Discover Arka Kinari's extraordinary journey through an immersive performance created by multimedia studio 4Pi and international artists and climate activists Filastine & Nova
In this immersive documentary performance, Nova Ruth, Grey Filastine and 4Pi fuse 360º video, music and storytelling to narrate the odyssey of Arka Kinari.
At a time when the world was shaken by the pandemic, the artists set sail on a 70-ton sailboat equipped with solar panels and a seawater desalination system. The boat is home to a community of activists, creators and artists who are sounding the alarm about the climate emergency.
Arka Kinari, named to evoke a blend of the Latin word for “vessel” and the Sanskrit word for half-man, half-bird musician, represents the most ambitious initiative of Filastine, American percussionist and producer, and Nova Ruth, Indonesian singer and environmental activist. Part tour truck, part concert venue, the boat’s deck is transformed into a stage, and the sails become projection screens for Filastine & Nova’s live performances. Sailing from port to port, the duo, whose music tackles environmental concerns head-on, aspire to abandon fossil fuel-based travel while maintaining a flourishing artistic career.
Wales-based immersive arts studio 4Pi Productions joined Filastine and Nova on the boat from Bali to Jakarta to document their journey and develop the performance. It is the vivid account of this epic journey that will be presented in the Satosphere.
This project has been supported by the British Council’s International Collaboration Grants and Wales Arts International.
Filastine & Nova create music, videos and live performances, working to undermine borders. Their music collides electronic beat production with dense layers of voice, concréte sounds, analogue synths and strings. Spin magazine calls it “bass music for crumbling urban futures,” and Pitchfork says “they sound less like `world’ music and more like music from another world.” Another world is exactly what they aim to create, using sound, video, design, and dance to express a radically different vision of the possible.
4PI Productions
4Pi are an award-winning producing arts studio blending powerful emerging technologies with cross-media storytelling approaches, producing immersive experiences that reach audiences in new and engaging ways. 4Pi explores the boundaries between art, design and technology and opened CULTVR Lab in Cardiff, Europe’s first immersive cross-disciplinary space with a strong focus on digital arts, XR live performances and 360º cinema.
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