood and the female body, as well as migration and cultural identity. As Cecilia writes:

My experience as a Brazilian migrant from both European and Afro-Brazilian ancestry, in concert with my experience as an infertile woman of colour with its attendant signifiers in socio-cultural contexts, are central to my practice. I develop my projects through critical engagement alongside the dissecting of the intricate web of my hybrid cultural identity to gain access to subjugated ways of knowing. My aesthetic expression emerges from sensory knowledge that is activated by living in an intimate, curious way. This curiosity holds the space for discovery and demands an openness to knowledge that is generated through the decoding of ethnic corporeality, thus recognising alternative world views and underrepresented perspectives as legitimate.

My aim for my projects is the uncovering of visual strategies for communicating complex experiences with a public discourse; therefore, proposing a parting from traditional systems of privilege to rediscover inclusive ways of knowing and aesthetic expression.

Please visit Cecilia's website for more details. 
Website https://ceciliasordicampos.com/bio including CV
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ceciliasordicampos/

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