friday night live x hipsick @ kunsthal - aftermovie

Known for their raw, experimental style, the Rotterdam-based interdisciplinary crew HipSick challenges audience perception through performances, installations, and audiovisual experiments. HipSick explores the impact of dominant norms, the construct of identity, and the limits of the body. Rooted in DIY culture, they emerged from underground raves, squats, and collective creativity. Always unconventional, direct, and in motion. For Friday Night LIVE, HipSick presented not only their own work but also a bold mix of like-minded makers, performers, and DJs at Kunsthal. LIVE performance: Pensive Vivifier, HipSick, Sniebl en Amber Docters van Leeuwen & Ji Youn Kang (presented by MOMO) Music: Alberta Balsam, StefanZMK, Li-Z, Rosa en Yay Roon Audiovisual Installation: Marco Broeders Sound System: Zinloos Geluid 📸 @decontentdealer 🎶 ‪@stefanzmk‬

the fetus

Textile origami artwork ´The Fetus´ deals with the digitalization of modern life and the ethical dilemmas they raise. Despite all the questions, technology, such as the ultrasound of the unborn child, is slowly but surely conquering our planet. The butterfly-like creature in the artwork represents the technological progress of the 21st century, but also the elusive Textile art, like technology, has undergone an enormous development. Its universal voice still tells stories, connects cultures and expresses creativity and it can still be a powerful instrument for social change. Contemporary textile art combines age-old and sometimes forgotten craft techniques with modern conceptual ideas. The intricate Japanese folding technique used here has become popular among modern scientists of all stripes because of the age-old mathematical principles that underlie it. These principles can be found everywhere in nature, connecting the traditional with the future, the tangible with the digital, and the local with the planetary: idabrookhart-art