Null Island presents
POSSIBLE WORLDS
An experimental evening of improvised sounds, composed texts, split images and unpredictable actions.
music by Trillium (Marija Dimitrijevic, Kristian Larsen, Stephen Bain)
text by Julie Hill with Matt Gunn
actions & words by Gabriel White & Stephen Bain
moving objects by Adam Ben-Dror
Riding the wave of global uncertainties makes you wonder what kind of world we’re heading into, yet as the wave peaks we’re afforded a view beyond our current reality to imaginative ways of being.
$20 on door or $16 undertheradar
Marija Dimitrijevic
Marija is a Double Bass player from Serbia. She has played in professional orchestras
in Serbia and Aoteroa as well as collaborating with performance artists and musicians in the experimental improvisation scene in Tāmaki Makaurau. She is a full-time music teacher.
Kristian Larsen
Kristian is an artist working in dance and sound whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and somatic
resonance. In addition to his longstanding practice in contemporary dance, his work incorporates radical methods of free improvisation and creative misuses of audio technology applied to field recording and sampling/collage techniques.
Stephen Bain
Performance maker and writer Stephen Bain collaborates with a broad variety of artists to explore themes of urban confusion and tactical fiction. He has been creating original performances since the early 1990s, more recently engaged in public-space interventions nationally and internationally, working with theatricality, sound, film and public participation.
http://stephenbain.co.nz
Julie Hill
Julie Hill is a journalist, playwright, short story writer and documentary maker. She has written about Karangahape Rd, New Age culture and learning German with a future alt-right leader. Her verbatim interviews with NZ-born detainees in Australia, appear in Through That Which Separates Us.
https://juliehill.co.nz/
Matt Gunn
Sound engineer, musician, and sound wizard, Matt has mixed and produced recordings for many NZ artists, his live electronic manipulations and mixing have earned him a reputation as a vital component of the Aotearoa experimental music scene.
Gabriel White
Gabriel is a filmmaker and musician from Auckland, Aotearoa. He has produced albums with Spacesuit and Floral Clocks, published photography, poetry and essays in several publications in NZ. His feature film Oracle Drive was screened in the Auckland International Film Festival. Recent live performances include Strange Ancestors (Q), Countdown Mountain (Pah Homestead), and Ten Bass Drums with Chris O’Conner (Audio Foundation).
Adam Ben-Dror
Adam Ben-Dror is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and inventor. He teaches design at the university of Auckland and is a facilitator with the Compost Collective, supporting individuals and communities to make compost. He co-runs Local Making, a neighborhood scale laboratory for exploring open-source making, joyful playing, inquisitive thinking and resourceful living in an interconnected world.
https://ben-dror.com/
