SOFIA UNDERGROUND, International Performance Art Festival – Official Club Night

Koncept Space has the pleasure to host Sofia Underground’s Performance Art Festival for its Official Club Night on 28 April!
With the kind support of Goethe-Institute Bulgaria

Expect an international Sound & Vision extravaganza with:
~ Y.Unan – TR
~ Soren Jahan – DE/US
~ Aloïs Yang – SZ/TW
Live Visuals:
~ Mrvux – FR
~ Pomstar – BG

More details below:

Y.UNAN (aka Yeşim Unan) is based in the concrete jungle of Istanbul. She’s been playing pulsating, energetic techno since 2008. Her first international gig was at Razzmatazz during the Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona. Her DJ style took her to places like about:blank, AVA Club, NOH radio.
In 2017, she was a guest at Sofia Underground’s 20th anniversary party, together with Vienna’s Electric Indigo and local heroine Snezhana.
In 2022 she founded the Sirän Collective (together with the the one of the most outstanding artists on the contemporary underground scene Nene H), which is gaining international popularity, bridging the gap between Berlin and Istanbul. Recently she had her debut in the Netherlands at Poing club. We are happy to have her in Sofia for the second time to close the party at Koncept.
https: //www.instagram.com/y.unan_official/
https: //ra.co/dj/yunan
https: //soundcloud.com/juliewinters

René Audiard aka Soren Jahan started his first label in Boston in 2011, Supply Records. After their second 12″ appeared in Berlin’s Hard Wax, he and label partner John Barera were booked to play in Berghain’s Panorama bar in 2012, leading Soren to move to Berlin the year after. A solid touring schedule continued, studded with a 4×12″ album release on Matt Edwards (Radio Slave)’s label project Double R as well as other 12″ EP’s on Eklo, Argumento, Pluie/Noir, Secret Society Chile and of course continuing 12’s on his labels Blank Slate, Supply Records and Ygrok. Soren played a second time in Panorama Bar in 2014, following up with multiple appearances at Paris’ Rex Club and various other European destinations. These days Soren continues making functional tracks for the dancefloor, besides also having a career in professional analog photography and printmaking out of his home studio in Friedrichshain. Besides vinyl, he will bring to Sofia some of his photographs, which will be places in a small exhibition at Koncept space.
https://ra.co/dj/reneaudiard

Aloïs Yang is a conceptual media artist, performer and experimental musician. Based in Prague, his origin is Taiwanese.
Yang’s work is influenced both by scientific reference and human imperfection of understanding the nature, that leads to the craft of experiments to investigate the perception of time and space on both “outer” physical world and “inner” metaphysical levels of awareness – as a manifestation of how we contextualize the overlapping realities in between body and mind, objective explanation and subjective projection, analogue and digital, certainty and unknown. He aims to engage viewer’s sensation and comprehension of the given moment of reality, portrayed by experiential phenomena and existential ideas – as an invitation to an incomplete journey waiting to be explored by active, participatory, intimate interactions that incorporate an individual’s consciousness as the piece itself. Yang uses sound as the primary medium that is interconnected with data of context, visual, lighting, and human interaction. Through observation of natural phenomena, sensors, and real time computation, he places human participation at the centre of the piece, where unique and unrepeatable reflections are generated – as an organic sonic environment that evolves through time. He will perform his newest live project Xïola Yin at midnight on the 28th of April using the superb Void sound system of Koncept Space.
https://www.aloisyang.com/

Mrvux (аkа Julien Vulliet) is a French programmer and new media artist. He worked in a large amount of media installations around the world (museums, car launches, music festivals etc) for clients like Microsoft and Kazantip. He has also held several workshops/lectures about graphics programming and developed his own software for immersive live visuals. Especially for the Sofia Underground, he will join forces with local VJ Pomstar (aka Pavel Belchev) in a multi-screen installation for maximum immersion in the techno experience.’