MEDIATHEK

Joshua Kohl is co-founder, orchestral conductor, composer and co-artistic director of the Seattle based multi-art group Degenerate Art Ensemble (DAE). Under his co-direction, DAE has become a leading entity on the cutting edge of contemporary art in their region as well as an expanding presence internationally. His work with Degenerate Art Ensemble is an intensely collaborative work that sees no boundaries between the visual and performing arts. The work is presented in major dance and music venues as well as shown in galleries, and most recently was the subject of a large scale Museum retrospective at Seattle's Frye Art Museum. Along with DAE, he was invited by legendary theater director Robert Wilson in April of 2012 to create an interpretation of his and Phillip Glass' epic work Einstein On The Beach in which DAE worked closely with Wilson on the work and presented it under Wilson's guidance at the Baryshnikov Center in New York. In February of this year he conducted the orchestral music of fellow DAE composer Jherek Bischoff with the Wordless Music Orchestra in New York at Lincoln Center with vocalists David Byrne, Mirah and several rising stars of creative popular music. In August of this year he will travel with DAE to the Czech Republic for a headline festival performance in collaboration with legendary Czech rock band Uz Jsme Doma. DAE's newest work, The Preditor's Songstress has been awarded major funding from the Seattle Center Foundation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Seattle Worlds Fair. The work will consist of the creation of six extremely intricate and painterly video portraits along with a series of animated films that will integrate live music and interactive performance. This new work will be the main focus of DAE's new creative work this year.