Elvira Hufschmid - Portrait of the Ensemble

Portrait of the Ensemble

Portrait of the Ensemble is a perceptual study of the ensemble through a sensory drawing process which is immediately rendered by the ensemble’s sonic response. With eyes closed, Elvira Hufschmid draws images as they emerge while sitting across the ensemble. The drawing process is simultaneously projected as the ensemble follows the process on the screen and responds instantly with an improvisation that resonates with the visual, spatial and audible situation, extending portrait drawing as a 2D genre into a time-based, multi-dimensional form of aesthetic experience.

Featuring: Adrian Avendano, Soressa Gardner, Peki Hajdukovic, Sasha Langford, Jules Laverne, Giorgio Magnanensi, and Kimia Yazdi.

Elvira Hufschmid is a multimedia artist and author in the field of processes of 'Aesthetic Transformation' and temporary art spaces. After graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute, USA, with a Master of Fine Arts in ‘New Genres’, she lived and worked in Berlin, Germany, for over 10 years. She taught as a Guest professor for 'Artistic Transformation' Processes at the Berlin University of the Arts and as a sessional faculty in the Department of Culture and Community at Emily Carr University. She has been an affiliated researcher at the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts & Sciences (BAS) at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany, (2017-19) and is a collaborator in the SSHRC-funded research project “Leaning Out of Windows – Art & Physics Collaborations through Aesthetic Transformations”. Elvira is currently a second year PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University, Canada.