Rosebud May 2018
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s u b b a c u l t c h a e v e n t s in May All events are free for members. Join at subbacultcha.be 23.5 CMON + Tim Koh
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Marbled Eye + Kookaboora
De Kleine Hedonist (Hotjumenas) Antwerp
25.5 Habibi Madame Moustache, Brussels 26.5 DJ Fett Burger + Lawrence Le Doux C12 x Basic Moves, Brussels
3.5 Better Person + Golin + White Dress HAAR, Antwerp
2.6 Rockerill Festival 2018 Rockerill, Charleroi
3.5 Uniform + Apparätus + Penus
Table Dance, Antwerp
8.6 Swim With The Current Day 2
Het Bos, Antwerp
5.5 DJ Lag Botanique, Brussels
deSingel, Antwerp
film
5.5 Vatican Shadow + more
C12, Brussels
6.5 Nap Eyes + UMM
17.5 Double Play KASK Cinema, Ghent
21.5 Tarva yeghanakner + Afterwords + Vucca
DOK (Democrazy), Ghent
9.5 Pearson Sound + more
C12, Brussels
25.5 The Net Cinema Zuid, Antwerp
10.5 Dollkraut Band
Cinematek, Brussels
KulturA (JauneOrange), Liège
theatre/dance
11.5 Ulrika Spacek Eden, Charleroi 12.5 Hariprasad Chaurasia
18.5 Affordable Solution for Better Living Campo, Ghent
Bozar, Brussels
13.5 U.S. Girls + Miaux Vooruit, Ghent
expo
16.5 Elsewhere: Poltrock + Poppy Ackroyd Kruidtuin (STUK), Leuven
— 31.5 Broodthaerskabinet S.M.A.K. Ghent
17.5 Duchess Says
KulturA (Go With The Flow), Liège
12-20.5 Dans la Maison Argos, Brussels
17.5 Melkbelly + Whimm
24.5- Échangeur 3.6 Argos, Brussels
La Zone (PopKatari), Liège
20.5 Evan Baggs + Walrus + Davy
C12 x Basic Moves, Brussels
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12.5- 15.7
Disorientation(s) Argos, Brussels
intro
Rosebud Dormant states, hibernation: the necessary stages that culminate in renewal. It’s been a long time coming. Walking down the street these days, you notice the silhouettes of gnarled and knotted tree tops looking stark and strangely naked against skies that are cheerful blue one moment, foreboding grey the next, and back again. The knots that line the barks will soon transform, as will all the buds in thorny masses that conceal those most vibrant and fragrant of flowers. Always under the surface, a rosebud of our own making. 5
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subbacultcha events 9—19 First Hate 20—25 Poppy Ackroyd 26—29 Scene Report 30—35 artist 36—41 style 42—45 book 46—47 recent finds 49—55 film 57—59 we visit you 60—61
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the list. Adam Byckowski, the man behind the project, creates romantic synth-pop ballads that tell stories about love, intimacy and vexation. Golin are representing Brussels, and Antwerp locals White Dress are also on the bill.
music
Marbled Eye + Kookaboora
Uniform + Apparätus + Penus
1 May – De Kleine Hedonist (Hotjumenas), Antwerp 20.00 – TBA – free for members Next to a bunch of sunrays, data miners and nirvana-striving artificial intelligence developers living around Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, there are still some local artists keeping it real. Enter: Marbled Eye, a foursome that consists of members of several other Bay Area bands, including Meat Market, Unity and Golden Drugs. Those influences can be heard in their carefully crafted, jittery post-punk sound that never seems to subside. Pulsing drums, monotonous vocals and rhythmic guitar riffs keep the pace while simultaneously evoking a sense of being lost in the midst of it all.
3 May – Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 – €13 – free for members With Uniform as headliner this night will be one to remember. They’re going to bring you a very loud mix of industrial, trash metal, harsh noise and electronics. Tonight, Ben and Michael are joined in their quest to find order in the immense pool of punk chaos by Greg Fox on the drums. In addition you’ll find APPÄRATUS, bringing their particular brand of mayhem all the way from Malaysia with some d-beat raw punk. Last but not least there’ll be local Antwerp talent PENUS, who’ll make you scream even harder.
Better Person + Golin + White Dress
DJ Lag 5 May – Botanique, Brussels 20.00 – €16 – free for members
3 May – HAAR, Antwerp 20.00 – €8 – free for members If Sean Nicholas Savage is in your archive of favourite artists, you’ll quickly add Better Person — who shares an equally elegant and pained voice — to
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South African DJ Lag has become a familiar face on international electro dance floors having quickly received some amazing reviews from FACT magazine, Pitchfork and Resident Advisor — who
unanimously recognised his talent. The self-proclaimed GQOM king is presenting his new EP, Trip To New York, which offers rhythms as effective as they are hypnotic. Lag will be accompanied by Electric Electric, a trio well-known in Strasbourg’s underground punk scene for their live performances as electrifying as they are danceable, and their noise scratches and integrated electronics.
Vatican Shadow + Volition Immanent live + Techno Thriller + Neila
Nap Eyes + UMM
6 May – DOK (Democrazy), Ghent 19.30 – €10 – free for members You could spend some time strolling through Halifax, Nova Scotia (using Google Street View for that contemporary millennial midday trip overseas) to get an insight into the origin of Nap Eyes’ endearing indie-rock sound. You’ll find beautiful detached houses alongside wide green streets, and even though the faces are blurred, the people seem extremely laid-back and welcoming at all times. Doesn’t this sound like the perfect basis for some existential observations backed up by dreamy instrumentals? Well, that’s exactly what the Nova Scotian quartet does best. They’ll be joined by GhentBased UMM, who’ll bring their warm and experimental pop sound to ensure we catch those dreamy vibes all the way through.
