Friday 20 May 2016
Aloardi Festival
WORM Rotterdam, Boomgaardsstraat 71, 3012 XA Rotterdam, NL
Festival Programme
Opening talk: 20:00 – 20:10
Exhibition by Gabriel Castillo (PE): 20:10 – 21:00
Screening of selected videos from Peru: 21:00 – 21:30
Performances by Gabriel Castillo (PE) & Frau Diamanda (PE): 21:30
Afterparty by DJ Sajjra (PE/NL): until late
Aloardi label started in 1998 as one of the first labels and independent platforms in South and Central America diffusing and producing experimental music, audiovisual art, sound related interventions, internet radio broadcasts and alternative acoustic research. Based in Lima – Peru, our headquarters serves as venue for workshops, a residency programme, and a mediatheque.
FRAU DIAMANDA is Hector Acuña: a transgender visual artist, drag performer, curator, cultural agent, translator, writer, Dj, visagist and actor/actress from Lima, Peru. Frau Diamanda has initiated many projects linked to transgenderness as political stance, and is determined to confront patriarchal obstacles predominant in the art systems, the mass media, the networks and life itself.
GABRIEL CASTILLO hacks toy guns and turns them into sound instruments, making glitches and modulations in sound and light. He loves the nature of the digital error; whether audible or visual, and induces basic code editors, de-contextualising electronics, overcoming their logical functionality, and revealing their natural spirit. He is looking for contextual demonstrations, or synesthetic epiphanies. Gabriel Castillo is artist-in-residence at WORM in May 2016.
DJ SAJJRA will play a crossbreed of post-apocalyptic pop, roughed up Andean folk, Peruvian chicha, new/no wave, and all kinds of underground stuff from sixties til now – all from South America! Sounds crazy? Maybe so, but this stuff will get you going one way or another! DJ Sajjra is a project of Christian Galarreta. Today he lives between Peru, France and The Netherlands.
Aloardi Fest is part of the Aloardi Exchange Program 2016 in The Netherlands, a three-months project curated by Janneke van der Putten and in collaboration between among others WORM (Rotterdam), Mirta Demare Art (Rotterdam), CHARLOIS SPECIAAL festival (Rotterdam), and Studio LOOS (The Hague).
Photography by Max van Dongen and Mihail Bakalov. Photo flyer ‘Do It With Us’ by Patricia de Sousa.