bela and Kloxii Li are residents as part of the Beta x transmediale Residency programme. For the residency, 暴洪野火机构 – a fictional agency established by bela and Kloxii – creates the context for their collaborative performance.
洪火机构 (The Office Agency of Flash Flood and Wildfire)
Focusing on the production and dissemination of musical scores that respond to the anxieties of climate collapse and mass disintegration, the duo explores how the news and social media cycles of crises affect our emotional and psychological responses to them. Drawing inspiration from East Asian rain rituals and the duo’s witnessing of flash floods and wildfires in their homelands of South Korea and California, they question the atmosphere of never-ending doom, deconstructing and reorganising its patterns and rhythms.