Multidisciplinair event in 't Zonnehuis.
Solarcore is a state of mind that helps to exit the boringness and scarcity of the fossil age and enter the spectacular SUN AGE. On 19 April, we manifest a future together in which the sun powers our wildest dreams with its abundant energy.
Artists from different disciplines have created works to celebrate and accelerate this vibe shift, this energy transition: Big Hare (music), Aram de Groot (film) and The Solarcore Machine.
Big Hare (music)
Big Hare (Luuk Ottenhof and Tim Fraanje) have always been trying to look beyond the bleak reality for the more magical, funny and spiritual insights. Their new album is a hymn collection for the solar cult they founded. Its key belief is that a hedonistic paradise lies ahead of us after the energy transition. Time and energy will be spent on (among other things) communicating with dolphins and fantasizing about solar-powered space traveling.
Aram de Groot (video-art)
Aram de Groot is known for (among other things) bringing inanimate objects like statues and artworks to life. His Solarcore video-installation is inspired by Pataphysica, the ‘science of imaginary solutions’. The film is made in collaboration with strange makeshift automata built from consumer waste. Aram has also rescued a lens from an enormous obsolete television found in Almere to pinpoint the sunlight in the desired direction. This lens produces transformative dream effects to help us imagine the magnificent sun age.
Solarcore Machine (live performance)
The SOLARCORE MACHINE, an installation by Aram de Groot, makes a self-portrait while encouraging itself with words by Big Hare: ‘you can have the energy of a star…’ Freed from all earthly occupations, this machine’s only purpose is to dream, to fantasize, to indulge in its existence, to desire the power of the Sun.