Visual Set: Torus „These Cars Do Not Exist”

Part of Balance Club / Culture Festival – Web Edition
May 20 - 25 2020 – http://balance.ifz.me
Den Haag-based DJ, producer and artist Joeri Woudstra aka Torus contributes to our Web Festival with a multimedia piece that features his music with visual work by himself and artist Mark Prendergast. „These Cars Do Not Exist” contains new solo material, loops and sketches that Torus has been working on since „The Flash”, his latest record with DJ Lostboi released in January 2020.

„While I was working on the music in quarantine, I found myself stuck in my house, left with aimless creative exercises like filming a whole bunch of things I would see from my rooftop. After a little while I found some patterns in the footage and I reached out to artist Mark Prendergast, who I shot and directed the video with, to discuss some of the footage. He told me he had also been recording birds for the last couple of weeks and we assembled our material and looked for a narrative. These Cars Do Not Exist starts from a POV human perspective with a shot I took at 5:30AM at sunrise in The Hague during one of the wildest seas of this year. It then slowly shifts to a more passive voyeurist perspective in which the nature that remains untouched by current affairs becomes the active subjects in the video.”

__ General
Balance Club / Culture Festival is an annual interdisciplinary event based in Leipzig (Germany) featuring club nights, concerts, art and discourse. Balance sees itself as an interface between contemporary club culture and political practice.

__ Tickets
Balance Web Edition is for free. If you can, please support us by buying a Solidarity-Ticket on our website. Thank you!

__ Funding
Initiative Musik I Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen I Telekom Electronic Beats I Stadt Leipzig Kulturamt I Shape Platform

__ Shape Platform
Presenting Moesha13, Lyzza, Animistic Beliefs, Tadleeh, Sarah Farina, Afrodeutsche and Kablam, the SHAPE Showcase during BALANCE Club / Culture Festival 2020 is a cooperative initiative by depart.one and the SHAPE platform. The artist talk of LYZZA and Sarah Farina as well as the input by Bianca Ludewig are a collaboration with SHAPE educational. The SHAPE platform is co-financed by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

__ Media Partners
Missy Magazine I FrohFroh I Groove I ByteFM I Jungle World I Radio Blau I Spex

__ Venues
Institut fuer Zukunft, UT Connewitz, Pracht + X

__ Team
Ulla Heinrich, Peter Hermans, Jonas Holfeld, Anna Jehle, Anja Kaiser, Juliane Schickedanz, Marco Schott, Franz Thiem, Sarah Ulrich, Studio Unfun (Website Coding), Janine Müller & Konrad Behr (Video), Kante (Video)