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December 10, 2004

transmediale.05: BASICS

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Multi-Media Performance Program

transmediale.05: BASICS Berlin, February 4 - 8, 2005, Haus der Kulturen der Welt: 1. Performances 2. skoltz_kolgen (ca): 'FLUUX:/TERMINAL' 3. Usman Haque (uk): 'Sky Ear' 4. Yannis Kyriakides, HC Gilje (nl/de); 'Lab Fly Dreams' 5. Christian Ziegler (de): 'turned' 6. Umatic (nl): 'ResonanCITY' 7. Venzha & the House of Natural Fiber (idn): 'CAUS#3' (citizen against UFO secrecy #3)

1. Performances: The international media art festival transmediale.05 puts a new focus on multi-media performances. Artists' collaborations using real-time video and combining it with dance, electronic or unplugged music will perform at the grand opening and the consecutive nights at Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). Related performances within the series 'Live Cinema' can also be experienced at the club transmediale (Maria am Ostbahnhof).

2. skoltz_kolgen (ca): 'FLUUX:/TERMINAL'

'FLUUX:/TERMINAL' is a bipolar performance that skoltz_kolgen have named 'Diptyque Retinal'. As in all of their work, here their research has established a point of contact between sound and image. But 'FLUUX:/TERMINAL' pushes the dialogue between these two elements one step further: their performance creates a dramatic trajectory, fuelled by the panoramic tensions (left/right) between hearing and seeing.

Opening: Thu 3.2. 19 hrs, and Fri 4.2. 20.30 hrs (HKW)

3. Usman Haque (uk): 'Sky Ear'

Helium filled balloons with built-in, ultra-bright LEDs form a cloud which moves around in the sky at 100m. This balloon-formation reacts to the changing electro-magnetic fields that are created by distant storms, police and traffic radio waves or television transmittals, which change the colour and colour-intensity of the balloons. Through countless variations of colour, 'Sky Ear' demonstrates the invisible topography of the electro-magnetic field which permanently surrounds us. The glowing cloud not only shows the extent to which natural electromagnetism penetrates our environment, but demands that the audience interact with the electromagnetic fields. Mobile telephones are embedded in the balloons. By telephoning into the 'Sky Ear' the audience is able to see how the local magnetic field is changed by telephone activity. Thus, our daily interaction with electromagnetic fields is rendered visible. [Related 1, 2]

Opening, Thu 3.2. 21 hrs (HKW)

4. Yannis Kyriakides (nl), HC Gilje (no/de), Claire Edwardes (au/nl); 'Lab Fly Dreams'

Lab Fly Dreams (or 'Dreams of a Jet-Lagged Fruit Fly') is a collaboration of composer Yannis Kyriakides and visual artist HC Gilje. It is a homage to the suffering fly, whose sleep patterns are studied by geneticists the world over in order to understand the workings of our own circadian rhythms. They are subjected to all manner of disorientating sleep environments, such as keeping them awake by tapping whenever the insects stays still for more than a minute. What do these flies dream of in their plastic containers? Originally written as a BBC commission for the Icebreaker Ensemble (uk) and Orkest de Volharding (nl), this reduced version turns the piece inside out and is scored for solo percussion and 8 channel electronics. The video is performed live, mainly based on found footage from lab fly research, creating a fruit-fly version of the Ikaros myth.

Sat 5.2. 21 hrs (HKW)

5. Christian Ziegler (de): 'turned'

The multimedia dance performance is a synaesthetic bonding of the elements of dance, painting, visual art, and music by Christian Ziegler in collaboration with Sean Reed and DJ Florian Meyer. The dancing body (of Kazue Ikeda) provides visual material which is sampled in real-time. Visual traces of these movements are poetically re-designed or disturbingly deconstructed. Therefore, an initial glance at the losses that accompany each replacement and each dematerialization is provided. [Related]

Sun 6.2. 21 hrs (HKW)

6. Umatic (nl): 'ResonanCITY'

Many sounds and images in our everyday lives slip past our notice simply because they are too small, or because we lack the proper receivers to pick them up. 'ResonanCITY' is an ongoing project to gather these microscopic sounds from various cities, and to amplify and transform them. The performance builds a new city of sound and visuals inside the old one; it inspires the curiosity to explore one's own environment.

Sat 5.2. 21 hrs (HKW)

7. Venzha & the House of Natural Fiber (idn): 'CAUS#3' (citizen against UFO secrecy #3)

Based in Yogjakarta (Indonesia), Venzha and the House of Natural Fiber create experimental interdisciplinary performances and installations, using both new media and self-developed, sometimes low-tech equipment. In their projects, the aesthetics of technology are mixed with elements from Indonesian (contemporary) culture. For the opening of transmediale.05, Venzha will collaborate with fashion designer Irene 'ira' Agrivina. Using electronic and instrumental samples, 'CAUS#3' will blend sound from Indonesian urban life with spatial sound into a hybrid new space. Two live cameras will project Venzha's performance on a specially designed screen.

Opening: 3.2. 22 hrs (HKW)

transmediale.05
BASICS
international media art festival berlin
http://www.transmediale.de
info@transmediale.de

Posted by jo at December 10, 2004 01:48 PM

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