This symposium and performance laboratory will bring together an invited group of international theatre, performance and sound artists, musicians, digital artists, art theorists and researchers engaged in creative practices that reflect on major innovative performance traditions of the past century and their impact on current performance knowledge and physical (or physical-digital) techniques.

The Artaud Forum promotes opening up the concept of performance research, and continuing last year’s intertwined approach to physical and conceptual exploration of practice, it emphasizes the relevance of experimental treatments of actuality — of forms of collaborative creation — that may take us beyond the perspectives and protocols of established academic or artistic inquiry. Even as we turn to technologies of performances this year, artistic and conceptual criteria will be significant, and we have chosen expressive inter/ relations — “konnecting gestures” as the focus of the 2012 workshop — gestures as practice that is at once aesthetic, corporeal, technical and political.

The lab will offer a series of parallel modules investigating the relations between choreography and software, sound and motion-design, movement capture and 3d digital/virtual environment navigation, light and projection architecture, dirty electronics, hacking and interactive programming.

The symposium and workshop are composed of dialogue and performance practice, intermixed with film screenings and a hands-on electronics and wearable design workshop as well as live coding sessions in the digital performance studio.

Featured participants include: Arthur Elsenaar, Thomas Köner, Claudia Robles, John Collingswood, Julie Wilson-Bokowiec, Mark Bokowiec, Jennifer Walshe, Camilla Barratt-Due, Kate Geneviève, Jörg Brinkmann, Simon Katan, Frieder Weiss, Ian Winters, Pieter Verstraete, David Roesner, Andrew Murphy, Nick Collins, Eirini Nedelkopoulou, Darren Vincent Tunstall ,and BADco (Ivana Ivkovic & Zrinka Uzbinec).

Coordinated by Johannes Birringer, Carl Faia and Daniel Ploeger

The “Workshop Words,” as the late Kazuo Ohno called reflections on practice, are published online on our ArtaudForum website and links to performance films/documents will be made. The full program of workshops, roundtables, keynotes, exhibitions and concerts will be published soon.

This event is programmed by the Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance and supported by the Brunel School of Arts and Brunel University Graduate School.

BADco.’s workshop is a part of LABO21 - European Platform for Interdisciplinary Research on Artistic Methodologies, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

The Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance has its own TV CHANNEL on dance-tech.net, and will broadcast selected events/performances live from the Artaud Performance Centre.

The partnership between the Center and dancetechTV is an experiment in collaborative video broadcasting. The channel allows worldwide 24/7 linear broadcasting of selected programs, LIVE streaming and Video On-demand, and is enveloped within dance-tech.net, a donation based platform.
For a parallel research context of our explorations of gesture, see the extra-institutional “Performance Academy” formed jointly between Interaktionslabor and XMLab.

Short Big Drama highlights the theatricality of the artist’s practice. This comprehensive exhibition presents a wide selection of existing works together with specially commissioned new pieces. The spotlight falls on three types of works — monumental wall paintings, colorful Pixel Box installations and interactive Drawing Machines.

In the installation of the works, contradiction takes center-stage. Playing with the nature of drama — be this epic or mundane, short or big, or perhaps all of these at once — the project adapts exhibition space to draw out the tensions and attractions between the distinct impulses that animate Bulloch’s practice. For Witte de With, the artist interprets and manipulates earlier, potentially clashing installations into a seemingly harmonious whole, revealing a particular beauty which lies at the heart of complexity.

Bulloch’s approach is interdisciplinary, incorporating references from a wide array of sources, amongst them modern history, vanguard film, punk and electronic music. In her wall paintings, specific references to aesthetic, political or social developments are deconstructed and graphically re-assembled. Through this process of détournement, the artist questions the informational status of an artwork, as well as the possibility of narrating history. Bulloch’s Drawing Machines are interactive pieces, triggered or altered by the movements of visitors. In this way, her works explore the dialectic between technology and labor, making us conscious of our place, and that of others, within the gallery space. With her Pixel Boxes, Bulloch ‘programs’ our experience of art by encoding her signature modular light and sound installations with data from a vast array of cultural sources. Though these sources and the workings behind the installations remain invisible, a viewer may sense the imposition of a predefined code, even if unconsciously.

