By Maria Gregoriou
This Wednesday the ARTos Foundation, in collaboration with Moving Silence and the Goethe Institute, will be hosting an audiovisual performance by Berlin based musicians DE KJ and Chikiss.
The event, Echoes from Berlin, will be an evening set to flirt with all the senses, as both the eyes and ears will have an equally opportunity to sit back and take in the show.
DE KJ will showcase two of his pieces, Ontic and Oqko.
Ontic is an audiovisual study of the relationship between nature and structure, and how the preservation of the environment extends further than the physical medium.
Through the intervention of abandoned spaces and structures by the use of natural sources, the project aims to question the influence of the political in the social, therefore, our assumptions towards an actual fake sense of consciousness.
Ontic is based on video recordings of natural places, projected in abandoned buildings. The sound source works as part of the actual score, while the venue where the piece is presented works as a performance.
The footage itself is part of an archive conformed by different analysis for this dialogue between apparent opposite scenarios.
Oqko was created this year and defines itself as an interdisciplinary label for music and arts, driven by the need to develop an identity, incubating a diversity of approaches between the club culture and fine arts. The vision of oqko focuses on promoting both organic and hybrid experimentations.
Chikiss will present an intimate programme in minimal synthesizer sound with video projections created by the artist.
Chikiss is a singer, song-writer and musician from Saint-Petersburg, Russia, and recently he moved to Berlin. As one of the most productive and versatile artists on the current Russian electronic scene, both as a solo artist and while collaborating with other artists, she has made remixes for a number of musicians and artists. These collaborations include names like Ensemble Economique, Jenny Wilson, Milky Toad, Sun Glitters, Barbara Morgenstern, Arsenii Morozov (Sonic Death, Padla Bear Outfit) and many more.
Chikiss has played in numerous bands and acted in many international festivals and clubs, while also having curated the Russian-Ukrainian female electronic compilation She Knows More Than She Thinks on the cult Californian label NOT NOT FUN.
The event is also supported by the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Embassy of Mexico in Germany.
Echoes from Berlin
Audiovisual performances by the Berlin based musicians DE KJ and Chikiss. December 9. ARTos Foundation, Nicosia. 8.30pm. Free. Tel: 22-445455
