OPENLESS 1: FRIDAY 23 AUGUST
The Drum and the Bird is a new multi-sensory performance by Forensis (Forensic Architecture) in collaboration with Bill Kouligas and PAN. An immersive auditory experience, the work examines the relationship between lost ecologies and colonial exploitation. Rooted in Forensis’ ongoing investigation of German colonialism in Namibia, the work weaves together generative environmental audio, oral testimonies, and spatio-visual modelling, and compels an audience to contemplate the price of colonial amnesia by highlighting voices and sounds that have been silenced or altered as a result of this history. Landscapes are repositories – carrying within them all life’s narratives. Rocks, sediments, flora and fauna have all borne witness to transformations beyond human perception. How has witnessing been encoded within them? What stories do they wish to tell? The audio-visual project, “The Drum and the Bird” is thus a form of memory work. Each actor/character—sand, water, wind, tree, shark, human – within the Namibian landscape responds to time uniquely. Dub theory provides a framework through which these testimonies may be understood at the threshold of loss.
The Drum and The Bird is co-commissioned by Berlin Atonal, Sonar, Rewire and Terraforma.
Also playing this night are Saint Abdullah, Eomac and Rebecca Salvadori, Chris Watson, and Izabela Dłużyk and Lord Spikeheart. Followed by club nights featuring: Ehua, Kameliia, Datashader (Live), Laurel Halo, Lydo, Nawaz b2b Woody92, Special Request, Quiet Husband, Aircode, Assyouti, Simo Cell (Live), Yao Bobby & Simon Grab (Live).
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