The manipulation of codes and a sense of control pervade Bulloch’s artistic practice. Whether that code is music- or text-based, the artist plays with and orchestrates our perception and experience of art. In proposing that this experience can be ’subliminal’ her work aims to stage that which is beyond our grasp.

Curated by Amira Gad & Nicolaus Schafhausen.

Angela Bulloch (b. 1966, Canada) is a Berlin-based sculptor, installation and sound artist. She is recognized as one of the Young British Artists and was included in the 1988 Freeze Exhibition. In 1997, she was nominated for the Turner Prize. Recent solo exhibitions include Information, Manifesto, Rules and Other Leaks…, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2011); Discrete Manifold Whatsoever, Simon Lee Gallery, London; Redux, Esther Schipper, Berlin (both 2010); and The space that time forgot, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich (2008). Recent group exhibitions include Art Parcours, Art Basel 41, Münster Cathedral, Basel; A Roll Of The Dice, Cristina Guerra, Lisbon; Drawing Time, Galeries Poirels, Frac Lorraine, Metz; High ideals and crazy dreams, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg; and Open light in private spaces, Biennale for international Light Art, Unna (all 2010); Universal Code, The Power Plant, Toronto; and Yellow and Green, MMK Frankfurt, Frankfurt (both 2009). Bulloch teaches at De Ateliers in Amsterdam.

PUBLICATION
Source Book 10: Angela Bulloch
ISBN: 978-94-91435-00-3

To accompany the exhibition, Witte de With Publishers will release Source Book 10: Angela Bulloch in March 2012. In addition to visual documentation of the exhibition, this publication will include critical texts by Nav Haq and John Miller as well as a script by Christine Lang and Christoph Dreher. It will also feature a special selection from Angela Bulloch’s Rules series under the title of “Rules of this Century.”

Source Book 10: Angela Bulloch is the 10th and final publication of Witte de With Publishers’ Source Book series, monographic publications providing an in-depth look into one artist’s practice.

Visit Witte de With’s online shop: www.wdw.nl/shop

Supported by: Goethe-Institut Niederlande, Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Den Haag, and The Canada Council for the Arts.

shut up and listen! (SUAL) 2011 provides a stage for artists from the so-called ‘Near East’, some of whom found a second (maybe temporary) home in Austria or other European countries. The festival’s title Near West implies a change of perspective regarding the – sometimes utopian - proximity to the ‘Fortress Europe’. SUAL 2011 strives to present exceptional artistic positions in the realms of music, sound art, as well as related artistic categories. Far beyond political demarcation lines, a geographic region is explored by artistic criteria, individual idiosyncrasies are highlighted, individual collaborations encouraged. The scope of SUAL 2011 ranges from contemporary instrumental compositions free improvisation, electroacoustic electronic music, and world music, to artistic creations within the domains of documentary film and media art. Additional activities include a panel discussion, a lecture about traditional Arabic music, and a composition contest in collaboration with Austrian and international music institutions.

Produced by sp ce – Platform for Music, Art and Intermedia.
Curators: Belma Bešlić-Gál and Bernhard Gál

SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. Phonography is the art of recording sounds from the environment around us, with an emphasis on the unintentional sounds which often go unnoticed in our daily lives. An international community of phonographers collect and share their recordings, with interests ranging from recordings of natural or urban environments to improvised situations or soundwalks, to the resonance of solid objects or the Earth’s atmosphere.

In the BOOK section of this site, you can plan a sonic journey through various locations recorded around the world. In the SEARCH section, you can search the database for specific sounds by member artists from many different places. If you are a member of SoundTransit, you can also CONTRIBUTE your recordings for others to enjoy. The Creative Commons Attribution license encourages the sharing and reuse of all sounds on the website.

