Performances by Dutch and Belgian sound artists
For a second time, a packed performance programme focussing on sound art will happen at the closing day of the FIBER Festival. Sound Art Sunday will give wide exposure to artists from the Netherlands and Belgium. Expect a series of short performances, and one longer hybrid performance, at the intersection of sound, installation art, instrument design, dance and theatre in different rooms of the Brakke Grond.
During Anouk Kellner's performance, called Airchoir No. 1, you experience an ever-changing soundscape that shifts depending on the visitor's position in the space. Eight inflatables breathe in and out like living lungs, and make their voices heard through the eight organ pipes they are connected to.
Éclipsis by Vica Pacheco is a performance piece that mixes music, dance, and an interactive, ceramic garden of sculptures. It is a sonic exploration for the balance between light and dark. Diane Mahín presents GRUNT, where you will meet a woman who communicates solely through growling. The growler navigates various moods, portraying what seems to be an urgent story to be told or an intimate conversation to be held. Closing the day is the performance iMac Music from Jonathan Chaim Reus. Originally staged at the Rode Zaal in 2013 at FIBER’s Coded Matter(s) series, a renewed version is presented - 12 years later - in the same space. The piece has only increased in relevance: less and less are we able to access and alter the seamless functioning digital machines and systems that fully mediate our lives (and eat our planet).
Next to the performances there will be a short Q&A with some of the artists, moderated by FIBER’s artistic director Jarl Schulp.
This programme is linked to Neighbouring Frequencies – a new initiative that supports the presentation and exchange of sound art between the Netherlands and Belgium. Many thanks to STUK (Leuven), de Brakke Grond, Kunstenpunt, DutchCulture and the Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands for their collaboration and support.
Vica Pacheco presents ÉCLIPSIS (Performance)
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How can we celebrate both light and darkness? During ÉCLIPSIS, Vica Pacheco will orchestrate a choreographic musical score that invites the audience on an emotional sonic journey. Crafted through body gestures, dance and the evocative sounds of clay instrument bodies. It will be a celebration of both existence and death, inviting the audience to immerse themselves in a sonic fable, guided by their own mental images and memories.
Light is fundamental to our existence. It defines our tangible world and reveals our place in the universe. Yet, light coexists with darkness, which evokes thoughts of the womb, the night, death, fear, and silence. This relationship is beautifully mirrored in the performance, using the seed as a symbol to illustrate its need for darkness to sprout and light to flourish.
ÉCLIPSIS is a co-production by STUK, Botanique & Les Halles de Schaerbeek, de Brakke Grond & FIBER
