# TODAYSART.BE # TODAYSART.ORG

INT’L FESTIVAL BEYOND ART

LEAP INTO THE VOID

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐29-‐30 SEPT / 01 OCT 2011

BRUSSELS, BE

# LEAP INTO THE VOID@TODAYSART

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐TODAYSART IS A FESTIVAL CONCEPT THAT REVOLVES AROUND THE PRESEN-‐TATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ADVENTUROUS CONTEMPORARY VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS IN A VARIETY OF URBAN SETTINGS. THE FESTIVAL WAS

FIRST HELD IN 2005 IN THE HAGUE, AND HAS SINCE PROVIDED A SIGNIFICANT ANNUAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE CITY’S CULTURAL VIBRANCY. IN 2011, INTERNA-‐TIONAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE GENERATOR FOUNDATION AND CIMAT-‐ICS WILL EXTEND THIS CONTRIBUTION TO BELGIUM, THROUGH THE INITIATION

OF TODAYSART BRUSSELS, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS TODAYSART.BE.

IN BRUSSELS, TODAYSART.BE WILL TAKE OVER THE EUROSTATION / MIDI-‐ZUID STATION -‐ ONE OF THE CITY’S EMBLEMATIC SITES -‐ FROM 29 SEPTEMBER TO

1 OCTOBER, PRECISELY ONE WEEK AFTER THE TODAYSART EDITION IN THE HAGUE. A 60 EURO COMBI-‐TICKET AND A TRAIN RIDE OR ROAD TRIP

OF BARELY MORE THAN AN HOUR ALLOWS YOU TO VISIT BOTH FESTIVALS!

BACKED UP AND INSPIRED BY CREATIVITY WE ARE TAKING A LEAP INTO THE VOID. THE FUTURE SEEMS UNSTABLE. WE BELIEVE IN THE SECTOR WE OPERATE IN. WHATEVER HAPPENS, WE WISH TO KEEP TAKING YOU ALONG FOR A RIDE INTO NEW TERRITORIES AND TO CONTINUE EXPLORING TOOLS

FOR AN UNKNOWN FUTURE. TO CELEBRATE THE UNFAMILIAR, AND TO FEAST UPON EACH OTHER’S IMAGINATION.

WE CREATED THIS PAPER AS A WARM-‐UP TO THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL AND WE HOPE WE ARE GIVING YOU SOMETHING SPECIAL TO LOOK FORWARD TO. KEEP

AN EYE ON OUR WEBSITE WWW.TODAYSART.BE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND PROGRAMME UPDATES. YOU CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO CARRY ALL THE

INFORMATION ON YOUR MOBILE PHONE: VISIT M.TODAYSART.ORG. ENJOY!

# CALL FOR ACTIONCAMP CONFERENCE:

THE RISE OF PERFORMANCE ARCHITECTURE

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐THIS YEAR WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US TOGETHER WITH NUMEROUS

PARTNERS AT CAMP CONFERENCE WHERE ARCHITECTS, URBAN THEORISTS, PERFORMANCE ARTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, ACTIVISTS, STUDENTS AND PUBLIC WILL CONVENE, EXCHANGE, EXPERIMENT, PRODUCE

AND DISTRIBUTE IDEAS AND RESOURCES.

A WEEK-‐LONG WORKSHOP (26 -‐ 30 SEPTEMBER) WILL BE ORGANISED AT PARC GRISAR (KUREGEM/CUREGHEM). DURING THIS WEEK, IT IS POSSIBLE FOR

EVERYONE -‐ EITHER INDIVIDUALLY OR COLLECTIVELY -‐ TO PLUG-‐IN TO AND INTERACT WITH NUMEROUS SOCIAL AND CREATIVE POSSIBILITIES FOR USING

AND TRANSFORMING OUR PUBLIC SPACE.

THREE DAYS OF CONFERENCES AND PERFORMANCES (29 SEPTEMBER -‐ 01 OCTOBER) WILL GIVE PARTICIPANTS AND GUESTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE ARCHITECTURE AND TO EXTEND

IT’S POTENTIAL WITH REGARD TO FUTURE ART/URBAN STRATEGIES.

CAMP CONFERENCE WILL ALSO HIGHLIGHT THE MYCITYLAB PROJECT, WHICH CALLS FOR LONG TERM ACTIONS IN THE EUROSTATION / CANAL MIDI / ZUID

NEIGHBORHOOD, A KEY PLATFORM FOR MOBILITY IN EUROPE.

