SOLARCORE MANIFESTATION: Big Hare (live) + Hannah van Binsbergen and Dewi de Nijs Bik (poetry) + Aram de Groot (korte film) + Jonathan Ho (costumes) + Zwillingspaar (DJs)
SOLARCORE MANIFESTATION
Occii, 22 february 2025
Solarcore is a state of mind that helps to exit the boringness and scarcity of the fossil age and
enter the spectacular SUN AGE. Tonight, 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: Hannah van Binsbergen and Dewi de Nijs Bik (poetry), Big Hare
(music), Aram de Groot (film), Jonathan Ho (costumes), Zwillingspaar (dj’ing).
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. After a
splendid soft launch, last year in Sexyland.world, their album Sun House is now hard-
launched on vinyl by Blowpipe Records!
Hannah van Binsbergen and Dewi de Nijs Bik (poetry)
Hannah recently published a poetry collection called Kokanje, about the fantastical land full
of pleasure for the enjoyment of the people. Dewi evokes (pleasant and painful) culinary and
historical sensations in her debut Indolente, searching for new ways to talk about our shared
past that transcend the personal experience. We are hyped and curious about how these two
very abundant poets will approach a solarcore future!
Aram de Groot (film)
Aram de Groot is known for (among other things) bringing inanimate objects like statues and
artworks to life. His Solarcore short film which premieres tonight 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. But if,
despite our efforts, the apocalypse might happen, this lens can also provide life saving fire!
Jonathan Ho (costumes)
Jonathan Ho has made costumes which seduce us to enter an unknown future, as he is a
specialist in discovering and cultivating desires. Earlier, Jon researched sex lives of snails,
who turned out to be fluid and lustful beings. By colourfully decorating their shells, Jon
created an even more stimulating feast for the senses of the for the snails. He did the same for
humans, by designing for example a church-themed dark room which helps visitors reach
spiritual levels of ecstasy and personalized fetish wear which gives the wearer access to their
own specific pleasures!
Zwillingspaar (dj’ing)
Zwillingspaar is an extremely energetic and futuristic duo consisting of Cyanne van den
Houten and Isa van Weert. The music they play never fails to fuse everyone on the
dancefloor into a fast-moving desiring machine. Cyanne also created the otherworldly
artwork of Big Hare’s new Sun House record, the visual identity of the Solarcore avant-garde
and imagined a series of enchanted devices for the Sun Age. Isa van Weert prepared the
artwork of Sun House for screen printing in five layers and took the lead in a screen printing
marathon that lasted several days. Tonight we present the gold-adorned result!
The photograph is made by Stefan Rustenburg.
Thanks to our sponsors: Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and SENA.
