STEPHEN CARTWRIGHT
Mesh
MARGOLIS BROWN
THE BED EXPERIMENT ONE
Witness as the covers are pulled back to reveal the rites and rituals of the untamable Homo Sapiens in its favorite nesting place — a giant bed! Like a bizarre nature documentary THE BED EXPERIMENT tracks four males and four females, who while confronting their deepest fears and desires, balance the witty and weird against the painfully true to life.
“As the piece proceeds, the focus shifts from mating rituals to the antics of lovemaking, from the battle of the sexes to baby worship, and from dreams of conquest to nightmares of disembowelment. The bed turns from the cradle of civilization into a hospital cot, from a sultry desert to a tundra of monsters. As the scenes evolve — the performance is a 60-minute continuum — the tone mysteriously oscillates between extremes of farcicality or pathos. How the performers effect these wondrous transformations is one of the Adaptors’ most singular professional secrets”.
CINESTEIKA
Dina Khuseyn, Patrick K.-H., Oleg Makarov
A multivarious result of visual representation of 3 non-identical structures (dance performance, sound art and animation) points at interactivity as the main possible axis of reference. Necessity of this axis derives from specific interpretations that can only appear by juxtaposing of several systems. It opposes to traditional “parallelism” of media, employed in theater that only imitates causality, but having it already done before performance is starting.
In Cinestetika, each element of each media works as separate PROCESS, but also serves a SIGNAL to other medias. This essential core makes Cinestetika rather an instrument to make a term “live performance” filled with its perfect sense.
Iart
Light Cloud
The Light Cloud at the Merck Innovation Center detects visitors’ movements in the room and translates them into many different moods. The generative sculpture stimulates and facilitates intense encounters between people and technology. The room-filling installation consists of four curved strands that are concentrically superimposed and slightly shifted in relation to each other. OLED elements that are attached to the strands and controlled by sensors react to the visitors’ movements and to sound compositions. In combination, this generates a complex mosaic in which sound and light interact playfully and the viewers leave traces.
NUMEN/FOR USE
Tube Innsbruck
Le collectif d’artistes Numen/For Use, dont nous avions déjà parlé avec leur structure organique gigantesque installée dans le Palais de Tokyo, viennent de réaliser une nouvelle installation monumentale et immersive dans la galerie autrichienne Architektur Forum. Cette immense structure en corde baptisée simplement Tube propose aux visiteurs de déambuler à travers les tunnels tortueux de l’installation, découvrant l’architecture des lieux sous différents angles et perspectives tout en flottant à plusieurs mètres au dessus du sol…
Sasha Waltz
insideout
Mit „insideout“ verwirklicht die deutsche Choreografin Sasha Waltz ihren lang gehegten Traum (ein Großprojekt), eine Produktion zu machen, die den Zuschauern uneingeschränkte Bewegungsfreiheit bietet. Unzählige Aktionen in Tanz, Musik und Bild finden gleichzeitig und auf verschiedenen Ebenen statt. Es liegt an den einzelnen Zuschauern, ihren eigenen Kurs zu bestimmen. Ein sehr unterhaltsames und aufregendes Abenteuer vor Ort! Jede Szene erzählt eine bewegende Geschichte, manchmal lustig und grotesk, manchmal autobiografisch. Der Choreograf ging wie immer von einer intensiven Sozialforschung aus. Dieses Mal führte sie Interviews mit ihren eigenen Tänzern und fragte sie nach ihren verborgenen Geschichten, nach ihren Familien und Hintergründen. Die Produktion bietet ein Kaleidoskop von Lebensgeschichten, Emotionen und Erinnerungen. Die Originalkomposition von Rebecca Saunders wird live von musikFabrik, dem renommierten deutschen Ensemble für zeitgenössische Musik, aufgeführt.
MAOTIK AND FRACTION
Dromos
Dromos is a metaphoric AV Performance that takes its concept from the philosophical work of P. Virilo who is mostly known for founding the idea of Dromology (science of speed). Dromos invites audience to a criticism experience of the ’peed’ role that impacts all aspects of our daily lives. During 40mns, it focuses people attention on this essential factor that shapes our world. With its message, Dromos invites you to wonder about your relationship with progress. It’s an unconventional work with an original sensorial approach, placing the audience inside an immersive environment.