PARTICIPANTS: PEDRO GADANHO [PT], RAUM LABOR [DE], ANDRÉS JAQUE [ES], TOR LINDSTRAND -‐ ECONOMY [SE], UMSCHICHTEN [DE], ANNA RISPOLI [IT],

MATTEO PASQUINELLI [IT], EXYZT / 6B [FR], ZOOM ARCHITECTURE [FR], HEHE [FR], BUREAU D’ÉTUDES [FR], LORETO MARTINEZ TRONCOSO [ES],

JOCHEN DEHN [DE], OST COLLECTIVE [BE], EDURNE RUBIO [ES], CÉCILE MARTIN [CA] AND YOU! CURATED BY EWEN CHARDRONNET [FR]

WANT TO JOIN IN? FIND MORE INFORMATION ON OUR WEBSITE: WWW.TODAYSART.BE

LEAP INTO

THE VOID

# IT’S ALL OF IT TOGETHER, NO SIMPLE EXPLANATION

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# ALL I SEE ARE MY FEET AND THE UNKNOWN

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# NO, NOT MORE, BUT DIFFERENT

# I RECKON IT HAS A BELL, LIKE WE ALL DO

# PERFORMANCE

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐HIROAKI UMEDA [JP] -‐ HOLISTIC STRATA

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐HIROAKI UMEDA COMES TO TODAYSART.BE TO PRESENT HIS MODERN DANCE PIECE HOLISTIC STRATA. RECEIVING RAVING REVIEWS ONLINE AND IN NEWS-‐

PAPERS SUCH AS THE GUARDIAN AND LE MONDE, HOLISTIC STRATA SEES UMEDA CONVERTING HIS OWN MUSCLE MOVEMENTS INTO COMPUTER DATA IN REAL TIME, WHICH ENABLES HIM TO MANIPULATE THE LIGHT FROM FOUR

LARGE PROJECTORS. UMEDA SEEMINGLY TURNS INTO A DANCING LANDSCAPE, RESULTING IN A VERY INTENSE VISUAL EXPERIENCE FOR THE AUDIENCE.

MURCOF [MX] + SIMON GEILFUS (ANTIVJ) [BE/FR]-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

MEXICAN ELECTRONIC COMPOSER MURCOF HAS HAD AN AMAZING AMOUNT OF INFLUENCE ON CONTEMPORARY ELECTRONIC MUSIC. HIS COLLABORATION

WITH ANTIVJ’S VISUAL GENIUS SIMON GEILFUS IS A MARVELOUS MERGING OF TALENTS; WITH LARGE, SEMI-‐TRANSPARENT SCREENS, THEY CREATE

A FULLY IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH MICROSCOPIC PARTICLES, GEO-‐METRIC GRIDS AND ORGANIC ELEMENTS ARE MAPPED IN A WONDROUS 3D PER-‐SPECTIVE TO THE SOUND OF AMBIENT AND DRONING ELECTRONICA. A TRULY

PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE THAT WILL BE A FEAST FOR YOUR EYES AND EARS.

MARTIN MESSIER [CA/QC] -‐ SEWING MACHINE ORCHESTRA-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

SEWING MACHINE ORCHESTRA BY MARTIN MESSIER IS JUST THAT; IT IS A MUSICAL PERFORMANCE ENTIRELY ORCHESTRATED WITH ACOUSTIC SOUNDS

PRODUCED BY 1940’S SEWING MACHINES. THE EFFECT OF SEEING THESE CLASSIC INDUSTRIAL MACHINES IN A CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENT, WORK-‐ING TOGETHER TO PRODUCE STRUCTURED SOUND, IS STRANGELY FANTASTIC.

EUPHORIE (1024) [FR] -‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

1024 ARCHITECTURE WAS CREATED BY PIERRE SCHNEIDER AND FRANCOIS WUNSCHEL, CO-‐FOUNDERS OF THE EXYZT COLLECTIVE. THE LABEL FOCUSES ON THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN BODY, SPACE, TECHNOLOGY, ART AND ARCHI-‐TECTURE. ‘EUPHORIE’ WAS BORN FROM THE DESIRE TO DEVELOP A PROJECT

BASED ON THE INTERACTION BETWEEN VIDEO, SOUND, MOVEMENT AND ACCIDENTS OF LIFE AS A 40-‐MINUTE THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE POWERED BY LO-‐TECH TOOLS. THE RESULT IS AN AMAZING AUDIOVISUAL EXPERIENCE

THAT QUESTIONS THE SENSES.

JUSTICE YELDHAM [AU] -‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

WHAT’S BEEN DESCRIBED AS “A TRUMPET PLAYER TRAPPED IN A TWO-‐DIMEN-‐SIONAL UNIVERSE” IS IN FACT THE UNIQUE AUDIO WORK OF JUSTICE YELDHAM (THE LATEST ALTER-‐EGO OF LUCAS ABELA), A MAVERICK MUSICIAN WITH AN UNHEALTHY OBSESSION FOR SHEETS OF BROKEN GLASS. BY PRESSING HIS FACE AND LIPS AGAINST THE GLASS WHILST EMPLOYING VARIOUS VOCAL TECHNIQUES RANGING FROM THROAT SINGING TO RASPBERRIES, HE TURNS HOUSEHOLD WINDOWS INTO CRUDE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. THIS RESULTS

IN A WIDE VARIETY OF CACOPHONOUS NOISES THAT ARE STRANGELY CONTROLLED AND ODDLY MUSICAL.

