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FESTIVAL ELEKTRA 2025
— EXO, BEYOND BORDERS
EVENING #1
Kevin Dubeau, Ianna Book, MSHR
Thursday, June 19 2025
HOURS
Doors open: 7pm
Start of the evening: 8pm
PRICE
General Admission: 20$
Student rate: 15$
3 evenings pass: 50$
VENUE
PHI, 407 Rue Saint-Pierre
Montréal, QC H2Y 2M3
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Hyper-Crash
Hyper-Crash presents a world of technical installations with no apparent purpose, where dislocated vehicles collapse under their own logic. The structure, initially functional, slides slowly towards abstraction. Industrial forms are fragmented and reconfigured, until they reach digital disintegration, as if the simulation itself were running out of steam. Progress comes full circle, emptied of meaning. The narrative continues without direction, criss-crossed by mechanical jolts, broken gestures and unstable materials. The material, as if overcome by vertigo, ends up refusing the structure imposed on it. It's no longer a crash: it's a technical memory that dissolves, as if, at the end of the artifice, matter is trying to rejoin nature.
Kevin Dubeau
Montreal, QC, Canada
Based in Montreal, Kevin Dubeau is developing a multidisciplinary media art practice that explores simulation, matter and the tensions between the real and the virtual. With a master's degree in Intermedia-Cyberarts from Concordia University, he has exhibited his work in Quebec, Germany, Argentina, Hong Kong and Japan, and has received several grants and awards in the visual arts. Trained in film post-production, he regularly collaborates with established artists on public art projects.
EROS CIRCUITRY
Eros Circuitry is a performance in which Ianna Book explores intimate connection using a modular synthesizer and sex toys. By sliding skin sensors over her body, she captures the electricity naturally generated by her own skin to create sound modulations. Incorporating vibrating sex toys as additional sound sources, she offers a unique audiovisual experience that evokes a sense of disturbance — a paradoxical feeling that blends warmth and coldness, closeness and isolation.
ianna book
Montreal, QC, Canada
Ianna Book is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice fuses visual arts, performance and experimental music. Exploring themes of identity and emancipation, she creates immersive experiences that challenge perceptions and encourage intimate reflection on our capacity to transform the world. Presented internationally, her projects open up spaces for personal and collective affirmation, contributing to the emergence of new cultural narratives.
Network Entity
For this audiovisual performance, MSHR has designed a digital system that links visual and sonic parameters using open-source software. The duo improvises with the system via a handmade sculptural interface to unfold a series of compositions for video projection and multichannel audio. The result is a kind of live cinema in which visual and sonic shapes mutate through mutual interaction, guided by the players.
MSHR
Portland, Oregon, USA
MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with life-like current. They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects. The name MSHR is a modular acronym designed to hold varied ideas over time. It can be pronounced as an acronym or like one who meshes.
