Hybrid exhibition/concert
Matej Mihevc: Deconstructed Club (SI)
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Nemerov LIVE (HU)
Friday, 29 September, at 20h
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You are invited to a hybrid Sonica event, featuring an exhibition by Slovenian visual artist Matej Mihevc and a performance by Hungarian electronic experimentalist and protégé of the European Shape+ platform for the 2023/24 season, Nemerov.
Mihevc’s “deconstructed club” in the MoTA Lab, where physical and virtual space merge (video projections of a synthesised virtual club and various objects “passing” from the virtual to the physical space), will provide a club-like backdrop for the rhythmic and melodic deconstructions of the Hungarian sonic adventurer.
The boundary between club stage, dance floor, exhibition space and site-specific installation will be blurred, and the visitors will briefly become an integral part of the exhibition during Nemer’s performance.
The Deconstructed Club project is based on the animated proposal for this year’s Sonica Festival graphic design.
The animation shows a composition composed of various typical elements of club iconography (flashing lights, metal beams, smoke, neon signs) and abandoned industrial objects (graffiti, deteriorated concrete, construction fencing) decontextualised in virtual space. It is therefore a set of objects that draw a metaphorical picture of the future of club culture and thus of the general decay and decay, and also flirt with virtuality in their very form.
In the physical version, the project is conceived as a ‘stage design’ for a concert or a music event, with some elements from the video transferred into the physical space, raising questions about the encounter between the virtual and the physical, and this is reflected in the premiere installation at MoTA LAB.
The event was supported by Municipality of Ljubljana and SHAPE+ Platform.