JOCHEN DEHN [FR/DE] -‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

JOCHEN DEHN PRACTICE AS A PERFORMER TAKES VARIOUS FORMS INCLUDING THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES IN APARTMENTS, MUD WRESTLING, WORKS FOR

AN ACTRESS AND AN ELEPHANT, GAMES WITH THE DETECTORS IN THE LOUVRE AND A HOMAGE TO THE INVENTION OF VELCRO. BY ENGAGING THE BODY AND

THE SPACE AROUND IT, JOCHEN DEHN EXPANDS UPON FORMS AND STRATEGIES THAT TEND TO REVEAL CONTACT ZONES AND THUS REDUCE THE DISTANCE

THAT SEPARATES THE BODY FROM ITS POSSIBLE COLLISIONS.

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# INSTALLATION

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐LUCAS ABELA [AU] -‐ VINYL RALLY

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐LUCAS ABELA (AKA JUSTICE YELDHAM) WILL BRING HIS VINYL RALLY TO

TODAYSART. THE INSTALLATION IS A RACE TRACK MADE FROM OVER 6.000 VINYL RECORDS. THE PUBLIC CAN CONTROL RACING CARS THAT HAVE A STYLI

(RECORD NEEDLE) ATTACHED TO THEM, THUS PICKING UP SOUND FROM THE RECORDS AS THEY RACE. WE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR VINYL RECORDS, SO IF YOU HAVE UNWANTED RECORDS LYING AROUND, PLEASE DROP THEM OFF

AT MAPP SHOP (RUE LÉON LEPAGE 5 LÉON LEPAGESTRAAT, BRUSSELS).

ANDREAS MUXEL [AT/DE] & MARTIN HESSELMEIER [DE] -‐ CAPACITIVE BODY-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

NOISE POLLUTION IS PRODUCED 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK. WE CAN CLOSE OUR EYES, BUT OUR EARS ARE ALWAYS OPEN. UNNATURAL SOUND DIS-‐RUPTS THE ACTIVITY AND BALANCE OF HUMAN OR ANIMAL LIFE. ‘CAPACITIVE BODY’ IS A MODULAR LIGHT SYSTEM THAT REACTS TO THE SOUND OF URBAN SPACES. IT CONSISTS OF MODULES EQUIPPED WITH SENSORS, ELECTROLUMI-‐NESCENT WIRES AND A MICROCONTROLLER. SENSORS CAPTURE ARCHITEC-‐

TURAL SOLIDS’ VIBRATIONS TRIGGERED BY SURROUNDING AMBIENT NOISE AND CONTROL THE LIGHT WIRES TENSED TO A SPATIAL NET STRUCTURE. CHANGES

IN VIBRATIONS TRANSLATE INTO LIGHT FLASHES CREATING A DYNAMIC NERVOUS LIGHT SYSTEM. SILENCE IS GONE FROM TODAY’S URBAN SPACES.

LAB[AU] + DAVID LETELLIER [BE / FR] -‐ TESSEL-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

TESSEL IS A KINETIC INSTALLATION INVESTIGATING THE PERCEPTION OF SOUND AND SPACE. TESSEL IS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN FRENCH COMPOS-‐ER AND ARTIST DAVID LETELLIER, AND LAB[AU], A BELGIAN ELECTRONIC ARTS STUDIO. THE INSTALLATION CONSISTS OF A SUSPENDED AND ARTICULATED TO-‐POGRAPHY OF MIRRORS, SOME OF THEM FITTED WITH MOTORS AND EQUIPPED WITH AUDIO TRANSDUCERS, TRANSFORMING THE SURFACE INTO A DYNAMIC SONIC SPACE. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN SPACE AND SOUND IS CREATED AS THE

SURFACE SLOWLY MODIFIES ITS SHAPE, OUR PERCEPTION OF IT ALTERED THROUGH CONTINUOUSLY CHANGING LIGHT AND SOUND REFLECTION.

TOM LAAN [NL] -‐ CROWD DJ -‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

CROWD DJ IS A DANCE CONTROLLED INTERACTIVE SOUND MIXER THAT GIVES THE CROWD CONTROL OVER THE MUSICAL OUTPUT. EACH AREA OF THE DANCE FLOOR ACTIVATES A SOUND CHANNEL. BUT, WHEN THE DANCING STOPS, THE MUSIC WILL IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN – THE INSTALLATION DEMANDS THE CROWD TO REMAIN ACTIVE, AND KEEP THE ENERGY GOING.THE WAY DJ’S

PERFORM NOWADAYS CAN SOMETIMES BE (SOMEWHAT) BORING. SO, WHY NOT CHALLENGE THE AUDIENCE A BIT AND GIVE THEM A BIGGER RESPONSIBILITY?

ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS DANCE.

LOCUS SONUS [FR] -‐ LOCUSTREAM PROMENADE -‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

LOCUSTREAM PROMENADE IS A SOUND ART INSTALLATION COMPOSED OF SONIC BEAMS ( 10 PARABOLIC DISHES EQUIPPED WITH SOUND SPEAKERS AND SMALL COMPUTERS). THE PARABOLAS ARE SUSPENDED IN THE PUBLIC SPACE

IN SUCH A WAY THAT A VISITOR ONLY HEARS THE SOUND FROM THE BEAM WHEN HE OR SHE IS DIRECTLY UNDERNEATH IT. THE LIVE STREAMED SOUNDS ARE SOUNDSCAPES COMING FROM REMOTE LOCATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE

THROUGH THE INTERNET.

