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RYOJI IKEDA
D-FUSE AND LABMETA
SUPERPOSITION
TEKTON
Dutch Premiere
Dutch Premiere
21.00–22.15 / STRP 1
23.00–00.00 / STRP 2
Superposition is a project about the way we understand the reality of nature on an atomic scale. It is the b iggest project that the leading Japanese electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda has set up so far. Employing a spectacular combination of 21 synchronised video screens, real-time content feeds, digital sound sculptures and human performers, Superposition explores the thrilling conceptual world opened up by quantum theory. Ikeda’s immersive and viscerally exciting music plunges you into the grey space between 0 and 1, true and false, where uncertainty and probability coexist.
Tekton is a series of audio visual works exploring the materiality of light in motion produced by mechanical assemblages. These creations are performed r evealing emergent patterns of rhythm and form in a recursive inter mingling between h uman and machine. Inspired by the constructivist designs of Vladimir Tatlin and László Moholy-Nagy’s Light Space Modulator, the artists assemble multi-layered light-emitting objects into kinetic structures. Between the binaries of light and dark, harmony and disarray, human and machine, there is a balance that is stabilised on screen.
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