the game is up! How to Save the World in 10 days
Dates:
Thu Feb 12, 2009 00:00 - Thu Feb 12, 2009
Location:
Belgium
the game is up! How to save the world in 10 days
wed 4 - sat 14 march, Vooruit, Gent/Belgium
Global warming, the financial crisis, famine, drought and overpopulation… The end is near, but don’t despair: Vooruit will save the world! Artists and experts from different disciplines will launch proposals to save the world, put the threat in perspective or blow up the whole thing. Well-aimed happenings, bold statements, bizarre turns, sophisticated utopias and biodegradable references.
Full program online!
http://www.vooruit.be/en/serie/44
day-to-day program, download here
http://tools.emailgarage.com/Assets/IGNM--qLukeOLd-hhL6vQg\%7E\%7E/Vooruit\_TheGameIsUp09\_DayByDay.pdf
to warm you up:
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the game is up! exhibition with Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser, Kristof Kintera, Michel de Broin and others - opening wed 4 march (18:00). http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1795
A crash between two large wooden cars in the middle of the Vooruit Café. This image by German artist duo Kaltwasser and Köbberling offers a perfect summary of the exhibition at the game is up. Nothing screams pollution and consumption more than cars do, while wood stands for nature, sustainability and recycling.
All through the Vooruit building you can discover an exhibition with sculptures, installations and videos by artists who are all - to a varying degree - concerned with current global issues. Other projects in the exhibition: Michel de Broin - Shelter (creation for the game is up!), Dead star en Shared propulsion car; Moose aka Paul Curtis - Reverse Graffiti / Seed Bombs (guerilla gardening); Kaltwasser & Köbberling - Autos zu Fahrräder; Antoine Schmitt - Time Slip; FoAM (lab); Angelo Vermeulen - Biomodd; Annemie Maes/So-on - Politics of change; HeHe - Nuage Vert; Antoine Defoort - La Fusée / Le vent dans les cheveux.
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Performance: Julien Maire - Modèle pour l’Apocalypse
4 march (21:30 - 23:30) - http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1800
With Modèle pour l’Apocalypse Maire has constructed a special urban development plan for the future. When you take a closer look at his architectural model, you can see that it actually consists of slowly collapsing apartment blocks.
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FrictiesSalon: Natalie Jeremijenko - Environmental Health Clinic
6 march (20:00) - http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1804
With her Environmental Health Clinic Natalie Jeremijenko strives to improve the health of her patients by tackling environmental factors. Just like in an ordinary hospital, you come in for a consultation, but instead of walking out with a prescription, you will be referred to local environmental movements, local authorities or clubs. The hospital then organizes concrete actions to improve the environmental factors in your neighbourhood.. www.environmentalhealthclinic.net.
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Conference: Tickle your catastrophe
6 / 7 march (http://www.catastrophe.ugent.be)
At the two-day conference Tickle Your Catastrophe the ruling image of the catastrophe in art, philosophy and science gets a kick up the rear! Whereas the twentieth century was dominated by political extremism and (coping with) trauma, it is the fear of the inevitable and complete catastrophe that reigns at the beginning of a new century. More : http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1802
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FrictiesSalon: HeHe and FoAM
10 march (20:00) - http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1805
Apart from exhibiting documentation about their prizewinning work ‘Nuage Vert’, the two founders of HeHe (Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen) will talk about their work in general in a Salonpresentation.
FoAM will set up a biodegradable lab where scientists, artists and experts occupy themselves with patabotany and guild-gardening, involving plants in videogames and plant-person interaction. In this Salon they will elaborate on their history and practice.
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the game is up! LIVE ARTS
Sponsored By Nobody - W.M.D. (just the low points) - 4 and 5 march
Antoine Defoort & Halory Goerger - &&&&& & &&& - 4 till 7 march
Kris Verdonck - Actor #1 (preview) - 11 march
Antonia Baehr - Rire - 13 and 14 march
Davis Freeman - Assasins - 13 march
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the game is up! CONCERTS
Dror Feiler - Basura (intervention in the city) - 4 march
Pamelia Kurstin + Erwin Stache & Atonor - 6 march
Kapotski - Iglo + Dror Feiler - Cantos de la Columna Vertebral - 12 march
More on the whole program http://www.vooruit.be/en/
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Welcome!
