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| RYAN JORDAN (HK) |
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Ryan Jordans work attempts to set out a potential framework for the
exploration of often hidden processes and systems functioning in technology,
human perceptual mechanisms and environmental phenomena in an attempt to
bring them into the forefront of our conscious reality. |
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| ANNABELLE PLAYE (FR) |
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Annabelle Playe : A multidisciplinary artist, she explores voices, sound, video, and writing depending on her projects. She performs a contemporary vocal repertoire in different shows from the Glossophonies company. She has appeared in the creations by Jacques Diennet as a singer and reader. She has worked with the poet Christian Tarting and the choreographers N+N Corsino. Through her projects, she has met Gérard Siracusa, Richard Dubelski, Jean-Marc Montera, Marc Siffert, Franck Vigroux, Michel Blanc.
She is the author of two monologues: “Ligne” (Line) and Mater that have been published by Alna Editeur. “Mater” was commissioned by Isabelle Krauss (Compagnie Actuel Theatre that was created in 2013.)
She created the AnA company whose remarkable projects mix theatrical and poetic writing, music, and experimental videos. She has created and performed “Ligne” (Line), a performance for which she composed the electroacoustic music, staged by Ludovic Longelin. She has done readings of her text “Des pas dans la guerre” (Steps in war) during the Un Automne à Tisser festival at the Cartoucherie de Vincennes, at the Mauvaise Tête theater in Marvejols, as well as at the Bruits Blancs festival (Anis Gras – Arcueil). Her album “Matrice” (Label DAC) has been played by many international radios and on Radio France. Matrice has become a multimedia performance with Philippe Fontes, a video performer. The duo has performed in France and internationally. Her next album, “Vaisseaux” (Vessels) will be released in early 2015.
She composed and performed the music of “La poupée noire” (The black doll), staged by Jean-Marc Bourg, and based on the poetry by Alejandra Pizarnik.
She created “ANA”, an audiovisual solo, from images by the director Gregory Robin. She sings in “Le miroir des ondes” (The mirror of waves), an album by the percussionist Michel Blanc and the guitarist Marc Ducret (will be released in 2015). |
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| GREGORY ROBIN (FR) |
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Gregory Robin : Musician, then photographer, Gregory Robin moved towards directing in 2003. He has devoted himself totally to directing since 2006.
Gregory Robin has been involved in the painting world since childhood, and he developed and demonstrated a visual awareness very early. He prefers the camera to brushes. His first shots already showed a very personal esthetic, playing with the grain and blurring. This visual research guided him to other media like the Super 8 with which he started out as a director. Although his filmography is mainly made up of documentary creations, his interest in dealing with genres drove him to explore their interdisciplinarity, imparting a style to reality, which sometimes ends up close to fiction. He has come back to the experimental form in his film Entrailles, filmed at the mining museum in Saint-Etienne. His future projects demonstrate this orientation.
In 2012, he and Joël Caron created Après la Guerre Films (After the War Films), an organization that makes creation films. In 2014, he partnered with Jean-Philippe Raymond and Julien Féret to create the production company Far Center Films. |
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| MAKINO TAKASHI (JA) |
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In the history of development of cinema itself, somehow got its strange position. The position is exceptionally very close to the commercial, and is totally different from any other art forms. But my attitude of cinema is different. I think cinema can be, and it should be one of the art activities. I create cinema by this point of view. Cinema is projecting on to the audiences same images, and audiences are in their common fluxing time. But, once images came into sight of each of audiences, it immediately brings out their each original imagination and senses. The big difference between cinema and other art is how the images depend on to its observer. What I most focusing and interested is the relation between extrinsic image and our inner image and also, the third image, created by the relation between extrinsic image and inner image. An image having a story or a definite standpoint such like famous documentary of world war II, or a very recognizable objects are sometimes despotic. My stance, on the other hand, is against those images. in my works, they are crossed over and over until the images are extremely lost its original shape and means. It is something like an organism that its observers to be able to find their infinity possibility of watching. And I expect it will become a generator for imagination. The title of my recent work "Generator" is derived from this idea. Famous Cinematic technique, the multiple exposures had been used usually for fantastic sequences or easy cutting. But I found something more in multiple exposure technique. I use this idea combine together with the other idea, the idea of collage that has been found by surrealist in 1920 at Paris. There are nothing created by the hand of mankind, they can only recomposing original nature by their unfettered thought. I can say I found this nature in the idea of collage. my process of making film is recomposing original nature on film and to convert them into the image that surpassed my expectations. Soundtrack of my film is also approached from same thought. I never use synchronized sound to images. I use sound that has no relation to the image for searching new view. My collaboration with many musicians is also based on this collage technique of attracting 'unexpected discovery' |
