Category: Exhibition

Soft technology

prototypeExhibition: SOFT TECHNOLOGY
Galleri 3.14
Bergen, Norway
19.08-25.09.2011

Presenting “Pulp Cryption” – a prototype project featuring self-folding origami.
Pulp Cryption envisages a novel angle on data protection; in this case, paper documents that contain sensitive information. The work has come out of my participation in the Soft Tech research group initiated by Hillevi Munthe in collaboration with Hilde Hauan, Atelier Nord, Oslo and the National Academy of the Arts in Bergen. The exhibition is curated by Hillevi Munthe and Hilde Hauan.

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Pulp Cryption
Soft Technology @ Atelier Nord
Galleri 3,14 

აქეთ, OVER HERE, PAR ICI

Exhibition: აქეთ, OVER HERE, PAR ICI
Garikula Collection of European Artists
Europe House, Tbilisi
23-02 – 13.03.2011

For this exhibition I presented a documentation of two works developed during my residency at Art Villa Garikula, July 2010, and were shown during Fest i Nova, International for Contemporary Art, in the grounds of the villa in October 2010.
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Desert Walker. One choreography, three reenactments, four walkers, an unfinished text (mixed media)
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Time and Incubation (performance video, 12 min)

Broody

Desert Walker. Atmosphere 41°’

Desert Walker. Atmosphere 41°' Desert Walker. Atmosphere 41°’
28 September – 3rd October 2010
Fest i Nova. 2nd International Festival of Contemporary Art
Art Villa Garikula, Akhalkalaki, Shida Qartli region, Georgia

In 2008 I was co-director and choreographer of a performance called Desert Walker by Motherboard (www.liveart.org) that took place on the Great Salt Playa in Utah, USA with people from Norway, Finland, Denmark and England.The performance took place only once and unannounced. It was based on the choreographic score of Samuel Beckett’s TV drama Quad (1981).

In July 2010 I traveled to Art Villa Garikula and held a workshop where a small scale version of this performance was re-enacted with an interdisciplinary group of artists and cultural workers from Georgia and France.

For the Fest i Nova exhibition I worked on a mixed media installation and performance event that seeks to tie these events together, drawing on documentation material and physical artefacts from both events.

I am interested in what happens when the same choreographic score is re-enacted elsewhere, and outside the confines of a screen or theatre. What senses and narratives of place can it evoke? How such ephemeral performance events, contextualized via the places they take part in and the people who participate in them, be documented without losing the sense of immediacy and presence?

My  solution was to come up with a plan that allowed for the continued reworking of the documentation material, adding new elements to it, and inviting people to participate in it. I arrived at Fest i Nova on Monday 27th September with a portable studio made up of ideas, materials and media-making and presentation equipment that can be carried onto a plane as hand baggage. Collaborating with people at the villa, an installation and performance event schedule was made and presented as the installation was constructed.

The remains of an archaic bunker-like refrigerator was given a thatched roof, and in and around it, with sunshine, thunderstorms, torrential rain and power cuts, the atmosphere of Desert Walker at  41°’ was re-imagine and recreated.

CREDITS
Thanks to Fest i Nova and the Art Villa Garikula community, especially George Simonishvili, Vasil Macharadze and Misha Chelidze for installation assistance.

Desert Walker team, Garikula 2010
Jay Japaridze, Katie Bochoidze, Insa Nino, Shoko Chachua, Ira Lomsadze, Teiko Mgaloblishvili, Anna Bourdichon, Damien Coco, David Nemirovich Gabunia, Denis Gonobolin and Lasha Samadalashvili.

Desert Walker team, Utah 2008
Per Platou, Annesofie Norn, Leon Cullinane, Saila Hyttinen, Håkon Gundersen and Kristine Øren.

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Antenna Aesthetics 2010

Antenna Aesthetics 2010

Photographic and sonic portraits of antennas

Collection of snapshots of antennas and audio recordings of their electromagnetic waves

Exhibited at Sound of Mu, Oslo, 20th – 31st March 2010 to co-inside with the opening of the The Electromagnetic Fountain at the Norwegian Telecom Museum, Oslo.

Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication between the two worlds is possible excepting across the narrow strip ….
For a proper understanding of ourselves and the world it is of the highest importance that this borderline should be thoroughly explored.
- Heinrich Hertz , keynote address at the Imperial Palace, Berlin, August 1891—

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Emotion Organ in Toronto

Emotion Organ
12 June – 10 July 2010
Special all-star performance evening: Thursday, June 17, 2010
Women’s Art Resource Centre (WARC)
401 Richmond St. Suite #122
Toronto, ON

Presented in conjunction with the IMAA ON.Fire Independent Media Arts Conference and Festival

The Emotion Organ is installed within the Women’s Art Resource Centre (WARC) and is offered to the public to explore and perform with. You are allowed and encouraged to touch the art! The exhibition will open with an introduction to the organ by the artist followed by a special evening of performances by both established and up-and-coming Toronto musicians who will create live improvisations using The Emotion Organ.

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Biographies:

Michelle Teran
Born in Canada, Michelle Teran is a media artist currently living in Berlin. In her work she explores the interaction between media and social networks in urban environments. She develops performances via the staging of urban interventions such as guided tours, walks, open-air projections, participatory installations and happenings. She has received numerous grants and awards for her work including the Prix Ars Electronica honorary mention for Interactive Art, the Vida 8.0 Art & Artificial Life Award and the Transmediale Award for 2010.
http://www.ubermatic.org/

Eve Egoyan
As a new music pianist, Eve has released seven critically acclaimed solo discs. Her most recent disc, “Simple Lines of Enquiry” by Ann Southam, was selected as one of 2009′s ten top discs by Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker magazine and author of the critically acclaimed “The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century”. As an improvising musician Eve has had the opportunity to perform alongside some amazing players. Other collaborations include dance projects, interdisciplinary performance, film work and sound installations. Her most recent collaboration “Surface Tension” with her husband media artist David Rokeby (structured improvisations on a disklavier piano and real-time images) can be viewed at: http:// www.vimeo.com/6154175.
http://www.eveegoyan.com/

Gordon Monahan
Gordon Monahan’s works for piano, loudspeakers, video, kinetic sculpture, and computer-controlled sound environments span various genres from avant-garde concert music to multi-media installation and sound art. As a composer and sound artist, he juxtaposes the quantitative and qualitative aspects of natural acoustical phenomena with elements of media technology, environment, architecture, popular culture, and live performance.
http://www.gordonmonahan.com/

Martin Arnold
Toronto-based composer and performer Martin Arnold studied in Edmonton, Banff, the Hague, and Victoria, where his teachers were Alfred Fisher, Frederic Rzewski, John Cage, Louis Andriessen, Gilius van Bergeijk, Rudolf Komorous, Douglas Collinge, and Michael Longton. Martin is a founding member of the Drystone Orchestra and from 1995-2000 he was artistic director of The Burdocks. Currently he plays guitar, banjo, melodica and live electronics in Marmots and Cow Paws as well as in bands led by Ryan Driver and Eric Chenaux. Martin works as a gardener and teaches in the Cultural Studies Department of Trent University.

Toddler Body
Toddler Body, formed in early 2008, is the double side-project of Randy Gagne (Disguises, Man Made Hill) and Greydyn Gatti (Wolfcow). Originally conceived as a recording project via emailed exchanges of Mp3s, TB explore the murkier side of post-apocalyptic synthesizer pop, Sci-Fi disco, and creeped-out soundtrack music. They are currently devising a method of performing through the transmission of pure psychic vibrations.
http://www.myspace.com/ttttoddddlllleeeerrrr