“Dynamic Systems” invites the audience to be captivated by lightscapes, resonate with soundscapes, and contemplate with a performative lecture.
Lottie Sebes will harness the web of gender, voice and technology through a dismantled and reforged sewing machine, re-envisioned as an instrument. Dina A. Mohamed will ponder the formation of an “Organic Artist” as a driving force for social change. The resident Mehrnaz Khorrami will bring light and sound together in a system inspired by living organisms.
This event explores the framework in which art practices and artworks exist by escaping the traditional. Presenting artists who research different dynamic systems and alternative artistic roles. Curated by Leon Lapa Pereira.
Lottie Sebes is a Berlin-based sound artist from Australia with a practice spanning the fields of sound, sculpture and performance and video. She is fascinated by the past lives, cultural meanings and living agencies of old and new technologies and seeks to trace the way power structures are manifested in our relations with machines.
Veritas Ventriloquist is a sonic performance which questions, transforms and harnesses the historical entanglements of gender, voice and technology. At its core is the Veritas Machine – a noisy, dynamic, woman-machine interface made of dismantled and reforged sewing machines, re-envisioned as an instrument and vocal synthesizer.
Dina A. Mohamed is an artist and a researcher with a cross-dispensary background who works through different mediums of video, performance and writing. Her research and artistic practice are concerned with understanding the political despondency caused by complex intertwining structures of economics, politics and technology.
Dina will be sharing a lecture performance that questions who gets to be the artist? and Where does the artist stand in relation to society?
The performance maps the recent histories of thought and debates around art autonomy and its manifestation in contemporary art. The focus is to question the position of the artist in relation to socio-political roles and the structures of labor under the contemporary art institute and its relations to the neo-liberal economies.
Merhnaz (Maggie) Khorrami is an electro-acoustic composer whose artistic practice centers on designing sound installations, audiovisual performances, and live electro-acoustic improvisation. Her compositions integrate diverse sounds, including custom-made acoustic instruments, urban spaces, and synthesized sound generated and manipulated through creative coding.
She will be sharing her research on microsound and particles systems. It explores the possible sets of material, gestures, structures, and different strategies by focusing on micro events. Investigating complex forms in sonic texture, colour, pattern, behaviour and their relationship in space to design and redefine the space for listeners. Her music serves as artistic expressions that mirror and relate to natural phenomena, investigating how things interact and behave within spatial dimensions, using light and sound.
Flipchart is presented by iii with financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL and The Municipality of The Hague.