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.
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4/04 Everything is on the One, Arti Et Amiticiae Amsterdam. Show in collaboration with Aram de Groot’s Solarcore Machine
11/05 Sun Age Party, Sexyland.World Amsterdam. Soft-Launch new album Sun House, Solarcore ritual with talk by Jan van Tienen, slideshow by Cyanne van den Houten, video-installation by Aram De Groot, dj-sets by Slippy Banks and Guenter Råler, costumes by Jonathan Ho
19/09 Gogbot Festival, Enschede
22/11 Oedipus Craft Space, w. Hondenfokker
22/06 Double-release Solarcore and Niek Hilkmann’s 80s-compilation, WORM Rotterdam, “De toekomst laat me koud”
9/07 Occii Amsterdam, support “De Toekomst Laat Me Koud”
22/10 M4 Gastateliers, Tara Eva Kuijpers Wentink and Finn Theuws: “Terr(a)trium”, Tetterode Amsterdam
2022
28/05 The Accelerationists, Lokaal, Utrecht exposition w/ works by Bernardus Baldus, Wannes Missotten, Tom Putman, Peer Vink
09/09 004 Tape Release Fest, Print Studio Kapitaal, Utrecht
01/10 Hard//Hoofd 12,5 years, het HEM, Zaandam
25/11 Victor Crepsley’s Victopia, Sexyland World, Amsterdam
09/09 004 Tape Release Fest, Print Studio Kapitaal, Utrecht
01/10 Hard//Hoofd 12,5 years, het HEM, Zaandam
25/11 Victor Crepsley’s Victopia, Sexyland World, Amsterdam
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
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
16/04 SecondRoom, Antwerpen w/ artists Bernardus Baldus, Wannes Misotten
16/09 2017 Still Stranded, de Helling, Utrecht w/ Cosmic Force, Stippenlift
21/10 2017, Support Spill Gold, Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam
20/05 Opening Kunstvlaai, Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam
16/04 SecondRoom, Antwerpen w/ artists Bernardus Baldus, Wannes Misotten
16/09 2017 Still Stranded, de Helling, Utrecht w/ Cosmic Force, Stippenlift
21/10 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
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
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)
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’
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 (artwork)
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.
Jonathan Ho (costumes)
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.
Aram de Groot (film)
“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 ornate 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!
Raymond van Mil is a legendary photographer, well-known for his tireless nightlife photography. He has seen many stars through his lens, has the sunniest temper and he knows how to celebrate good times. Raymond has an eye for the absurd, the magical, the excess. He also has a lesser known but equally strong philosophical interest. This materialised, among other things, in his membership of the Bhagwan movement in the early nineties and a spiritual reverence for perfect coffee.
Jan van Tienen is not just a novice at our cult. He is also the SUPREME HEEMLORD, as the prime mover of his project ‘Heemkunde van de Ziel’. ‘Heemkunde’ is an untranslatable and ancient Dutch practice in which an investigator researches the ‘heem’: local surroundings, the life stories of relatives, maybe even one’s ‘home’. These investigators indulge in their amateur history, -archaeology and -geography because if they don’t do it, no one else will. According to Jan, in the current cosmopolitan world of lovely displacement, ‘heem’ can also mean a very private corner of your soul (‘ziel’), or some weird place on the internet.
Jan recently published his second book ‘De Verworvenheden’, a guide towards becoming someone who longs to be on the island of Hompelvoet and an account of his own journey towards becoming such a person. The book is very deep! And also melancholic, and funny. At the SUN AGE PARTY, he has spoken about the results of one of his other quests. Jan was haunted by the thought that the sleepy suburb Diemen might be the pinnacle human civilisation can reach before collapsing. He went there to find out more about this apocalyptically normal place.