Tijd: vanaf 21:00 uur tot 0:59 uur

27 January 2012

PAEkort

performances by

duo:
Patricia Corrêa (PT)
Liesje van den Berk (NL)

Martine van Ditzhuyzen (FR/NL)
with invited sound artist Barbara Ellison (IE/NL)

open 20.00 start 20.30
Wolfart Projectspaces, Wolphaertstraat 25 b/c, Rotterdam NL

Haan galo - haan galo is a duo-performance of Patrícia Corrêa and Liesje van den Berk about relation, game and control. The eye connection is an important part of our work. Two persons are connected in there own game… a voice without sound and a powerful profound bond. We also use subtle elements to communicate our game with the audience. For example the metronome, that marks the pulse of the game. The sound communicated with the audience this intimate game that we were playing.
Eye contact that never breaks, increasing emotions, control, breathing, control, fight, control, friendship, control, tears, control and more breathing… We talk with the eyes!
Patricia en Liesje met each other at PAS (Performance Art Studies) in Berlin in the summer of 2011.
Liesje van den Berk is a visual artist. She makes realistic drawings, which often grow into installations with real people and performance. She shows her work in galleries and public space in the Netherlands, Germany and the United States, such as Bart Kunst in Huis, Oerol and Grimmuseum Berlin.
Patrícia Corrêa is a performance artist, researcher, curator and cultural producer. In her work as a performer she is currently developing snapshot actions in Lisbon (Portugal), city were she works and lives. She showed her work in Lisbon, Berlin and most recently at the 6th edition of Sao Tome and Principe Biennal.
http://www.liesjeberk.nl & http://patricia-correa.blogspot.com

As an actress Martine van Ditzhuyzen has a preference for physical acting and object manipulation.
She worked a lot in children theatre as a puppet player. Three years ago she founded the collective Trickster with Marielle Verdijk en began to give multimedia performances based on improvisation. Also she started her study in theatre science. In her first “solo” performance ‘The story I live by’ she will explore the concept of identity en storytelling. She links objects with her storytelling to underline the influence of the outside world on the way she looks back, interprets, gives sense and talks about some of her live events. Who will tell the story; will it be she or the objects? What story will be told and will it be the objects story or her story? She asked composer and performer Barbara Ellison, also a member of Trickster, to join her in the
performance.

PAEkort is a monthly event organized by PAE presenting two performance art works in one evening in the Wolfart Projectspaces Rotterdam. The aim is to have a more regular stage for performance art to encourage the performance art in the Netherlands and keep the audience connected by building up a relationship through regularity. Next that we want to present established performance artists our focus will be more on the beginners and the ones who have no experience but need a place for the experiment.

PAEkort is supported by the “Mya - NAC culture fund” and Stichting bevordering van Volkskracht.
http://www.performanceartevent.nl

Tijd: vanaf 20:00 uur tot 20:00 uur

Paula Petroll
Drawing#20 - #21

Join Stichting Nac and Paula Petroll on the shortest day of this year to
enjoy the magic of the fight of sunlight against darkness in her new
installation.

Paula Petroll is the current guest of Around the Corner,
Nac international residency, and will present a different work for
each month of her stay in Rotterdam. Her artistic practice stems
from drawing and experiments its potential through the use of lines,
empty spaces and resonances.

To underline,
to outline.

To create the possibility of a landscape with the least
necessary meanings.
To form a construct that exists within its own environment.
To respond to present site characteristics.
To interweave imprints of structures from the past, from memory.
To draw the horizon without drawing the horizon.

Amplifying the sunlight until the boundaries between canvas and
environment are blurred, obverted. Engraving given structures
with
semiotic echoes of a moving mindscape; thoughtshapes of an
almost
tangible vocabulary that is geographically anchored in the site,
enhancing the present with past as far as the viewer can
physically as
well as emotionally interconnect with the drawing.

Wolfart project space
wolphaertstraat 25 b/c - 3082 BK Rotterdam
wednesday 21 dec - the drawings will be on display for 24h (one
full sun rotation), beginning with sunrise.
opening at 19.00 h

an installation by Paula Petroll is also visible at night in the window
of around the corner project space, struitenweg 54, Rotterdam

Tijd: vanaf 22:00 uur tot 0:59 uur

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.

