LABOUR

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 curated by with curatorial assistance by during

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dispersion of subjectivity (I), 2025
autostereogram, digital print
88 x 233 cm

the original water color by Farah is transformed by digital aberrations resulting from the creation of an autostereogram, wherein a hidden layer of depth emerges through a specific manner of viewing the image.

DRIFT

these 34 iterations of figures formed the basis for the generation of musical material for the performance, for example the work’s main rhythmic figures in 17/8, groups of 7-3-5-2, 2-5-3-7, etc, and macro summations…

this one dedicated to the brilliant Gerhard Schütze (d. 2017). miss you, G!

DRIFT

commissioned by curated by with curatorial assistance by during

by LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander)
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dispersion of subjectivity

by LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander) with percussionist Yi Ping of Percussion des Strasbourg

Newly commissioned large scale performance work at MUDAM curated by Léon Kruijswijk with curatorial assistance by Nicole Wittmann .

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 🖤

Organized by Mudam Luxembourg in collaboration with Philharmonie Luxembourg, during Luxembourg Art Week .
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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

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

📸 portrait by

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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”.
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Big thank you to and for the bespoke helmet caps ✨

Transcriptions was initiated by studio LABOUR, , and the family of Doudou Ndiaye Rose.

This piece was made while in residency at Callie’s Berlin . Funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM).