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Boris Acket
Give audiovisual explorer Boris Acket a room, terrain, or space to play in and he'll envelop it into something otherworldly. Acket translates conceptual notions into immersive, multi- sensory experiences: technology, space, light, and sound all form a prism in which specific themes or subjects are explored and rematerialized. The results are vivid and often mind-boggling, giving the tried and true a fresh context or meaning. For instance, Acket researched how you can perceive linear audiovisual animations by arranging a line of lights and speakers of 80 meters in length. He made a film about a new and circular world based on the principles and modules of a modular synthesizer. He explored the subjective experience of time in a circular echo system. And finally, he created a real-life solar eclipse on stage for a crowd of 15,000 people. Those are just a handful of examples. Instead of relying on just a single discipline to satiate his own curiosity, he acts as a conductor for multiple forms: installation art, technology, live performance, music production, film and installations all of them working together to reveal a bigger picture: An endless research project into the experience of time, space, natural elements, human emotion and social boundaries. His works have been presented at NXT Museum, Lowlands, STRP, Holland Festival, Het Hem, Amsterdam Dance Event, De School, Down The Rabbit Hole, Wildeburg, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ,, Van Gogh Museum, Frame Lab & DGTL Festival and featured on Designboom, Resident Advisor, NRC, Volkskrant, Parool, Subbacultcha and 3voor12. Acket is one half of Working Titles, whose 2019 LP De Tuin is composed of improvisations that are carefully cut and reconfigured into a tapestry of meditative sonic vignettes. He is also part of Dutch artist collective De Lichting.