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SHRINK 01995 - The Presence of Absence at Frankfurter Kunstverein

Frankfurter Kunstverein
Frankfurt (DE)

The exhibition The Presence of Absence will occupy the entire exhibition space of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, covering 1,000 square meters. Thematically, the exhibition revolves around humanity’s timeless engagement with the idea of transience and its forms of representation in art. The title refers to matter as a presence where traces of the living are inscribed. Vital energy is powerful yet fleeting. It leaves a mark, a trace that, captured in matter, can endure over time.

The exhibition will juxtapose exhibits spatially, presenting the abstract idea of a “presence of the absent” from both artistic and scientific perspectives within an expanded conceptual space. The curatorial narrative will venture as far as the astrophysical phenomenon of the black hole. Thoughts on the expanse and time, and the infinity of the universe lie beyond our human imagination, yet simultaneously raise the question of who we are. Our planet hovers somewhere between immensity and eternity. And for a fleeting moment, our own lives open a window.

The self experiences the wonder of reality through the senses of our bodies. These consist of the elements of exploded stars in the cosmos: the nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood, or the carbon in our cells. In fleeting moments, we connect with eternity and give traces of being a material form. Art is one way to do that.

Curated by Franziska Nori, with scientific support from Anita Lavorano and Laura Perrone

SHRINK 01995 - Two large, transparent plastic sheets and a device that gradually sucks the air out from between them leave the body vacuum-packed and vertically suspended. The transparent tube inserted between the two surfaces allows the person inside the installation to regulate the flow of air. As a result of the increasing pressure between the plastic sheets, the surface of the packed body gradually freezes into multiple micro-folds. For the duration of the performance the person inside moves slowly and changes positions, which vary from an almost embryonic position to one resembling a crucified body.

Lawrence Malstaf
Frankfurter Kunstverein

EXHAUST

MOLENFEST
Parvis Saint-Jean-Baptiste, 1080 Molenbeek, Brussels (BE)

EXHAUST is the medieval execution of an internal combustion engine. The accused, a truck engine, is paraded from the Quartier Heyvaert in Molenbeek to the Brussels Grand Place, where the scaffold awaits. Before the execution is carried out, the convict’s heinous crimes are read out to the public. They are the unfulfilled promises of endless progress and growth. Violence is met with violence, so that catharsis might take place.

The engine is a miracle of the modern age. It fueled the industrial revolution and sped up our advance, but the ecological price we had to pay for it is enormous. This story has to come to an end. We must change, and change requires sacrifice.

From his home base in Brussels, Kris Verdonck has spent years crafting a wholly unique body of work that spans visual arts and theater, installation and performance, dance and architecture. Performer and artist Benjamin Verdonck is the executioner on duty.

EXHAUST
MOLENFEST

Cycles & 1 drop 1000 years at Sonica Glasgow

Tramway
Glasgow, Scotland

For more than 15 years, the artist Martin Messier has created artworks in which sound art meets light, robotics and video. In the form of performances and installations, these works place the body front and center.

Sonica Glasgow, the biennial festival dedicated to world-class music and audiovisual art for curious minds and adventurous spirits, is back for its 8th edition, presented by Cryptic, who are celebrating 30 years of innovation in 2024. Get ready to be immersed.

1 DROP 1000 YEARS
Signs of the climate crisis are not always visible – but its hidden effects are no less devastating. Even a minute fluctuation in the constant temperature of the thermohyline loop which circulates through Earth’s five oceans could transform our ecosystem. It takes a millennium for a single drop of water to travel the world in this current, a fact that informs Martin Messier’s new work, in which digital water currents stream, splatter and splash, set to a bubbling electronic soundtrack that underscores water’s vital importance to our continued survival.
21 September 2024 - 20:15
Tramway Glasgow

Sonica Talk: Martin Messier: Placing the body front and centre - Sound, Light and Robotics
Martin Messier will discuss the intersection between sensory experiences and technology. He will share insights into his projects through engaging videos and discussions, revealing how sound, light, and robotics can redefine our understanding of the human/machine art form. By giving voice to materials through movements and sound, Messier creates performances that highlight the synchronicity between sound and image, transforming ordinary objects into captivating experiences. 
21 September 2024 - 11:00
Glasgow School of Art

