Progress Bar S03E07
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Date: Saturday 26 May 2018
Venue: Paradiso Noord, Tolhuistuin Amsterdam
Times: 20:30–04:00
Tickets: €10,00 / €12,50 https://bit.ly/2w0xLug
Progress Bar aims to represent radical equality, communality and hopefulness. We are a growing community of artists, academics and activists who occupy clubs for a better politics. When confronted with the world today – institutional inequality, neofascism, platform capitalism, austerity and a dying planet – being happy becomes a political act. We support radical club cultures that believe resistance is necessary in order to change the world. Or, as a play on the famous quote by the feminist and anarchist activist Emma Goldman: If I can dance, I want to be part of your revolution.
TALKS (21:00–22:30)
Elijah
Polina Medvedeva and Isaura Sanwirjatmo
◕ ELIJAH is an influential grime DJ and promoter. His work shines a light on the artistic, social and economic challenges and opportunities for emerging artists. Elijah will talk about Last Dance – a timely and urgent investigation into the rapid changes affecting club culture, and the impact of those changes on music and youth culture, presented as a series of blogs, podcasts, films and live events.
◕ POLINA MEDVEDEVA and ISAURA SANWIRJATMO will talk about their project #VerlorenJongensZullenWinnen, an inclusive transmedia documentary in the digital age. In its development stage #VJZW researches the new media as a tool of resistance in the hands of the new generation of visual makers, who – armed with a phone, a camera or a microphone – redefine political engagement, protesting against dominant power structures in our current society.
CLUB (22:30–04:00):
BABI AUDI (DJ)
Dasychira (DJ)
Elysia Crampton: ‘Red Clouds’ feat. Why Be (Live)
Juha (DJ)
Rabit: ‘Les Fleurs Du Mal’ feat. Cecilia (Live)
Why Be (DJ)
◕ BABI AUDI is a prominent after-hours DJ, known for the unsettling yet cinematic Club Dead LTD (Hoss Records), Mommy Dust (self-released), and the personally driven 6 Page Letter (in reference to Aaliyah’s 90s slow-jam 4 Page Letter), a video album of original tracks and remixes for DIS Magazine.
◕ CECILIA is a performance and visual artist, producer and composer. Her work draws on dream-like collages of avant-garde cinema, with minimal electronic atmospheres and operatic flare. Her first full-length album, Adoration, on Rabit’s Halcyon Veil imprint, follows last year’s visual EP Charity Whore, released on Yves Tumor’s Grooming Label.
◕ DASYCHIRA is a South African electronic artist living in NYC. Working with unusual found sounds and textures, Dasychira offers a personal perspective on the media he works with. The artist’s second record, Haptics, is being released via Blueberry Records, and features collaborations with Haleek Maul, Malibu and Embaci.
◕ ELYSIA CRAMPTON’s eclectic and unrestrained electronic music is the flashpoint of a myriad influences opening upon the complexity and multifacetedness of Aymara becoming. Underscored by radical and queer politics, Crampton’s experimental work gives sonorous form to contemporary expressions of Aymara resistance and survival.
◕ JUHA is the founder and a resident DJ of Progress Bar. His mixing is informed by collaborations with artists operating at the intersection of visual arts, moving image, and video games, such as Metahaven, Michael Oswell, and Sam Rolfes, resulting in vivid, visceral ultra HD dance music.
◕ RABIT is Houston producer, composer, DJ, and record label owner Eric Burton. Chiseling out a bold vision of sound since 2012 Burton has slowly worked his way to the forefront of an international group of artists seeking to create a fresh and uncompromising perspective on future dance music and the very fabric of the club landscape.
◕ WHY BE is Korean-born, Danish-raised producer and DJ Tobias Lee. After spending years intentionally on the fringes of experimental dance music, Why Be has become a formidable voice in dance music’s larger conversation, with a singular, uncompromising style of club music that is both hectic and cathartic.