BRIKO2K [BE] -‐ BOTS CONSPIRACY-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

BOTS CONSPIRACY IS AN AUTONOMOUS D.I.Y. PUNK ROCK ROBOTS BAND CONTROLLED BY ARDUINO CARD AND PROGRAMMED WITH PURE DATA. IT’S A KIND OF IRONIC METAPHOR OF WHAT MAINSTREAM ELECTRONIC MUSIC BECAME NOWADAYS USING THE TYPICAL GUITAR-‐BASS-‐DRUMS-‐VOICE.

# HIGHLIGHTS # HIGHLIGHTS

#LEAPINTOTHEVOID #TODAYSART

#TODAYSART

# MUSIC

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐BIOSPHERE [TOUCH -‐ NO] + EGBERT MITTELSTÄDT [DE]

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐BIOSPHERE ORIGINATES FROM NORWAY AND IS FAMOUS FOR HIS AMBIENT ELEC-‐

TRONIC MUSIC, WIDELY KNOWN AS “ARCTIC SOUND”. TOGETHER WITH VIDEO ARTIST EGBERT MITTELSTADT, BIOSPHERE WILL PRESENT AN EXCLUSIVE PER-‐FORMANCE BASED ON HIS LATEST ALBUM, N-‐PLANTS. THE ALBUM, INSPIRED BY THE ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND BEAUTIFUL NATURAL LANDSCAPES IN WHICH A FEW JAPANESE NUCLEAR PLANTS ARE LOCATED, QUESTIONS THE INTERAC-‐TIONS BETWEEN AN ECOSYSTEM AND THE POTENTIAL DANGER OF RADIATION

AND WAS RELEASED ONE MONTH BEFORE THE FUKUSHIMA DRAMA.

KANGDING RAY [RASTER NOTON -‐ FR]-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

KANGDING RAY (DAVID LETELLIER, 1978) IS A FRENCH ARCHITECT AND MUSI-‐CIAN. HE EVOLVED AS A GUITARIST AND DRUMMER IN BANDS, WITH INFLUENC-‐ES RANGING FROM NOISE-‐ROCK TO JAZZ, BEFORE BUYING AN AKAI SAMPLER

AND MOVING ON TO ELECTRONIC MUSIC. HIS MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS CONSIST OF SUBTLE MELODIES THAT COMBINE WITH MACHINE SOUNDS INTO SUBTLE

AND RHYTHMIC TUNES. HE SKILFULLY INTEGRATES GUITAR LOOPS, BASS LINES, RESIDUAL NOISE, ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS AND DIGITAL ANOMALIES TO CRE-‐ATE A TEXTURED AND DREAMY SOUNDSCAPE. AT HIS LIVE PERFORMANCES,

KANGDING RAY USES ANALOGUE MACHINES, LAPTOPS, MIDI PADS AND GUITARS.

DAEDELUS [NINJA TUNE / BRAINFEEDER / PLUG RESEARCH -‐ US]-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

DAEDELUS WAS ORIGINALLY TRAINED IN SEVERAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, BUT LISTENING TO RELEASES FROM WARP, NINJA TUNE, HE EVENTUALLY DE-‐

CIDED TO GO THE ELECTRONIC ROUTE. WE’RE GLAD HE DID THAT, BECAUSE HIS UNIQUE STYLE THAT FALLS ANYWHERE BETWEEN IDM AND RAVE IS EXCEL-‐

LENT. DAEDALUS IS MORE THAN A DJ AND AN ELECTRONIC MUSIC PRODUCER: HE IS AN ECCENTRIC CONDUCTOR WITH A UNIQUE TAKE ON BROKEN BEATS,

HEAVY BASS LINES AND SUPERMODIFIED SAMPLES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.

ELEKTRO GUZZI [MACRO -‐ AT]-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

ELEKTRO GUZZI ARE BERNHARD HAMMER, JAKOB SCHNEIDEWIND AND BERNHARD BREUER, FROM VIENNA; A DRUMMER, A BASS PLAYER AND A

GUITAR PLAYER. INSPIRED BY EARLY KRAUT, THEY MODIFY THEIR INSTRU-‐MENTS TO PLAY 100% LIVE TECHNO WITHOUT ANY COMPUTER BACKING,

OVERDUB OR LOOP. THE ACT HAS BEEN ONE OF THE FEW TO GET A TOUR OF JAPAN BOOKED AND APPEARANCES AT BARCELONA’S SONAR AND BERLIN’S BERGHAIN BEFORE ANY RECORDING WAS EVEN PROMOTED. THE MUSIC IS FASCINATING, ESPECIALLY THEIR PERFORMANCE ON STAGE, WHERE THEY

CONNECT THE HYPNOTIZING FORCE OF THEIR ANALOGUE TECHNO WITH THE VISUAL TREAT OF A BAND THAT CREATES EVERYTHING YOU HEAR RIGHT IN

FRONT OF YOUR EYES. YOU HEAR IT, YOU WITNESS IT, AND YOU DANCE.