Tijd: vanaf 21:00 uur tot 0:30 uur

11 November 2011
PAEkort

Performances by

Janneke v/d Putten ‘:’

Cristóbal Yáñez Lanzarini “Photograph”

Open 20.00 start 20.30

Address:
Wolfart Projectspaces
Wolphaertstraat 25 b/c
Rotterdam

PAEkort is a monthly event organized by PAE, that presents one or two performance art works on a Wednesday evening in the Wolfart Projectspaces Rotterdam. The aim is to have a more regular stage for perfor-mance art, next to the bigger once a year event because we want to encourage the performance art in the Netherlands and keep the audience connected by building up a relationship through regularity. Next that we want to present esthablished performance artist our focus will be more on the beginners and even the ones who have no experience but need a place for the experiment.

PAEkort is een maandelijks evenement georganiseerd door PAE, waar op de woensdagavond in de Wolfart Projectspaces te Rotterdam één of twee performance werken worden getoond. Het doel is om naast het grote eens per jaar event op meer regelmatige basis een podium te creëren voor de performancekunst, om zo nog meer de performancekunst in Nederland te stimuleren en een betere band met het publiek op te bouwen. Naast de meer gevestigde performancekunstenaars gaat ons focus vooral uit naar de beginnende en zelfs degenen die geen ervaring hebben, en een plek nodig hebben voor experiment.

Janneke van der Putten is based in Rotterdam. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and obtained her Bachelor degree with Honours at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2009. In September 2011 van der Putten started the two-year Master Trajectory for Research in the Arts at the University of the Arts, in The Hague. Her works have been presented in The United States, Germany, Belgium and in The Netherlands.
“In my art practice I aim to contextualize the analogous use of the human voice within the fields of graphic notations and aural traditions through a responsive way of working. At PAE I will present a work in progress, entitled ‘:’, expanding on the performative use of a notebook originating from publication ‘Titel van dit schrift’ (transl. ‘Title of this notebook’), 2009. In ‘:’ I am interested in how to relate myself to (the new edition of) this notebook. How do I use this object? The improvised use, in the moment of ‘interaction’, can be expressed in different ways such as in movement, writing, reading, speech and vocalization. In this research I explore a process evolvement which react to a specific setting: the notebook, changing with each use. I am interested in the way contents are generated as a consequence of relations, such as reactions and interpretations upon the working material. I find it fascinating when a present state of this material-content incorporates traces of action, as indicators of time.”

Janneke van der Putten woont in Rotterdam. Zij studeerde aan de San Francisco Art Institute en verkreeg haar Bachelor diploma met Honours aan de Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2009. In september 2011 begon van der Putten het tweejarige Master Traject voor Onderzoek in the Kunsten aan de Universiteit van de Kunsten in Den Haag. Haar werken zijn gepresenteerd in de Verenigde Staten, Duitsland, België en in Nederland.
“In mijn kunstpraktijk streef ik, middels een responsieve manier van werken, naar het contextualiseren van analoog stemgebruik binnen de gebieden van grafische notaties en orale tradities. Tijdens PAE zal ik een werk in wording presenteren, genaamd ‘:’, waarin ik mij verdiep in het performatieve gebruik van een schrift. Deze vindt zijn oorsprong in de publicatie ‘Titel van dit schrift’, 2009. In ‘:’ ben ik geïnteresseerd hoe ik relateer met (de nieuwe editie) van dit schrift. Hoe gebruik ik dit object? Het geïmproviseerde gebruik, in het moment van ‘interactie’, kan in verschillende manieren worden uitgedrukt zoals in beweging, schrijven, lezen, spreken en stemgebruik. In dit onderzoek verken ik een procesmatige ontwikkeling die reageert op een specifieke setting: het schrift, dat bij elk gebruik veranderd. Ik ben geïnteresseerd in de manier waarop inhoud gegenereerd word als een consequentie van relaties, zoals reacties en interpretaties op het werkmateriaal. Ik vind het fascinerend wanneer een huidige toestand van dit materiaalinhoud sporen van acties incorporeert, als indicators van tijd.”

Cristóbal Yáñez Lanzarini is a Performance artist and Actor. His work in performance started in 2005, when he did performances for photographs, later on, he got involved with independent artists’ organization in Chile to present his performances, both in public spaces as well as in alternative galleries. His main theme is the relationship between genealogy, motherhood and the concept of self. He is currently working at Perfolink, the Latin American Performance art platform, he also works with the collective, Black Market Chile.
“My work operates in different dimensions, both in the themes and methodologies in use; with a thread that connects the whole body of my work: the audience as the fundamental axis of my performances. I want to address issues of geographic and corporeal territoriality, in which the body becomes an idea, where it is transformed into a sign element. The current theme I am exploring at this stage of my career is the family tree as personal history.”

