Figment Light – Kjell Björgeengen
Kjell Björgeengen
The reknowned artist Kjell Bjørgeengen works collaboratively with innovative musicians to make complex installations. Channels of flickering light are produced in response to and from sound.
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The reknowned artist Kjell Bjørgeengen works collaboratively with innovative musicians to make complex installations. Channels of flickering light are produced in response to and from sound.
“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
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Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
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Slapstick comedy, monologue, and a kind of live sculpture transformed through video, props, musical instruments and make-up.
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