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| SIN:NED (HK) |
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Sin:Ned, aka Dennis WONG / WONG Chung Fai, is an improviser, experimentalist and noise addict from Hong Kong. He regards himself as a medium and his works, only manifestation of our hidden sonic aspects. His practice on noise and sound signifies an implicit form of mysticism in search of direct and pure physical experience through chaos, errors and the extremes. As an instrumentalist, he struggles to defy all rational and orthodox structures by pursuing a seemingly meaningless, aimless and purpose-less sonic existence. His works involve a wide range of tools and materials such as Chapman Stick, guitar, laptop, hardware synths, circuit bent instruments, feedback, field recordings and various unusual non-musical objects and devices. He is the co-founder of Re-Records (www.re-records.com), Twenty Alpha, SECOND, advisor of soundpocket (www.soundpocket.org.hk), and the Hong Kong producer of JOLT Festival (http://joltarts.org/home). In addition to being founding member of experimental outfits No One Pulse, After Doom, adeo and underture, he is also the ritualist behind home brew events such as Kill The Silence Festival, Keep The Silence Festival, Subliminal Lounge, ACO Sound-on-Site, and live performance series NOISE to SIGNAL.
Being a veteran writer of the legendary Hong Kong alternative music magazine MCB (Music Colony Bi-Weekly), his writings had influenced a wide spectrum of experimental musicians and listeners in Hong Kong and China. As a sound improviser, he has offered performance and creative work for concert, sound installation, workshop, audio-visual and theatrical performance such as Get It Louder (2007), Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (2007, 2009), Architecture is Art Festival (2009), Notch Festival 2009 Guangzhou Station (2009), Against 2012: Fukuoka Extreme Music Festival (2012), New Vision Arts Festival (2012), Miji Festival (2013), Kill The Silence Festival (2013, 2014 & 2015), Freespace Festival (2013), Lacking Sound Festival (2014), Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (2015), JOLT Touring Festival (2015)…etc.
He has worked with artists such as Zbigniew Karkowski, Otomo Yoshihide, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Alfred 23 Harth, Yan Jun, Torturing Nurse, dj sniff, and Dickson Dee…etc. His works have been featured in the infamous Belgium imprint Sub Rosa’s “An Anthology of Chinese Electronic Music”and “An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Vol. 7”. |
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| LA LEIF (UK) |
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Brighton-born La Leif pulls sounds from real life and loops them against ecstatic synths and decisive bass to form soundtracks from the world around her. Influences include Karen Gwyer, Holly Herndon and Laurel Halo.
Now in London, she’s produced her debut EP ‘The Nest’: released on 12” vinyl and high quality download 16th October 2015.
‘The Nest’ is driving, sparse and atmospheric, pulling you deep into the very real forests that this moody, unpredictable EP was written about.
Complimenting La Leif’s distinctive analog take on electronic music,
the EP also features synth and sax from John Dunk, guitar from Tierney Beames and vocals from Ndella Longley. |
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| ORKA (FO) |
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"A unique force in music" - Complete Music Update
"This is easily one of the most individual and exciting acts to appear in a long time"
- Clash Music
"ORKA are hard. They produce industrial vibes and possess a menacing intensity”
- The Quietus
"Charismatic, absurdly talented and possibly the most original band we’ve ever witnessed."
- The Fly
“Music with brains, heart and balls!”
- Dimmalætting
The origins of Orka date back more than a decade, when the band began crafting their own handmade instruments out of agricultural tools on a small farm in the Faroe Islands. But make no mistake, this is not rural music as you might imagine it. From those humble beginning, Orka have created a bold, cathartic electronic sound that has earned them fans around the world.
After 2014 album Leipzig, which involved multiple collaborators in locations around the world, founder Jens L Thomsen aimed for something more paired back on the follow-up. Due for release in May, Vað sees Thomsen work with former Dälek member Oktopus and producers LV on a more focussed techno sound. Building tracks from samples taken from those self-built instruments, this is Orka at their most intense and dancefloor ready.
With Francine Perry (aka La Leif), Thomsen is now taking this new music on the road for an unmissable live experience. |
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| JON WESSELTOFT (NO) |
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The Norwegian electronics musician Jon Wesseltoft is an improviser, composer and sound artist living in Oslo, Norway.
