for the time being [Victory over the Sun].
Sadler’s Wells, 2014, Aggeliki Margeti with Chestplate instrument.
Wearable design concept by Michèle Danjoux © DAP-Lab/Photo: Hans Staartjes
2014
no. 1 Abstract for METABODY conference (Madrid, Spain)
for the time being [Victory over the Sun].
Sadler’s Wells, 2014, Aggeliki Margeti with Chestplate instrument.
Wearable design concept by Michèle Danjoux © DAP-Lab/Photo: Hans
Staartjes
“Wearables, Choreosonic Gestures, and the Limits
of Control" by Michèle Danjoux / Johannes Birringer
Wearables worn by sound artists tend to reveal more about the aesthetics of
the technology in-forming the aesthetics of the design, sensors, switches and
actuators all visible. Danjoux’ s work with the DAP-Lab initially foregrounded
some of the technologies visually in her design concepts, but more recently
has avoided an explicit technologized, returning to the softness/tactility of
things rather than wires, switches and controllers. After Danjoux discusses
specific design concepts for wearables and “dysfunctional” fashion,
Birringer will address the role of controllers/control systems and instrumental
architectures in regard to choreosonic gestures
and affective interfaces. Referring to recent choreographic “fittings”
of computational dispositifs (Yoko Ando’s RAM Reactor for Awareness in
Motion) system, Birringer will show film excerpts from DAP-Lab’s audible
and biosensory choreography, reflecting on notions of fashion technology’s
morphing power, insignificant gestures and shared corporeal noise in relation
to control technologies.
no.2 Gestural materialities and the worn dispositif (Johannes Birringer)
[this essay will appear as a chapter in Digital Movement: Essays in Motion Technology and Performance, ed. Nicolas Salazar Sutil/Sita Popat, Palgrave Macmillan (2015, forthcoming)
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Press Release for Interaktionslabor 2014 / Pressemitteilung zum 11. Interaktionslabor
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Research Materials for 2014 Performance Academy
Exhibitions
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The Exponential Horn: In Search of Perfect Sound
20 May - 27 July 2014
The UK’s largest horn loudspeaker will be the centrepiece of a new art installation at the Science Museum exploring a historic quest for audio perfection through newly-created sounds, music and the spoken word. Appearing as an ‘audio dinosaur’ alongside the results of today’s vogue for miniaturisation, the colossal Denman Horn measures 27ft in length with a 7ft 1in square horn mouth. Giving visitors the opportunity to experience an important milestone in the scientific quest for perfect sound this unique instrument is set to fill the Virgin Media Studio at Media Space from 20 May 2014.
Curated by former Science Museum sound artist-in-residence Aleksander Kolkowski
The Exponential Horn: In Search of Perfect Sound features a wide-ranging programme
of events and audio demonstrations including live broadcasts, sound art, new
poetry and archive radio footage from contributors as varied as BBC History,
Resonance 104.4FM, BBC Radio 3, the London College of Communication, the Archive
of the Now, the Royal College of Music and the Royal College of Art.
Originally commissioned in 1929 by Roderick Denman, the Science Museum’s
then curator of telecommunications, the giant exponential horn loudspeaker was
built to establish a benchmark in audio quality. Throughout the 1930s, the exhibit
was a popular highlight of the museum’s daily tours. Broadcasts from the
BBC’s London Regional Service would be used to demonstrate its extraordinary
sonic ability, thanks to Denman and his team who scientifically determined the
horn’s impressive dimensions to reproduce the widest possible sound frequency
range. Visitors to the installation will witness an audacious historical instrument
in action which still holds the power to astonish with the depth and clarity
of its sound.
Painstakingly rebuilt over a period of eight months by the Science Museum’s Workshops team, the 12mm thick fibreglass horn features a 9ft section of the original object which was made from a much heavier metallic alloy and was accidentally and almost entirely destroyed in 1949. Led by Aleksander Kolkowski, following extensive research into the horn’s history by the museum’s Curator of Communications John Liffen, The Exponential Horn: In Search of Perfect Sound celebrates a singular and historic quest for audio excellence, examining the concept that binds art and science together: the pursuit of perfection.
