In “An Uaihm Bhinn”, Scots Gaelic for “The Sweet Sounding Cave” artist and spatial sound composer Lugh O’Neill and experimental design and performance practice Temporary Pleasure create an ephemeral space for versatile forms of music composition, expression and experience. Curated by Orpheu de Jong.

Grand Opening
Public event: Jan. 24, 2025
Everyone is welcome!

Exhibition: January 25 - February 16, 2025
Public Event # 1: January 31, 2025 Presented by C.A.N.V.A.S.
(organized in cooperation with IFFR)
Audience Event # 2: February 7, 2025 Presented by Temporary Pleasure
(organized in cooperation with IFFR)

Finissage
Public event: Feb. 16, 2025
Everyone is welcome!

An Uaimh Bhinn (“The Sweet Sounding Cave”) is a multidisciplinary project by artist and spatial sound composer Lugh O’Neill and experimental collective Temporary Pleasure. At its core is an installation featuring a performance among the basalt columns of Fingal’s Cave, a natural wonder on Scotland’s Isle of Staffa, famed for its cathedral-like acoustics and mythical ties to an ancient giant’s bridge.

Curated by Orpheu de Jong, a pivotal figure in Amsterdam’s music scene, the exhibition transforms the space into a dynamic environment for innovative music and performance. Shifting between exhibition, installation, and stage, it offers a constantly evolving acoustic and spatial experience.

The first of two performances at Brutus hosted during IFFR is presented by the artists’ record label and event series C.A.N.V.A.S., founded by Lugh O’Neil and Olan Monk with the goal of becoming a transnational fabric to connect individual practices and nodes of activity in contemporary music and live perform ance.

Title: An Uaimh Bhinn presented by C.A.N.V.A.S.
Entrance: Keileweg 18, 3029 BS Rotterdam
Program times: January 31 (19:30 until 23:00)

An Uaimh Bhinn (“The Sweet Sounding Cave”) is a multidisciplinary project by artist and spatial sound composer Lugh O’Neill and experimental collective Temporary Pleasure. At its core is an installation featuring a performance among the basalt columns of Fingal’s Cave, a natural wonder on Scotland’s Isle of Staffa, famed for its cathedral-like acoustics and mythical ties to an ancient giant’s bridge.

Curated by Orpheu de Jong, a pivotal figure in Amsterdam’s music scene, the exhibition transforms the space into a dynamic environment for innovative music and performance. Shifting between exhibition, installation, and stage, it offers a constantly evolving acoustic and spatial experience.

For the second of two performances at Brutus during IFFR, Temporary Pleasure invites musicians, artists, and audiences to share a collective musical experience that is contemplative, ecstatic and cathartic.

Title: An Uaimh Bhinn presented by Temporary Pleasure
Entrance: Keileweg 18, 3029 BS Rotterdam
Program times: February 7 (21:30 until 01:00)

Art as an ideological filleting knife. That is the ideal of Kendell Geers, compiler of EVERYTHING IS TRUE - NOTHING IS PERMITTED.

A protest and celebration in one. It is a defiant celebration of the power of art to subvert our expectations, to inspire, heal, excite, confuse, disrupt and challenge. At the same time, it is an uncompromising protest against the glitz and glamour of an art market that reduces the value of art to mere finance.

Curator Kendell Geers was persecuted as an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1980s and has lived in exile as a political refugee ever since. As a result, he has a direct understanding of the painful overlap between art and politics.

Geers gained international recognition early on, participating in the Johannesburg Biennial in 1997 and Documenta 11 in 2002, among others.

Official opening: March 7, 2025