Liquid Architecture 2015
Liquid Architecture, an Australian organisation for artists working with sound, invites you to experience an intersection of contemporary art and experimental music at Liquid Architecture 2015: Brisbane from Saturday October 3 to Sunday October 4. This very special free event will unveil wonders crafted by a selection of international and Australian artists, who will be performing and presenting in Brisbane for the very first time, at various spaces in the Institute of Modern Art. The program extends a set of recurring themes that mark Liquid Architecture’s broader 2015 activities: Capitalist Surrealism’s peculiar fantasies of productivism, Feminist Methodologies and the idea of sound as an acoustic mirror for society; and Sonic Warfare as an expression of the pervasiveness of state-corporate eavesdropping, and noise.
This year’s event will be curated by Danni Zuvela and Joel Stern (OtherFilm) and headlined by skewed British freak-folk troubadour Richard Dawson and exhilarating abstract techno producer Basic House of Newcastle, UK.
Saturday October 3 – 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Brisbane artist Nicola Morton will try to engage her doppleganger, technology entrepreneur Ariel Garten, in a battery of psychic tests to “see if she can ‘sense’ what I am thinking.” Melbourne scholar Dr. James Parker will survey the privileged landscapes and material technics of sonic warfare; the iconic New Waver will appropriate classic rock songs in an examination of the trials and tribulations of contemporary life, to the art of Powerpoint; Irish Dadaist Jennifer Walshe will operatically sing the internet; and mysterious Kiwi outsider Kraus will abuse a home-made synthesizer.
Sunday October 4 – 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Academic Anja Kanngieser & musician Daniel Jenatsch will sonically perform the effects of capitalist production and social relations on ecology; British folk artist Richard Dawson will belt out songs of dreams held dear and worlds unknown; techno-maverick Basic House will undo dance-music for its own good; while Brisbane artist Alrey Batol eavesdrops on the whole scene.
Liquid Architecture is an Australian organisation for artists working with sound. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound. These events are curated by Joel Stern and Danni Zuvela. Head to the Liquid Architecture website for more information.