Testu Collective is an NYC-based intermedia art group founded by Dan Tesene and Serena Stucke. Testu creates experimental videos, concept soundtracks, audiovisual experiences, sound art, and performance art installations. Tesene and Stucke are interested in creating environments that challenge the traditional audience experience. Testu has produced site-specific installations and curated works for Triskelion Arts (Brooklyn), Wallplay On Canal (NYC), Flux Factory (Governors Island), Sound Pedro (Los Angeles), Chashama (Brooklyn), CTM Festival(online), Ars Electronica(NYC), Ace Hotel(NYC), The Shed(NYC), Pleamar Festival(Buenos Aires), Theaterlab(NYC). Most recently, Testu Collective performed ‘Breathing Landscapes’, a live audiovisual experience, at Tunnel space in Tokyo.
AV PERFORMANCES | SCULPTURE| PERFORMANCE ART| VIDEO INSTALLATIONS | CURATION
2023
-Public Visuals: Live audiovisual performance, The Tunnel, Tokyo, JP
-Public Visuals & Friends: Live audiovisual immersive experience, Lume Studios, NY
-Haptic Drift x Public Visuals: Live audiovisual performance & video exhibition, Theaterlab, NY
-Public Visuals: Live audiovisual performance, Coaxial Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
-Public Visuals: Multimedia Exhibition, Root K Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo, JP
-Existence in Time is Transitory: intermedia installation & performance, Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY
-Sound & Team Room: Curated sound installation , Tea & Arts Culture, NY
-Haptic Drift: sound performance with hand-built instruments, Theater Lab, Manhattan, NY
2022
-Esthesis: Music video creation for musician Clarice Jensen, Streaming online
-Pleamar Festival: Live audiovisual performance & talk, Mar Museo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
-Unfinished Conference: Video creation for musician Kaoru Watanabe, The Shed, Manhattan, NY
-The Sun is Not Silent: Sound & Sculpture Installation, Flux Factory, Governors Island, NY
-Cocoon: Performance Installation, The Garage, Brooklyn, NY
-Radion II: Live Intermedia performance, Theater Lab, Manhattan, NY
-Influence of the Electric Field: AV album release & gallery installation, Peninsula Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021
-Artifact: audiovisual performance, Atta, Manhattan, NY
-Illumination Festival: performance installation, Under the K Bridge, Brooklyn, NY
-Public Visuals: group audiovisual exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
-Ars Electronica: audiovisual performance, Plaxall Gallery, Queens, NY
-The Void: audiovisual & performance art installation, Triskelion, Brooklyn, NY
-TRVLR: sculpture, performance art & sound performance, Mika, Brooklyn NY
-Tea Arts & Culture: Sound Performance, East Village garden, Manhattan, NY
-Chashama storefront residency: Intermedia Performance, 146 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY
-Currents FM Common Multiverse Festival: Curation and Audiovisual Performance, Streaming Online
-INTERVAL V: Intermedia Performance, Streaming Online
-CTM Festival: Exquisite Force Audiovisual Project, Streaming Online
-Brian Eno's Mixing Colours: Video Installation, Los Angeles, CA
2020
-Edge of Light: Audiovisual Perfomance, Plaxall Gallery, Queens, NY
-I N T E R V A L IV: Intermedia Performance, Mika, Brooklyn, NY
-I N T E R V A L III: Intermedia Performance, CreateART & Ace Hotel, New York, NY
-I N T E R V A L II: Intermedia Performance, Synesthesia Gallery, Brooklyn NY
-I N T E R V A L I: Intermedia Performance, Central Park, NY, Streaming Online
-Solace, Audiovisual Benefit Compilation & Live streaming event: Curated & performed live
electronics and visuals, Streaming Online
-Videos for Clarice Jensen: The Kitchen, The Viewing Room(online), Streaming Online
- 24 Hour Drone Fest: Basilica Hudson, Live AV & Performance, Streaming Online
- Group AV Show: Curated & performed live electronics and visuals, Honey's, Brooklyn, NY
- World Premiere of music videos for Clarice Jensen’s ‘The experience of repetition as death’, Streaming Online
2019
- Solstice: Group AV Show, Curated & performed live electronics and visuals, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
- Radion: Group AV Show, Live electronics and visuals, Synesthesia, Brooklyn, NY
- DigiAna Group: Group AV Show: Live electronics and visuals, Babycastles, New York, NY
- Public Visuals: Group AV Show, Live electronics and visuals, Synesthesia, Brooklyn, NY
- Dreamlands: Live AV & Performance, Ideal Glass, New York, NY
- Earmaginations: Video Installation, Sound Pedro, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
- Second Skin: AV Performance & Video Installation, OnCanal, New York, NY
2018
-Second Skin: AV Performance & Dance Experience, Collab Fest, Triskelion Arts,
Brooklyn, NY
Select Performances
2020
I N T E R V A L IV
Mika
Brooklyn, NY
I N T E R V A L III
CreateART at Ace Hotel
New York, NY
I N T E R V A L II
Synesthesia Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
I N T E R V A L I
Online Streaming
Edge of Light
Plaxall Gallery
LIC, NY
Solace
Audio Visual Compilation
Online Streaming
Music Videos for Clarice Jensen
Online Streaming
Audiovisual Performance
Honeys
Brooklyn, NY
2019
Dreamlands
Ideal Glass, the Atrium
New York, New York
Second Skin On Canal
361 Canal Street
New York, New York
Solstice
Flux Factory
Long Island City, New York
Radion
Synesthesia
Brooklyn, New York
Digi Ana Group
Baby Castles
New York, New York
Public Visuals 4
Synesthesia
Brooklyn, New York
Public Visuals 3
Synesthesia
Brooklyn, New York
Digi Ana Group
Synesthesia
Brooklyn, New York
2018
Second Skin
Triskellion Arts
Brooklyn New York