D/R/U/G/S/ [DRUGSREC -‐ UK]-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

CALLUM WRIGHT’S D/R/U/G/S CRAFTS SOME OF THE MOST EUPHORIC, RADICAL NEW MUSIC AROUND. MADE WITH THE FREE FORM ATTITUDE OF

SYNTH VISIONARY ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, THE FUCK-‐YOU BRAGGADOCIO OF THE WU-‐TANG CLAN, THE CAST-‐IRON INTEGRITY OF PUNK AND THE HEAD-‐LONG DESPERATE RUSH OF RAVE, D/R/U/G/S’ TEXTURED, CANOROUS SOUNDS

ARE WELL SUITED TO THE COME DOWN AFTER A REBELLIOUS NIGHT.

DÉBRUIT [CIVIL MUSIC -‐ FR/UK]-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

HIP HOP, HIPHOUSE, HEAVY BASS BEATS, AFRICAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN INSTRUMENTS, YOU CAN FIND ALL OF THAT IN PARISIAN SYNTH MAGICIAN

DÉBRUIT‘S MUSIC. HIP HOP MEETS CONGO, TUNISIA, JAMAICA AND LA. DÉBRUIT’S SOUND IS MOST DEFINITELY FRENCH, BUT ALSO DEFINITELY DIFFERENT. HE HAS A UNIQUE SOUND, CURRENTLY TAKING HIM ACROSS

THE WORLD, DOING REMIXES FOR ARCHITEQ, ZERO7, LEE SCRATCH PERRY, KOTCHY, KONONO#1 AND OTHERS. BE SURE TO CATCH HIS GROUNDBREAKING

FULL ON FUSION AT TODAYSART 2011.

BACONHEAD [ACROPLANE -‐ UK]-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

BACONHEAD IS THE NEW PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN EBOLA AND AUTOBEE. INTRODUCING SCI-‐FI BEATS TO CONFUSE YOUR BRAIN, BACONHEAD’S

RELEASES ON IRSIH LABEL ACROPLANE RECORDINGS ARE MASTERPIECES OF FUTURE BASS, DIGITAL FUNK AND WONKY GOODNESS. TAKING INFLUENCES FROM DUBSTEP, SKWEEE, GLITCHHOP AND EVEN HINTING SOMETIMES AT IDM,

BACONHEAD USES ANALOGUE INSTRUMENTS TO CREATE STORMING SETS.

# SCREENING

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐ALPHA-‐VILLE (FESTIVAL OF POST-‐DIGITAL CULTURE, LONDON) COMPILED

THE FILM PROGRAMME ‘VISIONARY CITIES’ FEATURING KEIICHI MATSUDA, AUGMENTED HYPER REALITY: DOMESTIC ROBOCOP + AUGMENTED 3D CITY /

RICHARD HARDY, THE TRANSCENDENT CITY / RICHARD YOUNG, WASTEFIELD / ERIC SCHOCKMEL, OCCUPATION MOVEMENT I + OCCUPATION MOVEMENTS II & III / GEORGE THOMPSON, THE RESORT / DANIEL FICKLE, DENMARK, / JOPSU RAMU

AND TIMO HUHTALA -‐ MUSATA LTD., URBAN ABSTRACT / JONATHAN GALES, SPECULATIVE LANDSCAPES / GREG TRAN, LEONARDO AT THE MUSEUM.

“OUR CITIES ARE IN CRISIS AND THEIR FUTURE DEPENDS ON ARCHITECTS AND URBANIST THINKERS, WHO ARE WILING TO LOOK BEYOND TODAY’S

REALITIES TO PROVIDE A DIRECTION FOR OUR INCREASINGLY URBAN WORLD. CONTEMPORARY CITY DESIGN IS FULL OF OBSTACLES THAT STAND IN THE WAY OF VISIONARY THINKING. IT IS TIME FOR US TO TAKE A POSITION ON HOW WE

WANT TO LIVE IN THE FUTURE; IT IS TIME FOR A VISIONARY CITY.” (IN VISIONARY CITIES, THE WHY FACTORY, 2009)

# PERIPHERY

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐TODAYSART PERIPHERY IS A COMPONENT OF THE FESTIVAL THAT REVOLVES AROUND THE PRESENTATION OF LOCAL PARTNERS’ INITIATIVES. THE PERIPH-‐ERY BRINGS FORWARD A DIVERSE RANGE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAMMES IN BRUSSELS CREATED INDEPENDENTLY OR IN COLLABORATION

WITH THE FESTIVAL. THIS YEAR’S PERIPHERY FEATURES PARTNER INITIATIVES BY ATELIERS CLAUS, MEDIARUIMTE, PECHA KUCHA, IMAL, KUREGHEMNET,

LA MAISON DU PEUPLE, ANTITAPAS, BURLESQUE FEVER, FUSE, K-‐NAL, NUIT BLANCHE AND MANY OTHERS, ALL OVER THE CITY.