5 May – C12, Brussels 23.00 – €10 free for members until 01.00 The deepin’ boys are keeping it real once again, presenting Vatican Shadow, the dark techno outfit of multimedia artist Dominick Fernow. And the realness doesn’t end there: the C12 gang are also giving a spot on stage to Dutch techno duo Volition Immanent for a live set. Finally, to complete the lineup, two local acts, Techno Thriller and Neila.
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Pearson Sound + Shanti Celeste + Cabasa 9 May – C12, Brussels 23.00 – €10 free for members until 01.00
Ulrika Spacek
Pearson Sound, aka David Kennedy, has become more than synonymous with the cutting edge of UK dancefloor music. His hypnotic style will leave you breathless. Imagine him alongside Shanti Celeste, whose positive vibes are undeniable. She’ll make you dance like never before and make you smile throughout her whole set. Next to these two legends you’ll find Cabasa, resident of ‘Under My Garage’.
11 May – Eden, Charleroi 21.00 – €11 – free for members Living together in an old London art gallery, five-headed band Ulrika Spacek makes exceptionally blatant psychedelic post-punk, often flirting with krautrock influences. Imagine Women, Stereolab, Spacemen 3, Pavement and Sonic Youth co-parenting a child. Well, that kid would probably be called Ulrika Spacek. At the end of last year they released their second full-length album on Though Love Records — an album that, according to The Quietus, ‘consistently hits its target in a magnetic, mesmerizing way, and one that if you let it will swallow you whole’. They’ll be back on the mainland once again to hit us with their weirded-out soundscapes.
Dollkraut Band
Hariprasad Chaurasia
10 May – KulturA (JauneOrange), Liège 20.00 – €8 – free for members Cinematic, glamourous, rough and haunting: that’s what’s Dollkraut Band is all about, with their deep love of lo-fi recordings, ’70s synthesizers and postrock aesthetics. Whether performing as a DJ or with a live band, frontman Pascal never loses his appetite for exploring. A typical Dollkraut performance involves a weird feeling of distortion, fuzz colouring the air. Come and enjoy these vampires at KulturA in Liège.
12 May – Bozar, Brussels 19.00 – €22 – free for members
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Perhaps the greatest Indian wrestler of the 20th century has been withheld from us, but in return we’ve been handed one of the most respected bansuri soloists in the world. Born into a wrestling family, Hariprasad Chaurasia was destined to go into the family business — according to his father, at least. But he knew a
wrestling career was not for him, and at the age of nine began to secretly attend music lessons with his neighbour. He later became a disciple of the legendary Annapurna Devi, and the rest is history. Today, the classical flautist is one of the most respected Indian musicians alive and considered a real guru. If you have the chance, don’t miss out on the opportunity to see this master play the flute and let your mind be enriched and brought to new places by his mesmerising ragas.
years times two, and also the amount of legs an insect has. Today, with U.S. Girls Megan celebrates the release of her seventh effort, In a Poem Unlimited, released back in February, a beautiful political pop effort. Fun fact: song numero cinco on the album is named ‘Rosebud’ :). Antwerp-based Miaux, aka Mia Prce, aka keyboard mistress, will bring her old-school Casio back to play some minimal and timeless music and electronic interpretations of baroque music.
Elsewhere: Poltrock + Poppy Ackroyd
U.S. Girls + Miaux
16 May – Kruidtuin (STUK), Leuven 19.00 – €14 – free for members
13 May – Vooruit, Ghent 20.00 – €12 – free for members While some of you were still learning algebra, Subba was taking its first steps and building its very first family. This gig is an homage to the early guys, those who saw this exact same lineup back in 2012. Yes, six years ago. That’s three
David Poltrock has played in many group projects, including Hooverphonic, Triggerfinger and De Mens, but in 2018 it’s time for him to go solo. He’ll present a trilogy he’s been working on for years now: Mutes, Moods & Machines. Besides him you’ll find London composer Poppy Ackroyd, currently based in Brighton. Classically trained on the violin and the piano, she makes music by manipulating and multi-tracking sounds from just these two instruments, which results in a perfect fusion of classic and electronic music. Members who’d like to attend the event need to mail before 14 May at memberships@subbacultcha.be to make reservations. Read more on page 26.
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Duchess Says
Evan Baggs + Walrus + Davy
17 May – KulturA (Go With The Flow), Liège 20.00 – €10 – free for members Widely hailed as one of the most influential electro-punk bands from North America, Duchess Says are back performing on the other side of the Atlantic. It’s been five years since their last show in Liège and they’ve surely grown a lot since then. Their energy feels like it’s from a different universe, giving you new strength and crazy dance moves. Describing their sound as ‘moog rock’, prepare to be blown away by their loud and theatrical live show.
Melkbelly + Whimm
20 May – C12 x Basic Moves, Brussels 23.00 – €10 free for members until 01.00 Evan Baggs is a versatile New York DJ who mixes various styles, from electro and techno to house and garage. Also on this lineup is Brussels’ own Walrus with his deep-house beats. When Walrus isn’t on stage, he spends his time helping out the guys at Dr. Vinyl — which is probably a good excuse for him to dig for yet more obscure music.
