Omsk Social Club & lemonboy (Lecture-performance)
Opening Night: Thurs 18 June | 18:00 - 19:00
Location: Likeminds
Title: Exquiste Corpse
Omsk Social Club and lemonboy collaborate through audio-visual call and response to build an exquisite corpse through determined alienation calling mineral animal human and cyborg into play. Together they grow pluralistic gestures over sonic architectures that mutate with the audience's own personal imagery. Channelling cult references such as the iconic anime "Ghost in a Shell" Benjamin Bratton's planetary-scale computing theory of the Stack and the parlour game cadavre exquis they create a chimaera of benevolent instruction a totemic enterprise a body with a thousand limbs.
Lemonboy
Fjóla Gautadóttir aka Lemonboy is an Icelandic Performer, Sound Designer, Writer and DJ. They have a background both in classical ballet and music, and have been working actively as a Sound Designer in the Berlin dance and performance scene, integrating their background in dance into composing sound landscapes for dance and performance.
Omsk Social Club
Omsk Social Club’s work is created between two lived worlds: one of life as we know it, and the other of role play. This is where Omsk positions their speculative fictions, and through these immersive installations they move into a territory they call Real Game Play (RGP). Their work aims to induce states that could potentially be a fiction or a yet unlived reality. They have exhibited across Europe in various institutions, galleries, theaters and off-sites such as Martin Gropius BauHouse of Electronic Kunst, HKW, Seventeen, Volksbühne, Stroom Den Haag and Light Art Space.They have been included in CTM Festival (2021), 34th Ljubljana Biennial (2021), 6th Athens Biennale (2018), Transmediale Festival (2019), The Influencers (2018), and Impakt Festival (2018). In 2021, they co-curated the 7th Athens Biennale with Larry Ossei-Mensah.
Dead Air by Omsk Social Club (2018), Courtesy of Player Robyn aka Sylvia Rybak