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16. 6. Thu 22:00 // BIT TEATERGARASJEN presents Kjetil Kausland: No Más
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Crossing the line has been the core of Kjetil Kausland´s project in the last years; crossing the line between private and public by bringing his personal interest for cage fighting into his artistic realm. In the initial photo project No holds barred (2004 – 07) fights are frozen for us to take a closer look at where one body ends and another begins. As spectators we can take a moment, and are also given that moment to try to identify with the forces, both physical and mental, at play. The fighters are ostensibly in a state of concentration beyond thinking, impossible to translate into words. Their gazes are vulnerable, naked, in a state of exhaustion, they are seemingly not the eyes of a man; they are almost animalistic.
Later Kausland decided to cross another border. He entered into a state of empathetic action as he himself entered the cage in the performance No más (2008) at BIT-Teatergarasjen theatre in Bergen, Norway. The result of having made himself the subject of his work was two videos. His insisting on investigating something to the point of exhaustion is one of the things that has been the most important in Kausland´s work.
17. 6. Fri 22:00 // MiBAC presents Fanny and Alexander: Rebus per Ada
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Fanny & Alexander is an art workshop founded in Ravenna in 1992 by Luigi de Angelis and Chiara Lagani. Fanny & Alexander produces events ranging across theatre, video and film productions, installations, performances, photographic exhibitions, conferences and study workshops, festivals, and encounters. Since 2001, they have been managing the scenery workshop and production and rehearsal venue Ardis Hall, and since 2009, by means of an Agreement with Ravenna´s City Council, the cultural venue Artificerie Almagià. The video Rebus per Ada, a motion-picture splinter of the project Ada, a family chronicle, inspired by Vladimir Nabokov´s novel of the same name, is a game of enigmas in the form of an obsessive dream that is found throughout the novel itself. The image of dream, after all, is made of solids and voids, like enigmas, rebuses. The artists who intends to place the audience at the center of this elaborate hallucination, which is characteristic of dreams, or at least to bring it to their minds in a really persuasive way, are at the very same time enigmatists and hypnotists: their task is to bring perception to a level of unconditional surrender. At the awakening, dreams appear like a ciphered language, and their aspect of cryptogram is suggested by the tale itself, but only in the precise moment preceding the awakening. The power of the game has used up its hypnotic resources, and the other game comes into play: the endless delight of conjecture. It´s here that spectators become the authors of their very own dream, peculiarly crossing that novel, Ada, or ardor, a family chronicle. After finishing the novel, which really proceeds by enigmas, they realize that, from the very beginning, it was nothing but the story of their very own dream, and that the story had already mysteriously brought them at the extreme edge of the final conjecture; and finally, to be really lived as an enigma, it only needed that deprival, that peripheral and central hole, that precise missing side which spectators themselves were and are. Ideation: Chiara Lagani and Luigi de Angelis With thanks to p-bart.com, Electa - Antichità di Maria Carla Costa, Modisteria Anna Maria, Tiro a Segno Nazionale Ravenna, Farmacia Dradi, Oddone Baroncini, Venerina and Adelmo Masotti, Loretta Masotti, Paula Noah de Angelis, Agnese Arevalos, Filippo Zanzani, Anna Maria Bollettieri, Elisabetta Rivalta. The excerpts from the works by Vladimir Nabokov are used in accordance with The Vladimir Nabokov Estate. www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/index.html více.../méně...
Baltoscandal Festival Rakvere, Estonia is a biannual performing arts festival held since 1990. Since 1994, it has taken place in the small town of Rakvere, 100 km to the east of Tallinn. From the beginning the festival’s main idea has been to combine intensive artistic programs and an active social life. There are at least 5 performances a day, which are followed by live music set during the ´white-nights´ of the Estonian summer. The next Baltoscandal is in the beginning of July 2012. The Intersection cinema night program combines live shots from the Baltoscandal program and social life as well as short films by young Estonian artists. This feature is made by such artists as: Andres Tenusaar,Taavet Jansen, Joosep Volk, Elvis Sõnajalg, Märt Kivi, Martinus Klemet, and others.
Direction: Luigi de Angelis
Dramaturgy: Chiara Lagani
Photography: Monaldo Moretti, David Zamagni
Filming and editing: David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi
Sound remix: Luigi de Angelis Puzzle
Consultant: Stefano Bartezzaghi
With: Paola Baldini, Marco Cavalcoli, Chiara Lagani, Sara Masotti, Francesca Mazza, Luigi de Angelis, and Nina Muffolini
Sound devices: Mirto Baliani
Piano: Matteo Ramon Arevalos
Flute: Filippo Mazzoli
Ondes Martenot: Bruno Perrault
Sound recordings by Gianluca Lo Presti at Lotostudio, Filetto and Luigi de Angelis at A.p.A.I. – Casa dell´Arte, Ravenna.