CYCLES
In Martin Messier’s Cycles, thin straps of dazzling light flail out into empty space, then float down almost weightless in the dark. Their movements – sometimes one beam acting alone, sometimes all eight in complex interplay – form patterns that move from the closely choreographed to the seemingly random, while an accompanying electronic hum suggests industrial machinery or a hive of insects intent on some inscrutable task. Messier transforms his fascination for harmony and disorder into a dance for white light, a simple medium describing highly involved systems.  
19 -  29 September 2024
CCA, Glasgow

wilderness & the journey in Hyper Nature

Prectxe, Ice Culture Cargo
Dongbin Culture Depot, Pohang, South-Korea

wilderness

Thirteen disposable plastic shopping bags playfully dance in the gallery space articulated by wave data collected on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean.
Data for this installation was collected as artist at sea resident aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute Research Vessel Falkor as it transited from Astoria, Oregon to Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2019. While in the middle of the enormous ocean, at times, it felt this place was completely untouched by human activities. This delusion was destroyed by the occasional piece of human made debris floating in this vast wilderness. Using an on-board accelerometer, every movement of the ship caused by wave action was collected during the entire journey. The Z movement data is directly mapped to the movements of the bags floating in the gallery space creating the effect that the bags are suspended in waves of the Pacific.

the journey 
the journey is an installation that uses multi-beam sonar seafloor data collected during a transit on the Pacific Ocean July of 2019. During this journey aboard Research Vessel Falkor, an approximately 10 mile wide swath of seafloor was scanned using a sophisticated onboard multi-beam sonar depth sensor. The data gathered from entire journey is converted to an 3D model surfaces of the seafloor underneath the vessel as it transited the Pacific Ocean. For the installation, a portion of these 3D models will be carved into individual sections of clear acrylic and set end to end recreating an approximately 27-foot installation in the gallery space. An RGB led strip will be installed in the bottom of the acrylic sections and programed to illuminate a section of the journey chasing across the gallery space. This will recreate a sense of movement illustrating the vessels journey across the Pacific Ocean as it scanned the seafloor.

EXHAUST at Transart Festival Bolzano

Transart Festival
Bolzano (IT)

EXHAUST by A Two Dogs Company / Kris Verdonck is all about the execution of an internal combustion engine: over-revving a truck engine in a public space until it blows up.

A marching crowd, a motor engine, an execution: the opening of the 24th edition of Transart will be literally explosive. Visual artist and theatre director Kris Verdonck invites us to march together through the streets of Bolzano to the site where a trial and death sentence will be carried out in the style of a medieval execution. 
This is a procession to the gallows not for a person, but rather for an everyday object: the internal combustion engine. Normally hidden from view, it’s a symbol of the insane technical progress known to mankind during the 21st century, but also of the ecological catastrophes gripping the planet. EXHAUST re-enacts the format of a medieval execution. The accused—in this case, the internal combustion engine—is dragged through the city at the head of a procession, beginning at the OASIE Transart in Via Dante. After a reading of the accused's crimes and condemnations—such as the unfulfilled promises of endless progress and growth—the death sentence is carried out. The performance follows the methods of Greek tragedies, Japanese Nō theatre or Shakespeare: mythological sacrifice as a violent ritual to resolve conflict; brutal violence as a purifying force.

EXHAUST
Transart

Organism + Excitable Chaos at Ars Electronica

POSTCITY, Bunker
Linz (AT)

Navid Navab is recognized as a media-alchemist and anti-disciplinary composer with a background in biomedical sonification. Navab’s work illuminates the intersection of investigative arts, media archeology, and philosophical biology and is characterized by sculpturous engagement with transductive structures of liveliness. His recent creations orchestrate sensory attunement to the dissipative formations and uncanny forms of order that flow from machinic engagement with excitable dynamics of matter.