CMON + Tim Koh
17 May – La Zone (PopKatari), Liège 20.00 – €7 – free for members Back in 2017, Chicago noise-rock quartet Melkbelly recorded one of the most prominent albums of the American DIY scene. Released on Wax Nine, Nothing Valley launched Melkbelly’s international career, and they’ll be touring Europe for the first time since their debut in 2013. The Melkbelly sound is characterised by Sonic Youth-distorted guitars, a snappy snare drum à la Lightning Bolt and over-excited noise passages interrupted by quieter vocal melodies.
23 May – Table Dance, Antwerp 20.00 – €8 – free for members Confusion Mix of Nations are landing in Europe for the very first time. Josh Da Costa and Jamen Whitelock are also two third of New York band Regal Degal, which they founded back in 2009. Now living in the sunshine of LA, the boys are working under CMON, a sound that has altogether more boogie and is directed at heady crate-diggers
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and cutting-edge partygoers. They’ll be joined by Tim Koh, well-known for playing with Ariel Pink, and who is now debuting his solo project.
ft. An Albatross + MOAR + Cannibale + Assassani + Techno Thriller + more
Habibi 25 May – Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 – €8 – free for members Brooklyn-based Habibi was formed over a common love of Middle Eastern psych music. The band now puts out music that is halfway between surfmusic straight out of the ’60s, Oriental melodies and romantic ballads.
DJ Fett Burger + Lawrence Le Doux 26 May – C12 x Basic Moves, Brussels 23.00 – €10 free for members until 01.00
2 June – Rockerill, Charleroi 18.00 – €20 Rockerill Festival is back, bringing punk, rock, psychedelic and garage music as well as acid techno to Charleroi. This festival attracts the crème de la crème of the Belgian and French hardcore scenes, with power-scream-popdisco-noise from An Albatross and Cannibale’s exotic garage rock, plus garage-synth-punk by The Scaners, and Moar, who will surprise you with their playful and funky garage punk. Acid techno acts such as Assassani and Techno Thriller will make your heart pound and your head spin afterwards.
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Norway’s funkiest bad-boy producer is heading to Brussels — and you’re invited. If burger boy is in town, that means jazz fusion, cosmic disco and groovy Latin tunes till the morning. To top the burger with some tasty condiments, the Deepin’ boys are slapping in a familiar face: Lawrence Le Doux, the man with an eternal hat and tunes ranging from experimental pop to straight-up house.
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Tarva yeghanakner + Afterwords & Vucca
8 June – deSingel, Antwerp 20.00 – €22 – free for members For the latest edition of this ambitious festival dedicated to experimentation and the underground, Subbacultcha is hosting a stage on the second day. TOPS’ dreamy indie vibe and First Hate’s bright synthetic pop tunes will transfer you from deSingel to a colourful party in an abandoned building in Berlin with a view of the setting sun. However, Lean Chihiro, a young Parisian rapper, and Kim Berly, an underground DJ mixing vogue with industrial beats and palm trees, will pull you back to the dark and steamy vibes of the sweaty room where you’ll be dancing your ass off all night.
film 21 May – Cinematek, Brussels 19.00 – €4 – free for members
Double Play 17 May – KASK Cinema, Ghent 20.30 – €5 – free for members A conversation between two of the most interesting living American directors: in Double Play Gabe Klinger gets Richard Linklater and James Benning to discuss film, time and memory. What comes out is a portrait of a friendship that highlights the myriad ways in which these two characters have influenced each other over time. A beautiful, meditative take on life, art and the merits of observation and steady contemplation.
In the framework of its focus on Spanish filmmaker and visual artist Carlos Casas, Cinematek presents a night in three parts, revolving around the dizzying loops that stir human existence. Next to his own explorations on the self (Afterwords, a journey into the core of a man’s suffocating psyche, and Vucca, a mental space investigation at the periphery of civilisation), Casas chose to present Artavazd Pelechian’s Tarva yeghanakner (1972), a swirling poem about Armenian rural daily life and its intertwined relationship with Earth’s orbital motion, nature and elements. In the presence of Carlos Casas.
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The Net 25 May – Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 – €5 – free for members
time and the scale of the performance will therefore depend on the objects chosen and the scale of the venue. The performance takes the body itself as a kit, and the assembly instructions as dance notation.
Controversial filmmaker Kim Ki Duk’s latest offering takes us into somewhat unexpected territory: the Koreas. In The Net, a poor North Korean fisherman finds his tranquil life completely disrupted when his net latches onto the propeller of his boat, drifting him into South Korean waters where he is mistaken for a spy. The consequences and paradoxes of this unhappy accident are too real to dismiss. As always, Kim Ki Duk is all too comfortable with uncomfortable scenarios, and while bodily amputations are less dominant than in previous films, the feeling of social and political dismemberment is just as cringe-inducing.
theatre/dance
Affordable Solution for Better Living 18 May – Campo, Ghent 20.30 – €14 – free for members This performance brings together dancers and IKEA furniture. Each theatre can choose, from the catalogue, the furniture they wish to see performed with by the dancers. The
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Broodthaerskabinet
until 31 May – S.M.A.K. Ghent €8 – free for members With Broodthaerskabinet, S.M.A.K. presents artworks, editions, books and archival pieces by Marcel Broodthaers from the museum’s collection. Broodthaers was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century art history. The impact of his activities as an artist were not only noticed in his own country at that time, he also broke through internationally very quickly. The image of his work is everlasting. We’re looking for distributors in Brussels! mail herlinde@subbacultcha.be
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Marcel Berlanger: FIG until 27 May – BPS22, Charleroi 10.00-18.00 – €6 – free for members Brussels-born artist Marcel Berlanger has been exploring a specific relationship between painting and scenography for years, where the image creation process is concomitant to its method of production and both elements are inextricably linked. For his exhibition in BPS22, the artist went through his stock image archive, filled with celebrities, plants and landscapes, and re-created them through the technique of squaring up the images in the way of Old Masters. The result is an achievement in stage design, where the main hall of the gallery becomes an otherworldly scene of Berlanger’s imagination. Special performances of Iwona, une Opérette éléctronique will also take place in situ in April.
