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Konoyo

Konoyo

Tim Hecker + The Konoyo Ensemble

Konoyo

Tim Hecker + The Konoyo Ensemble

SUPPORT ACT: KARA-LIS COVERDALE

The Culturgest season opens with due pomp and circumstance, paying tribute to the new work by Tim Hecker, after the celebration of his Love Streams, in 2016. There is a new and marvellous music in the offing and we will have the great privilege of being able to listen to it at its European premiere in our Main Auditorium. This concert will also bring with it an important novelty in the live performances of the Canadian musician: on stage, an ensemble composed of Kara-Lis Coverdale (who opens tonight and introduces Konoyo), and musicians from the gagaku ensemble Tokyo Gakuso, revealing where Tim Hecker obtained the raw material and inspiration for Konoyo and creating a unique emotional bridge between two so distinct cultures and times. Tim Hecker’s ambient supermachine has shortened distances and created a majestic hybrid that not only acknowledges the delicate and complex side of the Gagaku instrumentation from the japanese court but also creates the total abstraction that customarily lives inside the tumult of his own high-pressure electronics. This is not the first time that Hecker has tested his limits; but it is the first time that we have glimpsed the magnificent body of their existence.

Tim Hecker — This life [Konoyo, 2018]

04 OCT 2018
THU 21:00

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Emílio Rui Vilar Auditorium
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25th Anniversary of Culturgest

Culturgest begins its season in October, 25 years after its inauguration. Over all these years, Culturgest has played a significant role in developing the artistic fabric that characterises the city of Lisbon. It has accompanied the work of directors and choreographers, producing new creations and presenting them to an ever-growing audience; it has commissioned works from visual artists, organising individual and group exhibitions; it has presented musical concerts, from fado to jazz, from world music to erudite music; and all this has been done with a keen eye on the developments taking place both nationally and internationally. Over all these years, Culturgest has complemented and accompanied this artistic programme with a parallel programming of conferences and debates and a wide range of workshops, guided visits, meetings and shows for schools and families.

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, Culturgest will be presenting a programme with some of the leading names from the world of contemporary creation and thought. The festivities begin with the European première of the Konoyo concert performed by the Canadian musician Tim Hecker, accompanied by the Gagaku Music Ensemble from Japan, and will continue with the delightful Bal Moderne, which will be returning to Culturgest ten years after it first presence. For a World without Frontiers is the title of the lecture that will be presented by the Cameroonian thinker Achille Mbembe, in one of the most lucid and influential analyses of today’s post-colonial and multicentric world. His ideas will be echoed by the work of the French-Algerian artist Kader Attia, who are presenting his first solo exhibition in Portugal at Culturgest. In parallel to this, Culturgest will present the work of the Venezuelan artist Juan Araujo, who is resident in Lisbon. One of the high spots of the programme that marks Culturgest’s 25th anniversary will undoubtedly be The Six Brandenburg Concertos, the greatest choreography ever undertaken by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, performed by eighteen dancers from the Rosas company and the baroque music ensemble B’Rock, who will perform J.S. Bach’s masterpiece. And to round everything off, two participatory projects: the Curators’ Collective, a group of Caixa Geral de Depósitos collaborators, will conceive and present an exhibition based on the CGD’s collection of contemporary art, with the help of the curator Filipa Oliveira; in a second project Culturgest will invite organisations, schools and local associations to create and maintain 25 green spaces in the area surrounding the CGD’s building.

computer, Eletronics

Tim Hecker

Synthesizer, computer

Kara-Lis Coverdale

HICHIRIKI

Motonori Miura

RYUTEKI

Manami Sato

SHŌ

Fumiya Otonashi

Sound Technician

Chris Fullard

Light TECHNICIAN

Darren Johnston

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