Eva De Groote
Music and media art | Arts Centre Vooruit | St.Pietersnieuwstr. 23 9000 Ghent/Belgium | fixed 0032 (0) 9 267 28 89 | mobile 0032 (0) 497 52 88 05
Vooruit is supported by:
Vlaamse overheid / Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen / Stad Gent De Morgen / P&V / Radio 1
the game is up! is supported by:
partners Kunstencentrum van de toekomst Belgacom / Belnet / Cisco / IBBT Transdigital i.h.k.v. INTERREG IV France Wallonie Vlaanderen
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wed 4 - sat 14 march, Vooruit, Gent/Belgium
Global warming, the financial crisis, famine, drought and overpopulation… The end is near, but don’t despair: Vooruit will save the world! Artists and experts from different disciplines will launch proposals to save the world, put the threat in perspective or blow up the whole thing. Well-aimed happenings, bold statements, bizarre turns, sophisticated utopias and biodegradable references.
Full program online!
http://www.vooruit.be/en/serie/44
day-to-day program, download here
http://tools.emailgarage.com/Assets/IGNM--qLukeOLd-hhL6vQg\%7E\%7E/Vooruit\_TheGameIsUp09\_DayByDay.pdf
to warm you up:
====================================
the game is up! exhibition with Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser, Kristof Kintera, Michel de Broin and others - opening wed 4 march (18:00). http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1795
A crash between two large wooden cars in the middle of the Vooruit Café. This image by German artist duo Kaltwasser and Köbberling offers a perfect summary of the exhibition at the game is up. Nothing screams pollution and consumption more than cars do, while wood stands for nature, sustainability and recycling.
All through the Vooruit building you can discover an exhibition with sculptures, installations and videos by artists who are all - to a varying degree - concerned with current global issues. Other projects in the exhibition: Michel de Broin - Shelter (creation for the game is up!), Dead star en Shared propulsion car; Moose aka Paul Curtis - Reverse Graffiti / Seed Bombs (guerilla gardening); Kaltwasser & Köbberling - Autos zu Fahrräder; Antoine Schmitt - Time Slip; FoAM (lab); Angelo Vermeulen - Biomodd; Annemie Maes/So-on - Politics of change; HeHe - Nuage Vert; Antoine Defoort - La Fusée / Le vent dans les cheveux.
====================================
Performance: Julien Maire - Modèle pour l’Apocalypse
4 march (21:30 - 23:30) - http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1800
With Modèle pour l’Apocalypse Maire has constructed a special urban development plan for the future. When you take a closer look at his architectural model, you can see that it actually consists of slowly collapsing apartment blocks.
====================================
FrictiesSalon: Natalie Jeremijenko - Environmental Health Clinic
6 march (20:00) - http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1804
With her Environmental Health Clinic Natalie Jeremijenko strives to improve the health of her patients by tackling environmental factors. Just like in an ordinary hospital, you come in for a consultation, but instead of walking out with a prescription, you will be referred to local environmental movements, local authorities or clubs. The hospital then organizes concrete actions to improve the environmental factors in your neighbourhood.. www.environmentalhealthclinic.net.
====================================
Conference: Tickle your catastrophe
6 / 7 march (http://www.catastrophe.ugent.be)
At the two-day conference Tickle Your Catastrophe the ruling image of the catastrophe in art, philosophy and science gets a kick up the rear! Whereas the twentieth century was dominated by political extremism and (coping with) trauma, it is the fear of the inevitable and complete catastrophe that reigns at the beginning of a new century. More : http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1802
====================================
FrictiesSalon: HeHe and FoAM
10 march (20:00) - http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1805
Apart from exhibiting documentation about their prizewinning work ‘Nuage Vert’, the two founders of HeHe (Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen) will talk about their work in general in a Salonpresentation.
