nõde presents
nõde presents Peter Fengler & Steve Van den Bosch, Lecture/ presentation
nõde presents
Peter Fengler & Steve Van den Bosch, Lecture/ presentation
nõde presents
Peter Fengler & Steve Van den Bosch, Lecture/ presentation
16 December, 2011, 9.30PM, door/bar open at 9PM
Wolfart Project Space
Wolphaertstraat 25, Rotterdam
Free!
Continuing the showcases informing the project ‘Charlois Frequencies’ and as a prelude to the forthcoming exhibition, we would like to invite you to join us in this evenings program; a double and unpredictably complementary, presentation, by Rotterdam and Antwerp based artists, Peter Fengler and Steve Van den Bosch.
Peter Fengler
a retarded copy is the new standard
Central to this work is the (de)generation(s) of sound. By using the most direct way of sound storage (audio-cutting & molding) fragments and notations are crafted and reproduced on sound-carriers. The technique is such that during the process of storing and reproduction, information is lost or distorted. This is not taken as a depreciation. By pulling this technique through multiple generations, a new sound appears. The piece comments on the ethics and aesthetics of audio and the source. The question is how we valorize the output. Are we looking for purity in the sense of ‘authentic’ as pristine, or do we consider ‘the real thing’ as unavoidably lived through and furnished by noise, changing, transmutating.
Based on this methodology Peter Fengler will produce an intriguing sound-archive, with a singular status, leaving the source behind.
Steve Van den Bosch
Filter
For ‘Charlois Frequencies’, Steve Van den Bosch is planning to produce a sound-work that registers moments of non-communication in public spaces; town hall, subway stations, post offices, etc… “Thinking of anthropological sound documents, were grasping a society’s specific cultural features is the main goal, I wanted to re-direct the attention to the interval between moments of valuable information. Intervals where apparently ‘nothing’ happens and the confirmation of a multitude of cultural expressions through speech remains suspended. Something like a Cage-approach to anthropology.”
Biographies
Peter Fengler works at the intersection of performance, experimental music and visual arts. The theory, design, lifestyle and staging are key parameters in his work. He regards sound as representation and installational concept; as political, aesthetic and positional weapon, where its analysis features its history and its future. Peter Fengler is interested in this total spin-off, that which accompanies sound as subculture and the mind behind it. He is an explicit performer, building a polymorphous construction based on the theme ‘BAROQUE, NON BAROQUE a story on proportionism’, where indicative ‘suggestionen’ fulfill a major role in the exploration of a space, that every now and then permits modification. In other words based on musicalinguistic forms, nuance is sought to be re-defined. His work shifts between intellectualism and nonsense, and is a prove for his predilection for ‘ultrahobbyism’, characterized by pleasantly subversive overtones with alarming lucidity; leaning towards the a-aesthetic. These materialize in self-cut vinyl publications, performative series and textual articles and lectures.
Steve Van den Bosch’s work focuses on the implications of art practice. Not confined to any specific medium, he researches the parameters that define (a) work. The resulting ‘pieces’ are based on procedures that aim to dismantle these parameters in order to disrupt and re-use them in aberrant forms. They particularly revolve around notions of speculation and chronology as well as deliberate misuse or misreading, with ‘nothingness’ as a recurrent motive.
The above proposals follow the ‘The Collected Sounds of Charlois’ and ‘Regulating use, using Regulation’ with Noah Angell and Kelwin Palmer. Initiated under nõde’s “Charlois Frequencies”, a multichannel platform for developing new modes of considering the idea of community and its representations. During the coming month a selection of artists, an architect, an anthropologist, and a curator, are staying in Charlois to collect data and to produce works resulting in an exhibition and a series of print and sound based publications to be released in mid 2012.
Participants:
Noah Angell, London UK
Peter Fengler, Rotterdam, NL
Katarina Zdjelar, Rotterdam, NL
Maziar Afrassiabi, Rotterdam, NL
Steve Van den Bosch, Antwerp, BE
Kelwin Palmer, London, UK
Vesna Madzoski, Amsterdam, NL
http://www.nodenet.org || Research, Development, Production platform
*nõde is a platform for the production and development of artistic cross-disciplinary
methodologies and approaches relating to urbanity, space, sound, composition, art,
ethnography and architecture. It was found in 2009 by Maziar Afrassiabi, Rotterdam.
-This project is supported by the MYA Foundation and Deelgemeente Charlois.