Korzo Zaal
Musical Utopias Thursday
| Performers | Alison Isadora, Luna Quartet, Pauline Oliveros, Dario Calderone & Ensemble Klang |
| Duration | 90 min |
| Part of | Musical Utopias |
Upbeat: Sharing Space
Join a scene-setting opening evening for Musical Utopias 2026, with a brand-new string quartet by Alison Isadora tackling the legal rights of rivers, followed by the sonic meditations of Pauline Oliveros lead by Dario Calderone.
Shadow Forest is an immersive installation and performance by Korean artist Go-Eun Im that continuously adapts to its surroundings and its audience. Through film, live drawing, shadow play and a layered soundscape, a living environment emerges in which visitors are free to move and shape their own experience.
Inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and the forest as a utopian space, Shadow Forest invites moments of stillness, attention and renewed sensitivity to the small, fragile and more-than-human life around us.
Go-Eun Im: “I hope the audience experiences this work like being in a forest: unexpected, layered and alive.”
On 15, 16 & 17 January Go-Eun will present a special live performance within the installation, 19.00-19.45. There’s only space for a small audience, so arrive on time, first come, first serve!
After that, the installation will be open to visitors throughout the evening
Credits Shadow Forest
Direction and Production: Go-Eun Im Performance: Go-Eun Im, Igor Sevcuk Music: Heiner Goebbels, Post-Industrial Boys (George Dzodzuashvili) Cast: Marika Asatiani & Lila Dzodzuashvili
Commissioned by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul and Busan Museum of Contemporary Art
Alison Isadora & Luna Quartet
Isadora’s Sharing Space (with a river) is based on field recordings made in the floodplains of Meinerswijk. During the piece the quartet traverses through the seasons, sometimes in dialogue with recordings or projected collages of photos from the area. Composer and sound artist Alison Isadora hears our human activities as being part of nature: the construction site, the motorbike and chainsaw existing in the same space as the shag, the willow tree and the duck.
Can we find a way to share space with the river, the marshes and all that live within to create a flourishing collective ecosystem? You are invited to listen along!
Dario Calderone & Ensemble Klang
Ensemble Klang will perform Six for the New Time by Pauline Oliveros together with bassist Dario Calderone this evening. Deep Listening, as developed by Pauline Oliveros, explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the conscious nature of listening. The practice includes bodywork, sonic meditations, and interactive performance, as well as listening to the sounds of daily life, nature, one’s own thoughts, imagination, and dreams. It cultivates a heightened awareness of the sonic environment, both external and internal, and promotes experimentation, improvisation, collaboration, playfulness, and other creative skills vital to personal and community growth.
Korzo Zaal