Wesseltoft has been active since the late 1990s as a solo artist, and in various projects within longform music, metal, noise, improvisation, sound art and drone. He has collaborated among others with Okkyung Lee, Lasse Marhaug, Thorns/ Thorns Ltd, Balazs Pandi and Maja Ratkje.
For the performance at Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival he will perform on computer, electronics and magnetic tape. |
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| JONATHAN ZORN (US) |
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Jonathan Zorn is a composer, performer, and curator of experimental, electronic, and improvised music. His electronic music pairs improvising musicians with interactive computer systems to create hybrid, human-machine ensembles. Zorn's interest in vocal utterance has resulted in a series of pieces in which spoken language is interrupted by electronic forces, drawing attention to the gap between speech and sound. He is currently working on a suite of electroacoustic sound/text/video performance pieces. Zorn has been active as an improvisor on bass and electronics for 15 years and has performed at Red Cat, the Walker Art Center, the Verona Jazz Festival, the Library of Congress, the Seattle Festival of Improvised Music, Line Space Line Festival, and the Chelsea Art Museum. He has performed under the direction of Anthony Braxton, Alvin Lucier, and Alison Knowles. His work has been published in Ord und Bild, the SEAMUS Journal, Notations 21, and UbuWeb. |
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| MICHAELA GRILL (AT) |
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Born:1971 in Austria
has studied in Vienna, Glasgow and London. Since 1999 various film/video works, installations and live visuals; various performances in Austria and abroad.
Lives and works in Vienna. |
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| PAUL YIP (HK) |
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PAUL YIP is a Music Consultant, DJ, Soundscape Artist and Experimental Musician. Relocated from Montreal he collaborates with artists from various disciplines in projects such as dance/theatre music, sound installation, soundtrack for films, DJing, custom made back ground music, game music and sound effects, and organizing music events and workshops. He is the founder and curator of [Feel Music Experimental Lab] which is a mission to promote and spread sound art, experimental and improvised music to wide open Hong Kong’s music scene, build up unique music style and find new music directions and ideas. |
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| ARKAJOLIE (AT/HK) - voice/clarinet |
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classically trained musician, experimental musician/performer (free improv/noise, minimal/peripatetic), founding member of AGE (algorithmic glitch ensemble) and digital image theorist teaching at the school of creative media, hong kong. |
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| ALEX YIU (HK) - violin |
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Alex Yiu is a musician and sound artist who studied Sonic Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. While his practice concerns about the sound of living, language, voice and listening mode, he works on different medium, including video, sound, music composition, improvisation, installation, field recording, theatre and dance. Alex is also a writer that his articles appear in City Magazine (Hong Kong) and The Stand News, writing about arts and audio culture. |
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| ALAIN CHIU (HK) - modular looper/synth |
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Chiu's music has been performed in concert halls and festivals throughout the world.
His multimedia opera, “Fish in the Hand,” is amongst the very few operas written for Cantonese.
Chiu has received commissions from the West Kowloon Cultural Distract Authority, HKNME, Hong Kong Arts Festival Society and Sotheby’s. Chiu’s music was performed at Freespace, Jumping Frames Europe, Cannes Film Festival, LCSD Boundless Multimedia Series and Guggenheim exhibition.
Chiu received his Bachelor of Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and studied with Conrad Susa. He is the recipient of the Samuel-Clarke Scholarship, Schulich Scholarship and is the Finalist of the International Music Prizes. His music was recorded by the Grammy Award-winning Orchestra of Our Time.