Benjamin Installé: Providência until 27 May – BPS22, Charleroi 10.00-18.00 – €6 – free for members Benjamin Installé co-founded the artist-run space ‘Le Sceptre’, a platform for emerging talent. This Brusselsbased artist studies the relationship
between the material possibilities of painting as a medium, and the structural properties of the painting as an object. He uses a variety of materials and techniques (such as sgraffito, frescoes, engraving, oils and encaustic) because of their origin, sensuality and expressive power to deceive visitors and confuse perception.
Cléo Totti: Mechanical Lyrism
until 27 May – BPS22, Charleroi 10.00-18.00 – €6 – free for members Cléo Totti graduated with a master’s degree in visual arts from ERG, the graphic research school based in Brussels. She currently works in Liège and Brussels, where she uses a wide variety of materials and media. Her work is situated on the spectrum between sculpture and painting, reality and fiction, presence and absence and culture and nature. She explores and questions the transition from the industrial era to the digital age and the way in which humankind relates to the rapidly evolving technologies.
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Joëlle de La Casinière: Dans la Maison (du Montfaucon Research Center) 12-20 May – Argos, Brussels 11.00-18.00 – €6 – free for members Artist Joëlle de La Casinière, born in Morocco, lives and works in Brussels. She co-founded the Montfaucon Research Center community with nomadic friends and artists who engaged in graphic poetry and the art of living in general. That’s where Sophie Podolski lived and worked for the better part of her active career, between 1969 and 1973. De La Casinière paid homage to Podolski and her drawings with the intimate portrait movie Dans la Maison (du Montfaucon Research Center), released in 2017.
Anne Reijniers & Rob Jacobs: Échangeur 24 May-3 June – Argos, Brussels 11.00-18.00 – €6 – free for members Belgian filmmaker Anne Reijniers and researcher Rob Jacobs travelled to Kinshasa in the summer of 2015 to
explore the thought-provoking debate on the representation of colonialism. They investigated the removal of Belgian statues from Kinshasa’s public squares after independence and met artists who addressed the colonial in their artistic work. These meetings and their research led to Échangeur (2016), a film comprised of images of static monuments exhibited in a museum, statues in movement between sites and active performances of young Congolese who imagine their own version of this complex colonial past.
Laurent Van Lancker: Disorientation(s) 12 May-15 July – Argos, Brussels 11.00-18.00 – €6 – free for members Laurent Van Lancker is a multilingual Brussels-based artist. He studied both filmmaking and anthropology, a combination that echoes through his work, which addresses the illumination of social, religious and artistic aspects of different cultures and the tension between ethics and aesthetics. The solo exhibition Disorientation(s) departs from the multiscreen installation Limbo, which evokes the feeling of disorientation and the eternal stream of migrants in an abandoned refugee camp. Van Lancker’s other recent works will be displayed as well, creating an electrifying and fascinating image of his oeuvre that deserves to become widely known.
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music
First Hate Copenhagen synth-pop duo First Hate — aka Joakim Norgaard and Anton Falck Gansted — combine lo-fi, synthetically programmed melodies and drum beats fused with keyboard recordings. With Gansted’s deep, charismatic voice and oh-so-relatable lyrics at the forefront, you’ll immediately fall in love with their sound. Always reinventing, First Hate’s music makes you wanna dance and sometimes cry — but who says you can’t do both at the same time? We met with the boys to talk growing up, the theft of a baby monkey (!) and how their lives are blossoming.
Interview by Laura-Andréa Callewaert
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Photos by Kristoffer Juul shot in Copenhagen
cheat for The Sims. Did you guys play a lot of computer games when you were young?
What was it like growing up in Denmark? Joakim: Copenhagen is, in general, a quiet and safe place to grow up. Both of our parents gave us a lot of responsibility, they didn’t keep an eye on us most of the time. So it was easy to spend time out in the streets exploring the neighbourhood. A lot of time was spent making something happen out of boredom. We were both the bad kids and the nice guys.
J: Although I loved The Sims, Hitman 2, Pokemon and Kirby, I’ve never really finished a game. For some reason I couldn’t focus on them for too long. I would draw, read books and daydream all the time instead. Those are still some of my favourite things to do.
Anton: Joakim was in prison for six months after stealing a baby monkey. That was a boring summer for me, I didn’t do much except wait for him to get out.
A: For me, ‘Rosebud’ is the name on the sledge in Citizen Kane, and that sledge plays a key role in one of my favourite Colombo episodes. But unfortunately I’ve decided to boycott American culture for a while so I can’t rewatch that right now.
How did you see yourself growing up when you were little?
What does a typical day in your life look like these days?
J: I thought adulthood meant becoming someone else and never being in doubt of things. But I also thought I was going to be an insanely rich inventor and private detective. Turns out none of it was true.
