SOUND BODIES: COIL
The below artists in residence gathered at Cape Fear Community College from August 4th through 8th, 2025 to create this inter-disciplinary performance experience for SARUS Festival.
Performance: Friday, August 8th: 6:30pm
Studio Theatre in the Wilson Center building, entrance on Hanover Street
MAURICE MOORE
Maurice Moore, Ph.D., Knoxsville, TN
Dr. Maurice Moore is an Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. They received a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Performance Studies from the University of California-Davis, and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Published by Versal Journal, and winner of their 2022 Amsterdam Open Book Prize,...
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LUIS ADORNO
wakinglifenc.bandcamp.comLuis Adorno is a musician, visual artist, and performance artist based out of Wilmington, NC. Performing and recording for over a decade under the name "The Waking Life" as well as occasionally leading the ever evolving and always different improvisational group "Inference Engine", he has recorded multiple albums and has experimented with a wide variety of genres while combining field recordings, electric and acoustic elements.
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SLOW EAR ENSEMBLE: CARL KRUGER
websiteCarl Kruger, Phil Zampino, Shawn Hart, and others
Sound art, noise art, and sound installation, from Wilmington, NC
https://www.discogs.com/artist/225915-Carl-Kruger
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PHIL SINGLETON
website
Director of AFA programs at Cape Fear Community College, founding member of Tallis Chamber Orchestra, from Wilmington, NC
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BRINSON LEIGH KRESGE
brinsonleigh.comBrinson Leigh Kresge is a writer, mover, and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores relative simultaneity, interconnectedness, identity process, and impermanence through genre-queering and other mediums that won’t sit still or cross their legs. Leigh is co-director of SARUS Festival 2025.
brinsonleigh.com
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KAROLA LUETTRINGHAUS, Ph.D.
karolaluettringhaus.comKarola Lüttringhaus, Ph.D. was born and grew up in Berlin, Germany, where they founded ALBAN ELVED DANCE COMPANY in 1997 to form an outlet for their diverse artistic pursuits. Their interdisciplinary dance-theatre works are marked by a unique visceral and kinetic voice that traces the changeable electricity of thought and sensation that underlies human interaction and interpersonal relationships. For the past 15 years they have been the artistic director of ALBAN ELVED DANCE COMPANY, as well as working as a freelance choreographer and designer at theatres and universities across Europe and the US, ...
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MATTHEW WILLIAMS
Matthew Williams, (Baltimore, MD)
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SLOW EAR ENSEMBLE: PHIL ZAMPINO
Photo byPhil Zampino, (Wilmington, NC)
http://www.squidco.com
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SLOW EAR ENSEMBLE: SEAN HART
Sean Hart, (Wilmington, NC)
https://youtu.be/t-PpryYE2EE
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The below artists in residence gathered at Cape Fear Community College from August 4th through 8th, 2025 to create this inter-disciplinary performance experience for SARUS Festival.
Performance: Friday, August 8th: 6:30pm
Studio Theatre in the Wilson Center building, entrance on Hanover Street
MAURICE MOORE
Maurice Moore, Ph.D., Knoxsville, TN
Dr. Maurice Moore is an Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. They received a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Performance Studies from the University of California-Davis, and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Published by Versal Journal, and winner of their 2022 Amsterdam Open Book Prize,...
>>> read more
LUIS ADORNO
wakinglifenc.bandcamp.comLuis Adorno is a musician, visual artist, and performance artist based out of Wilmington, NC. Performing and recording for over a decade under the name "The Waking Life" as well as occasionally leading the ever evolving and always different improvisational group "Inference Engine", he has recorded multiple albums and has experimented with a wide variety of genres while combining field recordings, electric and acoustic elements.
>>> read more
SLOW EAR ENSEMBLE: CARL KRUGER
websiteCarl Kruger, Phil Zampino, Shawn Hart, and others
Sound art, noise art, and sound installation, from Wilmington, NC
https://www.discogs.com/artist/225915-Carl-Kruger
>>> read more
PHIL SINGLETON
website
Director of AFA programs at Cape Fear Community College, founding member of Tallis Chamber Orchestra, from Wilmington, NC
>>> read more
BRINSON LEIGH KRESGE
brinsonleigh.comBrinson Leigh Kresge is a writer, mover, and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores relative simultaneity, interconnectedness, identity process, and impermanence through genre-queering and other mediums that won’t sit still or cross their legs. Leigh is co-director of SARUS Festival 2025.
brinsonleigh.com
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KAROLA LUETTRINGHAUS, Ph.D.
karolaluettringhaus.comKarola Lüttringhaus, Ph.D. was born and grew up in Berlin, Germany, where they founded ALBAN ELVED DANCE COMPANY in 1997 to form an outlet for their diverse artistic pursuits. Their interdisciplinary dance-theatre works are marked by a unique visceral and kinetic voice that traces the changeable electricity of thought and sensation that underlies human interaction and interpersonal relationships. For the past 15 years they have been the artistic director of ALBAN ELVED DANCE COMPANY, as well as working as a freelance choreographer and designer at theatres and universities across Europe and the US, ...
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MATTHEW WILLIAMS
Matthew Williams, (Baltimore, MD)
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SLOW EAR ENSEMBLE: PHIL ZAMPINO
Photo byPhil Zampino, (Wilmington, NC)
http://www.squidco.com
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SLOW EAR ENSEMBLE: SEAN HART
Sean Hart, (Wilmington, NC)
https://youtu.be/t-PpryYE2EE
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