Cristóbal Yáñez Lanzarini is een performancekunstenaar en acteur. Zijn werk in performancekunst begon in 2005 met het maken van performatieve foto’s. Later werd hij betrokken bij een onafhankelijke kunstenaarsorganisatie in Chili waar hij zijn performances zowel in de openbare ruimte als in alternatieve galeries presenteerde. Zijn belangrijkste thema is de relatie tussen de genealogie, moederschap en het concept van het zelf. Momenteel is hij werkzaam bij Perfolink, het Latijns-Amerikaanse Performance art platform, hij werkt ook met het collectief Black Market Chili.
“Mijn werk is actief in verschillende dimensies: zowel in thema’s als ook methoden in gebruik; met een draad die het hele lichaam van mijn werk verbindt en het publiek als de fundamentele as van mijn performances. Ik wil kwesties van geografische en lichamelijke territorialiteit aanpakken, waarbij het lichaam een idee wordt en functioneert als teken. Het huidige thema dat ik in deze fase van mijn carrière aan het verkennen ben is de stamboom als persoonlijke geschiedenis.”

PAEkort is sponsored by Mya foundation and Stichting bevordering van Volkskracht.

—
http://www.ieketrinks.nl

Tijd: vanaf 21:00 uur tot 0:00 uur

PAEkort

26 October 2011

performances by

Borre van der Hoeven (NL) “Blessing Sticks”
Frank Homeyer (DE) IMMUNIS

PAEkort is a monthly event organized by PAE, that presents one or two performance art works on a Wednesday evening in the Wolfart Projectspaces Rotterdam. The aim is to have a more regular stage for perfor-mance art, next to the bigger once a year event because we want to encourage the performance art in the Netherlands and keep the audience connected by building up a relationship through regularity. Next that we want to present esthablished performance artist our focus will be more on the beginners and even the ones who have no experience but need a place for the experiment.

PAEkort is een maandelijks evenement georganiseerd door PAE, waar op de woensdagavond in de Wolfart Projectspaces te Rotterdam één of twee performance werken worden getoond. Het doel is om naast het grote eens per jaar event op meer regelmatige basis een podium te creëren voor de performancekunst, om zo nog meer de performancekunst in Nederland te stimuleren en een betere band met het publiek op te bouwen. Naast de meer gevestigde performancekunstenaars gaat ons focus vooral uit naar de beginnende en zelfs degenen die geen ervaring hebben, en een plek nodig hebben voor experiment.

Borre van der Hoeven (1987 NL) just gradua-ted at St. Joost. While he’s performing, Borre creates his own world. In small tableaus’s he takes viewers back to the tension, where innocence and evil are taken by the test. Symbolism and rituals are sources of inspiration for his imagination. There he looks for a certain tactility. With his love for shapes and passion for image, he invites viewers to a moment, where he can share the unavoidably struggle between order and chaos.

Borre van der Hoeven (1987 NL) reeds afge-studeerd aan St. Joost. Tijdens het performen roept Borre een eigen wereld op. In kleine tableaus neemt hij de toeschouwers mee naar spanningsvelden, waar men door onschuld en kwaad op de proef wordt gesteld. Symboliek en rituelen zijn inspiratiebronnen voor zijn verbeelding. Hier waar hij naar een bepaalde tactiliteit zoekt. Met zijn liefde voor vorm en passie voor beeld, nodigt hij toeschouwers uit naar een moment, waarin hij deze onontkoombare tegenstrijd tussen orde en chaos kan delen.

http://www.borre.me

Frank Homeyer (1964 DE). I have developed performances as a focus of my work, next to painting and photography. I develop my performances like a picture. Beginning with an idea or a subject I distributes the different elements in space and connect them with time to shape the performance. It is important for me to include autobiographical references and to leave an opening for change and improvisation in the process. I document my perfor-mances with photography (and film). The fotographs will be base fore my artwork.

Frank Homeyer (1964 DE). Naast schilder-kunst en fotografie is de focus in mijn werk gericht op performancekunst. Ik ontwikkel mijn performance als een foto. Beginnend met een idee of een onderwerp verdeel ik de verschillende elementen in de ruimte en verbindt ze met tijd om de performance vorm te geven. Het is belangrijk voor mij om autobiografische verwijzingen in te voegen en een opening voor verandering en improvisatie in het proces te laten. Ik documenteer mijn performances met fotografie (en film). De foto’s vormen de basis voor mijn kunst.

http://www.no-way-to-utopia.de

PAEkort is sponsored by Mya foundation and Stichting bevordering van Volkskracht.

http://www.performanceartevent.nl

Tijd: vanaf 13:00 uur tot 13:00 uur

Invited Art Spaces:

126 Galway; 1646 The Hague; Basement Project Space Cork;
Block T Dublin; Catalyst Belfast; Monster Truck Dublin; Transition
London; Transmission Glasgow; SOMA Waterford; W_Lf_rt Rotterdam

This temporary hub invites the public and art practitioners to engaging in a weekend of performances, screenings, exhibitions, art viewing and dialogue.

