DISQUIET – sensational aesthetics of a technokin

Lisa Vereertbrugghen and sound designer Michael Langeder pick up tendencies of disruption and dystopia that are contained in various hardcore techno subgenres such as gabber, hardstyle, jungle, and drum’n’bass. Lisa Vereertbrugghen contrasts the utopian idea of communitarisation at the collective club rave with a hard and destructive dancing with a loud bass: This is about finding a new lifeform in a world without a future. DISQUIET concentrates sonic fractures, rests, and going astray and examines the ways in which they may inform and stimulate the body. Dancing hardcore is presented as an interruption of the structural order, in search of an agitated space.

Following her choreographic studies, Lisa Vereertbrugghen resumed her interest in techno and its dances, which have influenced her since childhood. She has been examining hardcore techno sound and various dance styles in differing formats between sound, performance, and installation since 2014. She studied cultural history at Leuven in Belgium and holds a degree in choreography from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam.

“I love how sound triggers a body, how a body becomes camouflaged in soundwaves, but also how it can resist these vibrations and go against the pulse. I find hardcore to be the perfect kind of music to dive into these oppositional movements of following and resisting, simply because it is permeated by interruptions of the flow. Within club dancing, I feel a certain danger in everyone dancing together to the same flow, like some kind of grand machine.” – Lisa Vereertbrugghen

Duration: 45 min.

Use of loud music and stroboscope.