18. 6. Sat 22:00 // Priit Raud presents Baltoscandal Festival and Kanuti Gildi SAAL
19. 6. Sun 22:00 // LE MOUVEMENT presents Carte Blanche a Mouvement Ulla von Brandenburg: Chorspiel In addition to the 5 characters that appear in the video, a performing choir comprised of 16 people and their voices is heard as the voice of conscience of Greek tragedies, echoing the solo voices at certain crucial moments. Shot in the forest of Malmö, this video was made after the performance Chorspiel presented at Lilith Studio in Malmö, Sweden. The soundtrack recorded during the same performance is the result of text and melody written by Ulla von Brandenburg. Michel François: La Ricarda La Ricarda is a film where the viewpoints of thirteen artists crisscross and overlap to compose a fiction without storyline, a labyrinth where distinctives are lost and make way for a fascinating composite form. A house inhabited by personalities who never meet, ghost-like, it breathes these different atmospheres, awakens and becomes the main character of this film which offers so many possible scenarios, uncertain narratives, and surprising audiovisuals. Project concept: Michel François and Jean-Paul Jacquet with Michel François, Ann Veronica Janssens, Angel Vergara, Harald Thys and Jos de Gruyter, Richard Venlet, Loïc Vanderstichelen, Simon Siegmann, Pierre Droulers, Jordi Colomer, Joerg Bader, François Curlet, Rosa Barba, and Lucia Bru Thierry De Mey: One Flat Thing Choreography: William Forsythe
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The film tells us the story of a meeting between a wanderer and a family: grandfather, grandmother, mother, and daughter. Each member of the family has his place (within one room), as well as his own habits (play, argue, rest, disentangle family knots...). The wanderer interrupts their family life, confronting them with the unknown and also to the possibility of a new life.
At the initiative of Michel François, a film project was undertaken in July 2006 at the Casa Gomis, situated on the Ricarda property in El Prat de Llobregat (Barcelona). This extraordinary house was built by architect Antoni Bonet in the 1950´s in the middle of a pine forest between the airport and the suburbs of Barcelona. Twelve artists were invited to produce video sequences of their choice with the only common thread being the unity of time and the place where they had gathered. The aim was to experiment with the possibility of a common production that would reach beyond the invited personalities, their styles or particular discipline specific to each one (visual artists, choreographers, video directors, stage designers), to explore a shape that would not be directly identifiable, to propose a film whose script would be written via the dynamic editing of all the gathered images.
Production: Michel François/ ASBL Multiplicité
Co-production : Cimaise et Portique, Centre départemental d’art contemporain Albl, Centre culturel de Malines, Établissement d’en face, Communauté française de Belgique Service arts plastiques, CGRI, Charleroi/Danses, Cabinet de la Ministre-Présidente de la Communauté française, VAF, Château Gonthier, Michel De Wouters Productions
The director of a dance film is inevitably confronted with the task of ´translating´ from one medium to another. If it´s a case of filming a ´cult´ choreography that pre-dates the film, the additional challenge is the ´duty of recall´ since the film of the choreography carries with it, into some future time, the memory of its theatrical representation. One Flat Thing is rightly considered as one of William Forsythe´s major works in which the virtuosity of the performers rivals the ingenious complexity of the choreography (to the extent that this production has come to be known as ´William Forsythe´s Olympics´! The film itself adopts a subjective approach, not exhaustive, a perspective that gathers and predetermines the sequence of production choices – in our view the best guarantee to have a chance of success in the transmission of the choreographic challenges.
Director: Thierry De Mey
Interprets: The Forsythe Dance Company
Music: Thom Willems
Decorations & lights: William Forsythe
Costumes: Stephen Galloway
Production: Nada & MK2
Co-production : Charleroi/Danses
www.mouvement.net
20. 6. Mon 22:00 // ESCRITA NA PASAIGEM presents Tiago Perreira: Portugalshake
Visual artist, filmmaker, musician, collector, researcher, agitator, provocateur, and much more, Tiago Pereira is the enfant terrible of Portuguese contemporary arts. Disregarded by some, his work has the large support of a wide range of audience groups, such as young urban cultures, specialized groups dedicated to the study of popular culture, but also in many of the advocates of the popular and musical culture that still find their place in the rural Portugal. Old-ladies and young emergent musicians, new generation rock bands and singer-songwriters populate the path of Tiago Pereira, who records, films, edits, and promotes them with the same excitement and affection with which he cares for Portuguese music liking itself.
Portugalshake consists of a project in which visual and sound recordings collected in Portugal are reassembled, worked, edited, and mixed live, in a show about today´s Portuguese (musical) culture. If there is a mission that the work of Tiago Pereira has taken on successfully, it’s the mission of creating a future for the recordings of Portuguese immaterial culture, which this creator uses, slices, reassembles, and presents with frenzy and lust.
