»Iterative Cast« by Gaspar Cohen scrutinizes the very tensions among different epistemological standpoints and is an affirmation of uncertainty as a potentiality of the present. Cohen re-processes audio fragments collected from the ΚΣΥΜΕ/CMRC Contemporary Music Research Centre in Athens and challenges video-editing algorithms, which are taught to seamlessly blend content into and evolving mash. Translating the archive into an auditory and visual space constantly in flux echoes cyclical and spiral ideas of history, narrative folds, the reconfiguration of cultural circuits, and onto-technological disruptions.
The work was commissioned within the framework of Chronotopia, an initiative by CTM Festival and Goethe-Institut Athen that highlights connections between experimental music and research present and past. Supported by Athens & Epidaurus Festival.