Re-Imagine Europe is een vierjarig project waarin tien culturele organisaties, waaronder Paradiso, vanuit heel Europa innovatieve programma’s ontwikkelen om kunstenaars en publiek op nieuwe manieren te betrekken bij urgente, sociale en politieke kwesties. Re-Imagine Europe ontwikkelt zo een betrokken publiek dat vorm kan geven aan een eigen visie op de toekomst.
Ieder kwartaal doet Re-Imagine Europe verslag van de voortgang van het project, hieronder het eerste kwartaaloverzicht van 2019.
Re-Imagine Europe is een vierjarig project waarin tien culturele organisaties, waaronder Paradiso, vanuit heel Europa innovatieve programma’s ontwikkelen om kunstenaars en publiek op nieuwe manieren te betrekken bij urgente, sociale en politieke kwesties. Re-Imagine Europe ontwikkelt zo een betrokken publiek dat vorm kan geven aan een eigen visie op de toekomst.
Ieder kwartaal doet Re-Imagine Europe verslag van de voortgang van het project, hieronder het eerste kwartaaloverzicht van 2019.
Re-Imagine Europe in the first quarter of 2019
In the first three months of 2019, Re-Imagine Europe organised, (co-)commissioned and participated in more than 40 activities all across Europe with almost 60 artists and speakers involved.
These included:
- 6 Residencies
- 14 Commissions
- 9 Workshops
- 4 Symposia
- 14 Videos and podcasts
New commissioned works in 2019
14 new works were commissioned by Re-Imagine Europe partners throughout the first months of 2019. The project website provides you with additional information about these commissions, and many more works which were realised in 2018.
Highlighted commissions
The Informals / Неформалы by Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne
The Informals is a live audiovisual performance. A research into non-conformist youth cultures that draws attention to the re-imagining of dead spaces and the re-configurations of any given order approaching informality as a set of tactics that resist top-down strategies and social constructs.
Commissioned by Sonic Acts (NL) and Inversia (RU).
Sound As Weapon, Sounds 4 Survival by Phoebe Collings-James and Jamila Johnson-Small
Carting psycho-emotional landscapes and mapping them on to the physical, Phoebe Collings-James and Jamila Johnson-Small work with their multi-dimensional bodies as the primary technology and source material for a collaborative live performance Sound as Weapon, Sounds 4 Survival that is embodied through a symbiotic relationship between dance, music and sculpture. For each performance, Phoebe Collings-James and Jamila Johnson-Small a.k.a. Last Yearz Interesting Negro are joined by a different cast of three artists.
Commissioned by Bergen Kunsthall (NO) and Sonic Acts (NL), based on work developed in a residency at Wysing Arts Centre (UK).
Overview of other works commissioned in the first quarter of 2019 which are available for touring:
TIME TIME TIME by Jennifer Walsh, Timothy Morton, Lee Patterson, M. C. Schmidt, Áine O'Dwyer, Streifenjunko, Vilde&Inga
Timothy Morton and Jennifer Walshe joined forces to explore the multiplicity of temporalities at the heart of being human.
Commissioned by Borealis – en festival for eksperimentell musikk (NO), Sonic Acts (NL), MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues (DE), Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival (NO), and London Contemporary Music Festival / Serpentine Galleries (UK).
ORE by BJ Nilsen
The acousmatic live performance that Nilsen developed during a residency at INA GRM reveals his research into mining iron ore and its impact on society and cultural relevance.
Commissioned by INA GRM (FR) and Sonic Acts (NL).
틈 / Teum (The Silvery Slit) by Okkyung Lee
Okkyung Lee’s piece was written for computer generated sounds, pre-recorded materials and cello, and created during a residency at INA GRM.
Commissioned by INA GRM (FR) and Sonic Acts (NL).
Accidental Geopoetics by The Rodina
Accidental Geopoetics, a Reality Patch Living Poster and design intervention, explores two basic principles of design practice: revealing and hiding.
Commissioned by Sonic Acts (NL).
Bias Loop by Nina Pixel
Bias Loop is a sonic poem about reconnecting with the self, and about looking into the eyes of our monsters and getting out of the loop of personal biases.
Commissioned by A4 (SK) and Sonic Acts (NL).
Untitled by Ji Youn Kang
In her performance for the Pentacle 15.3 system, Ji Youn Kang plays with two customised bamboos and a small Korean gong, with analogue devices that connect the instruments for further real-time processing.
Commissioned by A4 (SK) and Sonic Acts (NL).
Deformation Studies by Hugo Esquinca
Deformation Studies is a mediation between the potential of localisation through audio within the Pentacle system, the programming of each modulations of sound according to this capacity, and the acoustic resonances of the location.
Commissioned by A4 (SK) and Sonic Acts (NL).
Radiant (Live A/V) by HC Gilje
A white laser beam moves over a large surface and draws lines and curves which are only visible for a very short moment before they disappear. The ray of light leaves trace the surface is covered with phosphorescent pigment which emits a green shimmer which slowly fades out.
Commissioned by Sonic Acts (NL).
Ambisonic by Lee Gamble
Lee Gamble transforms his material from In A Paraventral Scale, the first chapter of his upcoming Hyperdub triptych album “Flush Real Pharynx“, into a 3D ambisonic piece.
Commissioned by Elevate (AT).
Human Nature by Jeremy Crane
‘Human Nature’ is an audio-visual installation which reflects on the theme of truth through the gaze of artificial intelligence
Commissioned by Elevate (AT).
Liquid Truth by schnellebuntebilder, Knoth & Renner, Berit Gilma
Liquid Truth is generative data sculpture created in order to make the fast pace of the truth discourse in digital, political space (Twitter) visible in real time.
Commissioned by Elevate (AT).
Electric Walks by Christina Kubisch
Electric walk is a work of Christina Kubisch that trace the electro-magnetic fields of urban environments in the form of city walks.
Commissioned by Sonic Acts (NL).
New Podcasts by Ràdio Web MACBA
SON[I]A #280 Raqs Media Collective
In this podcast Raqs Media Collective founder Monica Narula talks about raga, the technological body, public domain, the ineffability of time, the Mahabharata, politics of language, exhaustion, dilation and the legibility.
SON[I]A #283 Boris Charmatz
In this podcast, Boris Charmatz reflects on how to address power structures within the artistic field. He also talks about polisemy, collectivity, communities and anti-communities, radical pedagogy, dissent, the Musée de la danse, the complex and inexhaustible relationship between dance and history, working inside gestures, and the beauty of older people skateboarding.
SON[I]A #285 Bernard Stiegler
In this podcast, Bernard Stiegler talks about education and smartphones, translations and linguists, about economic war, climate change, and political stupidity. We also chat about pharmacology and organology, about the erosion of biodiversity, the vital importance of error, and the Neganthropocene as a desirable goal to work towards, ready to be constructed.