Edition 2022
Embracing New Realities
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MUTEK 2022
Marked by the return of audiences from around the world to witness innovative and dreamlike performances, the 23rd edition of the Festival offered a week filled with memorable moments from August 23 to 28, 2022 in Montreal.
138 artists from 22 countries performed a total of 77 live performances at four venues in the Quartier des spectacles. 14 digital art works were presented on the esplanade Tranquille or on the virtual.mutek.org platform, delivering 59 unique premieres to an equally curious and faithful audience.
MUTEK also took a new step in digital creativity as a producer of extended reality (XR) content with the Immersive Collection presented during the professional components of MUTEK Forum and MUTEK Market.
Special Event
Max Cooper & Architecture Social Club – Aether
Max Cooper UK | Architecture Social Club UK
The A/Visions series
A/VISIONS 1
Ali Phi IR/CA — Maqruh
Live A/V | North American Premiere
Kutin & Patrik Lechner AT — Achronie
Live A/V | World Premiere
SCHNITT & Gianluca Sibaldi DE+IT — ScanAudience
Live A/V | North American Premiere
A/VISIONS 2
Cyril Meroni & Olivier Vasseur FR — Advienne
Live A/V | North American Premiere
Elías Merino & Tadej Droljc ES+SI — Synspecies
Live A/V | North American Premiere
Pierce Warnecke & Matthew Biederman FR+CA/QC — Spillover
Live A/V | North American Premiere
The Play series
PLAY 1
Automatisme & Marilou Lyonnais Archambault CA/QC — Non-representation Field
Live A/V | World Premiere
Chloe Alexandra Thompson & aesthetic.stalemate CA/QC+US — Flux Emanation
Live A/V | World Premiere
Nik Colk Void UK & VJ KITANA
Live | North American Premiere
Orphx & Diagraf CA — Underworld
Live A/V
T.Gowdy CA/QC & VJ KITANA
Live | Canadian Premiere
PLAY 2
Ambre Ciel CA/QC
Live
Carmen Villain NO
Live
Tarta Relena ES/CAT & VJ Myriam Boucher
Live | North American Premiere
Ellxandra CA/QC & VJ Myriam Bouchrer
Live | World Premiere
rRoxymore FR/DE & VJ Line Katcho
Live
En collaboration avec Heavy Trip et Shift Radio
PLAY 3
Gábor Lázár HU
Live A/V
Liliane Chlela LB/QC — Safala
Live A/V
Nahash FR/QC
Live A/V | North American Premiere
NSDOS FR
Live A/V
Olivia Lathuillière CA/QC — Déliquescence Cosmique
Live A/V | World Premiere
The Nocturne series
NOCTURNE 1
Gaëlle Scali FR/QC — Attractive 'Acid' Cycles
Live A/V | World Premiere
machìna KR/JP & VJ Kaminska — Mirror, the Compass Point
Live | North American Premiere
Nicola Cruz EC
Live A/V
Totalement Sublime CA/QC — THRU OAEE UIE (LAB IV)
Live A/V
NOCTURNE 2
Bendik Giske NO — Cracks
Live | North American Premiere
Caterina Barbieri IT
Live A/V
Marina Herlop ES/CAT — Pripyat
Live | Canadian Premiere
Mue & Katherine Melançon CA/QC— A Discard Study
Live A/V | World Premiere
SMERZ NO
Live
En collaboration avec Pop Montréal
NOCTURNE 3
Aquarian CA/DE — OUROBOROS
Live A/V | Canadian Premiere
Cora Novoa ES/CAT
Live A/V
Nicolas Bougaïeff CA/DE & VJ JS Baillat — Begin Within
Live
Planetary Assault Systems UK & VJ JS Baillat
Live
En collaboration avec Exposé Noir
NOCTURNE 4
Afriqua US & VJ DATA DADA
Live | World Premiere
Dauwd UK/DE & VJ BunBun
Live | North American Premiere
Koreless UK
Live
Loraine James UK & VJ DATA DADA
Live | Première canadienne
Myriam Bleau CA/QC — Hypermobility
Live A/V
Powder JP & VJ BunBun
DJ set
NOCTURNE 5