YUJI NISHIJIMA
西嶋 祐二
Yuji Nishijima is a sculptor in search of his own notion of the medium, creating works using materials such as iron, concrete and wire. His interest lies not only in the works themselves, but also with his relationship to the audiences that come to his exhibitions. He defines this relationship as a part of his work. At this exhibition entitled “An Indication of Existence”, Nishijima will create his sculptures in the form of his own body using numerous coils of copper wire.
Karsten Schuhl
Superpose
L’installazione di sovrapposizione media fenomeni d’onda in continua evoluzione all’interno di uno spazio che sono visibili, udibili e reagiscono alla presenza di una persona nello spazio. Connettere lo spazio e il suono tra loro per creare un ambiente multisensoriale dinamico con l’aiuto degli elementi visivi delle onde nell’acqua. Il suono, stimolo invisibile che si muove nello spazio, presenta al pubblico un filo conduttore tra lo spazio visibile e le vibrazioni fisiche invisibili. superpose esplora il potenziale dell’interazione e del design esperienziale per creare esperienze olistiche che offrono una nuova comprensione di come il suono opera come fenomeno fisico all’interno dello spazio: il pubblico capisce come le onde sonore si propagano nello spazio? Devono?
Georgina Santiago and Guillermo Mora
ギジェルモ・モラ
VITRINE
VITRINE is a collaboration with artist Guillermo Mora, with who Georgina Santiago has a speciall creative connection. The idea behind it was to merge the two creative worlds in the way that the essence of a gallery is translated to the clothes and sorround them with a sculpure. The boundaries between art and fashion get blurry and the body become a sculpture itself. The surroundings of the body become part of it and all mutate into one. The body became a vitrine were the art is exposed.
Ed Atkins
Get Life/Love’s Work
This new project focuses on the ways bodies and technologies are intertwined, particularly in the field of digital communication and telepresence. As always in Atkins’s work, technology is analyzed as a theoretical and even allegorical interrogation of itself, rather than in any literal terms.
RON VAN DER ENDE
peekskill
On October 9th, 1992, a meteorite broke up over the United States and hit a parked car in Peekskill, New York. Since then that car is known as the Peekskill Meteorite Car and was exhibited all over the world. Ron van der Ende, a Dutch artist, took that car as the inspiration for his bas relief made with reclaimed timber.
FREDERIK VANHOUTTE
fire-wood
Garnier Fructis
Publicis, Zurich, Switzerland
FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Craca
OUVIR
Craca
FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Installations
Electronic Language International Festival
OUVIR – Brazil
Interactive sound installation simulating the learning process of a community and the creation of a lexicon through memetic exchanges between virtual creatures and visitors. These melody-emitting beings form a physical network that spreads through the architectural space, learning to communicate throughout the exhibition. A rudimentary AI system was built from scratch for the work.
BIO
As a visual artist, he has exhibited at the 13th Mercosur Biennial, II Bienalsur (Argentina), Architecture Biennial, Casa França Brasil, Bispo do Rosário Museum, Santander Cultural, and EAC (Uruguay). He has also performed audiovisual works at festivals like ON_OFF (Itaú Cultural), Brasília Mapping, Abstrata (Fortaleza), Sonora Visual (Recife), among others.
This work belongs to the collection of the I.A. Institute of Contemporary Art of Ouro Preto.
Adam Nathaniel Furman
Identity Parade
YING GAO
Living pod
file festival
Light, shape variations and mimicry meet in Living Pod. In front of the false twin pieces, the user can slowly set garment A in motion using a light source. Garment B then imitates piece A in an exaggerated and unbalanced fashion, changing structure through miniature electric motors activated by light sensors that are sown through the garment. Using flat-pattern cutting techniques, Ying Gao was able to give the process fluidity and flexibility. In addition to the mechanical movements of the garments, Living Pods underlines two fundamental aspects of today’s fashion system: confrontation and imitation. The garment plays a mediating role between man and his environment. By using light, Living Pod is similar to project Walking City, which uses air to make the pieces look like they are breathing.
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA
САНТЬЯГО КАЛАТРАВА
سانتياغو كالاترافا
圣地亚哥·卡拉特拉瓦
산티아고 칼라 트라 바
サンティアゴカラトラバ
סנטיאגו קלטראווה
Tenerife Opera House