Chiu is one of the creators of the experimental theatre group Trilateral which founded in 2013. |
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| CHAN HIN LUNG (HK) |
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| VJ TIGOR (HK) - video mapping |
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VJ [:Tigor] - Terry Wu
Creative Director of IZEN, VJ, Multi-Media Artist. With deep influence of traditional Asian culture, he's trying to combine new technology with Art to explore the unlimited possibilities of multi-media art. |
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| greenmay (HK) - movement activist |
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greenmay is currently facilitating various kind of movements, a/part from art. Make Isonomia a possible belief, curate the Body Lab for Priori Tropism as an independent and complex body politics research base on grass-root attitude and daily practise. He fight for the freedom of speech and ideology, resisting the Chinese communist and capitalism. |
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| CHRISTINA JENSEN (DK/HK) - movement |
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| NELSON HIU (HK) - guitar & voice |
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| #1. LIVE LAB : XENAKIS PROJECT |
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| ALFIA NAKIPBEKOVA (UK) |
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Former student of Rostropovich, Alfia Nakipbekova is an internationally acclaimed soloist, recording artist, chamber musician and pedagogue. As well as having a busy performing and teaching schedule, Alfia is currently researching the development of the cello in the 20th century for her PhD thesis at the University of Leeds. In 2014/15 Alfia performed and has given various papers presentations on Nomos alpha for solo cello by Iannis Xenakis in the conferences in the UK, Europe and Hong Kong. |
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| PAVLOS ANTONIADIS (GR) |
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Pavlos Antoniadis will be performing two seminal works from Xenakis' output for solo piano, Mists (1980) andHerma (1961). His workshop will revolve around the issue of physicality in Xenakis' music and the investigation of concepts and tools for coping with the music's challenges. Pavlos introduces a model of embodied interaction with piano notation and a prototype system for it, turning complex scores into a meta-instrument. Post-cartesian concepts from embodied cognitionare applied to Xenakis' notation. Performance is conceptualised as embodied navigation in a non-linear space of notational affordances. Furthermore, the recently developed prototype GesTComimplements tools such as INScoreand motionfollowerfor the gestural control of scores.The presentation affirms the centrality of gesture as an interface between physical energy and symbolic representations.
Pavlos Antoniadis is a Berlin-based pianist for contemporary and experimental music and a doctoral researcher at Ircam and LabEx GREAM, Université de Strasbourg. He has performed in Europe, the Americas and Asia with the new music ensembles Work in Progress-Berlin, KNM, Phorminx, ERGON and as a soloist. He has recorded for Mode (2015 Deutscheschallplattenkritikspreis) and Wergo records. He has published on embodied cognition and piano performance and has been invited for lecture-performances at European institutions (HfM Dresden, INMM Darmstadt, Ircam Paris, Orcim Gent, Goldsmiths London, Trinity Dublin, Aristoteleio Thessaloniki, Cité de la Musique et de la Danse Strasbourg). He was a Musical Research Residency fellow at Ircam in 2014. Pavlos holds degrees in piano performance (MA, UC San Diego) and musicology (Athens National University). He has studied on LabEx GREAM, Fulbright, UC San Diego, Nakas conservatory, International Ensemble Modern Akademie and Impuls Academy Gratz scholarships. |
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| RYO IKESHIRO (UK) |
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“Real-Time GENDYN Audiovisualisation”
“GENDYN as sonification, algorithm and noise”
Ryo Ikeshiro is a UK-based Japanese artist. His works range from live audiovisual performances, interactive installations, data visualisation and sonification and generative art to group improvisation and scored compositions.
He was originally trained as a classical musician and then branched out into electronic music and other disciplines. The meeting of these two worlds informs his practice which explores computational aesthetics that extend beyond the imitation of human creativity and existing art forms.
www.ryoikeshiro.com |
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| YING-HSUEH CHEN (DK) |
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Multi-faceted percussionist/ pianist/ thinker;
Performing artist; soloist;
Creative and visionary projects;
Theatre; Educator.
Xenakis' music is not only mathematical, but it is also primordial. Mathematic is a study of nature, therefore it is not only intellectual. Good mathematicians are not only brainy as we think, they are also highly intuitive.
Human bodies are made of enormously complex mathematical formulas which a human mind cannot comprehend. Therefore I interpret Xenakis' work not by my mind, but by something that is beyond, more unknown- you can call it intuition, or subconscious, or the spirit, or the higher self.
For me, Xenakis' Rebonds is a study of nature; even the title of suggests that. Maybe I will never understand how exactly Xenakis have composed the music, but it is not important for me. It is more important for me to find out how my body's natural respond to all these superbly composed accents and polyrhythm. When one plays Rebonds precisely yet primordially, it touches the very core human beings.
We are simply made of rhythms. |
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| JUHA VAN INGEN (FI) |
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ASLAP: What's the point?
Finnish artist Juha van Ingen will talk about his plan to show a 1000 year long GIF animation and discusses with Hong Kong based art professionals how it can be done. The discussion will also cover aspects of long term digital art and preserving our present digital culture.
Van Ingen's latest art piece: AS Long As Possible (ASLAP) a 1000 year long animated GIF loop created in collaboration with Janne Särkelä was presented as an installation in Helsinki in September 2015. It is the longest GIF animation ever made and it made headlines in international media for example Hyperallergic (USA), Wired (Germany), Politiken (Danmark) and Gizmodo (USA/Japan).
