LAKE [sandbox]
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LAKE is a listening-oriented, live audiovisual format based on collective creation, presence, and shared authorship. Conceived as a temporary ecosystem, LAKE invites audiences into a space where music, sound, visuals, and bodies coexist in real time — and where the experience only fully unfolds if you are physically there.
At the core of LAKE is horizontal collaboration: audio and visual artists work as equals, improvising together within a shared framework. There is no hierarchy between sound and image, no separation between “performers” and “context.” Everything emerges live — electronics, voices, instruments, textures, rhythms, and visuals — shaped by deep and body listening.
LAKE embraces human-led creation: no AI, no automation-driven authorship. Instead, it proposes a model of shared responsibility, collective risk, and trust. Authorship is distributed, and the work exists as a moment rather than a product.
The project also reflects critically on platform dominance and media hegemony. While parts of LAKE can be accessed remotely via Gatekeeper Radio, the stream deliberately cannot replace the physical experience. You can listen — but you are missing the space. Presence matters.
LAKE [sandbox] marks the first edition of LAKE. It is conceived as an open environment for testing ideas and exploring collective listening through live electronic and audiovisual performance. Borrowing the term from computing, a sandbox describes a space where systems can be experimented with freely. In this edition, artists share the same space and develop the session together in real time, shaping sound, voice, electronics and image through attentive listening.
Sound Artists
Ricardo Eizirik (he/they)
Ricardo Eizirik is a Brazilian composer with an expanded artistic practice. Their work spans instrumental/electronic composition, installation, performance, DJ-ing and curation, often engaging with themes such as bodily perception, colonial histories, banality, the mechanization of society, and the by-products of daily life.
Eizirik’s aesthetic language is marked by an interest in the friction between control and excess, structure and collapse. They frequently draw from archival materials, everyday gestures, and found objects to create layered, hybrid forms that blur the boundaries between music, visual art, and performative action.
Flo Wilson
Flo Wilson (they/she) is a composer, performer, and artist from Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. Their practice spans choral-based experimental electronic performances, immersive spatial sound and video installations, composing for contemporary dance, and as a producer. Their compositions often blur the boundaries between organic and synthetic elements, weaving together intricate layers of sound to create lush sonic tapestries.
Andriy K. (he/they)
Andriy K. is a Kyiv-born, Berlin-based sound artist, producer, and DJ. His work navigates between deep listening and club culture, creating immersive sonic environments shaped by texture, atmosphere, and emotional resonance. Blending experimental sound design with techno, IDM, and ambient forms, he has performed at transmediale, Les Siestes, Fog Festival, and venues such as silent green, OHM, and RSO.
Roberto Maqueda (he/they)
Roberto Maqueda is a Basel-based sound artist working across experimental music, electronic performance, and club culture. Rooted in percussion, his practice integrates engineering tools, automation, and spatial sound systems to explore collective listening and live creation. He is co-director of FOG Festival (Basel) and previously EXIT Festival (Montevideo), and presents work internationally at festivals such as SONICA, SPOR, Manifeste, and MaerzMusik.
Roberto Maqueda is supported by the Pro Helvetia Fund.
Visual Artists
Julius Martin-Humpert (he/they)
Julius Martin-Humpert is a Berlin-based multimedia artist and researcher working across sculpture, installation, sound, video, and performance. His practice emphasizes collaborative, research-driven formats including radio, publishing, and socially engaged processes. Through material experimentation and spatial interventions, his work explores collective experience, perception, and the politics of shared authorship within contemporary cultural production.
Julius Martin-Humpert is a visual resident.
Efren Parra (he/they)
Efren Parra is a multidisciplinary audiovisual artist based between Barcelona and Berlin. Their practice unfolds at the intersection of graphic design, motion graphics, live visuals, architecture, and lighting design. Working with spatial environments and audiovisual performance, their research focuses on the relationship between image, space, perception, and the dialogue between analog processes and digital technologies.
LAKE is a project co-curated by Andriy Kostiukov and Roberto Maqueda.
Wednesday, May 27
Kuppelhalle
Doors: 6pm / Start: 7pm
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