Fact 2020: Audiovisual
Fact 2020: Audiovisual
We’ve collected some of our favourite audiovisual works from a year in which creativity was made more difficult, and more vital, than ever.
This year Fact Magazine broadened its focus, presenting short film, audiovisual work, movement and performance art alongside the electronic and experimental music we have always championed.
More importantly, this year proved to be one of the most challenging faced by artists the world over, with the pressures of a global pandemic, major cuts to arts funding and the sustained struggle of millions of protestors, who continue you to show extreme bravery and strength across the globe, making creativity more difficult, and more vital, than ever.
Fact 2020: Movement
Fact 2020: Movement
In 2020 we explored the boundary-pushing worlds of dance, choreography and experimental performance.
It might seem difficult to join the dots between experimental theatre, footwork, hybrid performances drawing together choreography, spatial sound and generative, projected visuals, and FDM, or flex dance music, but these are just some of the places that 2020 took us in our ongoing exploration of movement in all its forms.
From the streets of Chicago and Beijing to the theatres of Moscow and Berlin, we have followed a wide variety of dance styles, choreography and performance practices, looking beyond traditional forms to try to understand how the underground is breaking out into the mainstream and vice-versa.
Marta Stražičić heals unaddressed massage needs with Trigger Point INKlings
A skeletal Massage Fairy is summoned to give the ultimate trigger point therapy massage.
This neuromuscular therapy was developed to combat myofascial pain and, according to these texts, can help to reduce tension, heart rate, blood pressure, muscle tension and respiration problems. In the face of the relentless anxiety and stress that is symptomatic of life in the age of COVID-19, Stražičić wants raise awareness of the essential benefits that this therapy can grant. For this she needed to summon a Massage Fairy.
“The first inkling of physical discomfort gave birth to a need. That need was unaddressed,” explains Stražičić. “The need got so powerful it ended up materialising a solution for its problem in form of a Massage Fairy.” Stražičić continues: “Massage Fairies grew in numbers. As more were born into this embedded quest, the more they learned from each other. In time, an art for