The AS Long As Possible -animation will be started in 2017 and the goal is to keep it running for ever.
More info: www.aslongaspossible.com |
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| ANDERS WEBERG (SE) |
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AMBIANCE
The seven hour and 20 minute trailer
The trailer was filmed in one take October 31, 2015 at (Hovs Hallar) in the south of Sweden. It is the same beach where (Ingmar Bergman) filmed the chess scene from (the Seventh Seal).
The trailer is based on the chess game from Bergmans film and life and death is played by Swedish performance artists Niclas Hallberg and Stina Pehrsdotter.
Trailer music is by German composer Martin Juhls aka Marsen Jules. |
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| CEDRIC DUPIRE (FR) |
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JOURNAL AFGHAN
1965: Dimitri and Christine travel through the Near and Middle East by car. A travelogue between the persistence of memory and subjectivity. |
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| GENETIC MOO (UK) |
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SEED variations consists of a series of algorithmically constructed video sequences. Film of our bodies in motion is first split into frames then loaded into a handwritten Java program which applies tinting, rotation and movement. The patterns are defined by mathematical formula and inspired by flowers, seeds and pollen shapes. Slowly the film is rendered frame by frame - usually hundreds of thousands of edits will be involved many more than we could manage by hand |
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| KARIN FERRARI (AT) |
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The short film DECODING Katy Perry’s Dark Horse (THE WHOLE TRUTH) (20 min) by Karin Ferrari reveals hidden messages in the music video Dark Horse by Katy Perry. According to Ferrari’s interpretation Perry’s music video is the encoded depiction of the archaic ritual magic an occult elite uses to ideologically secure its power and the role that the pop star plays in this.
Karin Ferrari is an artist based in Vienna, Austria who explores symbolism in pop culture, the entertainment industry and social media |
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| NICLAS HALLBERG (SE) |
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Niclas Hallberg works in video, photo, installation and performance. His experimental works deals with questions concerning identities, masculinity and humanity. He is using the moving picture to express feelings, create inpressions and document performances.
He often uses himself as an instrument and actor and hereby he creates a feeling of intimacy and individuality.
Niclas Hallberg has participated in a great number of solo and group exhibitions in Sweden and abroad. He has long experience of arranging and leading workshops in a varity of creative contexts.
Niclas Hallberg is engaged in several international art projects focused on collaborational exchanges resulting in exhibitions, video-screenings and residencies around the world.
Niclas Hallberg founded Formverk (art zone) 2004, an independent project-based exhibition association,
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| RIKKE BENBORG (DK) |
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Rikke Benborg is a film and video artist, living and working in Copenhagen. Educated from The Royal Danish Academy of fine art (MA visual arts), and from Middlesex University in London (BA hons fine art).
My works often attempt to explore the illogic of dreams and the unconscious. I prefer surreal fragmented narratives as oppose to traditional cinematic storytelling. Film for me becomes a tool for exploring the logic and the poetics of the image. I often include elements of animation in my work. Animation, with it's ability to make the inanimate come alive, and make the hidden apparent, almost have an alchemistic quality and thus it encompasses everything magic, oscure and un?
That quality attracts me.
I am similarly seduced by everything theatrical: the gestures and melancholy of early silent film, in particular, and all sorts of work that deals with unrealistic aesthetics, masks and dressing up in weird costumes.
I often work in a formal, minimal language, but strangely I feel informed by all the opposites. |
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| RYO IKESHIRO (UK) |
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Ryo Ikeshiro is a UK-based Japanese artist. His works range from live audiovisual performances and interactive installations to generative music pieces and scored compositions. He has presented his works internationally at media art and music festivals, as well as at academic conferences. His works have been released on the digital platform s[edition] and he is featured in the Electronic Music volume of the Cambridge Introductions to Music series. He was originally trained as a classical musician, but then branched out into electronic music and other genres.
His practice-based research at Goldsmiths involves “live audiovisualisation”, where the same data and process produce both the audio and the visuals in real-time, without either one following the other – as seen in most VJ performances and visualisations. Emergent systems are used as basis for creating custom-made programs to generate sound and moving image. These could be compared to instruments or machines which are chaotic and unpredictable. In performance, he attempts to understand and control both of these components in a duet or duel.