This project considers the model of artist-led spaces, which provide alternative frameworks for art practices, and represent communities where ‘doing-it-yourself’ and experimentation are key activities. Artist-led spaces are vital, energetic elements of the visual art fabric of many cities. This exhibition, consisting of pop-up galleries from each artist-led space, makes reference to an non-traditional art-fair format in which non-profit artist-led spaces present exhibitions rather than commercial galleries striving to sell work.

From May 26 - 29 in_flux temporarily takes over the Thomas Street Centre, an 11,000 m2 landmark building in Limerick city centre. The ten galleries will present their pop-up exhibitions over five extensive floors, while the top floor will host an e v+ a bookshop and in_flux Salon, a place for discussion, screenings and talks.

in_flux brings to Limerick a exciting sample of diverse contemporary art practices from some of the most interesting artist-led spaces in Ireland and Europe. This project initiates a collaboration between grass-roots art spaces of similar orientations, with the intention of creating new opportunities for artists locally, nationally and internationally, while promoting the strength of visual culture in Limerick.

A series of events will accompany the exhibition programme including VideoGram, 10 x10 Pecha Kucha, artist talks and visits to local studios. in_flux is partnering with Limerick City Gallery of Art and e v+ a to present Double Act, a series of conversations, screenings and reflections on the collaborative process with guest appearances by a number of interesting artists, curators and other creative types. Double Act Programme will take place in the in_flux Salon from May 26 - 28. Full details to be announced on the LCGA website http://www.gallery.limerick.ie

LCGA has also extended the run of How Capital Moves a new body of work by artist duo Kennedy Browne, curated by Annette Moloney, to coincide with in_flux. Originally commissioned for the Lodz biennale Poland 2010 the work is partly a response to a computer factory relocating to Łódź in Poland from Limerick, Ireland.  Open at Istabraq Hall, Merchant’s Quay, Limerick 9.30 - 5.30 throughout in_flux.

Concurrent to in_flux Occupy Space presents an exhibition which considers human obsession with the end of the world. Oops Apocalypse presents work by Beagles & Ramsay, Baldvin Ringsted, Sam Dargan and Alan Mongey, responding in different ways to our fixation with the apocalypse. Open1 - 5pm, Wednesday to Saturday.

in_flux launches on Thursday 26 May at 7pm in Occupy Space.

—
occupy.space@gmail
http://occupy-space.blogspot.com

Tijd: vanaf 18:00 uur tot 21:00 uur

Meet your arty farty neighbors

Tijd: vanaf 20:29 uur tot 0:29 uur

WOLFEST@WOLFART
23 April 2011

19:30 Guest DJ and bar opens
20:00 Jessica Sligter
20:45 Daniel Meyer Grønvold
21:30 Jenny Hval
22:15 Guest DJ + Fire Pit til Dawn

Jessica Sligter (Norway/Amsterdam) with perform a new vocal experiment.  Here is a link to one of her band projects.
http://www.myspace.com/o0lljaell0o

Daniel Meyer Grønvold (Norway)
http://www.myspace.com/danielmeyergronvold/music

Jenny Hval (Norway)
http://www.myspace.com/rockettothesky

Tijd: vanaf 21:00 uur tot 0:00 uur

Noah Angell is a filmmaker whose works are composed through a process
of reanimating archival material by editing; of opening up the holes in the
discourse embedded therein and making them sing, an operation which
exorcises the fantasies and ideological undercurrents in select moments
of film.

Noah Angell currently lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include ” The Allegory of the Cave”
at Art Container, Tallinn,“14 January - 18 December 2010” at MOT International, “A Tergo” at Limoncello,
London; “About Now” at Message Salon, Zurich; “Noah Angell Rana Hassanieh” at Treignac Project,
France; “Dramaturgy of the Subject” at Open Space, Vienna.
Upcoming exhibitions include a lecture at Banner Repeater in London, the Batroun Project launch in
Batroun, Lebanon and a solo exhibition at Oksasenkatu 11 in Helsinki, Finland.

http://www.nodenet.org

Tijd: vanaf 20:00 uur tot 0:30 uur

19:00 BAR OPENS
20:00 CITY HANDS
20:45 EVERY BOLT RUMBLING
21:30 STEVE GUNN
22:15 GUEST DJ

Check the links below for samples of the music and band bios.