21. 6. Tue 22:00 // Denisa Václavová / 4 Days in Motion presents: The evening of current Czech video art
This evening focuses on Czech visual artists from the younger to the older and well-established generations. The choice of films shows different approaches as well as themes of the Czech site-specific, video-performance, video-installations, visual interventions or conceptual, political and socially documenting video art. This presentation of Czech video art focuses on features from visual artist and it represents rich and various possibilities of artistic realization of this media.
Curator: Denisa Václavová, / 4 Days in Motion
Presented artists: Dušan Zahoranský, Tomáš Svoboda, Marek Thér, Zbyněk Baladrán, Eva Jiřička, Jan Nálevka, Adam Vačkář, Aneta Mona Chisa + Lucie Tkáčová, Jakub Nepraš, Sláva Sobotovičová, Radim Labuda, Ondřej Brody, Michal Pěchouček, Jan Pfeiffer, Martin Kohout
22. 6. Wed 22:00 // UNDER THE RADAR presents Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith: Transition
Reality is boring. Drugs are harmful. How does a person escape? Reggie Watts knows how.
Reggie Watts invites you to take a trip with Transition, an explosion of stereophonic effects, live video interactions, geometric movement sequences, and onstage BMX acrobatics. Watts and his theatrical consorts employ visual and linguistic tricks to destabilize the mind, baiting the viewer into believing that a form of reality will stabilize, a belief that the piece constantly denies. A blast of pop culture deconstruction, Transition is a psychedelic experience that once understood, radicalizes the notion of how we perceive time.
Reggie Watts (performer, composer, musician, writer) and Tommy Smith (director, writer) create absurd experimental comedic theatricals for modern performance spaces. Transition played at The Under The Radar Festival at The Public Theater, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art´s Time Based Art Festival and On The Boards (Seattle); it was also the winner of the MAP Fund Award and Creative Capital award. Their previous theater piece Disinformation was seen at the UTR Festival, PICA: TBA, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), The Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), and ICA (Boston). Radioplay premiered at Ars Nova (New York), and played at Seattle Rep (Bumbershoot), IRT Theater (New York) and Redhouse (Syracuse). Dutch A/V, a live environmental film performance and winner of the MAP Fund Award, was work-shopped at the IRT Theatre (New York). Reggie and Tommy also regularly host Occurrence, a cabaret of alternative performers, which has been seen at Ars Nova, Galapagos, The Tank, Leftbank (Portland), and various unconventional spaces. All shows are currently touring through the United States of America. When not collaborating together, Reggie and Tommy work on their ´A-Side´ careers, which can be seen at www.reggiewatts.com and http://smithsmith.wordpress.com, respectively. They live in Brooklyn and other places.
Now in its seventh year, Under the Radar is an explosively diverse festival of new theater from around the world and the U.S. that spotlight artists ranging from emerging talents to masters in the field. Based at The Public Theater in New York City, Under the Radar offers a crash course in theater that is exciting, independent, and experimental, created by some of the most dynamic artists working today.
Performed by Reggie Watts
Creation: Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith
Direction: Tommy Smith Featuring Beth Hoyt, Jess Klein & Noel Allain Lighting Design: Seth Reiser
Live Video Design: Joby Emmons
Dance and Choreography: Jess Klein
23. 6. Thurs22:00 // LIOR AVIZOOR presents Body Writes Mood
The marriage of dance and camera enables a choreographer to place the moving body in new locations – from a wild open landscape to an intimate room. It also allows positioning the spectator in different perspectives in relation to this body. Body Writes Mood brings together nine screen dance films where different environments are the raw material used for carving a place with movement. By occupying space with the body, the performers make distinctions, articulate the surroundings and project a state of mind. These various states of mind, moods, and sensations – conceived in the meeting of body and its exterior – are the protagonists of this screening.
Small dance 2007, USA; Direction: Olive Bieringa, Choreography: Steve Paxton
The 4th Circle of the Dragon 2011, Morocco; Direction, choreography, and music by: Diego Agulló
Continuum 2009, France; Direction and Choreography: Manon Le Roy, Music: Yann Leguay
Geistern 2009, Germany; Direction and choreography: Dennis Deter, Anja Müller, and Diego Agulló
Hundred Eighty 2008, Belgium / Spain (extract); Direction and choreography: Albert Quesada
Sublevados 2009, USA; Direction and choreography: Martin & Facundo Lombard, Music: Fernando Otero
A Dance With Sacha Green Pathroom 2010, France; Direction and music: Elliot STOREY, Choreography: Elliot STOREY and Kathie Serniclay
Ring #3 2008, Australia; Direction: Suzon Fuks, Choreography: James Cunningham, Scotia Monkivitch, and Suzon Fuks , Text: Fernand Shirren
HANNAH 2010, UK/Greece/Iceland; Direction: Sergio Cruz, Choreography: Sergio Cruz and Hannah Dempsey, Music: Roberto Crippa
Curator: Lior Avizoor
Curatorial assistant: Yaara Nirel
24. 6. Fri 22:00 // MART presents ////a////form////in////space////
Darragh O´Callaghan, Molly O´Dwyer, Ciaran Huseey, Colleen Keough, Eleanor Lawler, Nicky Larkin, Matthew Nevin, Katherine Nolan, Emanuel Rohss, Ciara Scanlan
Films in ////a////form////in////space//// touch upon the intimacy and spectacle of the use of performance, and visuality, and space in experimental film. Each selected artist works extensively in recontextualizing space and the environment in which we inhabit. The artists question our notions of comfort and apathy in the world and push us to reevaluate our role in society. From the subjective and personal to the distant and objective each work challenges the viewer.
