K&A

MINUS 9
2019-09-20 16:00 - 22:00 UTC | Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Venice, Italy
MINUS 9 is an anatomic sound installation,
a one on one performance of 14 min for an ear, to hear, here.
It is an invitation to dive into the sonographic scenography of your own body.
From the outside all seems to be silent, from the inside the first blast of the universe is making a big band. In MINUS 9, the boundaries between musician and audience, between music and ritual, silence and sound, drumming and dreaming are broken down.
‘With MINUS 9 we tease the equilibrium in the hierarchy of the senses. Can the “ear, hear, here” become the touching vestibule of a new order? We challenge the distance in between. When do we allow ourselves to be touched, metaphorically or literally? We invite the audience to re-question and rethink how we relate to each other. In our society a few roles trespass our comfort zone to touch our skin: doctors, caretakers, dance & sport coaches. They touch you but are you really touched? Music touches us emotionally, but what if it would literally touch your flesh?’ K&A
K&A within their performative constellations transform/translocate/transhape the relationship between the performer and the spectator to make it fluid.
In any theater the audience carries a predetermined role. Within the work of K&A the expectation to be silent, to sit in the dark, to stay immobile, to watch the stage is being shifted. The latitude of the performer correlates with the longitude of the audience and is being redefined. In MINUS 9 the ear of the audience becomes the music instrument on which the composition is made on and the soundsystem through which it is perceived. MINUS 9 crosses the inner ear sound barrier, exposes the noise, the music that is hidden inside our own machine. This performance is a sonographer, an ultrasound guide into the auditors unknown zones. It is an ode to the simplicity that carries the multiplicity. A performance for an ear: to hear/here.

4 Time Slots available – private event

MINUS 9
2019-09-15 16:00 - 22:00, 2019-09-14 16:00 - 22:00, 2019-09-13 16:00 - 22:00, 2019-09-12 16:00 - 22:00 UTC | A LAB, Overhoeksplein 2, Amsterdam, 1031KS, Netherlands
MINUS 9 is an anatomic sound installation,
a one on one performance of 14 min for an ear, to hear, here.
It is an invitation to dive into the sonographic scenography of your own body.
From the outside all seems to be silent, from the inside the first blast of the universe is making a big band. In MINUS 9, the boundaries between musician and audience, between music and ritual, silence and sound, drumming and dreaming are broken down.
‘With MINUS 9 we tease the equilibrium in the hierarchy of the senses. Can the “ear, hear, here” become the touching vestibule of a new order? We challenge the distance in between. When do we allow ourselves to be touched, metaphorically or literally? We invite the audience to re-question and rethink how we relate to each other. In our society a few roles trespass our comfort zone to touch our skin: doctors, caretakers, dance & sport coaches. They touch you but are you really touched? Music touches us emotionally, but what if it would literally touch your flesh?’ K&A
K&A within their performative constellations transform/translocate/transhape the relationship between the performer and the spectator to make it fluid.
In any theater the audience carries a predetermined role. Within the work of K&A the expectation to be silent, to sit in the dark, to stay immobile, to watch the stage is being shifted. The latitude of the performer correlates with the longitude of the audience and is being redefined. In MINUS 9 the ear of the audience becomes the music instrument on which the composition is made on and the soundsystem through which it is perceived. MINUS 9 crosses the inner ear sound barrier, exposes the noise, the music that is hidden inside our own machine. This performance is a sonographer, an ultrasound guide into the auditors unknown zones. It is an ode to the simplicity that carries the multiplicity. A performance for an ear: to hear/here.

14 Time Slots available

NIAGA DNA
2019-06-06 - 2019-06-13 | PQ2019 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design & Space, Prague, Czech Republic
NIAGA DNA/ or if you read upside down AGAIN AND
a 6,5 days collective jumping choreography for la place du village
“As a musician / question mark, day after day, during years, i was repeating again & niaga the same patterns, I was developing the key to open all doors simultaneously: falling / flying into the immense abyss of trance, mixed with power and ultra-concentration. It is what the people call sometimes Niagara.”
K&A invite the ones who pass-by “La place du village’’, the meeting point of the city, to join a smiling collective effort. K&A developed for NIAGA DNA an application, that is using geolocation to immerse the architecture of the square into a jumping board game. The app. contains the DNA of the city, build on the story of 47 lives that crossed the square.
“As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.” H. Hesse
The story, translated into binary code (chain of 0 & 1) is made to be able to be jumped: Right is 0 / Left is 1. In the performance, the public uses this app. to become and the performer, and the viewer, and the scenography, and the past, and the present, and the future. At the end, each one becomes the guardian of a small part of NIAGA DNA’s collective memory, by getting the translation of the specific part that was jumped. K&A invite the whole city to connect to each other.
In the border of dance, literature, technology and endurance, remembering the magnet of the feet -that for centuries carry ancient rituals- NIAGA DNA expands its roots on the square to include all in one.
Created for the city, in the city, by the citizens: AGAIN AND.

