TYPONEXUS interdisciplinary, international, collaborative, creative suite turns 10 this year, and redux ILLUMINATA Nocturna soirée has arrived! This event series was launched a decade ago, so let’s celebrate our accomplishments tenfold! Join us for this marvelous, one-of-a-kind happening and help fundraise for our impactful, dynamic, multifaceted projects at the nexus of arts, culture, tech, science, education and community!
Saturday, October 5, 2024 · 6 – 10pm
Extremely limited capacity: 50 participants
All proceeds go toward TYPONEXUS projects – support our hard work, as you’re able!
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/illuminata-nocturna-masquerade-registration-1004826221277
Can’t attend, but wish to contribute to the cause?
Gift tickets to several good friends, or donate via Eventbrite, or here: https://square.link/u/DMG3a43G
Please spread the word, invite and bring along fine folx.
// EVENT THESIS //
The enigma of secret societies unfolds again – festally, beneath lunar umbrage of nocturnal hours. Some rites only gain in flavor with age: this year, the affair unfolds at a nearly century-old establishment, The Grocery. Intimately – in the company of only 50 – deeper we immerse, cascading our way into a vast, interactive multimedia milieu of art and revelry…
Dress your quaintest, wear that ceremonial headdress, mask or veil your eyes, and swoon into the bizarre underworld of illuminati – the masterminds lurking in the dark, lightsomely pulling the strings of power. Flaunt your shadow persona – Vampire Elite? Victorian Sorceress? Psychedelic Shaman?.. Let your imagination guide you.
Get smitten by risqué vaudeville, sublime sonic and visual atmosphere, exhilarating, participatory flow of performance disciplines, fusion of the classical and hi-tech, interactive art media, and more! Tonight, we, free spirits, eccentrics, creatives, thinkers, doers and makers, convene for a vivacious tribute to life’s grand mysteries. Let us co-create, dance, play, make this earth reverberate far and wide with our zany, savory, fantabulous vibes!
E Tenebris Lux!
// PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS //
This happening is an avant-garde, immersive, interdisciplinary, at times improvisational, cornucopia of diverse, immediate experiences. We’ll pull out of the magic hat however many surprises we can weave into the eve. Reading tea leaves, we glean quite an intriguing melange of potential possibilities…
~ Opera
~ Burlesque / striptease
~ Aerials / acro
~ Butoh
~ Kinbaku-bi / shibari
~ Instrumental, experimental, world music (bandura, oud, guitar, synth, electro cello)
~ DJ set
~ Interactive light, audiovisual, motion-responsive installations
~ Visuals
~ Artisan workshop (pysanky)
~ Live painting
~ Art exhibit
~ Silent auction / raffle
// IMPORTANT NOTES //
Costume & mask required
Fog machine, strobe lights in use
Mature content
TYPONEXUS Conduct Policy in force
21+, COVID compliance with current mandates
// ABOUT TYPONEXUS //
TYPONEXUS is founded and spearheaded by O – a Ukrainian, US-based, socially engaged artist, curator, producer and educator. This multidisciplinary syndicate includes artists, culture bearers, scientists, technologists, scholars and community builders, operating under the motto “Think Global, Act Local.”
// WORK HIGHLIGHTS //
We presented hundreds of interdisciplinary events, festivals, exhibits, workshops, lectures and seminars. Amidst event series are ILLUMINATA Nocturna, [Voyager] Golden Record, Globalist, [Tibetan] Losar, Silent Film Nouveau, Unicornucopia, Avant-garde Out & About. Notable collaborators: musicians Filastine & Nova, Morgan Sorne, bvdub, artist Boris Indrikov. Select locations: nuclear facility, turn-of-the-century landmark mansion, century-old warehouse, Taoist sanctuary, Seattle Center, Institute for Innovation and Global Engagement, UW.
Select Projects:
Nuclear Recitals – Site-specific, creative climate justice project. Vol. I ft. Lubomyr Melnyk, world’s fastest pianist, neoclassical composer, pioneer of Continuous Music.
Sunflower on Fire, Ukraine – Decade-long, documentary, multimedia project on life and war in Ukraine. Notable collaborators: photojournalists Maks Levin (executed on frontlines); Anastasia Vlasova, Mykhaylo Palinchak, Yan Dobronosov; sister org MAP (Make Art with Purpose).
Rise, Come to Light, and Sing Forth, Anima – Interactive, public art installation uplifting the feminine and advocating gender equity. Headlined “Censorship” coverage in American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.
Symbiotic Cadence – Eco-focused, interactive, multimedia installation and community space; performances; workshops. Mostly upcycled materials. Solar farm powered. Electric Sky art-tech-sci-edu retreat advocating sustainability and renewables.