# TODAYSART IPHONE APP

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐EXPLORE THE FESTIVAL PROGRAM, NAVIGATE TO THE LOCATIONS, LEARN

MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS, GET THE LATEST NEWS AND MAKE YOUR OWN FAVORITES LIST WITH THE TODAYSART APP. SURF TO THE APP

STORE AND SEARCH FOR ‘TODAYSART’. DOWNLOAD THE APP FOR FREE AND HAVE THE WHOLE FESTIVAL AT YOUR FINGERTIPS!

# TICKETS

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐ PRESALE: 1-‐DAY PASS 15 EURO 3-‐DAY PASS 35 EURO 3-‐DAY SUPPORT PASS* 55 EURO COMBI-‐TICKET THE HAGUE + BRUSSELS** 60 EURO

AT THE FESTIVAL: 1-‐DAY PASS 20 EURO 3-‐DAY PASS 45 EURO 3-‐DAY SUPPORT PASS* 55 EURO COMBI-‐TICKET THE HAGUE + BRUSSELS** 60 EURO

* A 3-‐DAY SUPPORT TICKET ALLOWS YOU TO SUPPORT TODAYSART WITH AN EXTRA CONTRIBUTION.

** A COMBI-‐TICKET PROVIDES YOU ACCESS TO BOTH FESTIVALS: TODAYSART.NL 2011 + TODAYSART.BE 2011

# HIGHLIGHTS # HIGHLIGHTS

# I’M HERE INIT! I’M HERE!

THE DAILY PORTIONS OF TEXT AND IMAGES THAT WE RECEIVE CAN BE ENVISIONED AS BUILDING BLOCKS. BASED ON THE SELECTIONS WE MAKE OUT OF THE EVENTS THAT REACH US FROM VARIOUS MEDIA, WE

STRIVE TO CREATE OUR OWN VISION OF THE WORLD.

BUT WHO SELECTS WHAT INFORMATION IS MADE AVAILABLE TO US AND WHAT KNOWLEDGE ARE THE DECISIONS ABOUT AVAILABILITY BASED UPON? THE ACTUAL SELECTION OF PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION IS BECOMING A MORE

AND MORE POWERFUL TOOL; DISTRIBUTING HARD FACTS IS BEING PUSHED INTO THE BACKGROUND. A SUGAR COATING OF OPINIONS KEEPS US ON THE SURFACE AND GUARDS THE ACTUAL CONTENT FROM VISIBILITY. WE ARE FACED WITH

A CHOICE; HANG ON, GIVE UP, EMBRACE OR DENY.

ARE WE IN DOUBT? IS DETACHING THE SAME AS BECOMING PASSIVE? THE TRUTH IS PROBABLY MORE SUBTLE. SIMPLY

SHARING AND POINTING TO SHALLOW INFORMATION IS ANYTHING BUT ACTIVE PARTICIPATION. THE UNDERLYING

SYSTEM IS BASED BOTH ON SKILL AND COINCIDENCE. IN THAT RESPECT, THE DROP-‐OUT AND THE FOLLOWER ARE NOT SO DIFFERENT. HOWEVER, A DIRECT CONNECTION DOES

FORM WHEN WE FOLLOW A LIVE EVENT, A CONNECTION THAT SEEMS HARD TO RECONSTRUCT AFTERWARDS.

INFORMATION CHANGES THE WAY WE SEE THE WORLD. HOW WE PROCESS INFORMATION ULTIMATELY DETERMINES

THE WAY WE DEAL WITH OUR SURROUNDINGS.

THE CHOICE IS OURS; WHAT DO WE SELECT, AND WHAT DO WE DO WITH THAT SELECTION? WE PRESENT OUR SE-‐

LECTION TO OTHERS AND PERHAPS WE FIND RECOGNITION. PARTICIPATING MEANS CHANGING AND INNOVATING. YOUR INTERESTS BECOME MY INTERESTS. YOUR IDEA IS MINE. WE LEAP INTO THE VOID. AS WE HAVE ALWAYS DONE.

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# INFO # CALLS

# CAMP-‐CONFERENCE

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐THE RISE OF PERFORMANCE ARCHITECTURE

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐‘IN THE LAST DECADE, EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE PRACTICES OF NUMEROUS ARCHITECTS AND ART COLLECTIVES HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING AS A CRITICAL

ANSWER TO GROWING MOBILITY, USING VARIOUS PERFORMATIVE TACTICS FOR “ACTIVATION” OF THE LOCAL POTENTIAL FOR SOCIAL CHANGE.

THE MOST INTERESTING EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS ARE FAST-‐STATEMENT CRITICAL PRACTICES, COLLECTIVE ACTIONS TOWARDS THE CREATION OF TEMPORARY PLACES FOR ENCOUNTERS IN AN EVER-‐

CHANGING URBAN ENVIRONMENT.

