Boris Acket

Give audiovisual explorer Boris Acket a room, terrain, or space to play in and he’ll envelop it into something otherworldly. Acket translates conceptual notions into immersive, multi-sensory experiences: technology, space, light, and sound all form a prism in which specific themes or subjects are explored and rematerialized. The results are vivid and often mind-boggling, giving the tried and true a fresh context or meaning. For instance, Acket researched how you can perceive linear audiovisual animations by arranging a line of lights and speakers of 80 meters in length. He made a film about a new and circular world based on the principles and modules of a modular synthesizer. He explored the subjective experience of time in a circular echo system. And finally, he created a real life solar eclipse on stage for a crowd of 15.000 people. Instead of relying on just a single discipline to satiate his own curiosity, he acts as a conductor for multiple forms: installation art, technology, live performance, music production, film and installations all of them working together to reveal a bigger picture: An endless research project into the experience of time, space, natural elements, human emotion and social boundaries. Features, exhibitions, performances: NXT Museum, ADE, De School, Down The Rabbit Hole, Lowlands, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Van Gogh Museum, DGTL / Resident Advisor, Designboom, Volkskrant, NRC, Subbacultcha and 3voor12. Portraits: Hessel Stuut