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Edition 2022

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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

MUTEK23 23 08 Mac Cooper Architecture Social Club credit Myriam Ménard 6 1

The A/Visions series

A/VISIONS 1

Ali Phi IR/CAMaqruh
Live A/V | North American Premiere

Kutin & Patrik Lechner ATAchronie
Live A/V | World Premiere

SCHNITT & Gianluca Sibaldi DE+ITScanAudience
Live A/V | North American Premiere

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A/VISIONS 2

Cyril Meroni & Olivier Vasseur FRAdvienne
Live A/V | North American Premiere

Elías Merino & Tadej Droljc ES+SISynspecies
Live A/V | North American Premiere

Pierce Warnecke & Matthew Biederman FR+CA/QCSpillover
Live A/V | North American Premiere

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The Play series

PLAY 1

Automatisme & Marilou Lyonnais Archambault CA/QCNon-representation Field
Live A/V | World Premiere

Chloe Alexandra Thompson & aesthetic.stalemate
CA/QC+USFlux Emanation
Live A/V | World Premiere

Nik Colk Void
UK & VJ KITANA
Live | North American Premiere

Orphx & Diagraf
CAUnderworld
Live A/V

T.Gowdy
CA/QC & VJ KITANA
Live | Canadian Premiere

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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

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PLAY 3

Gábor Lázár HU
Live A/V

Liliane Chlela
LB/QCSafala
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

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The Nocturne series

NOCTURNE 1

Gaëlle Scali FR/QCAttractive 'Acid' Cycles
Live A/V | World Premiere

machìna KR/JP & VJ KaminskaMirror, the Compass Point
Live | North American Premiere

Nicola Cruz EC
Live A/V

Totalement Sublime CA/QCTHRU OAEE UIE (LAB IV)
Live A/V

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NOCTURNE 2

Bendik Giske NOCracks
Live | North American Premiere

Caterina Barbieri IT
Live A/V

Marina Herlop ES/CATPripyat
Live | Canadian Premiere

Mue & Katherine Melançon CA/QCA Discard Study
Live A/V | World Premiere

SMERZ NO
Live

En collaboration avec Pop Montréal

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NOCTURNE 3

Aquarian CA/DEOUROBOROS
Live A/V | Canadian Premiere

Cora Novoa ES/CAT
Live A/V

Nicolas Bougaïeff CA/DE & VJ JS BaillatBegin Within
Live

Planetary Assault Systems UK & VJ JS Baillat
Live

En collaboration avec Exposé Noir

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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/QCHypermobility
Live A/V

Powder JP & VJ BunBun
DJ set

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NOCTURNE 5

Salle 1: Satosphère | VJs Isotone & susy.technology
Caro
CATerra incognita
Live | Première mondiale

Whatever The Weather UKFlowers
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/QCOasis
Live A/V | World Premiere

Parts Project CA/QCSteps And Dreams
Live | World Premiere

Azu Tiwaline TN/FR
Live | Canadian Premiere

Dj Plead AU
Live | Canadian Premiere

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The Expérience series

EXPÉRIENCE 1 - 6

AGUMA CA/QC | Ramzilla CA/QC | Nicola Cruz EC | Handsome Tiger CA | Icky Magdala CA/QCTakeover | Louvoyons CA/QC | Vanyfox PT/QCBanzelo | 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/QCWabi Sabi | Edward DE | Magnanime CA/QC | Korea Town Acid KR/CADigital Detox | machína KR/JP | Propulse CA | SIM CA/QC | Sissel Wincent SE | EEJUNGMI CAA Shifting Mirror | Flandez CAHuman | Noha IT/QC | Tiger and Woods IT | The Mugzy & Maam Show CA/QC

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MUTEK23 25 08 L B Dub Corp Luke Slater credit Myriam Ménard 14
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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.

Credits Valerie Lacroix North Wild Media

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

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