For the third edition of Playground,STUK center in Leuven, again focuses on artists exploring the boundaries between various art disciplines. This international live art festival presents performances, installations and live actions. The program consists of two closely linked parts: a series of performances and an exhibition.
The Playground exhibition brings together several installations and films that investigate the notion of play, performance and theatricality. The exhibition features new works and existing installations by Matt Mullican, Ulla von Brandenburg, Lars Siltberg, Katinka Bock, Bas Schevers, André van Bergen, Myriam Van Imschoot and Barbara Visser.
In their performance Laurent Montaron, Julien Discrit, Thomas Dupouy and Ulla von Brandenburg draw their inspiration from the phenomenon of synaesthesia, in this case somebody seeing colours when hearing music. Aurélien Froment and Youri Dirckx present a new performance 'In Order of Appearance' amidts a fragile architecture made of paper, modelled on the white cube of the museum (co-produced by STUK and If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution). Michikazu Matsune and David Subal bring STORE to Leuven, a shop in the city centre where visitors can buy movements, actions and behaviors (in collaboration with the museum M).
Lars Siltberg organised several workshops that took place last summer in STUK. His video installation will exploring notions of collectivity, interaction and intimacy. Bas Schevers, Katinka Bock, Barbara Visser and André van Bergen interact both the with the STUKbuilding and the festival.
A number of productions explore the boundaries between dance, theatre, music and visual arts. The new performance by Mette EdvarsenEvery now and then explores the media book and what happens with the performance after it is over. In Miet Warlop'sSpringville unique characters in are involved in a game of chaos, expectation and surprise. Myriam Van Imschoot is both presenting her research on the improvisation project Crash Landing, and uses her source material together with Christine De Smedt in the performance Pick Up Voices.
Sarah Vanhee organises an auction for 'Unrealized but brilliant ideas'. Breaking News by Rimini Protokoll is commenting and interpreting the news of the day, including live broadcasts on stage. The sculpture Stage Matrix#2 by Markus Schinwald is being portrayed as a furniture machine used by dancer Oleg Soulimenko. In Philipp Gehmacher'sand Vladimir Miller's video installation Dead Reckoning, images of three dancers are constantly shifting.
Together with De Appel in Amsterdam, STUK presents on November 13 (in Leuven) and November 14 (in Amsterdam) a two-day multidisciplinairy conference The Manifold (after) Lives of Performance. Presenting the viewpoint of artists as well as theoretists de Appel, Frascati and STUK Kunstencentrum will look into the many current ways in which performance is handed down, preserved and mediated 'after the fact'. The conference will present several cases from artists and curators, including projects that distribute artistic ideas in unusual ways. With contributions by: Marie Cool & Fabio Balducci, TIME festival, Inside Movement Knowledge, Eric Mangion, Eva Meyer-Hermann, Sarah Vanhee, Myriam Van Imschoot, David Weber Krebbs & Alexander Schellow a.o.
Together with Playground STUK opens also a solo exhibition with Matt Mullican (born in 1953, USA) to Belgium. The oeuvre of Matt Mullican is very diverse, consisting of drawings, sculptures, architectural constructions and performances. Since his early work in the 70s, he has been examining the notion of 'performance' by means of actions and interventions. Mullican also uses hypnosis to get in touch with underlying aspects of his personality. The exhibition looks at the performance aspect throughout his impressive oeuvre and combines videos, drawings, sets, images, texts and photographs.
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Created at Mutek festival
at Monument National (Montréal) in May 2009, POWEr is a performance based on high-voltage electromagnetic perturbations.
SKETCH-A-MOVE
Sketch-a-Move is a 5 weeks project by Loiuse Victoria Kinkler did with Anab Jain. The brief was set by Mattel Hotwheels to come up with a new concept for their small toycars.
BUSCANDO SR.GOODBAR
Buscando Al Sr.Goodbar from Transmediale award winning Michelle Terran, is a journey through Murcia, that involves a search for the locations and authors of various YouTube videos.
DIGITAL ZOETROPE
Troika was commissioned by onedotzero to create a custom installation and visual identity around the theme of this year’s festival 'Citystates'. Opting to create an installation and identity that integrate into each other, Troika designed a modern digital zoetrope as the cornerstone of the identity.
SILICON DREAMS
The exhibition, Silicon Dreams: Art, Science and Technology in the European Union, will take place at Tabakalera in Donostia-San Sebastián It explores the convergence of these three fields from the perspective of a group of artists
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: POLITICS OF DIGITAL MEDIA
It is an abstract submission for an edited book on the creation, interpretation, and role of digital media for political purposes in the Balkans and Middle East. The intent is to provide an overview of the spectrum of political uses of new media in these two regions.
555 KUBIK
555 KUBIK "How it would be, if a house was dreaming" The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture - the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle
CALL: CYNETARTS
TMA Hellerau hosts the international competition of Cynetart, an digital art and technology festival, that takes place in Dresden, inviting artists and art groups to present their projects. The call for entries ends bu will be extended until March 2010
INJECT BY HERMAN KOLGEN
It was in 2008 that Herman Kolgen initiated the INJECT project. The genesis of the principal visual material for this project was a shoot, in an immense cistern filled with water, which lasted six consecutive days.
LIGHT BULB
light bulb is a levitating yet powered lightbulb. It will float stably in midair and remain on for years without any physical contact, charging, or batteries. Ironically, this entire package still consumes less than half the power of an incandescent bulb.
UCLA SCI | ART NANOLAB 2010 LOS ANGELES: 21 JUNE / 2 JULY 2010
A two week summer course including lecture, required screenings, lab visits, field trips and outside study, offered through UCLA's Summer
Institute. Open to high school students. This introductory studio / lab course explores the creative aspects of scientific research and innovation. Students will gain a broad understanding of the impact of science on
contemporary art and popular culture and focus on new sciences -
bio and
nanotechnology. Emphasis will be on development of proposals and ideas
that could serve as prototypes for either an art project or a scientific
research study.
Since 2001, OFFF festival has been held in Barcelona, becoming the globally recognized and trendsetting event it is today. The three-day festival showcases this year in Paris top digital artists, web, print and interactive designers, motion graphics studios, and new music adventurous. OFFF is spreading the work of a generation of creators that are breaking all kind of limits. Those separating the commercial arena from the worlds of art and design; music from illustration, or ink and chalk from pixels. Artists that have grown with the web and receive inspiration from digital tools, even when their canvas is not the screen. OFFF festival provides insight into all culture media platforms.