APOCALYPSE MON AMOUR
2019-06-05 21:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Zurich) | PQ2019 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design & Space, Prague, Czech Republic
APOCALYPSE MON AMOUR is an experimental documentary that zooms into the future 8102: a year in which the language is invaded by a virus. A live typed text is being engraved on the screen of the room, the sounds of the amplified typewriter intrude the surrounding sound system of the cinema. Subtitles, are not any more the sub, but the protagonists. They become the encoded images of the film. Through the cursor, the live voice over and the circular sound the audience is blend into a looping apocalyptic world.
A live film, an immersive performance as an ode/death sentence to the letters of 8102.
The question is not what happens before. The question is not what will be after.
The core is the transformation itself – as if typing into the eye of the cyclone. Letters swirling and dissolving into the air.
You lose your letters?
Time goes on.
How long will you still be able to pass on the message?

APOCALYPSE MON AMOUR, exposes the timeline of the expansion of a virus, that grabs the common communication system: our language. An experimental documentary that zooms into 8102, a year without letters.
A taste of..
The live typed text is being engraved on the screen of the room.The sounds of the amplified typewriter intrude the surrounding sound system of the cinema. The old machine becomes a music and filming installation. Subtitles, are not any more the sub, but the protagonists. They become the encoded images of the film. K&A control a black screen on which white letters, words and sentences tell the story of a virus in the language.
Appearance / Disappearance.
Through the cursor, the audience is being moved between enters, shifts, capital letters and corrected wor(l)ds. Mistakes reign on a black screen intruded by voids. The words are scarred, glitched, reversed, articulated, damaged, bugged. The audience is blend into a looping apocalyptic world.
“I try to type you a letter. I try to type you for later. From 8102 to now.”

Credits:
Concept, text & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Music composition & realization: Alexandra Bellon
IT Design: Antoine Hordez

Part of the Opening Ceremony of the Swiss participation to PQ2019

(G)loves for (G)ants
2019-02-15 20:30 - 23:30 (Europe/Zurich) | Sitting Shotgun, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Sketching 2111, where there are only 26 jobs leftover for the hands of the humans. The (g)love, the most privileged object, invades the spatial-temporal reality: the only one capable of exploring the unknown wor(l)ds of bodies. Infected by the hygienic law, humanity shares the fascination for and dependency to the object that controls & protects their porous skin from the outside: Les (g)ants = the (g)loves in English. (G)ants intrude the skin to transform the gestures of the future jobs. 26 gloves: Aimant (g)loves, BOBO (g)loves, Cornichon (g)loves, D, E,( …) Z

26 gloves
26 miniature performances
26 binaural 3D recordings
“A (G)love for your hands. A (G)ant for your skin. A (G)ang for your life.” K&A

With (G)loves for (G)ants K&A sketch a futuristic neoritual that explores a society of (G)loves. The performance (G)loves for (G)ants has a duration of 208 min. It consists of 26 performances each with a duration of 8 minutes. The audience can enter and exit each 8 minutes.

Cast & Credits

Concept, Artistic direction & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Binaural recording, research & mix: David Poissonnier
Music composition & execution: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Graphic Design: Mathilde Wingering
IT Design: Antoine Hordez
IT Graphic Design slotmachine: Antony Margole
Special thanks to: The team of Sitting Shotgun (Brooklyn, NYC), Accueil Studio l’ADC (Geneve, CH)

APOCALYPSE MON AMOUR
2019-01-25 21:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Focus Filmtheater, Arnhem, Netherlands
APOCALYPSE MON AMOUR is an experimental documentary that zooms into the future 8102: a year in which the language is invaded by a virus. A live typed text is being engraved on the screen of the room, the sounds of the amplified typewriter intrude the surrounding sound system of the cinema. Subtitles, are not any more the sub, but the protagonists. They become the encoded images of the film. Through the cursor, the live voice over and the circular sound the audience is blend into a looping apocalyptic world.
A live film, an immersive performance as an ode/death sentence to the letters of 8102.
The question is not what happens before. The question is not what will be after.
The core is the transformation itself – as if typing into the eye of the cyclone. Letters swirling and dissolving into the air.
You lose your letters?
Time goes on.
How long will you still be able to pass on the message?

APOCALYPSE MON AMOUR, exposes the timeline of the expansion of a virus, that grabs the common communication system: our language. An experimental documentary that zooms into 8102, a year without letters.
A taste of..
The live typed text is being engraved on the screen of the room.The sounds of the amplified typewriter intrude the surrounding sound system of the cinema. The old machine becomes a music and filming installation. Subtitles, are not any more the sub, but the protagonists. They become the encoded images of the film. K&A control a black screen on which white letters, words and sentences tell the story of a virus in the language.
Appearance / Disappearance.
Through the cursor, the audience is being moved between enters, shifts, capital letters and corrected wor(l)ds. Mistakes reign on a black screen intruded by voids. The words are scarred, glitched, reversed, articulated, damaged, bugged. The audience is blend into a looping apocalyptic world.
“I try to type you a letter. I try to type you for later. From 8102 to now.”

Credits:
Concept, text & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Music composition & realization: Alexandra Bellon
IT Design: Antoine Hordez
