vocalist
Tisa Neža Herlec aka Tisa World (1996, Ljubljana) is a multidisciplinarian whose practice weaves voice, language, print-making, performance, composition and collective endeavours. She loves to share her methods of creation and empower collective art-making and publishing, often within the context of performative arts. She enhances her performances with the use of printed matter and imagery such as graphic prints.
She holds a Bachelor in Fine Arts from ALUO in Ljubljana, and Master of Fine Art and Design from the department of Experimental Publishing at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, with the support of the scholarship of the Slovenian Ministry of Culture. She has lived in the Netherlands from 2019 to 2025, and has published, exhibited and performed internationally. She is currently an artist in residency at MGLC Švicarija in Ljubljana (2025–2027). In 2025 she established Zborovanje, a community experimental anti-choir for all voices, a successor to the Mystery Sessions she conducted at UBIK, Worm in Rotterdam (2021–2025).
She was a resident of: Sonoscopia in Porto (2025); Hamburger Community at Roodkapje Rotterdam & Divo Institute in Beja, Portugal (2024); CreativePowerGarage101 in Japan & Petersburg Art Space in Berlin & Paviljoen aan het Water in Rotterdam (2023); Destination Unknown in Venlo, NL & ATM festival in Seoul, South Korea (2022); transborders festival, Pavlova hiša, border between Slovenia and Austria (2020).
She is a member of several collectives: Singing Club Rotterdam (since 2019); De Boog, a shared studio for graphic arts and risography in Rotterdam (since 2020); RE#sister Rotterdam, fem collective for experimental sound art (since 2019); Modri Kot, an experimental venue for politics and performative arts in Autonomous Rog Factory in Ljubljana (2015–2019).
She was a host of the interview show The Side Entrance on Radio Worm in Rotterdam (2019–2024), and a radio moderator on Radio Student in Ljubljana (2015–2018). In the UBIK theatre in Rotterdam she conducted a series of participatory Mystery Sessions – workshops for interdisciplinary improvisation and performance (2021–2025).
Discography
· Stepmother – Bring me flowers and tell me you love me (Knock em dead records US, 2025)
· TiSiTi & Singing Club Rotterdam – A kind of light (self-publishing, 2025)
· Tisa World solo – part of a compilation V/A Regained Crafts (World Loop, 2023)
· Tisa World & Kick 2.0880468e+31 – Where were you all this time (self-publishing, 2023)
· Tisa World & EOM – Grounding in Gravity (self-publishing, 2023)
· Tisa World solo – Tongue Twisters & Other Linguistic Anomalies (self-publishing, 2022)
· Voronoi Collective trio – Tisa na Tisu (De mislukte zigeuner records, 2022)
· Shall we – Sequence Initiated (self-publishing, 2022)
· Tisa World solo – Sound of Mysteries (self-publishing, 2022)
· Mystery Sessions – 1 (self-publishing, 2022)
· Tisa World & Bert den Hoed – Songs to make your day (self-publishing, 2022)
· Tisa&Mojca, part of a compilation Re#sistant Bodies, (Re#sister Rotterdam, 2022)
· Propolis – Bureau (self-publishing, 2021)
· Tisa World & Linus Bonduelle, Stand your ground and hold water (West Den Haag, 2020)
· Tisa World solo, part of a compilation De Layer #3 (De Player, 2020)
· Tisa World solo, part of a compilation Corporeal Whispers (Re#sister Rotterdam, 2020)
· cTrL – Little Pieces (self-publishing, 2020)
Current Projects
· Solo: Tisa World – Tisa Neža Herlec – voice
· TiSiTi – Tisa Neža Herlec – voice, Tara Reece – voice, Ceola Tunstall–Behrens – voice
· Tisa&Mojca – Tisa Neža Herlec – voice, Mojca Zupančič – synthesizers, piano, voice
· Triangulation – Tisa Neža Herlec – voice, Dean Montanaro – bass guitar, Christine Cornwell – violin, Friso van Wijck – percussions
· Stepmother – Tisa Neža Herlec – voice, Lukas Simonis – guitar, Bill Gillonis – clarinet, Jeroen Visser – saxophone, bass guitar, Philipp Ernsting – drums
· Warping – Tisa Neža Herlec – voice, Alessandro Citterio/stinkymate – electronics
Past projects
· Shall we? – Tisa Neža Herlec – voice, Sebastián Pappalardo/eerie_ear – algoritmic coding, Dorota Matejová – traverso, flutes
· cTrL – Tisa Neža Herlec – voice, Lucija Gregov – cello
· Relativna tišina ob zori – Tisa Neža Herlec – voice, Ida Hiršenfelder/beepblip – 8-channel sound spatization, Lina Rica – video
· Voronoi Collective – Tisa Neža Herlec – voice, Mojca Zupančič – synthesizers, Ruggero di Luisi – percussions
· Propolis – Tisa Neža Herlec – voice, Marek Fakuč – percussions, drums
· Absorption – Tisa Neža Herlec – voice, Pseudonymus pianos – piano
Working in other fields (theater, pedagogue, etc.)
· contemporary art
· radio announcer (Radio Študent)
· workshop leader (Mystery Sessions, Singing Club Rotterdam, Zborovanje)
We Point Out
A Kind of Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i6p6xleMI0 > video clip
https://tisaworld.bandcamp.com/album/a–kind–of–light > recording of the entire performance
A Kind of Light is a 3-hour site-specific performance for the experimental non-choir Singing Club Rotterdam, created by Tisa Neža in collaboration with TiSiTi (a female vocal and composition trio – Ceola Tunstall-Behrens & Tara Reece). As part of a sculptural installation by artist Jabu Arnell at Rotterdam’s Kunstinstituut Melly, the members of the non-choir used objects in space as graphic notation, performed with their bodies and voices, with the support of a community-written printed libretto.
Povezave
https://www.instagram.com/_tisa_world_/
video:
TiSiTi & Singing Club Rotterdam & Eat Your Feelings – Sing with your mouthful (2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPn8XfIzXuA
Tisa & Pseudonymus Pianos – Absorption (2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u1GEsIdr6s
Tisa World & Shiomi Kawaguchi – Bring me to a place of abundance (2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxNEf4CjFTU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDQoxyCYmG4
Tisa & Mojca – Once Upon Again (2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTypoJK89hc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h138lAFfjn4&t=1s