He curates exhibitions, screenings, and a series of events called A-B-A featuring performances, talks, and discussions. His articles have been published in journals such as Organised Sound. |
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| 700IS (ICELAND) |
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KRISTIN SCHEVING |
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| CHAPLIN'S HOTEL (DENMARK) |
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JYTTE REX & KIRSTEN JUSTESEN / NINNA BOHN PEDERSEN / HELENE MOLTKE-LETH / SIDSEL BECKER / RIKKE BENBORG / ASTRID ESPENHAIN / SIAN KRISTOFFERSEN
''Chaplin's Hotel is a group of people working with film as an artform. Chaplin's Hotel aims to promote and strenghten the artistic perspectives on the filmmedium, both in production, product and distribution. The members come from many different backgrounds, but unite in the network around discussions and explorations of the cinematic in all its forms and possible platforms for viewers to experience."
For PGN 16 Chaplin's Hotel has curated a screening of short films and videos, by different Danish artists. Although the films range from works from the 70's to new works premiering here at PGN - the films all deal with a certain femininity and sensitivity, either formally, abstract or poetic |
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| FICX (FINLAND) |
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JUHA VAN INGEN / SEPPO RENVALL / KARI YLI-ANNALA / JARKKO RASANEN / ERKKA NISSINEN |
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| LORNA (ICELAND) |
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Anna Fríða Jónsdóttir |
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| MADATAC (SPAIN) |
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CHRISTIAN NICCOLI / PU SHUAI CHENG / LORENZO OGGIANO / JAMES ANDEAN & MAREK PLUCIENNIK / MARTA AZPARREN / KASTE SESKEVICIUTE / JUAN CARLOS SANCHEZ DUQUE / IURY LECH / JUNG HEE BIANN SEO |
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| SKOGUL GONDUL (NORWAY) : OPEN VIDEO |
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OPEN VIDEO: Ayman AlAzraq, Andrea Bakketun, Simona Barbera, Juan Andres Milanes Benito, Peter Booth, Lars Brekke, Anja Carr, Sara Christensen, Kristine Dragland, Anders Eiebakke, Toril Goksøyr/Camilla Martens, Iselin Linstad Hauge, Bjørn Erik Haugen, Marte Hodne Haugen, Jason Havneraas and Kjetil Berge, Damian Heinisch, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Saman Kamyab, Jon Eirik Kopperud, Lars Laumann, Kaja Leijon, Linda Lerseth, Tonje Alice Madsen, Mom & Jerry, Christian Tony Norum, Richard Nygård, Jóhanna Ellen Ríkharðsdóttir, Malie Robb, Hans Christian Skovholt, Kristian Skylstad, Maria Sundby /Tone Leksbø, Ellen Henriette Suhrke, Inga S. Søreide, Janne Talstad, Nina Toft/Hilde Honerud, Kjersti Vetterstad and Peter Mitterer/Sex Tags, Kristine Øksendal, |
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| SKOGUL GONDUL (NORWAY) : BAKKETUN & NORUM |
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D68: Travelogue, 2015, digital video, 28 min, loop
The projection D68: Travelogue, is made from footage shot duirng trips the duo have made, revealing cityscapes and other constructed sites, adjusted or changed through the course of history. Perpetuum Mobile: Second chapter, showed on a LCD-monitor, is a combination of private footage and perfomances, with an audience and with the camera as the only spectator, where imitated characters and events from the art history are blended freely.
Bakketun & Norum unite their individual
projects, constructing their own universe, with the improvised art works which alternate between participants and observers. |
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| VIDEOFORMES (FRANCE) : 2016 AWARDS |
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Le Park: Randa Maroufi / Marocco
A slow meandering camera in an abandoned amusement park in the heart of Casablanca.
Spyr:
Christoph Lemmen & Ruth Wiesenfeld / Germany
‘SPYR’ originated from a composition by Ruth Wiesenfeld, based on the experience of witnessing a musician absorbed in sound and movement. The film creates an immediacy that lets the viewer participate in this physical act of playing an instrument.
Folk Songs: Nino Laisné / France
‘Folk Songs’ presents testimonies of illegal migrants and victims of trafficking. Some discreet stories, marked by spontaneous songs especially moving. A unique approach of memory and uprooting.
Mahapralaya: Gustaf Broms / Sweden
As a starting point I had one of these experiences, melting into the forest floor, where your sense of self/ body started to drift further further away from the borders of my skin. It made me wonder if this is a logic step in our evolution.