FoAM will set up a biodegradable lab where scientists, artists and experts occupy themselves with patabotany and guild-gardening, involving plants in videogames and plant-person interaction. In this Salon they will elaborate on their history and practice.
===================================
the game is up! LIVE ARTS
Sponsored By Nobody - W.M.D. (just the low points) - 4 and 5 march
Antoine Defoort & Halory Goerger - &&&&& & &&& - 4 till 7 march
Kris Verdonck - Actor #1 (preview) - 11 march
Antonia Baehr - Rire - 13 and 14 march
Davis Freeman - Assasins - 13 march
====================================
the game is up! CONCERTS
Dror Feiler - Basura (intervention in the city) - 4 march
Pamelia Kurstin + Erwin Stache & Atonor - 6 march
Kapotski - Iglo + Dror Feiler - Cantos de la Columna Vertebral - 12 march
More on the whole program http://www.vooruit.be/en/
====================================
Welcome!
Eva De Groote
Music and media art | Arts Centre Vooruit | St.Pietersnieuwstr. 23 9000 Ghent/Belgium | fixed 0032 (0) 9 267 28 89 | mobile 0032 (0) 497 52 88 05
Vooruit is supported by:
Vlaamse overheid / Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen / Stad Gent De Morgen / P&V / Radio 1
the game is up! is supported by:
partners Kunstencentrum van de toekomst Belgacom / Belnet / Cisco / IBBT Transdigital i.h.k.v. INTERREG IV France Wallonie Vlaanderen
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Almost Cinema
Dates:
Tue Oct 07, 2008 00:00 - Wed Oct 01, 2008
Location:
Belgium
Vooruit Arts Centre and the Ghent Film Festival would like to invite you to the 3d edition of Almost Cinema, a programme that explores and crosses the borders between cinema and visual arts, media arts and the stage. The festival consists of an exhibition / installation trail, live performances, audiovisual concerts and talks: media artists and dramatist alike show work with a cinematic twist.
http://www.vooruit.be/en/serie/42
Artists participating in exhibition: Alexandra Dementieva (RU, works in Brussels/New York), video artist / media artist; Boris Debackere (BE), media artist / researcher (V2\_) / teacher (Transmedia); Laure Delamotte-Legrand (FR), visual artist / architect; Doris Kuwert (DE, works in Berlin), visual artist; Heike Langsdorf (DE, works in Brussels), choreographer; Ulf Langheinrich (DE, works in Vienna / Accra Ghana), media artist (a.o. in duo ‘Granular Synthesis’); Laurent Liefooghe (BE), visual artist; Ali Momeni (IR, works in Minneapoliss), sound artist / media artist / researcher / teacher (University of Minnesota); Elisa Pône (FR), visual artist; Ula Sickle (CA, works in Brussels), choreographer; Eric Thielemans (BE), composer / musician.
Artists participating in live program: David Bithell (US), researcher / teacher / sound artist; Xander de Boer (NL), theatre maker ; Rikkert Brok (NL), media artist / VJ; Alexis Destoop (BE), filmmaker; Maarten Halmans (NL), media artist / VJ; Steven Heather (AU), theatre maker; Krijn Hermans (BE), theatre maker; Derek Holzer (NL), media artist / sound artist / VJ; Eric Joris (BE), theatre maker / media artist / researcher; Heike Langsdorf (DE), choreographer / dancer; Ulf Langheinrich (DE), media artis; Christophe Meierhans (DE), theatre maker / film director; Mike Michiels (BE), theatre maker; Ali Momeni (US), researcher / teacher / media artist; Anna Rispoli (IT), actress / theatre maker; Ula Sickle (CA), choreographer / dancer; Nicola Unger (CH), theatre maker / sound artist / comic author; Philip Warnell (UK), plastic and media artist / film director; Siegmar Zacharias (RO/DE), theatre maker.
SOME HIGHLIGHTS
Wednesday 8 October
OPENING EXHIBITION / INSTALLATION TRAIL
with live performances Drift and Viewmaster.
