Aga Khan Museum's video: In Conversation: Olivia Shortt Du Yun

Explore the outer limits of musical performance and creativity in this one-on-one conversation featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, musician, and performance artist Du Yun and X Avant XV festival co-organizer and Music Gallery artistic associate Olivia Shortt. This wide-ranging discussion will touch upon projects old and new, including Du Yun’s Future Traditions initiative, the relationship between collaboration and creativity, and the importance of mentorship. Born in Shanghai and now based in New York City, Du Yun has applied her distinctive artistic lens and fearsome creativity to genres as disparate as opera, chamber music, rock ‘n’ roll, and experimental electro. A recent artistic associate with the Music Gallery, Olivia Shortt is a performer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, improviser, composer, sound designer, theatre artist, teacher, activist, curator, and producer based in Tkarón:to (Toronto). This conversation takes place just hours before the presentation of Du Yun & OK Miss: Day 198, a film about her chamber-music-meets-rock outfit OK Miss. This presentation by the Aga Khan Museum is in collaboration with the Music Gallery for their X Avant XV: Transmissions festival.