GILBERTO ESPARZA
Nomadic Plants
Vegetation and microorganisms live in symbiosis inside the body of the Nomadic Plants robot. Whenever its bacteria require nourishment, the self-sufficient robot will move towards a contaminated river and ‘drink’ water from it. Through a process of microbial fuel cell, the elements contained in the water are decomposed and turned into energy that can feed the brain circuits of the robot. The surplus is then used to create life, enabling plants to complete their own life cycle. As Gilberto wrote in our email conversation, “The nomadic plant is a portray of our own species. It also deals with the alienated transformation of this new hybrid species that fights for its survival in a deteriorated environment.”
SUSAN CLUSENER
Fruit Series
“I am fascinated by the physical-ness of things: how a flame moves, how trees bend, how water feels on the skin. I am especially fascinated by the invisible forces at work in living things. In particular, those forces associated with growth and renewal, but also its other side, death and decay.”
Studio Drift
Concrete Storm
On first impression, visitors experience solid forms, which draw on minimalist motifs and underscore the stable properties of concrete. While wearing the HoloLens, viewers enter a mixed reality, enlivened by responsive holograms that augment the physical environment of the installation. With Concrete Storm, DRIFT explores the layer between the parallel worlds, whereby the real and the virtual worlds co-exist. People’s attention is now constantly divided between these two worlds in which they coexist. The artists believe that combining these two seemingly separate worlds they can study the unlimited possibilities of the unstoppable evolution. Concrete Storm expands the boundaries of the digital world, freed from screens, and integrated into the fabric of physical existence.
Vincent Olinet
Twice Upon a Time
Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca
Metamembrana
A projeção representa uma paisagem em que num único panorama somam-se quatro projeções na horizontal em uma proporção de 16/3. Inspirado nos retábulos dos mestres flamengos Hyeronimus Bosch e Pieter Bruegel, a paisagem reproduz colinas, cidades, céus, mares e uma grande quantidade de situações protagonizadas por diferentes personagens. Não se trata de uma situação estática como daquelas pinturas, mas sim de uma colagem animada e variável vinculando o comportamento interativo das interfaces. A projeção dispõe de diferentes estados ou camadas, até sete, que resultam em uma grande diversidade interativa. As interfaces ou dispositivos sensíveis são ativados pelos espectadores que se convertem em usuários da instalação tanto no âmbito local como no resto das cidades. A interação também se produz por outros parâmetros, como o clima ou certos comportamentos sociais. Metamembrana tem uma clara vontade de estabelecer elementos de identificação com o espectador para fazê-lo participar da obra. Estão previstas três estratégias para consegui-lo: a primeira, previamente, mediante a produção de conteúdos in situ, em cada uma das cidades, com entidades e elementos próprios do lugar. A segunda, durante a exposição inserindo imagens dinâmicas como, por exemplo, câmeras conectadas a vários pontos da cidade ou capturas das faces de alguns espectadores. E a terceira, de maneira pontual, produzindo elementos ao vivo em cada uma das cidades que se retransmitem pela rede durante o período de exibição da peça.
FILE LED SHOW
Rozendaal Project
thepersistenceofsadness
FILE LED SHOW
ARCHITECTENBUREAU MARLIES ROHMER
The building of student dwellings in the complex of buildings belonging to Utrecht University has transformed the Uithof site into a full-fledged campus. It will also help relieve the chronic housing shortage for young people in the city of Utrecht. Within the line of freestanding buildings (‘Objectenstrook’) the master plan designed by OMA, our block of 380 independent and clustered rooms presents itself as a solitary mass with a 20 metre cantilever. The spectacular main concrete supporting structure consists of four slabs that together form a theatrical single table leg. The ‘leg’ and its rocking bench dramatize the main entrance and create an urban rendezvous which distills the encounters and the to-and- from of all those students.
LA MONTE YOUNG
Marian Zazeela & The Theatre of Eternal Music
Dream House
The album was released with the catalog number Shandar 83.510. Regarding the extended run time, Young in the sleeve notes says that “Time is so important to the experiencing and understanding of the music in the record that every effort was made to make the record last as much as the original master tapes”; Young thanked Mr. Michel Blancvillain who made it technically possible.The cover, labels, design and calligraphy were designed by Marian Zazeela, and are drawn in her trademark magenta on a black background, featuring a picture of her and Young in performance. The two inner sides of the record jacket contain a comment by Shandar founder Daniel Caux, plus extensive original notes penned by La Monte Young himself about the music, its structure and its history. In 2016 Aguirre Records reissued the album on vinyl in a limited-edition, remastered form
HONG CHUN ZHANG
张春红
James Seawright
Dome
James Seawright, born in 1936 in Jackson, Mississippi, was for many years Director of Visual Arts at Princeton University.
Recognized as one of the foremost technological artists since the late 1960’s, his works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and the Guggenheim Museum of New York, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the New Jersey State Museum at Trenton, and other museums throughout the world.
Tomas Saraceno
Moving atmospheres
Moving Atmospheres, the tenth Garage Atrium Commission curated by Iaroslav Volovod, is a partially mirrored sphere suspended in the air, propelling us towards an Aerocene epoch. We call towards this new era with Aerocene. For more than a decade we have been imagining a world free from the carbon, extractivism, capitalism and patriarchy that fuels some forms of life, a new way of being with the atmosphere and emissions-free travel, free from solar panels, lithium, helium, hydrogen and fossil fuels. This new era stands in stark contrast to the lingering eco-traumas of the Anthropocene, the current geological age in which some human capitalistic activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.
CHRISTO
Христо
big air package
Big Air Package is the largest indoor sculpture in the world. It measures 90 meters in height and 50 meters in diameter. Visitors can enter the inner space of the balloon through airlocks. Inside, Big Air Package reminds of a cathedral that is filled with a diffuse light. Big Air Package is the first project realized without Christo’s late wife and artistic partner Jeanne-Claude.
DAMIEN JALET
OMPHALOS
In ancient Greek Omphalos means navel as in navel or center of the world. Jalet’s creation examines the question of origins. The choreographer reflects on the human predicament and life in the cosmos, a recurrent theme in his work. For his first Latin American creation, Jalets brings together an ensemble of 20 dancers who perform to the music of Marihiko Hara et Ryūichi Sakamoto. This stunning performance makes light of gravity and instability, unfolding at the very edge of empty space. Exceptional event: the only performances in France as part of a world tour.
Frederik Duerinck & Marleine van der Werf
Be Boy Be Girl
FILE FESTIVAL
HERB WILLIAMS
Crayon Sculptures
James Angus
제임스 앵거스
ジェームスアンガス
詹姆斯·安格斯
جيمس انجوس
Ellipsoidal Sculpture
Troika
Dark Matter
‘Troika’s metaphysically strange hanging sculpture Dark Matter (2014), a large black object that looks like a circle, a square or a hexagon depending on where you’re standing, probes (like Olde Wolber’s video) a very contemporary disturbance about the irreconcilability of subjective point-of-view and objective truth.’