A robotically prepared pipe organ driven by a robotically-steered chaotic pendulum
Navid Navab (IR/CA) in collaboration with Garnet Willis (CA)

This work probes the form-giving tendencies of nature by drawing kinetic chaos into conversation with sonic turbulence. The chaotic motion of Excitable Chaos, a robotically-steered triple pendulum, drives the aerodynamic thresholds of Organism, a robotically-prepared century-old pipe organ.

Organism dismantles the socio-historical tonality of the organ to sound its turbulent materiality, liberating long-repressed timbres to be heard anew. Excitable Chaos produces chaotic patterns by modulating the mass/orbital relations between its 3 moving arms. As a physical system with nonlinear behavior it highlights how, in nature, even events at the smallest scales of magnitude compel emergent behaviors whose next states are unknown.

Solo concert with a century-old pipe organ prepared robotically to sound turbulent patterning

In this solo performance centered around a robotically-prepared pipe organ, Navab improvises with Organism to explore ways in which its turbulent thresholds manifest unstable timbres.

A Casavant pipe organ built in 1910 is rescued from the indifference of gentrification at a heritage site in Montreal and brought back to life. Organism destabilizes the socio-historical tonality of the pipe organ to liberate its turbulent materiality, robotically unleashing timbres unheard after centuries of sonic repression.

During the concert, shifting metastable states allow for energetic thresholds to rapidly fall into and out of compatibility with one another. With no digital sounds, Navab aerodynamically shapes the resulting ecology of interdependent timbres into emergent realms, traversing microsonic polyrhythms, post-rock overspill and swampy soundscapes.

Navid Navab
Concert Organism: In Turbulence
5 September 2024
17:00 – 17:35
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HOPE: A touch of many
Theme exhibition Ars Electronica
Organism + Excitable Chaos
4 - 8 September 2024
POSTCITY, Bunker, Linz (AT)
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1 DROP 1000 YEARS at MUTEK

MUTEK - A/VISIONS 2
Montreal, Quebec (CA)

Martin Messier's 1 drop 1000 years is an immersive audiovisual performance, portraying the critical yet fragile role of the thermohaline circulation system. Using advanced technology, Messier captures the essence of global currents, emphasizing their delicate balance and the urgent human impact on climate regulation.

Martin Messier
MUTEK Montréal

Cycles at MUTEK

MUTEK
Montreal, Quebec (CA)

Cycles is an installation where everyone is invited to become aware of the relationships linking cyclical and unpredictable phenomena. These dialogues are also found in the sound space: the tuned engines envelop the music diffused with their elusive timbres and draw this landscape in which the harmony is built as much by its power as by its vulnerability. 

Martin Messier
MUTEK Montréal

SHRINK 01995 at NOVUM Newcastle Summer Festival

NOVUM 2024
Newcastle (UK)

SHRINK 01995 - Two large, transparent plastic sheets and a device that gradually sucks the air out from between them leave the body vacuum-packed and vertically suspended. The transparent tube inserted between the two surfaces allows the person inside the installation to regulate the flow of air. As a result of the increasing pressure between the plastic sheets, the surface of the packed body gradually freezes into multiple micro-folds. For the duration of the performance the person inside moves slowly and changes positions, which vary from an almost embryonic position to one resembling a crucified body.

At NOVUM Newcastle Summer Festival there will be 4 Shrinks and the bodies of 4 performers.

Photography by Martin Argyroglo at Nuit Blanche Paris 2023.

Lawrence Malstaf
NOVUM Newcastle Summer Festival

46°41'58.365" lat. -91°59'49.0128" long. @ 30m

Light Art Museum Budapest
Budapest (HU)

46°41'58.365" lat. -91°59'49.0128" long. @ 30m  refers to the source location where the water surface data was collected for this series. An autonomous aerial vehicle hovering 30 meters above Lake Superior captured still images of the water’s surface. For this series of five, the vehicle was deployed to the same location on different days and in different weather conditions. The collected images were converted into three-dimensional models using open source software. The models were then carved with a CNC router into a series of clear acrylic cylinders. This process captured the dynamic movements of the waves and ripples from a specific time and location and suspended this ever-changing water pattern into a static transparent form. 

David Bowen
Light Art Museum Budapest