We would like to invite you to view our selection of media and video art works for Almost Cinema 08 in an installation trail. On the same evening we will present two performances that have a close connection to the trail. Drift, a cinematic performance by Ulf Langheinrich, and Viewmaster, a performance that stirs the imagination by Heike Langsdorf and Ula Sickle in a construction by Laurent Liefooghe.
Tuesday 14 Oct, 20:00
PERFORMANCE NIGHT
with Rikkert Brok & Maarten Halmans - Shift, Ali Momeni & David Bithel - The Liminal Surface and Derek Holzer - Tonewheels
Record players, lights, cameras, synthesizers… These are the ingredients Rikkert Brok and Maarten Halmans use to create their own equipment. For the performance Shift they also manufactured the required material themselves. / In an intimate face-to-face with his colleague Ali Momeni, David Bithell blends elements of live performance, video, music technology and improvisation into a playful game that hovers between tragedy and comedy. / Derek Holzer’s performance Tonewheels is an experiment that turns graphic images into sound with the help of tonewheels.
Wednesday 15 Oct, 20:00
FRICTIESSALON DELUXE
Talks with Alexis Destoop and Aaron Schuster (Kairos), Anna Rispoli & Christophe Meierhans (The Pitch) , Philip Warnell (The Girl…).
An evening with presentations of artists that approach cinema from an unexpected angle. We will host Philip Warnell who is famous for his experiments with projecting film on the human eye. He will talk about the making proces of his new film. Anna Rispoli and Christophe Meierhans will report in the form of a lecture/performance about their project ‘The Pitch’ in which they want to restage the american western Rio Bravo with local actors in Sudan. And Alexis Destoop will talk about his new film Kairos, a cross between science fiction and a road movie in close collaborations with soundartists Stephen O’Malley and Oren Ambarchi.
Thursday 9 Oct, 09:00 - 17:00
CONFERENCE MUTATNG MEDIA
Together with Interface (academic platform of KASK, UGent, VUB & University Utrecht that investigates the interfaces between art and science), we set up a symposium on Thursday 9th October (9:45am-5pm, free entrance, in English) called Mutating media.
New media like film and digital technology broaden the range of materials that artists have at their disposal. At this conference, international speakers and artists will talk about building bridges between art and architecture, poetry and typography, theatre and media art. Several video and media artists will show their work.
With Wouter Davidts (professor, University of Amsterdam, Ghent University), Paul Demets (Poet, Lecturer KASK, University College Gent ), Maaike Bleeker (Professor, Utrecht University), Arjen Mulder (Writer, V2\_, Rotterdam), Kurt D’ Haeseleer (Artist, Brussels), Manu Luksch (Artist, London), Ali Momeni (Artist, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota) and Johan Grimonprez (Artist, Brussels).
Welcome! Best regards,
Eva De Groote, media arts programme
Almost Cinema is a coproduction of Vooruit Arts Centre & Ghent Film Festival.
http://www.vooruit.be
http://www.filmfestival.be
http://www.vooruit.be/en/serie/42
Artists participating in exhibition: Alexandra Dementieva (RU, works in Brussels/New York), video artist / media artist; Boris Debackere (BE), media artist / researcher (V2\_) / teacher (Transmedia); Laure Delamotte-Legrand (FR), visual artist / architect; Doris Kuwert (DE, works in Berlin), visual artist; Heike Langsdorf (DE, works in Brussels), choreographer; Ulf Langheinrich (DE, works in Vienna / Accra Ghana), media artist (a.o. in duo ‘Granular Synthesis’); Laurent Liefooghe (BE), visual artist; Ali Momeni (IR, works in Minneapoliss), sound artist / media artist / researcher / teacher (University of Minnesota); Elisa Pône (FR), visual artist; Ula Sickle (CA, works in Brussels), choreographer; Eric Thielemans (BE), composer / musician.
