sub-botnick (Ahmet Öğüt & Maru Mushtrieva) performs musical interventions and mixes psychedelic, retrofuturistic, and synth-punk. Each of them lays a focus on different live components, occasionally reinterpreting traditional folk instruments (e.g. electric saz), adding visual commentary, or reworking the narratives of politically censored songs.
The name of the duo of sub-botnick draws upon two inspirations: from the Russian word „subbotnik", meaning initially voluntary, but de facto voluntary-compulsive community service in Eastern Bloc, and paying a tribute to Morton Subotnick, an American pioneer of electronic music pioneer and one of the founding members of CALarts on the other side.
Photo: Nailya Bikmurzina
Past shows:
05.07.19 Low Text, Berlin
08.06.19 Feral Note Salon, Berlin
15.11.19 Subotnick presents subbotnik by Sub-botnick, Fridericianum Museum, Kassel
Soundtracks:
No Poem Loves Its Poet (2020), Ahmet Ögut
Artworks Made at Home (2020), Ahmet Ögut for steirischer herbst - Paranoia TV