December 6th, 6pm

Liming Lin and NewJeans
at Spellerberg Projects’ Dialectic w/ Alexis Wolfe and Ensemble

NOTE: This event takes place at Spellerberg Projects, 103 S Main St, Lockhart, TX 78644

Upon Spellerberg Projects’ invitation, SHANGHAI SEMINARY brings a selection of videos by Liming Lin and her selection of videos by NewJeans to join the Dialectic with Alexis Wolfe and an ensemble’s enactment of Pauline Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations.

Liming Lin 林丽明 (b. Chongqing, China) is a Berlin-based artist. They graduated from Chelsea College of Arts in 2019 with a BA and the Royal College of Art in 2023 with an MA. Liming’s practice includes moving images, writing and performance and they are pebble's lover, puppy's eye, scar of Kuafu and the most bright star.

NewJeans (Korean: 뉴진스; RR: Nyujinseu) is a South Korean girl group formed by ADOR, a sub-label of Hybe. The group is composed of five members: Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin, and Hyein. Mainly produced by Min Hee-jin, they are known for their 'girl next door' image and musical stylings reminiscent of the 1990s and 2000s.

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.

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.

This event is co-organized with Marty Spellerberg and Jennifer Moore. It is funded in part by Austin UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts.