FILE SOLO 2017. Lawrence Malstaf featured on Google Arts & Culture
07.03.2018 FILE SOLO at CCBB
São Paulo (BR)
Check 'FILE SOLO. Lawrence Malstaf - The Poetics of Immersion' on Google Arts & Culture here: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/KwJCuqNdz06LLg
Mental Overdrive LIVE at Spectra Aberdeen's Festival of Light 2018
10.02.2018 The Tunnels
Aberdeen, Scotland
Mental Overdrive is the moniker Norwegian artist and producer Per Martinsen has released most of his electronic music output under, from early industrial techno through legendary Belgian techno label R&S Records back in 1990, through a variation of dancefloor friendly beats on imprints such as Smalltown Supersound, Discfunction, Full Pupp, Ploink, Music Man and his own Love OD Communications.
Het Kanaal
26.01.2018 - 07.02.2018 Ostade A'dam & NTGent
Amsterdam - Gent
26 & 27 January 2018
Ostade A'dam (NL)
6 & 7 February 2018
NTGent (BE)
On a beach near Calais a young refugee prepares himself to swim across the Channel, towards his new future. On the English side, on the chalk cliffs of Beachy Head, a (transsexual) woman bids life goodbye; in a few instants she will jump to her death.
The new text by author Gaea Schoeters is mirrored by recently recovered Shakespeare-text.
Composer Annelies Van Parys uses the Shakespeare-text as a libretto for a cycle of songs, which set the refugee theme in a historical perspective. The soprano is also the intermediary between past and present, audience and play; via other spoken Shakespeare fragments she sets the story in a different perspective, turning the personal stories into a sharp reflection of society, both in the 16th century and today – because the similarities are, alas, striking.
Text Gaea Schoeters Composition Annelies Van Parys Direction Gable Roelofsen & Romy Roelofsen / Het Geluid Maastricht
Actors Katelijne Verbeke & Adams Mensah
Vocalist Naomi Beeldens Lute/guitar Maarten Vandenbemden Scenography Anneleen De Causmaecker Co-produced by Perignem vzw
Muziektheater Transparant
Het Geluid Maastricht
Antwerp Queer Arts Festival
The Physical Mind
26.01.2018 - 02.04.2018 CTM Festival 2018
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (D)
During a residency in Shanghai, Teun Vonk discovered by chance that it eased his stressed body and mind to apply physical pressure to his body. Contrary to what one may expect, the registration of sensory input does not improve in a heightened state of sensitivity, such as stress. Such a state serves the evolutionary purpose by filtering out irrelevant information, only focusing on the accurate response: fight or flight. When experiencing such a state, applying pressure to the body has a strong stress-relieving effect.
With The Physical Mind, Vonk seeks to let participants experience the relation between their physical and mental states by applying physical pressure to the body. The installation consists of two inflatable objects. The participant lays down in between, is lifted up and gently squeezed between the two inflatable objects. The lifting creates an unstable feeling, a slightly stressful sensation that is directly contrasted with a secure feeling of being gently squeezed between two soft objects. Paradoxically, this forced physical stimulus reduces feelings anxiety and paradoxically stress and the flight- or fight-response disappear. The participant experiences and increased sensitivity to stimuli, normalized alertness and a calm state of mind. The positive effects of this increased receptivity can continue for a few hours after the experience. The installation evokes empathy in bystanders who witness a participant undergo the experience.
USHER SHORTLISTED FOR FEDORA - PRIZE FOR OPERA 2018
25.01.2018 Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin) and Folkoperan (Stockholm)
Berlin & Stockholm
Extremely proud to officially announce that Annelies Van Parys has the great honour to write a chamber opera for Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin) and Folkoperan (Stockholm): USHER.
The opera will be departing from the unfinished opera "La chute de la maison Usher" of Debussy. Gaea Schoeters did a wonderful job on the libretto, the stage direction is in the hands of Philippe Quesne and... there is more good news!
We are on the shortlist for the Fedora Prize!
There also is a public award.
You can vote HERE
Shrink at FILE Belo Horizonte 2018
19.01.2018 - 19.03.2018 CCBB
Belo Horizonte (BR)
For this exhibition at CCBB Belo Horizonte, FILE Festival has chosen the theme “Electronic art in the disruptive age”. These exhibitions purpose a rupture at the traditional form of art appreciation, here the visitors can experience: new sensations and perceptions; senses the relationship between real and digital movement; interact with the works and immerse themselves into virtual reality.
Lawrence Malstaf
Shrink 01995
FILE Festival Belo Horizonte 2018
5TWIG & 24 LEAVES
16.01.2018 - 04.03.2018 Stream Capture - Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery,
Minneapolis (US)
5twigs consists of 5 found twigs that were three dimensionally scanned and then printed in translucent plastic. Each original twig was then mounted in opposition to its artificial counterpart.
24 leaves uses muscle wire to make each leaf subtly bend in unison when the viewer pushes a toggle switch.
David Bowen - what the work knows
15.01.2018 Publication
McKnight Foundation
The publication 'what the work knows' was produced by the McKnight Foundation in conjunction with a McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship which David Bowen received in 2015.
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Mental Overdrive NOMINATED FOR SPELLEMANNPRISEN - BEST ELECTRONIC ALBUM 2017
15.01.2018 Spellemannprisen
Norway
Mental Overdrive is nominated for the Norwegian Grammy aka Spellemann for EPILOGUE as best electronic music album of 2017, together with great artists such as Lindstrom, +Plattform and SASSY 009.
Mental Overdrive’s live shows are based on hardware equipment only, and varies from harder, beat-based techno shows to more abstract/ambient gigs, all depending on the nature of the event. At the bigger Mental Overdrive shows, live visuals by Tromsø artist Nicolas Horne are part of the setup.
UPCOMING GIGS
26 January - Cementen, Stavanger - Live set
27 January - Vaktbua, Kristiansand - Live set
Mental Overdrive
Video live in-store at Filter Musikk, Oslo
Annelies Van Parys: News & Agenda 2018
04.01.2018 - 27.04.2018 Newsletter
On Tour
News & Agenda 2018 - Annelies Van Parys