Zachem mrachnaja kosnost' razbila to, chto vsego dorozhe? [...] Kosnost'! O, priroda! Ljudi na zemle odni—vot beda! [...] Vse mertvo i vsjudu mertvecy. Odni tol'ko ljudi, a krugom nich molkhanie-vot zemlja!

(Why did gloomy inertia smash that which was dearest of all? [...] Inertia! O, nature! People on earth are alone, that’s what’s wrong. [...] Everything is dead and there are corpses everywhere. People, alone, and around them, silence-such is the earth!) - F.M. Dostoevskij, “Krotkaja”, in Polnoe sobranie sočinenij v tridcati tomax (Leningrad: Nauka, 1982), XXIV, 35.

A project that has its roots in a long-time friendship and collaboration between musicians George Fotiadis and Iraklis Dimitriadis and photographer Ilias Georgiadis. After years of individual exploration, discussions on mutual inspiration and aesthetics, hands-on experimentation and creative experiences, they adopted the kosnost’ moniker.

In their debut appearance, they will showcase the product of these experimentations as a live audiovisual outfit. The projections borrow archival footage which are then processed and distorted in real time, while the musical part of the equation derives from explorations inside the realm of electronica. Serene soundscapes and warped, half-forgotten memories switch places with disturbing noises and ‘broken’ rhythms, in what seems like a family event that has taken a dark turn.