User:Lilian Beidler

= Lilian Beidler = Lilian Beidler (*1982 in Bern) is musician+, composer, performer and sound artist from Switzerland.

Life
Lilian Andrea Beidler was born to Katharina Beidler-Badertscher, a Swiss classical Mezzosoprano, and Franz Beidler, grandson of Franz Philipp Beidler (1872-1930) who was a Swiss conductor and husband of Isolde Beidler, daughter of Richard Wagner. Beidler started playing music from an early age, becoming classically trained in several instruments including piano, guitar, flute s, viola and singing.

Beidler studied Sound Arts - Musik und Medienkunst with Michael Harenberg, Daniel Weissberg and Cathy van Eck at the music department of the University of the Arts Bern, where she graduated in 2010 with a Master's degree in Contemporary Arts Practice. After working as a freelance artist for several years, Beidler moved to London. In 2015, she graduated with an MA Performance Making from Goldsmiths University.

In 2017 Beidler started teaching sound arts, electronic music and composition at University of the Arts Bern.

Work
Sound being a fundamental of Beidler's work, she explores different media and their influence on the perception of the human body and composition within a performative context. Using performative sound art as both a research method and an artistic tool she explores public space, intercultural communication and sociological topics to contribute to a discourse within a worldwide society.

Her work ranges from sound art, performance, acousmatic music and social practice. She often works site-specifically in sometimes remote places around the globe. She has been invited to work as an artist in residence by institutions in different countries including the Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing, the I-Park Foundation in Conneticut USA, the European University Cyprus in Nicosia, Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta and the arts and human rights meeting Artifariti in Western Sahara. In 2018, Pro Helvetia Cairo funded a research project of hers about the role of women in colonial Switzerland in Lesotho.

Beidler regularly collaborates with other artists on art projects and education initiatives. In 2016, together with île flottante | Nica Giuliani and Andrea Gsell, they established Stadtereignisse ("Urban Incidents"), an education project about temporary art and public space.

Awards
In 2015, Beidler was awarded the Recognition Award Music from the Canton of Bern.