J: There isn’t really a typical day. Sometimes we sleep all day because we’ve been out doing stuff or up watching YouTube crap all night. But most of the time we live quite busy lives.
A: I actually imagined that I would be killed at a quite young age. I was a bit neurotic. When I was told ‘Rosebud’ was the theme for this issue, I immediately thought of the rosebud
A: A day could look like this: Wake up, eat breakfast with my neighbour, take the bus to the gym, work out with a friend, go to the supermarket and steal a bag full of snacks and drinks, eat in the sun, walk or run through the streets depending on my mood,
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go to the First Hate office to work on practical stuff like merch and planning, drink buckwheat tea and laugh about things, go out to eat at a friend’s house, come home to the mansion and drink wine with the neighbours, sit down in the studio to work on music, write in my diary, take a footbath, go to sleep next to my cat. J: Same goes for me — except for the gym, the cat and the neighbour part. I use that time instead to lie and stare into the eyes of my beautiful knife. I mean wife. How would you describe your life using a film title? H: Ghost in the Shell. A: The Truman Show :(
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First Hate Swim With The Current 8 June – deSingel, Antwerp free for members
music
Poppy Ackroyd Classical music always tells a certain story: sometimes it’s very sad, sometimes it’s theatrically delighted. But it’s always extremely realistic. Poppy Ackroyd brings it to the next level: she makes us long for more. The classically trained pianist, violinist, producer and composer is part of the legendary Hidden Orchestra group but has focused on her own musical growth for the past couple of years. She immediately turned heads in the neo-classical world by recording improvised contemporary classical piano motifs and then rearranging and manipulating these sounds digitally. The result is a fusion of electronic and acoustic in a post-classical setting, an innovative mosaic of calming sounds. With an intimate feel her compositions are flourishing all the time, layer by layer. 26
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Photos by Lee Robbins shot in Brighton
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Elsewhere: Poltrock + Poppy Ackroyd 16 May – Kruidtuin (STUK), Leuven Members who’d like to attend the event need to mail memberships@subbacultcha.be before 14 May to make a reservation
scene report
Rome Always been curious about scenes in other cities outside your own little cocoon? We assumed you were! As much as we can, we’ll feed your hunger for insights and secrets in the Scene Report. This month: Rome, aka the Eternal City, aka pasta heaven, aka Michelangelo’s playground. It has a lot more to offer than just cacio e pepe, la dolce vita and American tourists going on Julia Roberts’ pilgrimage. That’s why we invited Louise Souvagie to tell us about how she fell in love with Rome while studying there. Here is her story.
Text & photos by Louise Souvagie
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While studying in Rome for five months, I discovered the city behind the perfect postcard views. While it has the typical chill of a Mediterranean city, it’s still a capital where many young people live, work and rave. To explore the scene more fully, I had a chat with Andrea Venerus (a solo artist), Gino Tremila (creative director and member of Sxrrxwland) and Mattia De Paulis (head of AMEN). It’s a sunny morning in San Lorenzo, a district around Rome’s main train station. The elderly people are dragging their groceries through alleys dripping with graffiti. There I meet with Andrea Venerus for a cappuccino and cornetto — as one does when in Rome. Andrea has been making music under his last name for a while now, and recently released his first single, ‘Non ti conosco’. He just signed under a label called Asian Fake which mainly supports Roman artists. We started discussing the
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main alternative types of music of la Città. While frowned upon, the trap scene is huge in Italy in general, as is techno and indie. Turin and Milan are very hip and happening, but there’s still some real action going on in the capital. San Lorenzo is home to many ‘recent’ ruins; it was bombed in 1943 because it housed the resistance against the regime. Navigating through these ruins you’ll find Locanda Atlantiche, where you can enjoy some house and ‘gabber eleganza’ in the most destroyed street of the neighbourhood. Nothing gets below 180 bpm over there. Since the bombing the district has attracted many artists and outlaws. Andrea, who grew up in Milano, appreciates Rome and especially
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‘San Lolo’ for its easygoing atmosphere and the openness of the people. We visit his favourite record store, Il Mangiadischi (‘The record-eater’), where you can have a local beer while browsing through a carefully made selection of vinyl. Andrea plugs in his phone and we listen to some new tracks on the store’s sound system. He grew up listening to niche blues as well as Italian storyteller Paolo Conte and it’s easy to hear these influences in his music. Gino Tremila is a whole other story. With lead singer Vipra and producer Osore, he makes up Sxrrxwland. The musical collective has become very popular among trap-loving Romans (against Gino’s will, I must say) and is slowly becoming a bigger experience involving fashion, design and very soon video. While their influences come mostly out of postrock, noise, drone and midwestern emo, the lyrics (tutto in Italiano) are a bundle of social
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critique and existential poetry. They view Sxrrxwland as a post-futuristic place with its own inhabitants, customs and aesthetics. During the day, Gino is a freelance creative director where he is mostly ‘the executor of other people’s wishes’, as he likes to say, but with Osore and Vipra he found the perfect partnership to strive towards his personal creative development. When asked about the underground scene in Rome, he describes it as having lost its status of creative capital, not necessarily because of a lack of activity, but because so much is happening virtually nowadays. This was also the opinion of Mattia De Paulis who organises events with AMEN. We got in touch after I saw he invited coucou chloe to perform at Largo Venue. With AMEN he is trying to get the hot stuff happening online — eg NON, Halcyon Veil, Staycore, Janus etc. — to Rome’s physical venues. And it’s working. They put together art expos and live performances, experimental music and
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clubbing. Under their main principles (NO racism, NO sexism, NO homophobia, NO transphobia, NO violence) their goal is to reach a bigger audience and maybe one day have a big multimedia festival. The first AMEN event I went to was at Rashomon, a club in Garbatella, a lively neighbourhood to go out and experience very different nightlife styles. Pigneto is also a very varied area. You may know it as Pasolini’s favourite part of Rome, but nowadays it’s still a locals’ favourite with plenty of bars and clubs. Go buy almost any record at Blutopia, have some aperitivo on the main street, go dance at Fanfulla and have a latenight stuffed potato at Kalapà. The next day, go do some alternative sightseeing in EUR, the city founded by Mussolini and an atypical part of Rome with its huge, cold architecture and desolated vibes. There is more to Rome than the Trevi Fountain.
