In the seventh edition of Kalponik Rekha, presented for the second time at Rewire, artists Kasimyn (Hulubalang) and Avita Maheen (two4.41139) will join for a listening-led session that complements the performative nature of the artists’ practices. As opposed to a moderated conversation, the session invites the artists to share personal memory on the origins of their practice and subcultures in Indonesia and Bangladesh.

কাল্পনিক রেখা (Kalponik Rekha) is a sound and performance art platform created to cultivate community and collaborative engagement between South Asian artists and across (cultural) borders. Primarily driven by fragments of displacement and as a phenomenological resistance to objectified romanticism; the term kalponik rekha translates to “an imaginary terrain,” referring as a metaphor for loose geographical definitions and contemporary contexts of South Asian subculture. 

Currently making music as a solo artist under the name Kasimyn or Hulubalang, and as part of Gabber Modus Operandi with Ican Harem, Aditya Surya Taruna is a Bali-based producer, DJ, and amateur researcher. Kasimyn is also the founder of Gorong-Gorong, a label that presents futurist Indonesian music.

Avita Maheen (aka two4.41139) is a Bangladeshi sound, performance, media artist, writer, and curator based in Rotterdam. Her practice is centred on sound, memory, and the embryonic desire, with autoethnographic research on personal and urban influences of globalisation in post-millenium Bangladeshi urban music culture. Maheen is the founder of Kalponik Rekha and Chaya Chobi, platforms for South Asian experimental sound art and ambient cinema, and is a guest adjunct faculty at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute.