Het HEM and Horst share the artistic conviction that contemporary artistic expressions cannot be captured in frames and that they often develop in overlapping border areas. Cultural perception is changing rapidly and boundaries between artistic disciplines are fading. Today's creators are often both visual artists and musicians, performers and designers; they maintain a practice that allows them to move smoothly between different worlds and cultural stages.

In a two-day program in the brutalist church building of De Thomas during Amsterdam Dance Event, we bring together a new generation of makers who think outside the boundaries of their discipline and experimentally connect electronic music to fashion, dance and visual arts. Central to the program are four new interdisciplinary live performances, each offering the audience an immersive art experience in their own way.

With De Thomas, a Protestant church building from 1966 designed by Karel Sijmons, we have found a special place that gives us the opportunity to program adventurously and to offer the audience a surprising experience in a different context than in which electronic music can often be heard. New HHHorizons is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts).

Timetable

Thursday 19 October

17:00 - 19:00 | Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee w/ Alec Mateo (free access)
19:00 - 19:30 | Start ticketed programme
19:30 - 20:30 | The Space of Everything by Søren Siebel & Bas Grossfeldt
20:45 - 21:30 | Dooha Ritus by Omen Wapta & Joone Joonam
21:30 - 22:30 | M I M I 23:00 | End ticketed programme

Friday 20 October

17:00 - 19:00 | Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee w/ Mikatsiu (free access)
19:00 - 19:30 | Start ticketed programme
19:30 - 20:30 | The Space of Everything by Søren Siebel & Bas Grossfeldt
20:45 - 21:45 | SKY H1 & Mika Oki
23:00 | End ticketed programme

New HHHorizons takes place at De Thomas in Pr. Irenestraat 36, 1077 WX, Amsterdam

This event is free to attend for ADE Pro Pass holders. A limited number of spots are available. Make sure you claim yours on time.

Programme

The Space of Everything by Søren Siebel & Bas Grossfeldt

Since 2021, Het HEM has been inviting musicians and music researchers for a work and/or research period at Het HEM to work on new, interdisciplinary projects that further explore the depth of their practice, and ultimately present it. Currently, that is the multidisciplinary artist, choreographer and music producer Søren Siebel. During his residency, he is working on a new performance that will be part of our programme in De Thomas.

The project The Space of Everything is a 60 minute long immersive constellation of music, spatial intervention and seven performers by Søren Siebel and his alter ego Bas Grossfeldt. The site-specific installation of half-transparent wall modules, offers multiple perspectives to experience the work and the church from. Seven performers share the space with the visitors, which can move freely through the installation at all time. Together with the sound and text fragments, shifts in proximity, distance and movement create an atmospheric situation, which explores speculative futures, deriving from a research of feminist science fiction and their concepts of identity & fluidity. Through an interdisciplinary dialogue of various forms and reference points, an abstract space as a contemplative and immersive state of perception will be created, suggesting and exploring different impulses for a speculative future. The Space of Everything is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts).

Artistic direction, concept, choreography, space: Søren Siebel Sound: Bas Grossfeldt Performers: Marta Bianchi, Sara Europaeus, Sofia Garcia Miramon, Polina Mirovskaya, Catarina Paiva, Suze Vonk, Sarah Zechut Co-choreography & Rehearsal Management: Sara Europaeus Costumes: Dewi Barend Production: Søren Siebel & Christina Mastori

M I M I

Maria Muehombo, known as M I M I is an interdisciplinary artist & curator based in Brussels. Born in Lusaka, she arrived in Belgium at a very young age. She studied Fine Arts at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Liège. Having family spread all over the globe, she began travelling and discovering other cultures and found her profound admiration for nature, where she gets most of her inspiration from.

In 2016 Maria started curating events for non-profit organisations which led her to the music world and whilst continuing her curation, she began DJ-ing and producing. She has collaborated on international projects such as Dakar’s 2022 Biennale in Senegal, where she worked as a scenographer and sound artist for Black Rock, Kehinde Wiley’s exhibition at “Maison de la Culture Douta Seck”.

As she uses different mediums, she doesn't stick to any precise musical style either but instead explores and combines continuously making her DJ sets and productions an organic blend of multiple genres including field recordings.

As she describes her work as an ongoing conversation with nature, she recently started writing on topics such as anthropocentrism and biomimetics, as she strongly believes that our faiths are intertwined. Considering herself ecocentric whilst looking towards forward-thinking movements.

Dooha Ritus by Omen Wapta & Joone Joonam

Dooha Ritus is a collaborative work initiated by the record label/multidisciplinary platform Omen Wapta. Its first instalment, presented at ADE 2023, weaves together electronic music, fashion design and performance art in a duel between seemingly opposing forces: attack and surrender, history and future, isolation and intimacy. Through all of its equal expressions—sound by Loek Frey and Harald Uunk, fashion by Armia Yousefi, choreography by Arad Inbar and light by Tharim Cornelisse—Dooha Ritus propels circular and cyclic motion, constructing a contemplative space where individual and collective power can be rethought.

Creative Director: Woody ’s-Gravemade (Woody92)
Fashion Designer: Armia Yousefi (Joone Joonam)
Creative Producer: Sanne Huijsmans
Artistic Advisor: Leendert Sonnevelt
Choreographer: Arad Inbar
Performers: Arad Inbar, Samuel Pereira
Music Producers: Loek Frey, Harald Uunk
Graphic Designers: Oliva Jay Rawlings, Tharim Cornelisse
Light designer: Tharim Cornelisse

SKY H1 & Mika Oki

In SKY H1's music, contemporary club sounds of drum and bass, grime, dubstep and techno come together with ambient sound design and pop-oriented songwriting. With this, she has found a unique approach to contemporary electronic music, which she continues to develop in her live performances in clubs, music venues and galleries. Mika Oki has a background in sculpture and electroacoustic music. Her mixes represent a broad musical spectrum that ranges from jungle, UK bass and grime to dark electro, enchanting trance and heavy EBM. She carefully builds up her sets using various voice samples, experimental sounds and electro-acoustic music fragments. In addition to her practice as a DJ, she makes audiovisual installations and performances. The two Brussels-based artists find each other in exploring immaterial spaces and emotional landscapes and have previously developed projects together. For example, Mika Oki made the installation Parhélion for SKY H1's acclaimed debut album Azure; a poetic and meditative visualization of SKY H1's music in a scenography of light, projections, smoke and shadows.

Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee

Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee is a radio space for curatorial and artistic practices, hosting and producing radio shows and podcasts, by and with artists and designers. Their mobile studio has been at academies, biennials and museums. Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee also commissions sound and performance pieces, related to the research strands they set for their annual programmes. In 2022 they started an artist-in-residency programme.

During New HHHorizons, Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee presents a listening session between 17:00 - 18:30 p.m. on both days, featuring various sound works from the archive, introduced by founders Arif Kornweitz and Radna Rumping. Followed by a live performance from 18:30 – 19:00 by previous in artists in residency. On Thursday, this is Alec Mateo, with ‘Gotchu Pt. 10.19.23’  and on Friday, Mikatsiu presents  ‘This Ineluctable Opera - Variation 2’. Please note that the Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee program is free to attend.