Performance: Rebeca Bollinger, Dimitri Manos, and Gus Tomizuka

In conjunction with the first phase of the exhibition (~) Echo (  ), artists and musicians Rebeca Bollinger, Dimitri Manos, and Gus Tomizuka perform an hour-long activation with the installation, layering acoustic and electronic instruments as a counterpoint to the generative score installed in the gallery. For this performance, Bollinger’s bronze sculptures on view in the exhibition become instruments, contributing raw acoustic qualities alongside modulated sonic expressions of the sculptures that play as a part of the exhibition. Bringing human and algorithmic players together, this improvisation with the installation’s sensing system creates a feedback loop between the two forces.

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About the performers

Rebeca Bollinger is an artist whose practice spans sculpture, drawing, photography, writing, sound, installation, sculptural projections of light and video, cast instruments, improvisational music, binders, and books. She traces how form, language, and material shape each other—leaving traces, revealing patterns, gaps, and impressions. She is based in San Francisco, CA, and Tucson, AZ. Bollinger’s work has been exhibited at public venues including Creative Time, Brooklyn, NY; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Ballroom Marfa, TX; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; University of California Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway; and Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. 

Since the early 2000s, Tucson artist and musician Dimitri Manos has been active across a wide range of projects. He co-founded Golden Boots and SRS, and works under monikers such as American Monoxide and Dimitriam, creating collage-driven, experimental pop and lo-fi soundscapes through countless releases and performances.

Gus Tomizuka is a multimedia composer in Los Angeles exploring stochasticity and emergent narratives in audio. His pieces mix traditional instrumentation and avant-electronic techniques to animate classical forms (the score/recording/concert) and span soundtracks, instrument design, synthetic field recordings and mutually-sensing installations. He has had work and collaborations featured by NPR, the National Youngarts Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation, Bandcamp Daily, Kulturstiftung Hohenlohe, KLOF Magazine, Boiler Room, A Closer Listen and Dublab. As a journeyman he has performed and recorded with a range of artists including Daniela Spalla, Esteman, Laraaji, Arrington de Dioinyso, Lori Goldston, Jumbo, Chetes Garza and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra.

 

About the exhibition

(~) Echo (  ) is a two-part installation environment by artist Rebeca Bollinger that combines sculptural objects, architectural interventions, light refractions, and audio installations in collaboration with Gus Tomizuka in the first phase and Patricio Coronado in the second phase.

 

Image Credit: Rebeca Bollinger, (~) Echo (  ) artwork process documentation (detail), 2025. Photograph by Rebeca Bollinger. Courtesy of the artist.