The CURIOUS LOOP public programme

The Curious Event Series are composed of sound performances, lectures and conceptual dinners that will shed light on the notion of sound, from an audio and digital-sensory and multi-disciplinary perspectives.

Loops represent a time that is suspended, which is a compressed source of the past, present and the future: The past (as it is looping the material produced in the past), the future (as it will also take place in the future) and the present (as it is experienced in the now). And all these will soon become a history… and the history, eating its own tail, will probably repeat itself again. There is a section at the beginning of a loop when the audience is simply introduced to “sentences” of the format. The loop then builds upon itself by repetitive sequences, and a new phase occurs. The repetitions combine on top of each other, one after another, a certain state of being frozen or being suspended in time is created. Just like an alchemy, the loop -although it is the same ‘sentence’- transforms the state from becoming accustomed-to, through suspension, and then the mere impression of infinity. And then within this infinity, one might crack the door open to find the new things opening up the new experiences.

The Curious Loop public programme is composed of performances by Sebastian Mullaert (aka Minilogue), Bill Fontana, Hans Peter Kuhn, Ove Holmqvist, Hans Rosenström, where each of them will present one of their pieces twice: Once the piece as it is, and a week later a modified version of the same piece. During one week, each artist will work with participants and researchers of the Field Kitchen Academy to de-compose the existing piece and re-compose compose it again collaboratively within the conceptual framework. The final (!) version of the pieces, that has new owners and a new format, will be presented at the end of the week to public.

During the course of The Curious Loop Event Series, the multi-disciplinary presentations by Zen Masters Sun Woo & Ji Woo, Neurophysiologyist Prof. Dr. Urusla Koch and Emrah Tas with his conceptual dinners will approach the concept from another perspective, flourishing our perceptions through different tools, and encouraging us to open ourselves to different readings of loop.

*The organizers reserve the right to make changes to the event programme.