The opening concert of “Delusions” is curated by ״Excessive״ collective, who invited artists to explore the artful wiles of the audio-visual world. Each performance piece offers a different experience, trying to probe and defy the boundaries between the intangible vision of our mind and the palpably physical world out there.
WACKELKONTAKT / AQUADOME #2: A Crack in the Tank
During the seventies a series of experiments were conducted in Germany to investigate the nature of telepathy. The subjects were seated in separate rooms under a prolonged exposure to red light and white noise, wearing glasses with white plastic lenses. With open eyes and blurry vision, they were asked to communicate graphic content to one another using the power of their minds. The conclusions of the experiment remained ambiguous. But whether telepathy is real or not, the audiovisual trio WACKELKONTAKT was artistically triggered by the experiment itself. Equipping their audience with A-D glasses and exposing them to flashing lights and loud sounds, they created a new form of an artistic experience. A Crack in the Tank is the second part of the Aquadome trilogy, which combines sound, lighting, video clips and live musical performance. Amidst the forceful roar of nature crashing against the noise of the amplifiers in the room, the band delves into mystical poetics, following the mysterious ways in which fluid elements transform from a single frequency into noise, and from noise into the sound of silence.
* The show uses flashing lights and loud sounds and is not recommended for people suffering from or prone to photosensitive epilepsy.
Genrietta / Cold War
Genrietta is an audiovisual artist born in Moscow. Her aesthetic world evolved through long hours of research and experimentation with analog electronics and personal memories of her (cold) homeland. During the Ukraine war, realizing she may never be back to her old home again, she began writing the music and lyrics of Cold War. Her emotionally charged experience inspired her to create an imaginary cold universe made of screened abstract images, sound played on a modular synthesizer and pieces of poetry read in Russian and English. Seaming together faded shapes of light, frozen textures and melodic patterns of hazy synth-pop, Genrietta invites the audience to venture into her own unique world.
Nimrod Gershoni – A-Hole
Nimrod Gershoni is a multidisciplinary artist creating environments made of performance, video, sound and props. A-Hole is an evolving work that has been shown in galleries, festivals and various alternative venues; it began with an image of the eternal fall based on the 9/11 “Falling Man” and developed into a chilling video of a puppet-theater work, which later further developed into the current state of the show. A-Hole combines live electronic music and digital imagery, in the center of which Gershoni placed his own image eternally falling from a skyscraper. When both, the artist himself and his distorted twin image appear simultaneously on stage and on screen, as in two parallel “realities”, surrounded by what could have been mistaken for the soundtrack of a karaoke night scene in a thriller – the audience may undergo a kind of cognitive dissonance verging on hypnosis.
