Takkak Takkak is the collaboration between Berlin producer Shigeru Ishihara and Vilnius-based Indonesian artist J. Mo'ong Santoso Pribadi (of Raja Kirik), forging a cultural dialogue that blends Asian traditional and underground sounds. Their music exists in a hypnotic space between ancestral and futuristic, characterized by explosive polyrhythms, thundering bass, and frenzied vocals. Named after Asian drum traditions, the duo crafts their distinctive sound using everything from junk instruments to hacked electronics.
I contribute live visuals to their performances, drawing from and subverting cyberpunk's techno-orientalist tropes of neon-drenched digital metropolises. The visuals explore themes of technological consciousness and digital enlightenment through a decolonial lens, referencing both historical Buddhist iconography and contemporary Asian futurism. This approach challenges sanitized Western interpretations of Eastern spirituality, instead embracing the electric chaos of Asian festival traditions and the fierce, transformative energy of sacred protection deities—where enlightenment emerges through ecstatic dance and breakthrough force, rendering the digital realm as a space for radical spiritual metamorphosis. This ongoing project premiered at CTM Festival Berlin 2025.
