IRRUPTIVE CHORA presents HYPERSPACE

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Culminating art research project HYPERSPACE, an experimental year-long P2P inquiry into new hybrid ways of making and sharing art, curatorial collective Irruptive Chora presents a day-long event on Saturday the 18th February 2023. They invite audiences into accessible affective space for multi-sensorial encounter with technology-focused works, audio-visual performances, talks and workshops to coincide with the launch of their interactive online platform.

Throughout the last 12 months, recovering from pandemic’s disconnectedness, the artist collective regularly met for workshops led by diverse creative practitioners and accessibility consultants. They shared space through the screen experimenting with digital intimacy, gathered around a pond at the oldest housing cooperative in London or met in a forest at an Iron Age hill fort. Scattered across diverse dimensions they drank mugwort, infused acorns, interacted with AI machines, while their collective voice was synthesised to translate their embodied experiences into an everlasting ethereal entity. With some always connecting at an international distance, simultaneously syncing with others in physical proximity, they merged their unequally distributed presences to test new, more inclusive ways of learning, making and sharing work within the ruined art ecosystems.

In turn, the event at Iklectik Art Lab compresses body memories and imprints new traces inviting the public into the space of spherical thinking and hyperspatial feeling. Addressing accessibility of and within arts, HYPERSPACE welcomes poet Will Harris to respond to the exhibition through improvised spoken word translated into sign language. Guiding the visitors through sound, screen-based and sculptural works coexisting in the physical space, they invite the audience to reinvent HYPERSPACE’s collective memory through touch, taste and smell. Continuing her performance work, qualified Dance Movement Psychotherapy artist Ekin Bernay, is collecting hearts from the audience, while well-known AI-whisperer K Allado-McDowell virtually shares their secrets of machine mysticism. HYPERSPACE extends the discussion to the public, accumulating and layering, questioning ownership and agency, while using technological tools to bridge the gap between artists and audiences.

Programme:

12pm –     Interactive multimedia display of technology-driven art works and project traces of the HYPERSPACE artist collective (live experimentation & improvised performative interventions)

1pm – 1:30pm    Sara Rodrigues / Landra  (The Paths we Take: acorn infusion performance)

1:30 – 2pm     Sotiris Gonis + Ania Mokrzycka (audio-visual performance)

2pm – 3pm     Will Harris (spoken word performance + BSL translation & live talk)

3pm – 4:30pm     Ekin Bernay (participatory performance)

4:30pm – 5pm     Atay Ilgun (Prompt Battle – participatory performance)

5pm – 5:45pm     Kenric Allado Mc Dowell (performative talk & audio-visual projection)

5:45pm – 6:30pm Ada Hao (audio-visual performance)

7:30pm- 8:00pm Lea Collet (collective reading performance)

8:15pm – 8:45pm Pietro Bardini (sound performance)

9pm – 9:15pm     Natalia Janula (listening session)

9:25pm – 9:45pm Atay Ilgun – ecolagbohrsac2021 (sound performance)

10:00pm- 10:30pm Cyrus Vahidi – Rastegah (sound performance)

10:30pm + DJ