SHAPE platform announced its 2020 list of artists and it’s bringing you a fresh roster of 48 need-to-hear and see Europe-based artists, selected by the platform’s festivals, including SONICA festival. Once again placing a number of sound artists alongside audiovisual and media art projects and musical acts that range from club music to free improvisation and spatial music.
SONICA / MOTA – Museum of Transitory Art’s selected artists for 2020 are:
Širom (SI) – an acoustic avant-garde folk band
Širom: Photo: Jana Jocif
The intertwining of diverse musical approaches and tools, histories of sounds and unbridled musical imagination and craftsmanship is the expansive guiding principle of the Širom trio. The end result is grounded yet still mystical minimalism. Širom’s music is contemplative but can get harder when necessary, it is closer to being a band- than chamber-like, to being street as opposed to urban in nature.
Svetlana Maraš (RS) – a radiophonic and computer music composer, installation and sound artist
Svetlana Maraš. Photo: Branko Starčević
Svetlana Maraša is a composer and sound artist from Serbia who works at the intersection of experimental music, sound art and new media.
She has been musically educated from an early age, was awarded Vitomir Bogić prize for the best young radiophonic composer, and presented her work internationally, including CTM Festival (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Linz) and House of Electronic Arts (Basel).
Kӣr (RS) – solo production pseudonym of Bane Jovančević, resident live artist and program manager of club Drugstore Beograd
Kӣr. Photo: artists archive
kӣr is the solo production epithet of Bane Jovančević, resident live artist and program manager of club Drugstore Beograd. By combining traditional and experimental influences in electro-acoustic music, Kӣr creates the sound in which drone-navigated post-industrial logos transgresses into the tribal mythos, in search of the traces of the future.
Shape platform 2020 list of artists:
Afrodeutsche (UK/DE/GH)
Aloïs Yang (FR/DE)
Animistic Beliefs (NL)
Aquarian (DE)
Ben Bertrand (BE)
c/a (cslasha) (UK)
Cam Deas (UK)
Celine Gillain (BE)
Clara de Asis (ES/FR)
Dekj/Hugo Esquinca (MX/DE)
Dorota (HU)
Elina Waage Mikalsen (NO)
Elvin Brandhi (UK)
Farida Amadou with Steve Noble (BE/UK)
Fausto Mercier (HU)
FOQL (PL)
Frédéric Gies (SE)
Jay Glass Dubs (GR)
KӣR (RS)
Lawrence Lek (UK)
Lyra Valenza (DK) (with VJ Camille Doussy)
Lyzza (NL)
MA’IWA (AIWA + MA’AM) (HU)
Marta De Pascalis (IT/DE)
Moesha 13 (FR)
Object Blue (UK)
Oktober Lieber (FR)
Oli XL (SE)
Oliver Torr(CZ)
Peter Kutin (AT)
Piezo (IT)
Poly Chain (UA)
Rian Treanor (UK)
Richard Eigner (AT)
Rojin Sharafi (AT/IR)
Rrill Bell aka The Preterite (DE/US)
Sacrifice Seul (FR)
Schacke (DK)
Simina Oprescu (RO)
Širom (SI)
Stellar Om Source (NL)
Svetlana Maraš (RS)
Tadleeh (IT)
upsammy (NL)
Virgen María (ES)
VTSS (PL)
xin (DE)
Yann Gourdon (FR)
SHAPE Platform is co-financed by Creative Europe.
