Welcome to the Proto / Insomnia Insights opening!
Date: Tuesday 18th of October
Time: 18:00
Place: Small Projects
The Insights program will kick off with the PROTO exhibition opening featuring works of Kim Little and Daria Beskorsaia and a live performance by Kim Little. There will be food, a bar and Blade Runar behind the decks, so we can have some fun even before the music program of Insomnia begins!
PROGRAM:
18:00 Doors open & food is served
18:30 Opening speech
19:30 Live performance by Kim Little
20:00 DJ Blade Runar
You are going to see:
Kimberley Skies
-Audio video Installation by Kim Little & Simona Castricum.
In an area that is known for its harsh, dry, desert-like climate, a particularly impressive lightning storm came to visit. Welcome to the Kimberley, an alien-like beautiful landscape in Western Australia. As climate change affects our mother planet, we see more and more unusual weather patterns growing in momentum. While lightning storm are not uncommon in this part of the world, the people of this region had never encountered this much rainfall for over a century. The nearby township of Broome faced floods and a massive cleanup, recording 564 millimeters in 48 hours onto dry cracked earth. There was a staggering 80,000 lightning strikes in a 24-hour period. About 30,000 of those were cloud to ground lightning strikes.
Audio-visual artist Kim Little wants to transport you to the other side of the globe with 'Kimberley Skies', the first installment of a series of songs and moving images that translate landscape into soundscape.
By stacking looped vocal harmonies while interpreting the images of a wild and rare electrical storm over the desert, in collaboration with Simona Castricum, this piece has traveled across the world to light up your eyes & drench your ears. Put on a headset, get comfy and experience the wildest lightning storm of the century with music from the woman named after the land.
Kimberley Skies - Kim Little & Simona Castricum.
About Kim
Kim Little is an experimental audio/visual/performance artist from Australia.
With various projects and collaborations, she is known as artist, singer and radio broadcaster, nightclub DJ and solo electronic musician, front-woman of Australian post-punk band LoVision and freelance filmmaker.
With a background in film and media studies from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Kim Little directs her own music videos and creates original work where visual art and soundscape interact. Always presenting an intriguing body of work, genre-blending, mind-bending and a voice that shakes the veil.
Featured in music, film, photography, fashion, theatre, radio (RRR.ORG.AU, Vers.Libre), galleries, events and festivals.
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Daria’s artwork:
Daria will present an atmospheric audiovisual installation Nava, inspired by a female character's line in a sci-fi book ”The Snail On The Slope” by the Strugatsky brothers.It’s an impressionistic contemplative story about the relationship between man and the natural elements, a sense of inevitability, rebirth and going through a full range of emotions from horror and rejection to euphoria and complete harmony.
Daria Beskorsaia – visual artist, VJ and graphic designer, born in Siberia and currently based in Dubai. Daria works with emotional visual live improvisation to strengthen the atmosphere of music performances. She is a permanent video artist of several musical projects and venues. She curated the visual program at Inversia 2017 in Murmansk. Daria has played live visual sets with more than 70 music projects and many events, took part in international art residencies, festivals and art laboratories.
DJ Blade Runar
Hailing from the eerie green glow of the northernmoist plains, Bladerunar is the moniker of Runar Hansen, a regular hermit born in the age of connectivity. His sets ranging from straight jacking electronic rhythms to left field weirdness contemplate the strangeness of originality and the world of dreams.
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Small Projects will be PROTO’s festival hub and you can visit the exhibition on the following days:
Tuesday 18:00 - 21:00
Wednesday 15:00 - 19:00
Thursday 15:00 - 19:00, 21:00 - 22:00
Friday 15:00 - 19:00
Saturday 15:00 - 19:00