Christopher WILLES

Christopher Willes is an artist, composer / musician, researcher, and dramaturge based in so-called Canada. His projects focus on the subject and practice of listening, and are often generated through long term collaborative processes that blur the lines between art making, learning, performance, publication, curation, and research. Christopher has also worked as a sound-designer and dramaturg in dance and theatre for over a decade. And since 2014 he worked extensively with Public Recordings, an organization in Toronto - Toronto focused on interdisciplinary performance research.
His recent work has been presented by The Toronto Biennial of Art, the Music Gallery (CAN), Fierce Festival (UK), Musée d'art de Joliette (QC), Bétonsalon (France), OFFTA, Take Me Somewhere (UK), PuSH Festival (CAN), and elsewhere. He holds a Bachelor of Music (University of Toronto) and an MFA (Bard College, USA). Christopher often facilitates and organizes community arts projects and workshops, and he is currently studying Conflict Mediation at the University of Waterloo.