Steve Gunn
http://www.threelobed.com/tlr/tlr054.html
http://soundcloud.com/liveatsheastadium/sets/steve-gunn-john-truczinski-duo-10-16-10

Every Bolt Rumbling
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Every-bolt-rumbling/170689772955836
http://soundcloud.com/everyboltrumbling

City Hands
http://www.myspace.com/buffle/blog/490475124
http://www.myspace.com/helbaard

Tijd: vanaf 20:00 uur tot 0:00 uur

WOLFEST is back again for the first gig of March on March 1st.  For those of you who missed JAE’s amazing solo performance last time make sure to stop by.  She will be back with her project SACRED HARP from Norway.  Also sharing the stage will be members of KNALPOT from Amsterdam, with guest musicians, and LASSE PASSAGE, also from Norway, living right here in Rotterdam.  Here’s the lineup…...

19:00 DJ and Drinks at the WOLFART bar
20:00 Lasse Passage
20:45 Sacred Harp
21:30 members of Knalpot and guests
22:15 DJ and Drinks continue til midnight

Check out links to the band sites for a preview
http://www.myspace.com/knalpot
http://www.myspace.com/sacredharpmusic
http://www.myspace.com/sacredharpmusic

Tijd: vanaf 21:00 uur tot 0:00 uur

The show can be seen 26-27 February from 12.00-18.00.
Hope to see you soon!
More info visit:
http://www.kruijsse.blogspot.com
http://www.luciedraai.nl
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P.S. This will be a day full of events in WOLFART Projectspaces and next door in Art Plaats. See the full agenda below.

Art Plaats Grand Opening: 15:00
WOLFART Borrel: 19:00
Sold Out Merchandiser performance/installation: 20:00

Tijd: vanaf 20:00 uur tot 0:00 uur

Be on time because we also want to make our way to the Aether Tones & Talks event for their one year anniversary party after the concert. Here’s the agenda and check the links below for some samples of these great live acts and the Aether archive.

23:00 Aether Sound Clash at Foundation BAD
22:15 DJ
21:30 PIAZ
20:45 DION & THE MAGIC CHORDS
20:00 Jæ (solo performance)
19:00 DJ+Drinks

http://www.myspace.com/o0lljaell0o
http://www.myspace.com/dionmagicchords
http://www.myspace.com/piazmusic

http://www.foundationbad.nl/bad-event/aether-sound-clash

P.S. Dion & the Magic Chords have been recording some new tracks for an album due this spring. Let’s hope we get a taste this Friday.

Tijd: vanaf 21:30 uur tot 0:30 uur

Tuesday, 8th February 2011
Doors open 20:30, Start concert 21:00
5,- entrance fee

Elliott Sharp - solo
http://www.elliottsharp.com

Lukas Simonis - solo
http://www.xs4all.nl/~lukas/

Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva - solo
http://www.myspace.com/bjferroxdasilva

Special guest is American composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and curator Elliott Sharp, who’s a central figure
to the experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years. He will present his new work “Octal: Book Two”
for 8-string guitar-bass prototype, inspired by the post-quantum theories of physicist/cosmologist Lisa Randall.

ALL EARS! is a concert series of experimental electronic /electro-acoustic music and sound art. From improvised to composed music,
sometimes in combination with visual art and film. Opens up your ears and invites to listen. Followed by a loungy party with DJ, drinks and
dance. Contact: Daniela Swarowsky

Tijd: vanaf 19:00 uur tot 22:00 uur

The United States Air Force coined the term UFO in 1952. Science pointed to the fact that there were some unexplained phenomena. An entire platform of beliefs from an unknown world, an unknown otherness was opened. UFOs are one of the viewable examples that show that belief has changed and does not belong to religion anymore. Why we still need and desire to believe is an open question.

As artists we are building, re-enacting, telling stories about belief. The belief as an unknown object, an aimless and desperate desire, where the focus would not be the object of desire in itself but the “hope” which is developed before this. The aim of the project is to approach the desire to believe and what it begets through different practices and interests connected to this notion. The object of this desire does not have to be pronounced; maybe because it does not exits. Maybe, we can offer a belief with its invisible borders between fiction and reality, a belief between sincerity and irony. This ambiguous statement of produced belief is asking trust. Is it allowed, to not consider something as true, but as something that has to be trusted and so believe in a blissful way?

“As a first approximation, I define “belief” not as the object of believing (a program, a dogma etc.), but as the subject’s investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true – in other words, a “modality” of the assertion and not its content.”

Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

Curated by Toon Fibbe and Anouchka Oler

January 22nd – Febraury 18th 2011-01-12 Open by appointment

Opening: 21st January 6-9 PM

With the support of the Master of Fine Art programme of the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam University.