Artists: Sxrrxwland, Venerus, Ketama, Vipra, Pearl River Sound, #BNSSR Venues: Fanfulla, La Fine, Locanda Atlantiche (on NEXUS-nights), Ex Dogana, Largo Venue, Forte Prenestino, Rashomon, Monk Record stores: Il Mangiadischi, Blutopia Galleries (contemporary): Frutta Gallery, T293, Gagosian Gallery
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ONBETA You know that old thing in the attic that you just can’t bear to throw away? The one with all the memories and that big red wine stain? ONBETAALBAAR brings these wilting objects together to create a new, fresh object. We met staff writer Mieke Michelle in the collective’s new habitat at Campo Boma to talk about materialism and what it means today. Minimalism dictates we say goodbye to useless stuff, declutter our chaotic lives, not attach ourselves to objects. But who decided that loving objects is evil? ONBETAALBAAR offers an alternative: fuck minimalism, embrace materialism with emotion.
Interview by Sofie Steenhaut
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Why is the story behind an object important for ONBETAALBAAR? It’s the reason we’re more than yet another project about recycling. ONBETAALBAAR started out as a performance project where the history of a discarded object was documented while the thing itself was transformed into a new piece of design or furniture by woodworkers and crafts(wo)men. From thereon the collective grew organically around a love for rejected objects and beautiful materials, a love we call ‘emotional materialism’. To live by this philosophy means that we acknowledge the history and the soul of an object. We register who donated them, how old they are, where they spent their past life… Often when we start a project we advertise in local newspapers with an open call to bring in old treasures that you want to get rid of. They can be broken, old, rusty and worn out but they have to hold some emotional value to you. Give your treasured trash to us and we’ll give it a new life. The artists in the workshop transform the objects physically and turn them into new pieces of functional design. Meanwhile, every object gets its own passport: a little book detailing the story of the object in words and pictures. Sometimes parts of the story are also symbolically incorporated into the upcycled object itself.
Why does materialism have such a negative connotation today? Materialism signals an irrational attachment to an object. The generally accepted ideology is that letting go of useless objects will make you happy and centre you, so we should all downsize. But I think it’s beautiful that everyone is capable of forming a bond with an inert object. I believe that, when you have an overwhelming craving for beauty, you materialise it in your environment. This is what our makers are doing when they make beautiful things out of trash. Listen, if you can be happy without objects, that’s great. Good for you. But I think it’s okay to give in to the fact that beautiful things and stories can make you happy and want to create more beauty to make other people happy in the process. Do you look at materialism as part of being human? Yes, even more than being human. I used to have a ferret who constantly stole a wooden egg cup from the table. And no matter what we did, he had to have this egg cup. It was his. I recognised the need to make something your own, a piece of the world that is yours.
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On the other hand, ONBETAALBAAR also incorporates a critique of consumption culture. ONBETAALBAAR encourages people to treat objects with respect instead of consuming them mindlessly. That’s a positive side of emotional materialism; it means that you’ll try to repair things, to keep them as long as you can, to handle them properly. It means you want to grant every object the longest life possible. Do you have an object you are attached to? Yes, a lot of them. I even have a tree branch in my bedroom. Just a normal branch from my parents’ garden that I took with me to my first dorm room. I never imagined I’d still have it after more than ten years. I keep it because of the meaning behind it, I don’t even really find it pretty. It’s a piece of home I took with me. I don’t know if it’s guilt, or nostalgia, or an idea of how my life would have been if I’d stayed in the village where I grew up. I know that we’re all supposed to be living completely in the present these days, but this is a tribute to my past and my future.
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Onbetaalbaar: Open Atelier #5 9 + 10 June – Campo Boma, Ghent
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by Laura-AndrĂŠa Callewaert
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Models: Finn Waters & Laura-AndrĂŠa Callewaert Photos: Siene Hollemans Make-up artist: Rashidam Nassyrova
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book The Illuminati Papers Robert Anton Wilson
text and artwork by Gabriela González
You might remember a few aeons back, I reviewed Robert Anton Wilson’s demented conspiracy-minded headtrip, The Illuminatus Trilogy, as well as his take on the self-help genre by ways of neurocircuit programming, Prometheus Rising. To this day, many see truth in Illuminatus; after all, Wilson and Robert Shea took every theory under the sun, gave it a good lysergic chew, and spat it out on a pile of similarly expelled concoctions until they melted together in a wildly dissonant, strangely flowing narrative. And you thought your rabbit holes ran deep. Last year in a dusty little bookshop in Southern California, I found — as one does — another mysterious tome by the man himself. These Illuminati Papers, a compendium of documents often written in first-person by many of the characters featured in Illuminatus, manages to crank the insanity up another notch. You have Simon Moon’s verses on quantum mechanics and primate psychology, ‘Neuroeconomics’ by Hagbard Celine, a Magick Letter from the Bavarian Illuminati, and (real?) interviews with Conspiracy Digest and Science Fiction Review. In true Anton Wilson form, tongue is firmly merged with cheek, fact is indistinguible from fiction. You read into it what you will; my personal copy is littered with its previous owners’ own annotations and ideas. But statements like ‘It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea’ and ‘Nobody knows anything, or if they do, they are careful to hide the fact’ are pure Wilsonian edicts that ring truer today than ever before. Though he may be dead, we stay on this trip with him; in what could be some very apt famous last words, ‘We’re living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?’