During 2010, SoundTransit’s previous host in the Netherlands quadrupled the rent for the SoundTransit server, forcing it to move or consider closing. Turbulence.org offered its support and during 2011 has been working together with SoundTransit to get everything up and running again

To listen to over 2,000 recordings by 471 artists from around the world, experience a unique way of traveling via sound, and to find out how you can contribute to the SoundTransit project, please visit http://turbulence.org/soundtransit/.

Helen Thorington
Jesse Gilbert
Jo-Anne Green
Turbulence.org

BodyControlled is a new exhibition and performance series at Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance - LEAP presenting artists who are dedicated to performance art and have explored in their work the medium of sound in electronic as well as other expressive art forms.

The first event of the BodyControlled series focuses on the theme of other spaces. The works on display will both intertwine with LEAP’s existing architecture and generate other virtual spaces. These areas are either completely synthetically generated, reflecting directly the current environment to a new sonic framework or condense an existing space into specific digital imagery. The opening will be concluded with a 12-hour performance by Robert Henke.

AntiTesi in collaboration with the Superintendence for Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Trapani, is announcing a Call for Proposals for Sound installations to present at Ex Stabilimento Florio delle Tonnare di Favignana e Formica in Favignana Island. This call is connected to the Eighth edition of the Live!IXem festivals of music, sound and electronic arts.

The aim is to highlight the works of those artists who, involved in an experimental and creative exploration, use sound, integrating it with electronic audio-visual and digital design for Art installations in specific sites. Another aim is to witness the new aesthetic in contemporary art through a new way to conceive and carry out works within (or outside) of architectural spaces.

In this regard, the spaces that will host this could not be more appropriate: the former Florio Tuna factory on the island of Favignana in Sicily, the largest of the Mediterranean, which takes its name from a family of entrepreneurs that at the beginning of the twentieth century was the great protagonist in Sicily, the Belle Epoque. The ancient structure located in the largest of the Egadi islands, were obtained after the recent restoration of museum space, a conference room with 400 seats and a guest room.

To make this call even stronger there will be a collaboration between Live!iXem and OpenSound a platform that brings together seven European partners to create a project for cooperation and exchange that puts the sound in the middle of a series of outreach and artistic initiatives.

Open Sound is in fact a Grundtvig project for mobility and partnership in the training supported by the EU through through the agency LLP - Life Long Learning Programme. Thanks to this partnership, Sicily will be the first venue where the festival will converge with some of the major representatives linked to the European art scene and musical sound research. During the festival, workshops will be conducted by some of the guest artists (the access to workshops is free of charge): this will contribute to become familiar with the locations of the former Florio Tuna factory on the island of Favignana.

SUBMISSIONS

We encourage proposals for site specific Sound Installations that will have to be set up in one of the locations of the Ex Stabilimento Florio della Tonnare di Favignana e Formica in Favignana Island Italy.

Subscription and participation to the call are free of charge.

It will be necessary to explore the locations through specific preparatory visits during Live!iXem Festival 2011, from 8 to 11 december 2011.

Suggested topics for presentations include, but are not limited to:

• Best practices in Sound and architecture
• Techniques used for Sound/Art Installation
• Sound and environment/Sound ecology
• Site specific
• Software & network management
• History & aesthetic theory of Sound Art/Installation
• Teaching & pedagogical strategies
• Hardware (audio, interface, computers, loudspeakers)
• Software environments & frameworks
• Artists/Composers‚ perspectives on their own works

The deadline for submission is February 26, 2012, but preliminary and preparatory visits will take place btw 8-11 dec 2011.

Body, Space & Technology, now in its eleventh year of publication, is an on-line interdisciplinary, innovative refereed journal that welcomes submissions from all aspects of contemporary arts and new technologies. As well as articles, perspectives and reviews of books we are actively seeking reviews of performance and visual and sonic art. We would also like reports on related conferences, symposia and events.

