Dialectic: Spectacle and Meditation
Event • Saturday, December 6, 2025, 6–9pm
The evening unfolds in two parts. It begins with a presentation of videos by artist Liming Lin and her selection of videos by K-pop girl group NewJeans. This pairing places Lin’s artistic practice in dialogue with the pop iconography that influences it. A live performance follows: Alexis Wolfe and her ensemble interpret Pauline Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations, extending Oliveros’ legacy of communal listening into the present. Together, the two programs form a dialectic of spectacle and meditation, image and sound, recorded and live, inviting audiences to hold both in conversation.
Artist Bios
Liming Lin 林丽明 is a Berlin-based artist from Chongqing, China. She holds a BA from Chelsea College of Arts (2019) and an MA from the Royal College of Art (2023). Her practice spans moving image, writing, and performance. She is pebble’s lover, puppy’s eye, scar of Kuafu, and the most bright star.
Alexis Wolfe is an Austin-based cellist, composer, and producer working at the intersection of classical composition and electronic experimentation. She holds a BA in Music and Media from the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied cello performance and electroacoustic composition. Her work bridges the tactile and the technological, using sound as a space for reflection and transformation. Through performance and experimentation, Wolfe creates immersive sonic environments that blur the boundaries between artist, audience, and space.
References
NewJeans (뉴진스) is a South Korean girl group formed by ADOR, a sub-label of Hybe. The five members, Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin, and Hyein, are known for their “girl next door” image and a sound that draws on 1990s and 2000s pop.
Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016) was a composer, performer, and humanitarian whose career spanned fifty years of boundary-dissolving music. Beginning in 1950s San Francisco among a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists, and poets, she went on to shape American music through her pioneering work in improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth, and ritual.
Oliveros founded Deep Listening®, a practice rooted in her lifelong fascination with sound. She described it as “listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear”—the sounds of daily life, of nature, of one’s own thoughts, as well as musical sounds. “Deep Listening is my life practice,” she said.
Her legacy continues through the Center For Deep Listening at Rensselaer, The Pauline Oliveros Trust, and the Ministry of Maåt, Inc..
Curators
Marty Spellerberg, Jennifer Moore, and SHANGHAI SEMINARY.
This project is funded in part by Austin UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts.