BUT, BECAUSE THESE ACTIONS HAVE TO BE STRONGLY CONNECTED TO LONG TERM LOCAL ACTIONS, THEY HAVE TO BE TRANSITORY PHASES THAT

CALL FOR A SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION, FOR A NEXT STEP. AND IN THAT SENSE, THIS IS VERY PERFORMATIVE. THIS IS WHERE THE PERFORMATIVE

ACTION BECOMES A RADICAL SOCIAL GESTURE THAT GOES FAR BEYOND THE PRODUCTION OF AN AESTHETIC OBJECT.’-‐ EWEN CHARDRONNET 2011

# MYCITYLAB

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐TERRITORY-‐BASED CREATIVE TOOL FOR CITIZEN INNOVATION

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐MYCITYLAB IS AN ONLINE/OFFLINE PROJECT SHOWCASING ARTISTIC INTER-‐

VENTIONS, EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS, PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES, STRATEGIES AND IDEAS THAT ARE GROUNDED

IN A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP WITH A PARTICULAR LOCAL CONTEXT.

MYCITYLAB IS A RESEARCH NETWORK AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT WAS CREATED TO DELIVER INFORMATION, TO CONNECT PEOPLE AND PRO-‐

JECTS, TO ACCELERATE THE CITY’S TRANSFORMATION TOWARDS ECOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY AND TO ENCOURAGE MEANINGFUL

COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE ARTISTS AND LOCAL ORGANISATIONS. FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW.MYCITYLAB.EU

# GREETINGS FROM THE HAGUE

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐THE RECENTLY ANNOUNCED RADICAL CUTBACKS IN FUNDING FOR THE DUTCH CULTURAL SECTOR WILL HAVE A DEVASTATING EFFECT ON ART AND CULTURE IN THE NETHERLANDS AND WORLDWIDE. AS ONE OF MANY CONSEQUENCES, MANY DUTCH ORGANISATIONS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN EMERGING ART FORMS, WHICH PLAY AN INFLUENTIAL ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SECTOR,

INDUSTRIES AND SOCIETY ON AN INTERNATIONAL LEVEL, WILL LOSE SOME OR ALL OF THEIR STRUCTURAL AND PROJECT BASED FUNDING. THIS WILL LEAD

TO A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN THE ACCESSION OF NEW TALENT, KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION. INSTEAD OF BEING PROVIDED WITH A POSSIBILITY TO RE-‐

STRUCTURE, THESE UNPRECEDENTED CUTBACKS WILL TAKE EFFECT IN JANU-‐ARY 2013. THIS MEANS A LOT OF THE QUALITY AS WELL AS THE INFRASTRUC-‐TURE THAT WAS BUILT UP OVER THE PAST DECADES WILL BE LOST. AS A WAY TO JUSTIFY THEIR ACTIONS, THE GOVERNMENT IS WORKING HARD TO GIVE THE ENTIRE DUTCH CULTURAL SECTOR A TERRIBLE IMAGE, REFERRING TO ART AS A USELESS HOBBY AND TO CULTURAL WORKERS AS A BUNCH OF DEADBEATS. IN ADDITION TO THE IMPACT ON AFFECTED ORGANISATIONS AND A DECREASE

IN THE QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF THEIR OUTPUT, AUDIENCES WILL MOST LIKELY FACE AN INCREASE IN THE TAX ON TICKET PRICES THIS YEAR, MAKING

ART AND CULTURE IN THE NETHERLANDS LESS ACCESSIBLE IN GENERAL. LET US NOT FORGET THAT WITHOUT IMPORTANT MOBILISATION, THE SAME

SITUATION COULD ARISE IN BELGIUM AND ELSEWHERE IN EUROPE.WWW.GREETINGSFROMTHEHAGUE.COM

# OPEN CALLS FOR PROPOSALS

-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐TODAYSART INVITES ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, CREATIVE TECHNOLOGISTS, ARCHI-‐TECTS, URBANISTS AND SCHOLARS TO SEND IN PROPOSALS. PROJECTS MUST BE DESIGNED FOR OR ADAPTED TO LOCATIONS IN OR IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE EUROSTATION / CANAL MIDI / ZUID AREA. PRIORITY WILL BE GIVEN TO SUBMISSIONS BY THOSE WHO HAVE COMMUNITY ART EXPERIENCE OR HAVE WORKED WITH POPULATIONS IN URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS. MORE INFORMATION

CAN BE FOUND ON OUR SITES: WWW.TODAYSART.BE AND WWW.MYCITYLAB.EU

# URBAN INTERVENTIONS-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

WE ARE LOOKING FOR SITE-‐SPECIFIC AND SITE-‐RESPONSIVE PROJECTS. THIS CALL IS FOR ARTISTS OF ALL DISCIPLINES WHO PRESENT THEIR WORK

OUTSIDE A STUDIO PRACTICE AND BRING THE AUDIENCE INTO DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE WORK AND THE CREATION PROCESS IN THE URBAN PUBLIC SPACES. TODAYSART WILL COVER PRODUCTION COSTS FOR SELECTED INTERVENTIONS.

