Mári Mákó (HU) is a composer and sound artist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

In her solo practice she plays with live electronics, which she combines with acoustic sound sources: voice, amplified instruments and objects. In her performance she is looking for unconventional music practices to give space for her own compositional processes.

Along with that she is designing her own performative tools with sensors and self-built oscillators. With her inventive musical instruments, her music has been described as a mix of the roots of industrial music, experimental electronic and glitch music contrasted with drone textures.

Sofie Kramer (1990) is theatre-maker, performer and writer. She forges her personal experiences into shredded fairytales and mutilated myths as an attempt to tell coherent, big stories against better judgement. The fighting body is a returning theme in her work; the body that tries to fight time, gravity, the gaze of the other. She shows these fights in strongly visual, interdisciplinary performances in which physicality and sound play an important role. 

During their residency at iii, Mári Mákó and Sofie Kramer will develop a new pole-dancing instrument and performance together, exploring technical innovation and sensory experience through the means of sound and movement.

“We see that the mediator, the pole, is encapsulating the modern material world, which we transform with the help of sensory design. By turning the pole into a “living” entity with sounds, we can break down and develop another sense of ritual, connected to performance practice. The process of discovery is then a question of accepting to share control of a process with entities that are different from ourselves, and of being sensitive to the unexpected.”

Mári Mákó and Sofie Kramer will conduct their residency at iii workspace between May and June 2022 and will present the outcome of their residency on June 18th.

iii’s residency program is made possible through the support of Creative Industries Fund NL and the Creative Europe program of the European Union.