Subbacultcha and We Are Public present Loom: a recurring (on- and offline) program that weaves together a multitude of creative disciplines. Theatre, performance art, music, talks, visual arts, DJ sets, you name it. This time around: in the Twin Peaks-esque Blauwe Zaal of ‘t Zonnehuis.

For our third edition of 2024, we have invited choreographer & performer Flavia Pinheiro, who “investigates networks of resilience and resistance to existing knowledge systems. In her artistic practice, Flavia imagines unlikely entanglements with non-humans such as bacteria, plants, birds, antelopes and ghosts.” She navigates in different medias (photography, video, performance, urban interventions, installation, sound, writing) to underline how diversity and transversality can contribute to (un)learning colonial pedagogies.

Lyckle & Giacomo will present KK1SRC (Kawai K1 Synth Review Concert), in which they explore a synthesizer from the late 80s. “They are particularly interested in the multiple contexts the instrument has contributed to and in turn have contributed to the machine, ranging from early instruments and the 1980s, when the digital synth democratized many sounds, to the present, in which its sound has become somewhat archaic.” The K1 continues to echo in solitary synth reviews on Youtube: “This is an imagination machine”. Leaning into the predispositions of the machine, Lyckle and Giacomo pick up themes from across these epochs and spheres to explore the narrative potential of the instrument that brought baroque scoring to mundane suburban betrayal. Dive in the vortex of the K1 and have a listen to a show they did for Seedlink⁺ on Echobox Radio.

Zeta Lys will DJ during the evening. She blends “an array of club sounds, from dub-heavy rhythms to uk bass and broken beats. The outcome is a constant alternation of different moods and dynamics, sensitively brought together to formulate their own narrative.” Zeta Lys is a regular at Kiosk radio and has performed at Kanal Centre Pompidou, Garage Noord, Slagwerk, FIBER Festival, Horst, C12, among many other places.

The artwork of this installment is created in joint effort by designers Basia Strzeżek & Catherine Hu.

In 2024 zal Loom vijf evenementen huisvesten, die samenvallen met lezingen, releases en een publicatie. Om het helemaal af te ronden, wordt aan het eind van het jaar ‘Loom XL’. georganiseerd. [Loom is (mede) mogelijk gemaakt door het AFK (Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst) en Fonds 21]