Recombinant Media Labs and Gray Area present
THIRST with Franck Vigroux & Werktank
Doors: 7PM, Show: 8PM
Electronics sorcery wizard Franck Vigroux who galvanized the Gray Area / Recombinant Festival collaboration in summer 2023 with his works Atotal and Nacht returns to the Bay with the cinematic world premiere of THIRST. This intense spectacle of overlapping multi projector image layers onto a singular expansive screening canvas in 3 dimensions portrays an advanced AV approach to live telluric depictions as generated by the top Belgium based media collective Werktank. Drawing inspiration from the lexicon of road movies, Americanized iconography, and hyper-colored, tableaux-saturated aesthetics, it offers a sensory excursion that prompts reflections on postmodern symbols of transgression, rogue journeys, and yearning.
These symbols are now confronted in the concert by contemporary societal, digital, and planetary developments. The escalation of an eminent sublime in Vigroux’s pulsating brutalist sound showers pervades this electrified Neo-dystopian audio atmosphere. THIRST is a diversified piece of music with motion picture revealing the different influences of Vigroux's worldwide studio sessions over the years. He has conducted synchronized collaborations with Mika Vaino from Pan Sonic, Zeena Parkins and Zeitkratzers Reinhold Friedl from Berlin. Live music : Franck Vigroux
Video : Werktank