The Journal supports interactive sound and visual media.

Deadline for Paper Proposals: October 25, 2011
Deadline for Finalised Material: November 25, 2011

Deadline for Perspective, Reviews and Performance Proposals: November 15, 2011
Deadline for Finalised Material: November 26, 2011

Publication January 2012

Send articles, perspectives, reviews, reports, visual artworks, sonic artworks and performances to
susan.broadhurst [at] brunel.ac.uk, barry.edwards [at] brunel.ac.uk

PuréeData is a web-browser interface for a single shared sound environment that allows live, collaborative patching for anyone, anywhere. Visitors interact with a shared PureData audio synthesis patch and listen to the results as an MP3 stream, with no software to install or set up. The project is open-source, and all are encouraged to modify, improve and set up their own PuréeData servers.

PuréeData is a 2011 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence website. It was made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation.

BIOGRAPHIES

Ted Hayes is a poet-inventor: conceiving objects and experiences that explore the sublime and the enigmatic through recombination and deconstruction. He is a proponent of what he has dubbed “Research Art,” or art-as-science experiment, and actively investigates the themes, technologies and ramifications of autonomy, emergence, semiotics, pattern recognition, and neural networks. Ted’s works range from a group of language-inventing robots to a mythological city-founding ritual for soprano and string quartet, is a graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. His operating principle is, in a word, poetry: to pique with enigma and confound with beauty.

Quem Conta Um Conto, II is a study in narrative, Pinheiro’s main subject of research. The individual sounds in the piece grow as characters, based on film theorist Chris Vogler’s twelve stages of the Hero’s Journey. Pinheiro juxtaposes sound spaces to join together disparate times and places; she ignores the physical impossibilities of their junction in order to potentiate the conflict that can emerge from their friction.

Sara Pinheiro (1985, Portugal) has a B.A. (2008) in film studies from the School for Theatre and Film (ESTC, Lisbon) with a specialization in sound design. She has also studied at the Czech schools FAMU and HAMU (2007), in Prague and at c.e.m. (centro em movimento) in Lisbon (2008). She worked as a teacher in CoMA/Musik i Syd, Sweden (2009) with a grant from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. In 2010, she started her Masters in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of Music - The Hague (The Netherlands).

Radius is an experimental radio broadcast platform based in Chicago, IL, USA. The goal is to support work that engages the tonal and public spaces of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Open Studio will consist of public program and the workshop (October 12-15, Izmir, Turkey), which will explore relationship between dance, interactive performance/live act, sound and video through theoretical introduction and practical work. The workshop’s objective is to introduce workshop participants with the interdisciplinary potential of video and sound as a technological tool and artistic means of expression and its capacity of manipulation in real-time. The theoretical part will outline videodance genre and the transmission of live act to performative video. It will show video document as research material and archive. The practical part: The participants will discover different layers of interactive performance: the layer of geometrical movement, the layer of choreographed dance, the layer of sound surrounding, and the layer of image. The collaboration between the participants will result as a project-in-process that will take place in real space and real time and will be publicly demonstrated at the end of the workshop.

THE PARTICIPANTS

The workshop is dedicated for visual, video and sound artists, dancers/performers, dramaturges, choreographers, VJ’s… with professional expertise or with a need to acquire it. They will obtain basic experience about: interaction of performers’ movements with interventions by dramaturgy; choreography and video; simultaneous transmission on screens and loudspeakers; computer manipulation with streamed data; computer manipulation with sound; capture of different data with the help of different sensor technology/instruments, manipulation of time.

HOW TO APPLY?

Workshops are limited with groups of 15. Send your CV and motivation letter (max. 800 characters) to K2, Selin Demirhan (celinta [at] yahoo.com) until September 30. If you have experience with audio-visual manipulation or editing, write what kind of and what equipment you use.

Open Studio is conceived as a collaborative project between SCCA-Ljubljana (Slovenia) and K2 - Contemporary Art Center (Izmir, Turkey).