Lemon Guo
Lemon Guo is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, and vocalist from China. Drawn to the visceral and evocative nature of the voice, she creates voice-based performances and installations that connect people to current environmental and cultural realities. She holds an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University and has performed and exhibited her works internationally, in places such as Rubin Museum of Art (US), BBC Radio 3 (UK), International Computer Music Conference (Korea), and Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (China). Lemon has held residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts and Making Tracks. She was a commissioned composer and sound designer for the UNDP. Lemon created music for director Yi Tang’s short film All the Crows in the World, which won Palme d’Or at Festival de Cannes 2021 (France). Lemon and multidisciplinary artist Mengtai Zhang’s '19 VR documentary Diagnosia, supported by IDFA DocLab R&D program and Wave Farm/NYSCA MAAF grant, premiered at the Immersive Non-Fiction Competition at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2021 and the New Frontier section at Sundance Film Festival 2022. Lemon and composer/pipa-player Sophia Shen’s experimental duo Southeast of Rain recently released their debut album 42 Days to critical acclaim. “Weaving magic from the mundane” (Songlines Magazine), 42 Days was hailed as “a collaborative gem and a highlight among this year’s new releases... inspires a sort of breathless introspection–a meditation on the perception of time and space in sound” (I Care If You Listen).
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Lemon Guo '18 is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, and vocalist from China. Drawn to the visceral and evocative nature of the voice, she creates voice-based performances and installations that connect people to current environmental and cultural realities. She holds an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University and has performed and exhibited her works internationally, in places such as Rubin Museum of Art (US), BBC Radio 3 (UK), International Computer Music Conference (Korea), and Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (China). Lemon has held residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts and Making Tracks. She was a commissioned composer and sound designer for the UNDP. Lemon created music for director Yi Tang’s short film All the Crows in the World, which won Palme d’Or at Festival de Cannes 2021 (France). Lemon and multidisciplinary artist Mengtai Zhang’s '19 VR documentary Diagnosia, supported by IDFA DocLab R&D program and Wave Farm/NYSCA MAAF grant, premiered at the Immersive Non-Fiction Competition at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2021 and the New Frontier section at Sundance Film Festival 2022. Lemon and composer/pipa-player Sophia Shen’s experimental duo Southeast of Rain recently released their debut album 42 Days to critical acclaim. “Weaving magic from the mundane” (Songlines Magazine), 42 Days was hailed as “a collaborative gem and a highlight among this year’s new releases... inspires a sort of breathless introspection–a meditation on the perception of time and space in sound” (I Care If You Listen).
Mengtai Zhang ‘19 and Lemon Guo ‘18 collaborated on Diagnosia, a virtual reality experience running at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam from November 17 to 28, 2021.
This year, sound art alumna Lemon Guo ’18 was an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, in collaboration with Sophie Shen.