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recent finds The Greatest Show on Earth Louis Janssens & Timo Sterckx
The Greatest Show on Earth is the graduation project by two drama students from KASK called Louis Janssens & Timo Sterckx. They use the book Europeana as the key element of the show. The book, by Patrik Ourednik, illustrates a short history of Europe in the 20th century. By memorising and reciting the whole book to the public and asking them questions about it the artists want to create a conception of history, eurocentrism, graduating, being young and finding a good balance. The show will last for four hours and the public are free to walk around, enter and exit whenever they like. Life is all about finding balance and maybe this show will give you the missing pieces. To be seen in Campo Ghent on 23 and 24 May.
The Ballet Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe
Benjamin is a young performer, often inspired by opera, who is finishing his studies in performance arts at TAM. He calls himself a narcissist and a wannabe counter-tenor. With a lot of shows to his name, including ‘My Inner Songs’ with Laurens Marien, he is now working on his graduation show, called ‘The Ballet’, alongside his friend Emiel Vandenberghe. The show will contain 15 large paintings of the Ballet of Flanders which will ‘dance’ together with the performers. In this performance Meirhaeghe brings opera and dance together in a very innovative way, searching for a parallel universe. It’s a dark combination of contemporary and classical arts. You can catch his performance of ‘The Ballet’ on 30 May in Vooruit, Ghent.
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Antwerp Art Weekend 25–27 May 2018
recent finds Table Dance tabledance.be
Google ‘Table Dance Antwerp’ and you’ll get results that are only helpful if you’re on a budget for your friend’s stag party. But we’re talking about a different kind of Table Dance here; indeed, in a bid to Make Antwerp Great Again, electronica chef Roman Hiele has teamed up with his girlfriend (and St. John’s-trained food wizard) Michelle Woods for a true labour of love. At Table Dance, not only can you have puffy puffs and eggy eggplant to go with your geuze, but also get your fill of topnotch musical acts and art happenings curated by your magical hosts. This month: a live set by Icelandic electronic artiste Kraftgalli on 5 May and a series of contemporary art manifestations in collaboration with Antwerp Art Weekend. Everything is close in Antwerp, so may nothing come between you and your table dance.
Night Shop Gallery Chez Madeleine facebook.com/nightshopgallerychezmadeleine
A new kind of art space currently dwells in downtown Brussels, and you’d be forgiven for not noticing it at all. Chez Madeleine is a place for photography, video installations, performance art… camouflaged within the interior of your trusty neighbourhood night shop. You might remember our music writer Hannes mentioning the Ghent-based producer Nightshop doing release shows in night shops, and it should come as no surprise that Chez Madeleine was one of them. Stay tuned for future happenings every weekend, which are scheduled to run up till August. Your favourite beer-and-snack provider has just become your new favourite venue.
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recent finds Moesha 13
by Hannes Rooms
soundcloud.com/moeshadu13
Moesha 13 is a singer, performer and DJ from Marseille. Her debut track, ‘En I’, is a catchy tune produced by King Doudou that sounds like Capri Sun, sunbeams, melting asphalt roads and motorbikes fiercely pulling up. Most of her productions draw from reggaeton or dancehall underneath light-filled French vocals drenched in autotune. Moesha 13 has undeniably strong ties to hybrid club culture surfing between gadjicore, Atlanta hip hop, gabber and even some trash metal when DJ-ing. She also fux with football jerseys, flashy Yamahas and post-internet aesthetics. It’s that internet she was once addicted to, a complete immersion in the matrix that proved to be meaningful in the end.
Anna Vs. June soundcloud.com/anna_in
Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) returns to its roots in Berlin for its 20th installment, hosting lectures, studio sessions and one-of-a-kind music events. Over the years the academy has kickstarted the careers of talented musicians from around the world. Shuffling through this year’s selection we handpicked Anna Vs. June as the most intriguing. Anna Papaioannou combines Greek folk and ambient music with both digital and analogue tools. With a background in sound design for theatre and film she composes a soundtrack for her soft-yet-steady vocals to provide a sonic journey into the extreme boundaries of pop. She’s not one to shy away from layers and complex textures in her sound. Other familiar names like Milan W., Wasted Fates, DJ Heroin and metabora join the RBMA line-up in September.
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recent finds TURNAROUND Arnaud Eubelen & Lisa Meyer
by Isaline Raes
SPACE COLLECTION, Liège Until 12 May 2018 Free entrance space-collection.org
Both having grown up with the sound of race cars against the backdrop of the silent woods that surround the racing circuit of SpaFrancorchamps, artists Lisa Meyer and Arnaud Eubelen chose this specific location as the research topic for their new project, TURNAROUND. The result is an ultra subjective report using various mediums — ranging from photography and installations to soundscapes — to transcribe the sensations lived during their on-site research. Digging into the characteristics of Francorchamps they tumbled on various links between a racetrack and the infinite movement of human life. As Arnaud Eubelen says: ‘On a circuit we turn in circles, but each turn is different. Long straight lines are succeeded by curves, there are climbs, descents. And on top of that you have the fervour of competition and the brutality of road exits.’ The race circuit as a metaphor for the human walk of life.
