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-------- Original Message -------- 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 <[email protected]> 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 ** E-pasts nav saprotams? Apskatieties to savā interneta pārlūkprogrammā.<http://archive.mlgnsrv.com/?u=a67c8c9a961b4182688768dd9ba015fe&id=a0bf290c&e=e374b55b> *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 [email protected] / www.kim.lv Šo vēstuli nosūtīja kim.lv uz [email protected]. 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