

Terra Incognita
Friday, 17 May, 2019 Museum of Impossible Forms
19:30 Nicolina Stylianou
20:20 Огни
21:10 Tohu-Bohu
22:20 Linda Lazarov & Laura Nen
23:30 Ana Gutieszca
Curated and designed by Soko Hwang
Commission by Museum of Impossible Forms
Production assistant Julia Reinhard
Collaboration with Kontula Electronic Festival
Terra Incognita poster, catalogue, 2019, digital print
Terra Incognita is an unknown journey that explores the heterogeneous network between organism and technology, between in-human and human, in audiovisual performances. The artists of Terra Incognita attempts to transcend the situated cultural boundaries through synthesizing natural and technological elements in each of their artistic practices. It discover unidentified inner depths: in animality, sensation, and emotion of organisms, which is mediated with analog and digital technologies. Impulse as a primal power is transmitted into electronic energy, which is networked with different materialities: physical gestures, and fragments from field recordings and digital environment that lie beyond spatial and temporal limits. This entanglement enables audiences to disturb our known perception and recognition of sound and to generate flux in a state of transition. This fluid movement is able to produce psychedelic frequencies as sensory experiences. It drives us on a chaotic voyage without knowing a destination.

Nicolina Stylianou, Thinks in animal. Performance, Helsinki. Documentation by Soko Hwang © Courtesy of the artist and Museum of Impossible Forms

Огни, Performance, Helsinki. Documentation by Soko Hwang © Courtesy of the artist and Museum of Impossible Forms

Tohu-Bohu, Performance, Helsinki. Documentation by Soko Hwang © Courtesy of the artist and Museum of Impossible Forms

Linda Lazarov & Laura Nen. Performance, Helsinki. Documentation by Soko Hwang © Courtesy of the artist and Museum of Impossible Forms
Ana Gutieszcaa. Performance, Helsinki. Documentation by Soko Hwang © Courtesy of the artist and Museum of Impossible Forms