Salle 1: Satosphère | VJs Isotone & susy.technology
Caro CA — Terra incognita
Live | Première mondiale
Whatever The Weather UK — Flowers
Live | North American Premiere
Ramzi CA/QC
Live | Canadian Premiere
Edward DE
Live | Canadian Premiere
N/UM US
Live
Salle 2: Espace SAT
Echönymphia & le désert mauve CA/QC+CN/QC+FR/QC — Oasis
Live A/V | World Premiere
Parts Project CA/QC — Steps And Dreams
Live | World Premiere
Azu Tiwaline TN/FR
Live | Canadian Premiere
Dj Plead AU
Live | Canadian Premiere
The Expérience series
EXPÉRIENCE 1 - 6
AGUMA CA/QC | Ramzilla CA/QC | Nicola Cruz EC | Handsome Tiger CA | Icky Magdala CA/QC — Takeover | Louvoyons CA/QC | Vanyfox PT/QC — Banzelo | Victor Bongiovanni CA/QC | CMD CA/QC | Edna King CA | L.B. Dub Corp (Luke Slater) UK | Nixtrove CA/QC | SVHS CA/QC | Cosmic JD CO/CA | Djima FR/QC — Wabi Sabi | Edward DE | Magnanime CA/QC | Korea Town Acid KR/CA — Digital Detox | machína KR/JP | Propulse CA | SIM CA/QC | Sissel Wincent SE | EEJUNGMI CA — A Shifting Mirror | Flandez CA — Human | Noha IT/QC | Tiger and Woods IT | The Mugzy & Maam Show CA/QC
Immersive Collection exhibition
Over the past 23 years, MUTEK has gained worldwide recognition as a festival showcasing avant-garde audiovisual performances – works that innovate to create a new language of sound and image. MUTEK's latest project, the Immersive Collection, inaugurates a new chapter for the organization, marking its first steps as a producer of extended reality (XR) content.
Five artists took on the challenge of reinventing a past festival performance into an XR artwork. The result is an eclectic but coherent set of three projects, ranging from contemplative to surreal to dynamic: Entanglement XR by France Jobin & Markus Heckmann, House of Moiré by Chloe Alexandra Thompson & Matthew Edwards (aesthetic.stalemate), and Immortelle by Line Katcho.
The Immersive Collection had its world premiere at the MUTEK Festival at the esplande Tranquille.
Virtual exhibition
The virtual platform presented a selection of new digital art works, past festival performances, stimulating discussions from MUTEK Forum, and sound archives from the past decade.
MUTEK's third virtual exhibition was presented on virtual.mutek.org from August 9 to September 9. This 2022 edition brought together a selection of games and videos, created by 12 Quebecois, Canadian, and foreign artists, that are interactive, immersive, or make use of artificial intelligence. In addition, a series of podcasts, past performances, and a residency program presented by Amplify D.A.I. were also available.
STATES OF EXISTENCES
The artists in this exhibition did not see themselves represented in the virtual environments at their disposal. They therefore sought to fill this void by populating these spaces with their own images, representations of augmented versions of themselves and personal stories, playing with notions of hybridization and the boundary between the real and the artificial.
Baron Lanteigne CA/QC | Cadie Desbiens-Desmeules CA/QC | Giovanni Magaglio & Leonardo Rubboli IT | Maize Longboat CA/QC | Marilou Lyonnais A. CA/QC | Marion Schneider FR/QC | Nancy Lee & Kiran Bhumber TW/CA+IN/CA | Natalie Paneng ZA | Neilson Koerner-Safrata CA | oOps.50656 (Gyuchul Moon & Hwang Sunjeong) KR | Yarli Allison CA/UK
Discover the aftermovie of the last edition: