09/02/2023
IRRUPTIVE CHORA presents HYPERSPACE
Saturday the 18th February 2023
I K L E C T I K
‘Old Paradise Yard’
20 Carlisle Lane (Royal Street corner) next to Archbishop’s Park.
SE1 7LG
For tickets and more information please visit: https://iklectikartlab.com/hyperspace/
Culminating art research project HYPERSPACE, an experimental year-long P2P inquiry into new hybrid ways of making and sharing art, curatorial collective Irruptive Chora presents a day-long event on Saturday the 18th February 2023. They invite audiences into accessible affective space for multi-sensorial encounter with technology-focused works, audio-visual performances, talks and workshops to coincide with the launch of their interactive online platform.
Throughout the last 12 months, recovering from pandemic’s disconnectedness, the artist collective regularly met for workshops led by diverse creative practitioners and accessibility consultants. They shared space through the screen experimenting with digital intimacy, gathered around a pond at the oldest housing cooperative in London or met in a forest at an Iron Age hill fort. Scattered across diverse dimensions they drank mugwort, infused acorns, interacted with AI machines, while their collective voice was synthesised to translate their embodied experiences into an everlasting ethereal entity. With some always connecting at an international distance, simultaneously syncing with others in physical proximity, they merged their unequally distributed presences to test new, more inclusive ways of learning, making and sharing work within the ruined art ecosystems.
In turn, the event at Iklectik Art Lab compresses body memories and imprints new traces inviting the public into the space of spherical thinking and hyperspatial feeling. Addressing accessibility of and within arts, HYPERSPACE welcomes poet Will Harris to respond to the exhibition through improvised spoken word translated into sign language. Guiding the visitors through sound, screen-based and sculptural works coexisting in the physical space, they invite the audience to reinvent HYPERSPACE’s collective memory through touch, taste and smell. Continuing her performance work, qualified Dance Movement Psychotherapy artist Ekin Bernay, is collecting hearts from the audience, while well-known AI-whisperer K Allado-McDowell virtually shares their secrets of machine mysticism. HYPERSPACE extends the discussion to the public, accumulating and layering, questioning ownership and agency, while using technological tools to bridge the gap between artists and audiences.
Programme:
12pm – Interactive multimedia display of technology-driven art works and project traces of the HYPERSPACE artist collective (live experimentation & improvised performative interventions)
1pm – 1:30pm Sara Rodrigues / Landra (The Paths we Take: acorn infusion performance)
1:30 – 2pm Sotiris Gonis + Ania Mokrzycka (audio-visual performance)
2pm – 3pm Will Harris (spoken word performance – live broadcast through Resonance Extra)
3pm – 4:30pm Ekin Bernay (participatory performance)
4:30pm – 5pm Natalia Janula + David Williams (listening session)
5pm – 5:45pm Kenric Allado Mc Dowell (performative talk & audio-visual projection)
5:45pm – 6:30pm Ada Hao (audio-visual performance)
BREAK (warm vegan meal sharing)
7:30pm- 8:00pm Lea Collet (collective reading performance)
8:15pm – 8:45pm Pietro Bardini (sound performance)
9pm – 9:15pm Maja A. Ngom (sound) / Rachel McRae (scent)
9:25pm – 9:45pm Atay Ilgun – ecolagbohrsac2021 (sound performance)
10:00pm- 10:30pm Cyrus Vahidi – Rastegah (sound performance)
10:30pm + DJ
The core peer group artists and contributors include :
Tanya Moulson, Natalia Janula, Lea Collet, Sara Rodrigues, Ada Hao, Rachel McRae, Ramona Güntert, Maja A. Ngom, Pietro Bardini, Sotiris Gonis, Erik Lintunen, Ania Mokrzycka, Agata Kik
The session leaders and accessibility consultants included:
Hollie Miller & Craig Scott, Verity Birt & Tom Sewell, Marcin Pietruszewski, Mikołaj Szatko, David Williams and Tarik Haskic, David Johnson, Atay Ilgun & Cyrus Vahidi, Linda Rocco
The HYPERSPACE digital platform is designed and built by artist Erik Lintunen.
The HYPERSPACE collective voice is synthesised and produced by artist Mikołaj Szatko.
The HYPERSPACE logo is designed by artist Nicola Tirabasso.
The event is curated by Irruptive Chora and presented in collaboration with Iklectik Art Lab.
If you are unwaged or cannot afford to pay the ticket, please email [email protected]
HYPERSPACE is funded by Arts Council England, Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland and Italian Cultural Institute London. The project partners include Shape Arts, Resonance Extra and Resonance FM. The media partners include CLOT and POST SCRIPTUM magazines.