A Machine for Living: Dalit Sharon & Amichy Bikovsky / Israel
Mise au point sur des immeubles résidentiels en béton. Une réflexion sombre sur l’avenir à travers l’architecture d’une ville qui s’isole derrière des barricades. |
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| VIDEOFORMES (FRANCE) : ART_TECTURE |
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Paris, une réalité inachevée / Videopaper / France / 2005 / 8'59
M-City / Raphaël Maze & Gregory Robin / France / 2015 / 3'
Les châteaux de sable / Clément Richem / France / 2013 / 4'36
Metabolism / Pierre-Jean Giloux / France / 2015 / 11'04
Production plant / Joas Nebe / Germany / 2012 / 2'52
Exland / Mihai Grecu & Thibault Gleize / France-Romania / 2013 / 7'40
A machine for living / Dalit Sharon & Amichy Bikovsky / Israel | 2015 | 2'49
Wired / Eli Souaiby / Lebanon / 2011 / 5'19
4min15 au révélateur / Moïa Jobin-Paré / Canada / 2015 / 4'44 |
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| VIDEOFORMES (FRANCE) : ANNE-SOPHIE EMARD |
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ANNE-SOPHIE EMARD |
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| VIDEOFORMES (FRANCE) : VIDEO_AGE 2.4 |
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Video_Age 2.4 :
3 synchronized screens. Based on video art footage remixed.
Sound is to be played by local musicians. |
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| NOVA3.0 (INTERNATIONAL) : BACK TO THE FUTURE > BTF |
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Dr. Emmett Brown:
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads. - Quote from: Back to the future, directed by Robert Zemeckis(1985)
BTF is a pilot project aiming to create a more ecological, scalable and transportable platform for bringing digital art to very different kind of places and venues.
The artworks (animated GIF's) are online and can be viewed during the festival only by personal mobile devices by scanning a QR core from the festival T-shirt.
After the event in HK the T-shirts continue to keep their users warm and the artworks are made available to all on this website.
-x-x Participating artists x-x-:
Amanda Siegel /
Christina Kramer /
Emilie Gervais /
Genetic Moo /
Gretta Louw /
Haydiroket (Mert Keskin) /
Karin Ferrari /
Kathrin Günter /
Jarkko Räsänen /
Juha van Ingen /
Nicolas Boillot /
Systaime A.K.A Michaël Borras /
Raquel Meyers /
Roland Gätzschmann
www.northernvideoart.net/btf
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| #3. POETRY : |
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| TANG SIU WA (HK) |
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| JOHANNES GORANSSON (SE) |
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“Distorted” (Publishers Weekly); “anti-idealist” (Entropy); “discomfiting, filthy, hilarious” (Bookslut); “fucked and funny and tender and sad and putrid and glitter-covered all at once” (VICE); Johannes Göransson is the author of six books, including most recently The Sugar Book (Tarpaulin Sky Press 2015), and has translated a number of Swedish poets, including Aase Berg, Henry Parland, Johan Jönson, Ann Jäderlund and others. He has also written criticism about translation theory, and is currently working on a book on the subject.
Born outside of Lund, Sweden, Göransson has lived in the U.S. for many years, and currently lives in South Bend, IN, where he teaches at the University of Notre Dame.
Together with Joyelle McSweeney, he edits Action Books. |
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| KIM SIMONSEN (FO) |
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poet and writer |
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| DAVID JHAVE JOHNSTON (HK) |
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PORTABLE MUSE
installation: a python word generator that displays a few words on a screen. Microphone in front connected to software that converts spoken into notes, notes into instruments. I speak (following the suggestions of the words), poets speak (playing with the suggestions of words), the audience is invited to speak (to play with the stream of flowing words and the microphone that converts voice into orchestra)
David Jhave Johnston is a poet-videographer-programmer-composer. He exhibits work online and in physical venues |
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| COLLIER NOGUES (HK) |
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Collier Nogues’s poetry collections are The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground (Drunken Boat, 2015) and On the Other Side, Blue (Four Way, 2011). She is Lingnan University’s 2016 Writer-in-Residence and a PhD Fellow at the University of Hong Kong. Her bilingual digital poetry collaboration with poets Mei Kwan Ng and Jhave Johnston will launch in June 2016. She also curates Hong Kong’s English-language poetry craft talk series and edits poetry for Juked. |
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| #4. FILMMAKING + ARCHITECTURE: |
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| KATRIN OLAFSDOTTIR (IS) |
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Katrín Ólafsdóttir’s background is dance and choreography and she started making Super 8 films as a teenager. She has directed and produced several short films and documentaries and is currently in post production of her first feature film The Wind Blew On, made religiously with a home made formula of Mutual Aid. Along with Bertrand Mandico she is founder of the film collective International/Incohérence. Katrin also does photographic work, video performances and installations. She and collaborator Steinunn Gunnlaugsdóttir have been in the habit of taking over abandoned spaces and perform symbolic attacks. Katrin has exhibited in museums and galleries and done installations in abandoned man made structures |
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| #5. FROG KING FOUNDATION: |
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| FROG KING KWOK (HK) |
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..Frog King "has been swimming against the mainstream of this dystopian terrain. For over 40 years, he had adhered to principles such as "Art is Life" and "Art is Frog". Firmly believing in freewill and with his fertile imagination about "Frogtopia", he has chosen an all-encompassing, atypical artistic direction".