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Marina Abramovic´: 512 Hours
The Serpentine Gallery, London
a new durational performance by Marina Abramovic.
11 Jun 2014 to 25 Aug 2014
In a unique work created for the Serpentine, the internationally
acclaimed artist Marina Abramovic´ will perform in the Gallery for the
duration of her exhibition: 10am to 6pm, 6 days a week. Creating the simplest
of environments in the Gallery spaces, Abramovic´’s only materials
will be herself, the audience and a selection of props that she may or may not
use. On arrival, visitors will both literally and metaphorically leave their
baggage behind in order to enter the exhibition: bags, jackets, electronic equipment,
watches and cameras may not accompany them.
The public will become the performing body, participating in the delivery of
an unprecedented moment in the history of performance art.
Marina Abramovic´ is a pioneer of performance as an art form, using her
own body as subject and object, she has pushed the physical and mental limits
of her being. This is the first major performance by Abramovic´ since
her monumental piece The Artist is Present, at the Museum of Modern Art, New
York in 2010, in which visitors were invited to sit in silence opposite the
artist and gaze into her eyes for an unspecified amount of time. Abramovic´
performed this work every day for three months.
The pared-down nature of this exhibition corresponds to Abramovic´’s
interest in the historically well established relationship between art and ‘nothingness’;
visual artists including Robert Barry, John Cage, Mary Ellen Carroll, Robert
Irwin, Yves Klein, Gustav Metzger and Yoko Ono (to name only a very few) have
all explored the notion of material absence within their practice. The idea
ofemptiness – of minimalism, reduction and simplicity – plays an
intrinsic role in Abramovic´ ’s own work, and has increasingly led
to ‘more and more of less and less’, a longstanding aim that she
recorded in her Artist’s Life manifesto of 2009. It is this journey towards
immateriality that has led her to this unique moment in her work, where she
will commit to an unscripted and improvised performance in the gallery space.
In the early 1970s, as a young artist in Belgrade, Abramovic´ began exploring
the relationship between artist and audience. Since 1978 she has conducted a
series of workshops with art students, using a series of simple exercises to
increase physical and mental awareness. Over the course of her career, Abramovic´
has continued to develop these workshops, expanding their scope to reach a general
public, through the Marina Abramovic´ Institute.
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De la revuelta a la posmodernidad (1962-1982)
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installation view, José Luis Alexanco y Luis de Pablo. Soledad Interrumpida (left); Simone Forti, Solo No. 1 (1974), film (right)
El Museo Reina Sofía inaugura nuevas salas de la Colección
centradas en los años que transcurren entre 1962 y 1982, años
de importantes cambios en la esfera artística, que el Museo incorpora
siguiendo, como en el resto de la Colección, unas directrices entre las
que destaca la transversalidad de conceptos, movimientos y nombres propios de
este periodo.
Alegorías, Feminismos o Tropicalia son algunos de los epígrafes
en torno a los que se reúne la adquisición de obras que conforman
las nuevas salas. También otros más reconocibles como Poesía
experimental o Danza contemporánea se unen a secciones documentales de
grupos críticos con la institución, que incorporan en el espacio
expositivo del Museo registros de gran valor para comprender algunas de las
facetas relevantes del arte y la historia de la posmodernidad.
En el periodo de los 60 a los 80, que abordan las nuevas salas de la Colección, tienen lugar los cambios políticos, sociales, culturales y tecnológicos que configuran el escenario global contemporáneo: la descolonización, las revueltas del 68, los movimientos feministas, la crisis económica, la expansión de la cultura popular y la eclosión de otras modernidades periféricas.
installation view, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Trumpets of Judgement, 1968
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Texte und Kommentare zum Labor 2014 werden hier veröffentlicht
Texts and commentaries on the 2014 lab and related research subjects will be published here.