MusicMakers Hacklab Finale

31st Jan 2021 31st Jan 2021 18:00 19:30

Hosted by Peter Kirn and Olivia Jack

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With Bruno Gola, Ce Pams, Mamady Diarra, Mint Park aka BAKÁH, My Panda Shall Fly, Nerve, Ruhail Qaisar, Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo, Tokzhan Karatai, Yifan He

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  • Pisitakun

    TH

    Through neon noise and cacophonic collage, Pisitakun Kuantalaeng sonically responds to the political upheaval in his native Thailand. As well as touring and performing live, Pisitakun sculpts sound within multimedia installation art.


     

  • Omsk Social Club

    INT

    Omsk Social Club explores live-action role-playing (LARP) as an artistic medium with what they call a »futuristically political« approach.

    • Image: Olivia Jack, 2020.

    The MusicMaker's Hacklab is an intensive weeklong collaborative environment, where 10 Hacklab fellows, selected via open call, experiment and exchange to bring new musical ideas to life. Hacklab fellows present then their work on day seven at a finale event.

    This year's Hacklab is titled »Off the Fovea.« The fovea is the center of vision, the area of sight on which the eye’s perception concentrates. But it’s not a complete picture. Looking off the fovea is a practice of removing this center of focus, making space for new connections on a creative, technical, and collaborative level.

    The performance space this year will be presented with all Hacklab fellows remote (co-hosts will be physically present at the performance venue). Expect experimentation with novel mechanisms for online audiences, and media ranging the gamut of live coding, virtual spaces, puppetry and object theater, transmitted musical events, radio, data, dance, photography and video, robotics, singing. These will be conveyed in a performance space with live video, sound, and light, reconfigured in such a way that artists can playfully explore empty spaces on the venue's stage.