Filastine & Nova share the Voyage of Arka Kinari - "Oktopus" live at Stubnitz, December 15th, 2022

#liveconcert #storytelling #livedocumentary #javaneosoul #percussion

In a live documentary performance combining video, music and story, Nova Ruth & Grey Filastine share the voyage of Arka Kinari. Subversive, immersive and partially submerged, Arka Kinari is a 70-ton sailing ship transformed into a cultural platform to sound the alarm for the climate crisis.

Find out what happens when a rogue’s gallery of activists, makers and artists embark on a terrible idea for the best of reasons. Everything you imagined about the wildness of the sea will be confirmed... and then some. International borders will be proven fictions, until they suddenly become the hardest of facts when the pandemic traps Arka Kinari stateless at sea for months with a broken engine and shrinking supplies. Along the way you’ll find out what happens behind the fences of seedy ports from Morocco to Mexico, be hosted by Venezuelan soldiers on a barren rock, perform for indigenous communities on Panama’s disappearing islands, witness America’s bizarre nuclear legacy in the Pacific atolls, negotiate provisioning with heads of state, meet the Micronesian navigators preserving their ancient craft, be bashed by storms, scavenge supplies from shipwrecks, and be saved by a passing supertanker. You’ll also hear the challenges of being one of the few performing arts productions actually touring during the Covid crisis as the ship tours the Indonesian archipelago with help from such diverse quarters as government ministers, Islamic scholars, quarantine teams in haz-mat suits, and transgender shamans.


Artist's Bio:
Filastine & Nova are a multimedia duo working to undermine borders. Their music collides psychedelic trap beats with Javanese post-folk, musique concréte, analogue synths and acoustic instruments. National Public Radio calls them “powerfully political and distinctly global,” and Pitchfork says “they sound less like `world’ music and more like music from another world.” Another world is exactly what they aim to create, using sound, video, design, and dance to express a radically different vision of the possible.
Despite releasing a dozen critically-acclaimed albums, Filastine & Nova are foremost performing artists, Their live shows are where sound, image, and ideas are embodied. They’ve toured the five continents, appearing at festivals such as Sónar (ES), Downtown Cairo Arts (EG), Decibel (US), Les Vieilles Charrues (FR), Foreign Affairs (DE), Mona Foma (AU).
Many of Filastine & Nova’s projects defy category or commercialization, like their official mixtape for The Act of Killing documentary, Sound Swarm interventions at the COP climate change summits, a singular performance in the Calais Jungle migrant camp, a video clip staged inside an active coal mine. Their latest and greatest work takes the artists even further off the map; Arka Kinari is a 70-ton sailing ship that transforms into a floating performance that mixes myth, art and science to sound the alarm for climate change.

ARKA KINARI
ARKA- (Latin) a vessel, from arcere, meaning “to hold off or defend”
KINARI- (Sanskrit) a half-human, half-bird musician, guardian of the tree of life

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Links:
www.arkakinari.org
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Videos:
Tentang Arka Kinari - trailer (in indonesion):    • Tentang Arka Kinari (ID)  
Gema Rempah Arka Kinari (TV series Bumper):    • Gema Rempah Arka Kinari (TV series Bumper)  
Laut Loud (((~~~))) Public Service Announcement:    • Laut Loud (((~~~))) Public Service Announc...  
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MS Stubnitz Media Crew
Felix Stockmar : sound engineer
Falk : lighting
Hannah Vischer : camera
Carl Weidner : live edit - post-production

Gefördert durch: BKM Neustart Kultur, Initiative Musik