# APPS FOR BRUSSELS-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

SUBMISSIONS MAY BE ANY KIND OF SOFTWARE APPLICATION, WHETHER FOR THE WEB, A PERSONAL COMPUTER, A MOBILE HANDHELD DEVICE OR ANY SOFTWARE PLATFORM BROADLY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC. URBAN GAMES AND PLAYFUL INTERVENTIONS THAT INTRODUCE NEW IDEAS INTO

THE CITY STREETS, AND ENGAGE LOCAL INHABITANTS IN NEW, SURPRISING OR SPECIAL EXPERIENCES, ARE PREFERRED. APPS COULD BE FOCUSED ON

TRACKING AND/OR RECORDING THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE AND/OR OBJECTS OR AUGMENTING EVERY DAY URBAN EXPERIENCES THAT ARE NORMALLY

UNRECOGNISED OR INVISIBLE. TODAYSART WILL SELECT THE THREE BEST APPLICATIONS, WHICH WILL BE AWARDED 500 EURO EACH!

# STORYTELLING-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

TODAYSART WELCOMES PROPOSALS FOR INNOVATIVE STORYTELLING CON-‐CEPTS IN THE FORM OF PERFORMANCES, FILMS, INSTALLATIONS AND WEB-‐BASED ART WORKS THAT EMPLOY DIGITAL MEDIA AND INTERACTIVITY AS THEIR PRIMARY COMPONENTS. SUBMISSIONS MUST BE ARTISTIC WORKS

THAT EMPLOY GENERATIVE, INTERACTIVE, NETWORKED AND/OR HYPERMEDIA OR TRANSMEDIA TECHNIQUES AND NARRATIVES.

# MIXED REALITY AND AUGMENTED REALITY -‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

IN COOPERATION WITH ICAS PARTNERS, TODAYSART IS LOOKING FOR MIXED REALITY AND AUGMENTED REALITY PROJECTS. MR AND AR ALLOWS THE CREATION OF FASCINATING NEW TYPES OF USER INTERFACES. THE FIELD IS HIGHLY INTERDISCIPLINARY, BRINGING TOGETHER SIGNAL PROCESSING,

COMPUTER VISION, USER INTERFACES, GRAPHICS, HUMAN FACTORS, WEARABLE COMPUTING, MOBILE COMPUTING, COMPUTER NETWORKS,

DISPLAYS AND SENSOR TECHNOLOGY.

# DIY -‐-‐-‐-‐-‐

DIY AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS IN TIME, PLACE AND SPACE, ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL, HIGH AND LOW/NO-‐TECH. WE ARE LOOKING FOR PROJECTS

EXPLORING SIMPLE FUNCTIONS AND HARDWARE OF MOBILE PHONES SUCH AS: GEOLOCATION, SMS, BLUE-‐TOOTH, VIDEO, IN-‐BUILT CAMERAS, SPEAKERS

AND SENSORS, TO GENERATE PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC SPACE. WE ARE LOOK-‐ING FOR PROJECTS THAT ARE COLLABORATIONS AND WHICH CONNECT AND ACTIVATE LOCAL URBAN KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS USING FREE SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE TECHNOLOGIES AND DIY AND DIWO (DO IT WITH OTHERS) METHODS. SOME ORIENTATION SUBJECTS ARE: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE,

MOBILITY, TRANSPORT, URBAN AND TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS, SOCIAL RELATIONS AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION, GAMES, EDUCATION AND LEARNING

IN THE STREET, EXCHANGE OF SERVICES AND KNOWLEDGE.

# ONCE I WAS ON THE ZIP-‐LINE

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# EVERYONE KNOWS IT’S YOU, THE LAST HOLDOUT BANDIT

# ALL THAT WAS LEFT WAS WHAT WE WERE DOING

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GEOFF WICHMANN | PETER VAN HOESEN | LAB[AU] + DAVID LETELLIER | EXYZT SUPERMAFIA | RAUMLABOR | PEDRO GADANHO | HEHE / EWEN CHARDRONNET OST COLLECTIVE | MATTEO PASQUINELLI | TOR LINDSTRAND | UMSCHICHTEN

ZOOM ARCHITECTURE | ANDRES JAQUE | LORETO MARTINEZ TRONCOSO & MANY MORE

TODAYSART.ORG

# THE HAGUE # BRUSSELS

FACILITATING PARTNERS:

GRAPHIC DESIGN:

COLLECTIVEWORKS.NL (PETERZUIDERWIJK.COM & KARINMIENTJES.NL)

PRESENTING PARTNERS: PRESTIGIOUS PARTNERS:

MEDIA PARTNERS:

GOVERNMENTAL PARTNERS:

Pecha Kucha Brussels is organized by Alok Nandi, Architempo. Partners of Pecha Kucha Brussels include Crosstalks/VUB, Convergences,Best of & Design September, Ebuco, Flanders Fashion Institute, Quinze & Milan, Designprojection, ecocode.net, Gstory.be, Cafe Belga and Duvel. provides the seeding for the first season.

CREATIVE PARTNERS:

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PREFERRED & TECHNICAL SUPPLIERS: SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERS:

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23-‐24 SEPT 2011THE HAGUE, NL

29-‐30 SEPT / 01 OCT 2011BRUSSELS, BE