THIRD Annual Forum 2024
The 5th Group of Companions
Friday 18 October 2024, 18-20:30 CET / 12-2:30 EST / 9-11:30 PST online
Saturday 19 October 2024, 12:00 - 17:00 at DAS Graduate School (Overhoeksplein 2, Amsterdam)
The 5th Group of Companions of THIRD - Bita Bell, Kai Hazelwood, Paula Montecinos Oliva and Flavia Pinheiro - invited audiences into their research on Friday 18 October and Saturday 19 October in an ongoing presentation, as well as performances, conversations, a virtual world and a Sonic Playground.
The Friday program, was hosted by Kai Hazelwood and took place online. On Saturday afternoon, Bita Bell, Paula Montecinos Oliva and Flavia Pinheiro shared their research at DAS Graduate School in Amsterdam.
Friday 18 October, online
18-20:30 CET / 12-2:30 EST / 9-11:30 PST
The Shed by Kai Hazelwood
This was a virtual playground inspired by snakes and creatures who shed their skin! Audiences were invited to choose their own adventures through a beautiful virtual world created by our friends at Garden where participants could slow dance with snakes, play with reptile time, read, watch, and/or listen to a collection of experiences created by Kai Hazelwood over the last two years at DAS Graduate School.
Saturday 19 October, DAS Graduate School
Sonic Feminist Fabulations ~ Radio broadcast performance
Episode # 0 (zero)
Part 1: Sonic Playground
Audience members and sonic practitioners were invited into a sonic playground where they could try out improvisation techniques and haptically learn about the potentials of DIWO electromagnetic apparatuses, low-frequencies sounds, and fuzzy-whispering environments.
People were welcome to drop in, linger, rest a while, and wander. To listen check out sonicfeministfabulations.org.

Throughout the afternoon guests were invited to spend time with the research of each of the Companions at their own pace.
There was Bita Bell’s zine publication ‘containing multitudes, at times fragmented’. Read more about the publication here.
The day after The Shed by Kai Hazelwood, it was be possible to experience traces and sheddings from the evening before, as well as the process leading up to the gathering. Read more about The Shed here.
One could tune into Sonic Feminist Fabulations’ Episode # 0 (zero) by Paula Montecinos Oliva at DAS Graduate School or via the website sonicfeministfabulations.org. Read more about the full radio broadcast here.
Flavia Pinheiro showed how her research Mimosa had developed over the past two years in three different video works and a mini publication. Read more about Mimosa here.

MIMOSA, an ‘in vitro - pill’ performance embodying the essence of Flavia Pinheiro’s ongoing research Mimosa.

Sonic Feminist Fabulations ~ Radio broadcast performance
Episode # 0 (zero)
Part 2: conversation with Megan Hoetger
Paula Montecinos Oliva and Megan Hoetger delved into the conversational form. Through their dialogue, they experiment with the potentials of speaking – quoting, paraphrasing, conversing, improvising – as a topography of sonic textures, uttered between their delays, repetitions, and the noise that binds them.
To listen check out sonicfeministfabulations.org.

This was a collective reading and listening to the zine publication containing multitudes, at times fragmented by Bita Bell followed by an informal conversation.
Read more about ‘containing multitudes, at times fragmented’ here.
