About

SISTERLOOPS are nasty academics,
strictly wild, brutally feminine, distorted with style
we are amplified knives.

SISTERLOOPS is a performative sound art- and noise duo, in the field of experimental music. The duo was formed in 2013 and is a collaboration between Alexandra Nilsson (composer, sound artist, performer), Marie Gavois (interdisciplinary performing artist), based in Sweden and Germany.

The duo have performed internationally at noise festivals such as dESTRUKTIVA in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Queer Noise Fest in Stockholm as well as concert halls such as Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and Stockholm Concert Hall, and at venues such as MS. Stubnitz Hamburg, Schwankhalle Bremen, Kunstpalast Museum Düsseldorf, Ebertplatz Cologne. 

SISTERLOOPS’ main ongoing projects are VOICE NOISE and Broken Cymbals Project. Their work explores sounds in combination with movement, action and image. Sound contra movement, image contra sound. 


Artist statement
We are working at the schism of sound art and noise. Our approach is physical, we are a live-performing duo with a bad bitch-esque sound. We represent uncompromising female bodies – a possible cunty gaze on sound art?

We are drawn to frictions and we search for unpredictable sonic worlds. We are attracted by the severe and the wild simultaneously, transgressing their boundaries. Questions about the non-harmonic, uncomfortable, annoying, obstinate and undesired sound and aesthetics accompany us in our practice. Our approach to noise as “other” sounds materializes as well in our visual and choreographic manifestations. We focus on instruments/objects with an agenda to find non-normative, extended and performative ways of playing, treating and performing.

Our different previous experiences and backgrounds in non-Western aesthetics and music is shown in our relation to beat, pulse, rhythm, time and performativity and carry a willingness to move further away from the rational body and intellect. In a state of trance the person withdraws and becomes one with the performative space. The material becomes; through transformations something evolves which is not rational, but rather poetic. 

We own several different performing personas and enjoy shifting between them, proud of being multifaceted we appeal to different art contexts and communities. The Experimental Music scene, the Museum, the Contemporary Art Gallery, the Queer scene, the New Music concert hall or the Autonomous Center.