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Part of: Borderline Festival 10
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Borderline Festival 10 | 3rd Day

Νο borders. No boundaries. Just sound.

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Prices

5 — 10 €

Location

Athens
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Time & Date

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Venue
Day
Sunday 27 June
Time
21:00 - 23:00
Venue
Nea Mascot (Tavros Municipal Cinema)

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Tickets

General presale: from 16 Jun 2021, 17:00

Full price: 10 €

Reduced, Friend: 7 €

People with disabilities & Unemployed: 5 € | Companions: 7 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org

Place

Nea Mascot (Tavros Municipal Cinema)

The venue does not have wheelchair access and is not suitable for people with impaired mobility.

Information

Non-medical face coverings must be worn throughout the venue.

Everyone must have their temperature checked before entering an event.

Hand disinfectant is provided throughout the venue.

To avoid congestion, visitors are assigned specific arrival time slots.

Ushers are on hand to ensure audiences are sat in accordance with safe distancing guidelines.

Unseen aspects of the environment each have their own sound. Day three sees Borderline 2021 come to a close with a powerful electroacoustic set by the saxophonist and composer Lea Bertucci, a four-channel sound composition based on field recordings made at various refuse collection sites around Attica, and a new audiovisual work on the dual significance that can imbue the air we breathe.

The festival concludes with two new Onassis Stegi commissions revealing unseen aspects of our environments, and a powerful electroacoustic set by the New York saxophonist and composer Lea Bertucci.

Following on from “TESTIMONIUM – Athens”, created by Jacob Kirkegaard specially for the Onassis Channel on YouTube, this internationally renowned sound artist is presenting a new four-channel sound composition based on recordings made at various refuse collection sites across Attica. Next up is Lea Bertucci, who explores the sculptural qualities of sound and the acoustics of the space to unfurl a constantly shifting sound environment. Last up is “ARIA”, the collaborative new audiovisual work by musician and producer Coti K., video artist Erato Tzavara, and photographer and biologist Andrea Bonneti that negotiates the dual significance that can imbue the air we breathe.

Program

Jacob Kirkegaard presents TESTIMONIUM - Athens

Danish sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard consistently draws our attentions in directions and to issues that we usually try to avoid. Starting out fifteen years ago with a series of unique sound recordings made inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone, and continuing right through to his latest work – titled Opus Mors – which deals with what exactly happens to the human body after death, Kirkegaard chooses to tackle difficult and sensitive issues. So too with TESTIMONIUM – Athens, by which the Danish artist transports us to various refuse collection sites across Attica and calls on us to reflect on our civilization’s relationship with the trash it produces constantly. Might we be able to find something beautiful, something musical after all in the things we avoid, throw away, and systematically try to hide?

Lea Bertucci

Electronic sounds that occupy the entire auditory spectrum build an intense and imposing sound environment that finds itself in a constant state of contrast with the immediacy and impermanence of the saxophone’s sounds. In the music of Lea Bertucci, audial phenomena compose not pieces of music but rather a constantly shifting three-dimensional space. The American musician’s live appearance at the New Mascot outdoor movie theater offers Borderline audiences a unique acoustic experience that could be described as “cinema for the ears”.

Coti K. + Erato Tzavara + Andrea Bonetti present ARIA

The air.

Air is life. It is oxygen. A fresh, deep breath fills our lungs with life.

But, is it really so? What if the same breath contains dangerous, invisible substances other than just the oxygen we need? Does it still fill our lungs with life?

ARIA is an original audiovisual performance that puts into music and images the air pollution that we create in our cities. The real data from air pollution monitors across Greek cities has been analyzed and rendered to control the music and video to show us the real air we breathe, each day of the year. This air is not filled with life only…

A performance that wants to remind us that good health is not to be taken for granted, and that breathing cleaner air in our cities should be a basic right for all of us.

Bios

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