klub katarakt 9

klub katarakt is the Hamburg festival for experimental music that explores and opens up new dimensions of musical perception. Over the past eight years, it has interwoven the scenes of new, experimental and electronic music with video art and spatial installations. In dialogue with international guest artists and positions beyond the academic schools, klub katarakt and its artistic directors Jan Feddersen and Robert Engelbrecht are now bringing the experimental music scene and a growing audience to Kampnagel in Hamburg from January 15 to 18, 2014 under the motto Antipodes.

Antipodes

Antipodes scientifically stands for two points opposite each other on the earth's surface, so that one could lay a straight connecting line between these two points through the center of the earth - everything is connected. Antipodes in the figurative sense are however also humans with opposite opinions and points of view. If one follows the literal translation "antipodes", one encounters the idea, widespread in antiquity and the Middle Ages, of a prodigy people whose feet point backwards. These antipodes advance by walking backward - and move backward when they walk forward. Thus, at klub katarakt 41, the curious audience will also encounter antipodes of various kinds and discover that many things that at first glance seem contradictory or incompatible may very well 'go' together. This meta-theme once again underlines klub katarakt's international orientation, networking, openness and interdisciplinarity. The festival, formerly founded by composition students of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, took place for the first time in November 2005 and has since established itself beyond the borders of Hamburg as an important part of the experimental music scene.