Colin Hacklander

Pleased to announce we are the new visiting professors of Immersion & Interaction at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in the Media Art department ✨ We offer our seminar - sonic activation - based on our format of the same name, along with an introduction to SuperCollider, and individual consultations. We are happy to bring a strong focus on sound to the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, which was founded together with the ZKM (Center for Art and Media), and assumes the pedagogical effort of bringing together traditional arts with media technology and electronic production processes through inter-disciplinary projects. School is in session! first photo by @evelyn_bencicova #spatialsound #immersion #professors #avantgarde #sonicactivation

Lexicon of Emergent Subjectivities PARASOCIALITY THANATOSONICS INTERSYNTONIC PSYCHOPOMPOLOGY AUTOPOIETIC DRIFT INFODEMIC INTERMEDIATION PHYGITALITY UNTHOUGHT SOMATEXTUAL POLYMORPHISM ANORGANIC GEOTRAUMATICS DIFFEREND MORTOTECHNICS ENTROPOETICS ONTOSYNTHETICS ANGLOSSIA XENOTATION ESCHATOGENETICS ALGORITHMICITY INFOMATERIALITY INTERPENETRATION COGNISPHERE NONCONSCIOUSNESS MINDBODIES METASOMATIC SWARMACHINES EPIPHENOMENON VARIANTS NECROTEMPORALITIES PSYCHOGEOTECHNICS XENOSUBJECTIVATION POSTLINGUISTICITY TRANSDUCTIVITY SOFT THOUGHT from “dispersion of subjectivity” (2025). 34 unique texts on the front, uniform text on the back, set on oversized garments in 3 colors & styles (black hoodies, white long sleeve t-shirts, beige t-shirts), worn by the performers who moved throughout the space in a sonic choreography producing sound within the composition. This list highlights emergent subjectivities via semantics, a tension between narration and simulation, addressing themes of subjectivity as mediated through contemporary technological, environmental and spiritual dimensions, with a proportion incorporating themes from eschatology and death studies, thus spanning subjectivity in life and subjectivity after life. The words are all existing niche terminology, jargon or neologisms, with an intended playfulness in their density. Blessed to have such a righteous group of performers in Luxembourg! Commissioned by @mudamlux curated by @leonkruijswijk with curatorial assistance by @sapinx during @luxembourgartweek #softthought #katherinehayles @hatam.farahnaz @colinhacklander #contemporaryart #performance #percussion #subjectivity

dispersion of subjectivity (II), 2025 autostereogram, digital print 136 x 149 cm second in the series and complementing the first, these iterations of figures are based on a photograph taken by Farah, and again transformed by digital aberrations resulting from the creation of an autostereogram, wherein an addition layer of depth emerges when viewed in a particular way. DRIFT In a parallel sensorial analogy, these two visual works reinforce the experience of auditory hallucination within the musical composition, a hidden embeddedness. DRIFT Commissioned by @mudamlux curated by @leonkruijswijk with curatorial assistance by @sapinx during @luxembourgartweek . by LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander) #subjectivity #contemporanyart #supercollider #drift

dispersion of subjectivity by LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander) with percussionist Yi Ping @aimee_ajamais of Percussion des Strasbourg @percussions_de_strasbourg Newly commissioned large scale performance work at MUDAM @mudamlux curated by Léon Kruijswijk @leonkruijswijk with curatorial assistance by Nicole Wittmann @sapinx . Multi-level spatialized 15 channel sound composition, two 'sixxen' (large metallophones conceived by Xenakis) & percussion, 34 unique garments, group performers and spatialized percussion, two new artworks: autostereogram, digital prints. Our format of 'sonic activations' has brought us to incredible spaces, but this grand and porous architecture is really something ✨ Thank you to Percussion des Strasbourg for the collaboration and for the amazing instruments ✨ Very grateful for the trust and support by Leon and Nicole. Such a great pleasure to realize this work with an incredible group of people - unforgettable 🖤✨ Hats and jewelry by Kuboraum / Innerraum 🖤 @kuboraum Organized by Mudam Luxembourg in collaboration with @philharmonie_lux Philharmonie Luxembourg, during Luxembourg Art Week @luxembourgartweek . @hatam.farahnaz @colinhacklander #supercollider #SOFTTHOUGHT

Towards a Contemporary Listening Practice by LABOUR at Tanzquartier Wien. Our classic listening workshop situated within our piece, sungazing (رضایت). Workshop-on-stage, all experiences welcome, all abilities welcome. @tanzquartierwien 📸 @evelyn_bencicova with @enesguc & @zeyblade_ and @alqaede wearing @back2back.systems #listeningworkshop #sungazing #vienna

sungazing (رضایت) by LABOUR at Tanzquartier Wien @tanzquartierwien in collaboration with Wien Modern @wienmodern ✨ Nov 8th & 9th in Vienna, curated by Artist Director, Isabel Lewis ✨ The duo LABOUR traces connections between ritual and the political dimensions of club culture in an immersive sound experience. The work is inspired by the obscure practice of gazing at the sun and melds together sound synthesis, percussion, video, and dance. featuring performers Johnny McMillan @__mcmillan , Vivian Assal Koohnavard @vivian.assal , Samuel Pereira @samuelfpereira featuring video work and visuals by Evelyn Bencicova @evelyn_bencicova , Enes Güç @enesguc and Zeynep Schilling @zeyblade_ Costumes by Marcelo Alcaide @alqaede @back2back.systems movement consultant Johnny McMillan lights Claes Schwennen Production studio LABOUR co-production HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin @hauberlin LABOUR is Farahnaz Hatam @hatam.farahnaz & Colin Hacklander @colinhacklander Photos by Evelyn Bencicova

