In this sense, Feeding You could be seen as a kind of anti-retail therapy, a form of psychological remedy that inverts the short-lived gratification that can be gained from giving in to an impulse to purchase some thing or other, and instead seeks to shock the metabolism out of the habit of consumption. We invite you to expand your total self.

Disruptive Technologies (DI$T۩) are Matthias Kispert (audio) and Max Hattler (video).

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Inspired by the form-finding techniques of architects such as Konrad Wachsmann and the constructivist designs of Vladimir Tatlin, and László Moholy-Nagy, mechanical rules are used as creative constraints in a virtual system of light. Each set of constraints give way to the production of a different tool, resulting in emergent behaviours and forms, where traces of light dynamically organise themselves in the tension between simplicity and complexity.

Beginning as a series of audiovisual films that explored animation techniques focusing on rotational vectors and cylindrical patterns with a range of artists including Hauschka, L’Usine, Heaven 17 and Swayzak, the work has since been developed into a live audio-visual performance with music by Matthias Kispert [D-Fuse].

The live audio-visual performances are presented on 3 layers of screens: 2 transparent gauzes hang in front of the performers with a solid projection screen at the back, allowing images to float, diffuse and spatialised.

→ D-Fuse
→ D-Fuse Vimeo
→ Labmeta

The term “strata” refers to particular layers in the organic evolutionary process; it is a visual metaphor for a non-linear history that is more a sum of certain characteristics over a given period of time than anything else. This live cinema performance marks the live premier of The Strata Series, which delves into art history and plays around with the construction and deconstruction of our perception of classic art, architecture and iconography. The underlying, predominantly geometric, layers of works from the Renaissance, Baroque and Gothic architecture are revealed in this spectacle. Discover what a masterpiece truly looks like!

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Food satisfies one of our most basic urges, yet the rituals and habits surrounding it are some of the oldest and most refined aspects of culture. Food provides essential nourishment but overindulgent eating habits can also be destructive to our organism. While its supply and waste is overabundant in one part of the planet, its scarcity is acute in another. Industrial production and distribution has led to to the food supply chain being in an ever tighter grip of a few multinational corporations.

As an integral part of everyday life, eating can be done solitarily or mark the occasion for a social gathering, its performance can be highly ritualised or profoundly mundane. Sharing food is something that brings people together, whether that is over a lunch meeting, dinner party or an intimate dinner for two.

More than anything, perhaps, food marks a continuous cycle of becoming and annihilation. Food disintegrates over time whether used or not, and within our bodies it also undergoes a process of decomposition, with its own waste products. Being perishable by nature, food requires continuous supply, failure of which would lead to catastrophic consequences. As a product of the earth, food connects us to our origins within nature.

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