Navid Navab (Artist Talk)
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Fri May 30 | de Brakke Grond
12:30 - 13:45
How to work with wild, unpredictable processes, in which the character of materials and shifting states of matter have a central role? In his artist talk, art-scientist Navid Navab invites us into his world of alchemical, media-art installations which balance between musical instruments and scientific installations. His work orchestrates a sensory attunement to forms of life - organic and technological. In his talk he focuses specifically on his recent work Organism: In Turbulence, which has gained international acclaim and with which he will also perform at FIBER. Navab improvises with a 1910 Casavant pipe organ, which has been remodelled as a hugo electro-acoustic instrument. At de Brakke Grond he will share his making process, as well as how he got the opportunity to save an old organ from a church.
About the artist
Navid Navab is an antidisciplinary composer with a background in contemporary music, biomedical sonification, and philosophical biology. Through an investigative ArtScience practice, Navab's recent creations meticulously stage uncanny forms of order by imbuing machines with a sense of liveliness through fusion with the excitable dynamics of matter. These investigative works orchestrate sensory attunement to forms of life, at the pre-metabolic border between breathing and not breathing, while cybernetically enfolding their excitable dynamics.
This artist is performing at:
Context Programme Day 1 | de Brakke Grond
Friday May 30, de Brakke Grond | 12:30 - 13:45