MART is a non-profit arts organization with bases in Ireland and the UK. MART´s aim is to provide an educational art resource to the public, making new media, installation, and performance accessible, interesting, and enjoyable.
The primary focus for MART is its inclusive ethos, which aims to break down boundaries to the visual arts through its ability to inspire a curiosity for knowledge. MART brings contemporary art to the forefront of culture by actively engaging people from all sectors of society in both its viewing and production. To accomplish this, MART holds workshops and discussion groups, showcases artists work online and through exhibitions and events, which encompass: conventional contemporary galleries, temporary spaces within accessible city centre locations, and artist-led events.
www.mart.ie
25. 6. Sat 22:00 // JOSEF BOLF presents The Future
“The destruction in the project repository represents a metaphor for a possible future. The point is not just that, through this aggressive intervention, things that serve their purpose in the ´present´ – i.e., during the installation – lose all meaning, but also that they provide material for change: both for rewriting current theories as well as for other possible ways of understanding the past (film). I presume that it will be an intervention that is in no way adjusted or prepared. Immediacy and chance will be important aspects of the entire performance. Any course of action will be important for a different understanding of my work, if nothing else because it will be my first attempt at a live action.” - Josef Bolf
Live broadcasting of the destruction of his furniture installation in BOX 13 by Josef Bolf (as himself)
26. 6. Sun 22:00 // ON THE BOARDS TV presents Jan Fabre: Orgy of Tolerance
Troubleyn | Jan Fabre
Orgy of Tolerance
A wild spectacle about excess, greed, and the ecstasy of consumption from Belgian performance titan Jan Fabre and a stunning international cast of performers. Fabre employs actors, dancers, and musicians to paint a provocative panorama of a Visa/MasterCard society that indulges in every possible fetish. Despite being one of the most respected and audacious artists on the international performance scene, this performance was filmed during one of the few times Fabre´s work has been seen in the US during his long career.
OntheBoards.tv offers high-quality videos of full-length performances by some of today´s most provocative artists working in dance, theater, music, and other forms that defy categorization. By pointing several high power cameras at a show and offering the results online, fans of contemporary performance finally have better access to high-quality videos of the artists they want to see regardless of where they live or their busy schedules at prices they can afford. Participating artists and venues share all profits, offering artists not only a new method for reaching broader audiences but a new revenue stream as well. We believe OntheBoards.tv will help encourage people to go see live performances and participate in the ongoing dialogue about exciting new art and ideas.
The inspiration for OntheBoards.tv came in part from our success over the past 6 years offering online resources that accompany our live season presentations including performance review blogs, artist interviews, podcast lectures, and other media. During that time, participation in these online activities markedly increased, setting the stage for an online performance initiative that greatly improves the out-dated documentation practice of focusing one camera from the last row of a theater at a live performance and tucking the result into a library or archive with limited access. With lead support from The Wallace Foundation and additional support from DanceUSA, we are able to work with talented filmmakers, camera operators, editors, web designers, programmers, data crunchers, and amazing artists to pilot and evaluate OntheBoards.tv over the next 3 years.
Jan Fabre is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist, playwright, stage director, choreographer, and designer. He studied at the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Between 1976 and 1980, he wrote his first scripts for the theatre and made his debut performances. Established in 1986, Troubleyn/Jan Fabre is a theatre company with extensive international operations, with its home base in Antwerp, Belgium. Fabre is famous for his Bic-art (ballpoint drawings). In 1990, he covered an entire building with ballpoint drawings. He explores the relationships between drawing and sculpture. He also makes sculptures in bronze (among them The man who measures the clouds and Searching for Utopia) and with beetles. His decoration of the ceiling of the Royal Palace in Brussels Heaven of Delight is widely praised. In 2004, he erected Totem, a giant bug stuck on a 7 foot steel needle, on the Ladeuzeplein in Leuven. In 2008, Jan Fabre´s The Angel of Metamorphosis exhibition was on display at the Louvre Museum.
