Philip Miller and Jenny Kagan
Triggering Sonic Memory

Philip Miller is a South African composer and sound artist. His starting point is often to draw from sonic material from public and personal archives, which are digitally processed and collaged. He works across different musical genres and media leading him to establish significant collaborations, including his long-time collaborator, South African artist William Kentridge. He has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies at the Rockefeller Bellagio Centre, Civitella Ranieri, Yaddo, and the Archive and Public Culture (APC) Initiative at the University of Cape Town.

Jenny Kagan has been using the language of theater to make installation artwork, often reflecting on the contemporary relevance of stories of survival and trauma during the Holocaust. In 2018 she was creative director for the exhibition Through Our Eyes, which finds new ways to use survivor testimony to tell the story of the Holocaust, at the University of Huddersfield. Since being invited to participate in the Kaunas Biennial in 2017 she has continued to make work there, exploring the Jewish experience of the city through participatory work and creative interventions in the community and public spaces. Her large-scale immersive experience Out of Darkness, which tells the story of her own parents’ survival in war time Lithuania, was shown in Kaunas in 2022 as part of the European Capital of Culture.