more heat than light (2025) new work by LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander) throughout the entire Pavillon Sicli in Geneva presented by KorSonoR and Foundation Pavillon Sicli, continues the development of our "sonic activation " format. Electronic music, voice, percussion, mixed choir, video. Opens this weekend ✨ voice & violin: Diana Miron contrabass: Noëlle Reymond, Massimo Pinca mixed choir accompanied by Yvonne Harder and Antoine Läng sound engineering: Thierry Simonot filming of video work: @kaysnotsocommon Formerly a fire extinguisher factory, this modernist building of concrete, glass and metal was constructed between 1966 and 1970 by architect Constantin Hilberer and engineer Heinz Isler. curated by Olivier Kaeser @artasperto 📸 portrait by @evelyn_bencicova @pavillonsicli @colinhacklander @hatam.farahnaz @dasdiana #computermusic #stochasticdistributions #sonicactivation

@studio.labour Tower of Silence currently on view at @juliastoschekfoundation in Berlin This is a capture of @hatam.farahnaz and @colinhacklander inside their newest large-scale commission piece, Tower of Silence (2024). It is part of the AFTER IMAGES exhibition, which will take place from 11.09.2024 to 27.04.2025. This multisensory installation evokes the 3,000-year-old Zoroastrian death ritual of excarnation toward a vision of the soul’s transfiguration after death. Every half hour, participants encounter an activation of sound and light through which LABOUR explores three types of silence: forced silence, stoic silence, and profound silence. Come for an artist talk on November 28th with the curator, Lisa Long ✨ #towerofsilence #studiolabour #farahnazhatam #colinhacklander #juliastochekfoundarion #afterimages #exhibition #photodocumentation #evelynbencicova

LABOUR x Family Ndiaye Rose such an enormous pleasure to realize this project, August 2024 - our hearts are full! A tribute to the musical legacy of Doudou Ndiaye Rose. The best way to live is to prepare for death. The opening section of the piece is an adaptation of Doudou’s drum composition for electronic drums and SuperCollider, while the closing section features the full composition with sabars, drumset and SuperCollider. The expanded middle section features a spatial intervention wherein a mass of performers enacts an energetic orientation through word and movement, first by chanting the phrases “next time, die consciously” and “death levels us all” and next through a sequence of “bodily chemical excitations”. @studio.labour @hatam.farahnaz @colinhacklander #biramendiayerose @molamine_ndiaye_rose @wadanendiayerose #buoyondiayerose @yoro.mbaye.54 @doggytastes @mfo.light.space Photos 1, 4, 5, 8 by @frankiecasillophoto Photo 6 showing graphic by @evelyn_bencicova @enesguc @zeyblade_ @doggytastes Photo 13 by @nebieridze.de A deep thank you to all the group performers 🖤✨ At @kraftwerkberlinofficial for Openless by Berlin Atonal. Big thank you to @kuboraum and @innerraum for the bespoke helmet caps ✨ Transcriptions was initiated by studio LABOUR, @berlinatonal , @moe_soww and the family of Doudou Ndiaye Rose. This piece was made while in residency at Callie’s Berlin @calliesberlin . Funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM).

Some favorite features from our 40+ shows on @nts_radio 📻🔊✨ Birame and Molamine will be with us in Berlin for Transcriptions @berlinatonal and @calliesberlin ✨ Tune in each month for LABOUR’s hour-long show featuring rotating guests and friends from Dakar, Senegal. Expect a mixture of progressive electronic music with heavy sabar drum music, classic & current Mbalax, and timeless Sufi praises. #sabar #experimentalmusic #mbalax #doudoundiayerose

mass and mess: dispersion of subjectivity (2023) slide 1: photo by @evelyn_bencicova with @enesguc @zeyblade_ lights @flexxucci makeup @sleeperly , styling by @alqaede wearing @kuboraum and @back2back.systems ✨ slides 2-3: @grindmagazine GRIND Vol. 108 out now - interview with @kuboraum directors Sergio Eusebi + Livio Graziottin - thank you for the words 🖤✨ In righteous company with @space_afrika ✨

Tune in TONIGHT on @nts_radio for a special on our project, Transcriptions: a celebration of sabar culture and the musical legacy of Doudou Ndiaye Rose ✨ In anticipation of our big night at Kraftwerk Berlin, this show features original rhythms by Doudou as performed by his family, plus new interpretations by electronic musicians including @laminffn , @holy_tongue , @valentina_magaletti , Shackleton, @markernestus and LABOUR, with shouts-outs from Birame Ndiaye Rose & @molamine_ndiaye_rose ✨ All these tracks can be found on the series of Transcriptions releases on @honestjonsrecords between 2022-2023 ✨ Transcriptions at Openless by @berlinatonal on Aug 24th - see you there ✨ photo by @l_v_o__ in Dakar ✨ #sabar #doudoundiayerose #electronicmusic #kraftwerk #drumming #transcriptions #reverence