- Wong Shun-kit. INK FROG. Frog King Kwok: 54th Venice Bienallie catalogue. 2011
‘KWOK’ was born in China 1947, grew up in Hong Kong, Experienced art life in New York for 15 years, return and settle down in Hong Kong since 1995. As a multi-media artist, KWOK has produced numerous performances, sculptures, paintings and installations in over 3,000 art events all over the world since 1967. His ‘Great Wall Project’ (1979) was the beginning of performance art in China |
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| #6. RESIDENCIES : |
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| GUSTAF BROMS (SE) |
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Gustaf Broms was born in Sweden in 1966. He currently lives and works in the Vendel forest. Gustaf's practice is engaged with the exploration of the nature of consciousness, the dualistic concept of "I", as the biological reality of being in the BODY, and being MIND, as the perceived experience of the flow of phenomena. In his practice, he started off working with photography and installation, but two works in particular led him to work with the more formless processes of performance.
In 1991, Broms burned all of his work, and in doing so realized that the intensity of the action and the remaining ash far outdid anything he had previously made. In 2005, he completed a series of works entitled "5 Faiths for a Brave New World" in which he worked with objects that were physically too heavy for the body to move. These two experiences created a longing to explore the formless and led up to the project entitled "A Walking Piece" made with Trish Littler, in which the two artists spent 18 months walking across Eastern Europe. The result is considered a drawing.
Currently, Broms' continues to work with a series of movements that look at concepts of inner/outer and movement/stillness, working with his own body as the tool for examining these processes. The constant question is, "why are the dancing atoms of this body not merging wit the dancing atoms surrounding it?" |
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| NICLAS HALLBERG (SE) |
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Niclas Hallberg works in video, photo, installation and performance. His experimental works deals with questions concerning identities, masculinity and humanity. He is using the moving picture to express feelings, create inpressions and document performances.
He often uses himself as an instrument and actor and hereby he creates a feeling of intimacy and individuality.
Niclas Hallberg has participated in a great number of solo and group exhibitions in Sweden and abroad. He has long experience of arranging and leading workshops in a varity of creative contexts.
Niclas Hallberg is engaged in several international art projects focused on collaborational exchanges resulting in exhibitions, video-screenings and residencies around the world.
Niclas Hallberg founded Formverk (art zone) 2004, an independent project-based exhibition association,
together with Stina Pehrsdotter. |
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| #7. TRANSDISCIPLINARY UNIVERSITY : |
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| STUART MCLEAN (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA) |
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PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS Anthropologist in Residency, Associate Professor Department of Anthropology / Institute for Global Studies University of Minnesota |
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| FROG KING KWOK (HK) |
| FROG KING INSTITUTE |
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| KATRIN OLAFSDOTTIR (IS) |
| Film making apprenticeship |
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| MAKINO TAKASHI (JA) |
| Film making |
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| JOHANNES GORANSSON (SE) |
| “Translation as regressive process” / “Necropastoral” |
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| KIM SIMONSEN (FO) |
| Danish and Faroese languages and modern poetry, Scandinavian culture, nationalism, identity and memory studies |
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| JONATHAN ZORN (US) |
| Laptop Ensemble / Interactive Ensemble / Guided Improvisation / Language Pieces / Open Source Computer Audio with SuperCollider / Max/MSP programming |
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| ALFIA NAKIPBEKOVA (UK) |
| Cello / “Performing Nomos alpha as activism” / “Nomos alpha and multiplicity of time” |
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| PAVLOS ANTONIADIS (GR) |
| “Physicality as a performer-specific perspectival point to Iannis Xenakis' piano work. Case-study Mists” |
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| YING-HSUEH CHEN (DK) |
| Percussion workshop |
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| #8. BOOK & RECORD FAIR : |
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rare books, publications and records by Papay Gyro Nights participants and partners
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