"Céleste Gatier and Leandro Barzabal are two prominent figures in the Parisian experimental, improvised, and noise scene, recognized particularly for the performative dimension of their respective approaches.Their duo plays with the fragility of electroacoustic devices, balancing between creation and destruction, silence and detonation. The encounter of these polarities generates an electric arc—unstable and intense—like a disruptive air current, akin to lightning passing through the atmosphere.They released the album Meditate & Destroy (April 2024) on the Parisian label Les disques Omnison."

"Liegenaar is an experimental free improvisation duo from Antwerp, Belgium. Their practice takes on different forms reaching from noise performances and sound installations to food art.

With an ever-changing set-up they construct an atmosphere that is both welcoming and hostile at the same time. They are interested in using a variety of lo-fi techniques and sound sources like tape recordings and amplified junk materials while retaining a naive approach to making sound. This results in a mixture of murky vocalizations layered upon dissonant rhythms glued together with handmade and manipulated instruments carefully beaten to pulp."

MANUEL PADDING AND SAM REES

BAS ZOONTJENS

Manuel Padding and Sam Rees

"Reflecting a depiction of a parallel reality, our practice synthesizes the non-fictional and the fictional.

Manuel Padding and I make installations, sculptures, sound, and videos, using each medium to explore the tensions and boundaries between fantasy and reality. Through these various media, we depict worlds with ambiguous temporal realities that could be present, past, or future.

Most often the videos in our installation pieces are adapted for a specific space.

Sometimes we include sculpture components as well. The complex themes of loss, disappearance, historical utopias, dystopia, nature, and environmental collapse are frequent in our works. Images of ruins and abandoned structures often coexist; reflecting the fragility of our environment evokes sentiments of decay and loss. An important part of portraying this loss is the sound component of the installation.

Sometimes dystopia and utopia are found in the same work. The relationship between humanity, nature, and the imminent environmental collapse is a subject that is a constant endeavor in our work. The recurring motifs of ruins and abandonment serve as a powerful reminder of the ephemeral nature of our existence."

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Bas Zoontjens

"My collages derive from photos I take on my travels to different places in Europe. City environments are a rich landscape full of noise, decay and beauty that I can delve into. Often wandering the outskirts to discover odd and peculiar scenes or places where time has shifted them into a new reality.

By using a simple editing program I create images in a process of adding, removing and tweaking. Layer upon layer. Forms implode and explode, forcing us to abandon the familiar and instead describing a world in an aftermath of some huge event. The surreal and psychedelic qualities of the collages give the viewers the opportunity to have their own interpretation towards the works. An openness that I think is important in a time where fixed feeds are thrown at us every day.

One could call these images odes to a place or portraits in some sort of sense, they seem to connect with each other as well...bringing synthesis in a state of fragmentation."