TUMULTINGENT #6 De Krook, Ghent 2 May 2018, from 10.00 to 23.00 Free entrance tumult.fm
TUMULTINGENT, the arts festival hosted by local radio station Ghent Urgent.fm, is hijacking the massive De Krook building with a daring mishmash of artistic presentations. For the sixth edition, a bunch of Ghentian cultural institutes — including Art Cinema OFFoff, CAMPO and Democrazy, as well as artist-run platforms and collectives In De Ruimte, STOFWOLK and De Koer — were asked to pick their favourite cutting-edge players of the local art scene. Be prepared for a tumultuous invasion of art in each corner and on every floor of the building, turning the library into a temple of art for one day only.
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BIG NEXT: NAP EYES + UMM
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SYLVIE KREUSCH
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recent finds Sambizanga Sarah Maldoror, 1972
by Sabzian 9 May – 19.00 Cinematek, Brussels
You should know, there are no Whites, no Mulattos or Blacks… Only the Rich and the Poor. The Rich are the Poor’s enemies. They see to it that the Poor stay poor. […] The Rich give in a way that keeps the Poor poor, and work to keep the Rich rich. If there were no Rich, there’d be no Poor. We’d all be the same. (Domingos in dialogue in Sambizanga) ‘What I wanted to show in Sambizanga is the aloneness of a woman and the time it takes to trudge… In this film, I tell the story of a woman. It could be any woman, in any country, who takes off to find her husband.’ (Sarah Maldoror) Sambizanga sheds light on the Angolan liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rule, from the perspective of a woman who sets out to find her husband.
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recent finds Os Canibais [The Cannibals] Manoel de Oliveira, 1988
Films, films, The best of them Are like good books So rich and deep They’re hard to breach.
by Sabzian 29 May – 20.00 Cinema Zuid, Antwerp
Cinema isn’t easy, For life is complicated And art is indefinable. Or maybe it’s life that’s indefinable And art complicated. Manoel de Oliveira (1908-2015)
‘[…] He wanted the artifice to get so far that he filmed an opera in a natural setting and he made the artists perform in playback. He deprived them from their voice, the worst of the different “tortures” he had subdued me to, probably believing that the greater the artifice in the way of representing, the least artifice I would be able to produce for my presence on screen and therefore would expose myself more truthfully.’ (Luis Miguel Cintea, actor)
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Read much more on de Oliveira and Portuguese cinema at Sabzian.be
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Name: Frederiek Weda Age: 30 Zodiac sign: Taurus Subbacultcha member since: January 2018
Tell us, what do you do in life? I’m the coordinator of artist residences at AIR Antwerpen and work at Galerie Thomas Fischer in Berlin.
What makes you dance? Tasty earbites by Baumusik. And Chaka Khan’s ‘I’m Every Woman’!
What do you like best about your place? The windows. They open along the central axis. And the view is great — no particular reference, just big clouds passing by. I’m in-between places a lot. My roots are in the Netherlands, my soul is in Belgium and my heart is in Berlin. It’s where my loved ones live. This place is spun together by threads and traces of warm thoughts going out to all of them. Looking outside gives me the feeling I could be here or there. What kind of music are you listening to at the moment? The Soft Hair record I got from my friend, and The Pink Caves by Fenster. They suit the spring sky.
Which is your favourite plant? I like them all, but my favourite is the big monster on the balcony. A friend got it from her grandmother, she gave an offshoot to me, I passed sprouts to others. One got eaten by a cat, one survived airmail, one is called Egon. It keeps on going, in all directions. A true survivor and giver. Have you experienced any regrets recently? Ha-ha. Endless doubts, but in the end no regrets. Note to everyone and self: just follow your intuition. Which future Subbacultcha show are you looking forward to? U.S. Girls!
What’s the first record you bought? I was hoping you wouldn’t ask this question… the first record I bought was Lionel Richie’s CD single ‘Angel’. What’s your favourite pastime? Wednesday evenings with friends & residents at The Living Room, and meeting up with my boyfriend at any given place like Mönchengladbach.
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Photo by Miles Fischler shot in Antwerp
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front cover: First Hate by Kristoffer Juul
thank you: Isaac Barbé, Mattias Baertsoen, Koi Persyn, Niloufar Nematollahi, Hannes Rooms, Vicky Derweduwen, Lindsey De Laet, Mert Sen, Jeroen Albertijn, Stans Vrijsen, Mats Wosky, Junior Bokele, Paulina De Vleesschouwer, Margaux Fabris, Kellan Smith, Lynn Cailliau, Anna Hortense Vanden Brande, Naoki Karathanassis, Nelson Henry, Lara Decrae, Jelle Dens, Isabelle Vanderstockt, Melanie Musisi, Eline De Vos, Gert Van Dijck, Lisa Alemán Arévalo, Sofia Van Laer, Amani Wijte, Maria Antchougova, Amaury Wilkin & friends, Ian Wiglema, Emilia Vangrinsven, Frederik Vliege, Pascal Vandenberghe & Frederic Busscher
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