Ultima 2026 / Natasha Barrett · Kelman Duran / Saddled With

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Natasha Barrett builds audiovisual architectures live and lets them collapse. Kelman Duran, who has produced for Beyoncé, closes the night with dembow slowed dark and heavy.

Natasha Barrett builds audiovisual architectures live and lets them collapse. Kelman Duran, who has produced for Beyoncé, closes the night with dembow slowed dark and heavy.

What if something curiously beautiful survives? Constructions of Collapse and Desire by Natasha Barrett begins from a feeling of curiosity and hope in the face of a precarious world.

Real locations– Oslo’s Barcode district, a rural train station, a snow-covered forest path–are projected into the space and transformed into dreamlike audiovisual architectures, pushed towards extremes of purity and energy. Barrett scanned the places she chose as source material using 3D LiDAR and ambisonic recordings. Live on stage, she constructs lego-like structures, feeding the real-time image into the evolving audiovisual environment. Then the fragile construction is blown apart, and forces beyond human control take over.

Kelman Duran arrives from a different vantage point. Rooted in Dominican and Afro-Caribbean musical traditions, his music draws on…

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What to expect

Expect a warm, easy crowd — busy enough to feel alive, calm enough to talk. It's built for meeting people — solo arrivals do fine here.

The essentials

Pricing is moderate, and the event runs Fri 22:00. You'll find it at Trekanten — the surrounding blocks carry the same energy, so the night doesn't have to end at one address.

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