Artists participating in live program: David Bithell (US), researcher / teacher / sound artist; Xander de Boer (NL), theatre maker ; Rikkert Brok (NL), media artist / VJ; Alexis Destoop (BE), filmmaker; Maarten Halmans (NL), media artist / VJ; Steven Heather (AU), theatre maker; Krijn Hermans (BE), theatre maker; Derek Holzer (NL), media artist / sound artist / VJ; Eric Joris (BE), theatre maker / media artist / researcher; Heike Langsdorf (DE), choreographer / dancer; Ulf Langheinrich (DE), media artis; Christophe Meierhans (DE), theatre maker / film director; Mike Michiels (BE), theatre maker; Ali Momeni (US), researcher / teacher / media artist; Anna Rispoli (IT), actress / theatre maker; Ula Sickle (CA), choreographer / dancer; Nicola Unger (CH), theatre maker / sound artist / comic author; Philip Warnell (UK), plastic and media artist / film director; Siegmar Zacharias (RO/DE), theatre maker.
SOME HIGHLIGHTS
Wednesday 8 October
OPENING EXHIBITION / INSTALLATION TRAIL
with live performances Drift and Viewmaster.
We would like to invite you to view our selection of media and video art works for Almost Cinema 08 in an installation trail. On the same evening we will present two performances that have a close connection to the trail. Drift, a cinematic performance by Ulf Langheinrich, and Viewmaster, a performance that stirs the imagination by Heike Langsdorf and Ula Sickle in a construction by Laurent Liefooghe.
Tuesday 14 Oct, 20:00
PERFORMANCE NIGHT
with Rikkert Brok & Maarten Halmans - Shift, Ali Momeni & David Bithel - The Liminal Surface and Derek Holzer - Tonewheels
Record players, lights, cameras, synthesizers… These are the ingredients Rikkert Brok and Maarten Halmans use to create their own equipment. For the performance Shift they also manufactured the required material themselves. / In an intimate face-to-face with his colleague Ali Momeni, David Bithell blends elements of live performance, video, music technology and improvisation into a playful game that hovers between tragedy and comedy. / Derek Holzer’s performance Tonewheels is an experiment that turns graphic images into sound with the help of tonewheels.
Wednesday 15 Oct, 20:00
FRICTIESSALON DELUXE
Talks with Alexis Destoop and Aaron Schuster (Kairos), Anna Rispoli & Christophe Meierhans (The Pitch) , Philip Warnell (The Girl…).
An evening with presentations of artists that approach cinema from an unexpected angle. We will host Philip Warnell who is famous for his experiments with projecting film on the human eye. He will talk about the making proces of his new film. Anna Rispoli and Christophe Meierhans will report in the form of a lecture/performance about their project ‘The Pitch’ in which they want to restage the american western Rio Bravo with local actors in Sudan. And Alexis Destoop will talk about his new film Kairos, a cross between science fiction and a road movie in close collaborations with soundartists Stephen O’Malley and Oren Ambarchi.
Thursday 9 Oct, 09:00 - 17:00
CONFERENCE MUTATNG MEDIA
Together with Interface (academic platform of KASK, UGent, VUB & University Utrecht that investigates the interfaces between art and science), we set up a symposium on Thursday 9th October (9:45am-5pm, free entrance, in English) called Mutating media.
New media like film and digital technology broaden the range of materials that artists have at their disposal. At this conference, international speakers and artists will talk about building bridges between art and architecture, poetry and typography, theatre and media art. Several video and media artists will show their work.
With Wouter Davidts (professor, University of Amsterdam, Ghent University), Paul Demets (Poet, Lecturer KASK, University College Gent ), Maaike Bleeker (Professor, Utrecht University), Arjen Mulder (Writer, V2\_, Rotterdam), Kurt D’ Haeseleer (Artist, Brussels), Manu Luksch (Artist, London), Ali Momeni (Artist, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota) and Johan Grimonprez (Artist, Brussels).
Welcome! Best regards,
Eva De Groote, media arts programme
Almost Cinema is a coproduction of Vooruit Arts Centre & Ghent Film Festival.
http://www.vooruit.be
http://www.filmfestival.be
