HEXIS (premiere) 2019
at IMPROTECH Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens. 28 September 2019
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​HEXIS is a Greek word that is important in the philosophy of Aristotle. It stems from a verb related to ‘possession’ and is typically translated in modern texts as referring to a ‘state’ of being. Sachs refines the meaning as ‘active condition’ and argues that hexis refers to an active disposition that becomes a deeply embodied ‘state’ as opposed to a passive or surface action/interaction. For us hexis describes a way of being in performance. It is a deeply embodied active condition that operates at the core of an interactive phenomenology and fluid materiality that is central to our particular brand of BODYCODER improvisational kinaesonics. Our piece Hexis (2019) is thematically inspired by and draws upon Heraclitus’ river-analogy ‘one cannot step twice into the same river’ and for ‘as they step into the same rivers, different and (still) different waters flow upon them’. These pre-Socratic fragments (attributed to Heraclitus via Didymus & Plutarch) configure man’s state of being in relation to and as a part of a substance of nature. The river is an example of that which preserves structural identity while undergoing constant change of content, and it is this conflagration of unity/divergence, formation and dissolution, of the catching, touching and trickling away of substance that has informed our piece. Hexis (2019) is the third work that seeks to explore the synergies between ancient motifs and our own distinct form of sonic mediation the first and second being V’Oct(Ritual) (2014)  and PythiaDelphine21 (2016) created with the kind support of Prof. Anastasia Georgaki and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and premiered at the Animart Festival in Delphi.

Video footage: Jeff Jolly @popmyfilm

Visitations
New Album Release

Visitations by MARK BOKOWIEC is out now on the MPS label and available to listen, download and purchase via iTunes, Amazon and Spotify.

Situated at the intersection of #DarkAmbient 
​#Drone #Electronic #Electroacoustic and 
#Musique Concrète, the album's raw sound palettes are largely derived from field recordings made in Iceland, Greece and Orkney, processed and composed live in the studio using an array of custom control surfaces. It's a real visceral, sensual and epic journey through shimmering, haunted and mythical sonic terrains.

"With Mark Mark Bokowiec’s album Visitations we have something you don't often get: a surprisingly great dark-ambient release with all the perfect ingredients you need for the genre... ABSOLUTELY RECOMMENDED"
**** Avant Music Review
​"...multi-dimensional ambience of moods and nuances, subtlety and fragile dissonance between a guided meditative collages of improvised palette and highly thought-through compositions." Felt Hat 

"Bokowiec umraunt den traumhften Anhausch seiner perkussiv angeruhrten oder sanft gewellten Drohnscapes mit den Silben diff-, dis- und trans-, die zwischen Subjekt und Objekt einen Spalt fur das Andere offnen. 'A Barrow Full of Watt" fuhrt einem mit fast schon einer gewissen Dramatik Zugleich sine Schubkarre und Hugrlgraber vors innere Auge, und Kirkjufell' turmt diese Dramatik psychogeografisch und vulkanisch auf 463m. Aber die eigentliche Dramatik ist eine innere namlich der hoffnungsvolle Selbstbetrug, Orakeln nichts anderes als ein unbestimmtes Raunen abzuverlangen. Wer Orakel befragt, bettelt um die unbefristete Verlangerung seines Engagements als Interpret" Bad Alchemy (Germany) April 2019
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THE PUBLIC REVIEWS
*****
YORKSHIRE POST
Critics' Choice
THE INDEPENDENT 
****
SALFORD ON LINE 
****
METRO
Choice
(Paul Copley & Olivia Vinall in The Last Cuckoo)
(Lost Boy Racer)
Distinctive original drama with high production values, astutely crafted, full of theatrical invention. We create rich and relevant contemporary stories that are poignant and funny, challenging and engaging.