[spectre] Fwd: KIM? invites you to Resonant Chamber - Riga - October 25 and 26

[andre castro]

For those in Riga

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Subject: KIM? invites you to Resonant Chamber - a cycle of performances programmed by Margarida Mendes on October 25 and 26
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 07:16:54 +0100
From: Margarida Mendes <margaridamendesm at gmail.com>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Dear friends,

if you are nearby Riga or have friends in town, please invite them for the
performance cycle i am curating for KIM? Contemporary Art Center starting
today!
Would be great to see you there!

xMargarida


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*kim? Contemporary Art Centre invites you to Resonant Chamber - a cycle of
performances on aural spectrality programmed by Margarida Mendes within the
European Capital of Culture 2014 project Waiting for… (Archeology of an
Idea) on October 25 and 26 at  Latvian Artist Union, RIXC Media Space and
Chomsky Bar.*

Evoking the ghost of parapsychologist Konstantin Raudive, pioneer of the
Electronic Voice Phenomena, this performance cycle intends to explore the
perceptive abyss of collective subconscious, at once rendered by the
electrification of information and the emergence of new technologies.

 From the invention of the telegraph to the crescent belief in the deferred
materiality of information infrastructures, we have always had the urge to
seek transmission. Navigating through this turbulent and echoing cloud of
meaning, we have aimed to demystify the wavelength of our thoughts
projected on matter, through the irradiation of our desire and
speculations, themselves entropic. Overlooking this redundancy, we as human
antennae keep tuning our hidden cochleas and otoliths, scanning the
infinitesimal universe while yearning to distinguish signal over noise in a
quest for contact and comprehension of our spectral existence.

Introducing the work of various artists who explore the terrains of audible
phenomena, sensuous technology, occultism and the proprioceptive sublime,
this cycle aims to summon some of the technological anxieties extrapolated
from the dimension of parascience to the domain of the planetary.

Engraving of a beached whale by Jacob Matham, 1601.

Such is the case in *Emilia Kuryłowic's* performative installation
*Euro-ephemera
mystical relaxation system*, which explores the transcendence of interfaces
and physicality via the development of a relaxation platform that evokes an
ordinary paradise, and *Nuno da Luz's* *Reel to Reel = Living Vérité*, an
audio session using field recordings of VLF electromagnetic radiation and
the artist's own collection of satellite's shortwave broadcasts. *Vanja
Smiljanić*, who has been researching initiatic rituals and sects such as
the Cosmic People, will contribute with performance *Strobe Antumbra*, a
poetic guided tour through imaginary void. This will be followed by *Possession
Trance*, *Ryan Jordan's* hypnotic audio ritual that explores the electrical
overload of neuronal activity via the use of flicker. During *The
Levitating Machine* – a parallel session that takes the form of a think
tank – issues related to the driving forces beyond this programme will be
informally discussed, amplifying the reflections proposed by the artists
towards the terrain of DIY aesthetics and amateur science in an instance of
dialogue open to all.

*Programme:
October 25
*6pm Latvian Artist Union - *Euro-Ephemera Mystical Relaxation System*,
performative installation by Emilia Kuryłowicz
9pm RIXC Media Space - *Reel To Reel = Living Vérité*, audio session by
Nuno da Luz

*October 26
*5pm *Chomsky* Bar - *The Levitating Machine*, think tank conducted by
Margarida Mendes
9pm RIXC Media Space - *Strobe Antumbra*, performance by Vanja
Smiljanić + *Possession
Trance*, audio ritual by Ryan Jordan

*Admission is free.*

*Participant biographies:
Ryan Jordan* is an electronic artist conducting experiments in derelict
electronics, possession trance, retro-death-telegraphy and hylozoistic
neural computation.

*Emilia Kuryłowicz* is an artist and a music video director. She works in a
variety of media exploring the ideas of randomness, entropy and cultural
overproduction.

*Nuno da Luz* is an artist, graphic designer and publisher. His work
circumscribes both aural and visual in the form of sound events,
installations and printed matter, mostly distributed through *ATLAS
Projectos* (run together with artists André Romão and Gonçalo Sena)
and *Palmario
Recordings* (run together with artist Joana Escoval).

*Vanja Smiljanić* is a performance artist and a minister of Cosmic People
for the countries of Former Yugoslavia, Portugal and former Portuguese
colonies.

*Margarida Mendes* has directed the project space *The Barber Shop* in
Lisbon since 2009. She is developing research on cybernetics,
geophilosophy, morphogenesis and experimental film.

Margarida Mendes. Photo from personal archive.

     The European Capital of Culture project at *kim?* entails at least six
expert visits from various disciplines – curators, philosophers, writers,
artists and musicians – from all over the world. They will visit Riga for
research and inspiration, as well as interaction with the local cultural
scene. Each of the visits will manifest differently – there will be
creative visits featuring studio visits, and specific theoretical
presentations as well as performance and exhibition projects.
The cycle of performances programmed by Margarida Mendes is the second
chapter of the project which was launched by the visit of independent
curator and writer Chris Sharp on August, 2013.

*Supporters: *Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, State Culture
Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, *LuxExpress*, *Valmiermuižas alus*, *
Vivacolor*, VKN.

*kim? Contemporary Art Centre*
Maskavas Street 12/1, Riga, LV-1050
kim at kim.lv / www.kim.lv

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