Terraforma Exo returns to Parco Sempione, the city’s largest green oasis. Over two days, the park will be transformed by concerts, performances, installations, meetings, and immersive sound walks, with Triennale Milano at its core. A club night in collaboration with Gatto Verde will ignite the city, welcoming some of the most visionary DJs from the global electronic music scene broadening the conversation beyond the park’s boundaries.
FORENSIS (FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE) & BILL KOULIGAS present THE DRUM AND THE BIRD
Based on research co-produced with Forensic Architecture
The Drum and the Bird is a new multi-sensory performance made by Forensis in collaboration with Bill Kouligas. An immersive auditory experience, the work examines the relationship between lost ecologies and colonial exploitation. Growing out of research on Germany’s colonial history in Namibia, originally undertaken by Forensis and its sister agency Forensic Architecture, the work weaves together generative environmental audio, oral testimonies, and spatio-visual modelling, and compels an audience to contemplate the price of colonial amnesia by highlighting voices and sounds that have been silenced or altered as a result of this history. Landscapes are repositories – carrying within them all life’s narratives. Rocks, sediments, flora and fauna have all borne witness to transformations beyond human perception. How has witnessing been encoded within them? What stories do they wish to tell? The audio-visual project, The Drum and the Bird is thus a form of memory work. Each actor/character—sand, water, wind, tree, shark, human – within the Namibian landscape responds to time uniquely. Dub theory provides a framework through which these testimonies may be understood at the threshold of loss.
HEITH, JAMES K, GÜNSELİ YALÇINKAYA present THE TALK [A/V SHOW]
Commissioned as part of TIMES collaborative project
The Talk is a multi-disciplinary performance, featuring musicians Heith and James K,
artist-researcher Günseli Yalcinkaya and original set design by Andrea Belosi. Presented in the style of a surreal panel talk, the show takes inspiration from the Antikythera mechanism, the world’s first artificial computer, to imagine an atemporal reality where hypnotic soundscapes open up portals into the unknown, and spoken word intervals act as fictioning tools to explore the ways in which narratives, as told through the lens of various technologies, shape our perception of reality.
More to be announced…