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KARDASH* SOLARCORE SOCIETY
KARDASH* helps exit the fossil age and enter the SUN AGE
KARDASH* operates on a scale of cosmic proportions
KARDASH* holds secret knowledge about becoming next level
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Big Hare
Big Hare consists of Luuk Ottenhof (drums, vocals, production) and Tim Fraanje (synths, vocals, lyrics). The duo formed in 2012, when the slogan on a shampoo bottle made Luuk enter a visionary dream state. Since then, they have been searching for enchantment and pleasure in a world ruled by utility and greed.
In 2013 their first EP "Evening Rites" was released on Blowpipe Records and in 2024. Big Hare has released three albums and played over 200 shows since its inception, at venues including Worm, Sexyland World, Roodkapje, 1646, Arti et Amicitiae, Ekko, Extrapool, Het Patronaat, and Paradiso, among others.
Selected shows
2022
13/05 Havenloods festival, Havenloods, Utrecht opening a collective space for artists
28/05 The Accelerationists, Lokaal, Utrecht exposition w/ works by Bernardus Baldus, Wannes Missotten, Tom Putman, Peer Vink we played an improv 'hardcore' set which inspired us later on for our new album
09/09 004 Tape Release Fest, Print Studio Kapitaal, Utrecht we contributed to the compilation with a live recording of Lucky Dip's 'the Magic Zone' on Wim Dekker's radio program 'Haarlem Underground' at Haarlem 105
01/10 Hard//Hoofd 12,5 years, het HEM, Zaandam
2021
30/10 ‘Extratool’, Extrapool, Nijmegen residency, 7” single release for the 'Extratool' project w/ artist Yuri Landman
2020
17/01 New Print, Printstudio Kapitaal, Utrecht Lucky Dip album vinyl release w/ artist Isa van Weert
06/03 Grasnapolsky, Fabriek de Toekomst, Groningen
05/04 Centraal Laat, Centraal museum, Utrecht w/ radio station Stranded FM - artist Céline Gillain
2017
15/04 UBIK, the Performance Bar/WORM, Rotterdam 20/05 Opening Kunstvlaai, Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam 2019
16/04 SecondRoom, Antwerpen w/ artists Bernardus Baldus, Wannes Misotten
26/10 'its better to rot than to fade away’, Lokaal, Utrecht
16 september 2017 Still Stranded (de Helling, Utrecht met o.a. Cosmic Force, Stippenlift)
21 oktober 2017, support Spill Gold, Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam
2016
14/10 'Ectoplasm' , Gallery 1646, Den Haag opening expo w/ curator Pádraic E. Moore
22/10 'Bizarre Sound Creatures’, Glaspaviljoen, Eindhoven as part of Dutch Design Week
2015
07/03 ‘Visie', de Helling, Utrecht w/ live illustration of artist Astrid Florentinus
12/09 Wereld van de Witte de With festival, Rotterdam w/ artists Jozeth van de Snepscheut - Koen Mooij
2014
07/08 Landjuweel Festival, Ruigoord, Amsterdam
11/12 Print Studio Extrapool, Nijmegen w/ DODDODO (jpn)
2013
26/07 Gespitzen, art gallery Roodkapje, Rotterdam
28/09 Knaller, AVL-Mundo, Rotterdam Joep van Lieshout's 50th birthday party
21 /12 Sneeuw en Ruis festival, EKKO, Utrecht presentation 10” white vinyl album 'Evening Rites’
Cyanne van den Houten is an expert in enchanted technology. With the Telemagic collective, they have invented a lot more amazing magical machines including AI-musicians and a mystical oracle. Cyanne’s work shows what can happen if you actually engage with technology instead of only using it instrumentally. In june 2023, Cyanne channeled the chaotic energy of our cult into the first Solarcore zine via a Riso printer and a computer. Since then, they have created a full visual universe for us, including this website.
In the Sun Age, we will find new forms of hedonism. We will reprogram our biocomputers, and become desiring machines. To help us with this transformation, we asked Jonathan Ho to design costumes, as he specializes in discovering and cultivating desires. Jon researched sex lives of snails, who turned out to be fluid and lustful beings. By colourfully decorating their shells, Jon created an even more stimulating feast for the senses of the for the snails. He did the same for humans, by designing for example a church-themed dark room which helps visitors reach spiritual levels of ecstasy and personalized fetish wear which gives the wearer access to their own specific pleasures.
“All of my work is intimate yet cosmic…” filmmaker Aram de Groot recently handed me the key to his oeuvre and I felt most enlightened. I remember him sitting behind a strange alchemistic installation with a small spinning plateau, mirrors and cameras. While he was filming an antique and ornamented golden clock with small figures who perform a show at regular intervals, he almost became a life-size extension of his subject. Vice versa, the clock really came to life in his film. Aram did the same to city statues and Peter Blake paintings, and succeeded in capturing the aura of a Van Gogh. For the Solarcore cult, Aram provides us with what he calls a ‘camera lucida’ a tiny peephole to be able to behold the massiveness of the sun. He bundles its cosmic rays into a miniscule fleck of extreme heat. The energy of a star will also be available for you!