Beam Me Up _ Project India
An Internet-based art and text project, Beam Me Up deals with aspects of symbolic, virtual and physical space. Curated by Gitanjali Dang, the project focuses on net art floated by Vishal Rawlley and Abhishek Hazra, with essays by Anand Vivek Taneja and Nilanjana S Roy.
Beam Me Up_Project India
Curated by Gitanjali Dang
This project is supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council
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Artists: Vishal Rawlley and Abhishek Hazra
Essays: Nilanjana S Roy and Anand Vivek Taneja
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Beam Me Up_Project India goes live on Saturday, March 20, 2010.
Vishal’s project will be live online till 20 April 2010.
On 20 March Abhishek will do a collaborative online performance from 14.00 hrs – 16.00 hrs
For access to works, texts and further details click here.
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An overview
knock. knock.
who’s there?
scotty.
scotty, who?
scotty. disembodied scotty. for tim berners-lee’s sake. *rolls eyes* for sir timothy john ‘tim’ berners-lee’s sake. open up. let this not be 404 error.
if you are the true child of popular culture then you ought to have uttered the words, beam me up, scotty!, on more than one occasion. we have all variously opened the door to scotty and happily let him in. because in the bigger picture that flashes on the lcd, with backlight led, we are the servers and the clients. and that really is why we have congressed here in cyberspace seeking interface by way of virtuality.
the computer and its extensions such as the www and the internet have quickly transmogrified into the fulcrum of epistemological debate. through human–computer interaction, net art projects, such as those encompassed by beam me up, tackle enigmatic riddles vis-à-vis cyberspace, artificial intelligence, endophysics and the like. in this vastly vast virtual, representation and communication exist purely within the framework of snaking networks. through protracted exposures to this charged domain of electromagnetics, both abhishek hazra and vishal rawlley have familiarised themselves with the crinkles the big iron can steam out, and those it thus far hasn’t.
abhishek and vishal combine the performative and the conceptual in #cloudrumble56 and hauz-i-shamsi, their net art for beam me up_project india. in order to do so, they employ seemingly new fangled hardware and software, from automated attendants to microblogging. but let yourself not get caught up in the farcical provisionality of the new. despite the employment of certain thingamajigs both the artists return full circle to linger on the key notions of representation and communication.
excerpt from Gitanjali Dang’s essay
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Project: Hauz‐i‐Shamsi
Artist: Vishal Rawlley
Note: Hauz-i-Shamsi, a water reservoir, built by Iltumish – who ruled Delhi in the 13th century – still holds water in Mehrauli. Legend has it that it was in a dream that Prophet Muhammad revealed where Iltumish should build the reservoir. On inspecting the site, Iltumish is said to have found a hoof print of Muhammad’s horse (Burak); around this he erected the reservoir.
Hauz-i-Shamsi will now be presented online via webcam. A mobile sculpture of Burak will float on it waters and visitors, in the vicinity and online, will be able to interact with the Burak through phone or web.
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Project: #cloudrumble56
Artist: Abhishek Hazra
Note: i am yet to be a tweet – but i hope to pop on your timeline soon. you can find me and my first, second and other n order tweetcousins by searching for #cloudrumble56 on hashtags.org or on twitter.com. if you want to participate in generating me, please ping me at cloudrumble.livetweet@gmail.com
if all goes well, i should have a data connection to an artists’ performance this saturday, march 20th. as part of the performance, cantordust will try to conjecture on dr. cloudrumble saha’s tenure at delhi’s legendary ionization chamber from 1952 to 1956.
during these years dr.cloudrumble, who was otherwise famous for sticking a thermometer into the sun’s belly, demonstrated to the august members of the ionization chamber, the planned way to swim through a river in full spate. cantordust might rehearse some of saha’s moves while weaving an asymptotic life jacket for himself and his participant‐observerlivetweetmakers.
For access to works, texts and further details click here.
Cartographies
A series of films on choreographic interventions in the urban landscape of Lausanne, Cartographies is a project created by Compagnie Philippe Saire which will be screened at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
A series of films on choreographic interventions in the urban landscape of Lausanne, Cartographies is a project created by Compagnie Philippe Saire. The dance videos will be screened at the India International Centre, as part of Dance Platform 2010 organised jointly by Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council and the Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan.
Film Screening: Thursday 11 March 2010 6:30 pm onwards
at the Indian International Centre Auditorium
The screening is open to public.
There will be six films in all, lasting 85 minutes:
mini-golf - Cartographie 1
les arches - Cartographie 2
Interface - Cartographie 3
(Ha Ha Hey) What are you doing ? - Cartographie 4
rue Centrale 17-19 - Cartographie 5
la vallée de la jeunesse - Cartographie 6
Parallel to his work as a choreographer, Philippe Saire has also created and directed several video films about the universe of dance, often inspired by shows performed by his own company. CARTOGRAPHIES are a series of short films also termed as videodance, which are choreographic interventions in the urban landscape of Lausanne, Switzerland. The aim is to search for new ways of printing bodies on landscapes and creating fresh identities for urban spaces. In order to make a permanent record of these ephemeral interventions in the cityscape, the work is filmed thus giving a specific for to the interpretation, identity and memory of the city.
Saire will be present to answer questions from the audience.
Biography of Philippe Saire
Philippe Saire was born in Algeria and lives in Switzerland. In 1995, the Compagnie Philippe Saire inaugurated its own creative workspace, the Théâtre Sévelin 36. Situated in Lausanne, the theatre is entirely dedicated to contemporary dance. The Theatre is host to performances of international stature, but also supports dance performances by local companies in order to encourage their development. Amongst the highlights of the theatre’s annual programme are the Lausanne International Dance Festival and the Printemps de Sévelin Festival, which is dedicated to the work of young, contemporary choreographers. Artists-in-residence programmes complete the list of the theatre’s regular activities.
The Compagnie Philippe Saire has created 25 shows to date, with more than 1'000 performances in 160 towns and cities across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. Parallel to his work as a choreographer, Philippe Saire has also created and directed several video films about the universe of dance, often inspired by shows performed by his own company.
For more information visit: www.philippesaire.ch
Dance Platform 2010 New Delhi 8 – 14 March 2010
Dance Platform 2010, comprising of a week of seminar, workshops and work-in-progress performances, seeks to provide, to those engaged with contemporary dance in India, an opportunity to exchange views on its current practice with their peers in India and specialists from Switzerland and Germany. The objective of the platform is to facilitate a discourse on the field of contemporary choreography, thus enabling an exchange of ideas, views and techniques.
An initiative jointly developed by Pro Helvetia New Delhi and the Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, the platform will bring together choreographers and dance practitioners from India, Switzerland and Germany, for a week of deliberations and shared practice. The project is designed to encourage sharing and increase an understanding of each participant's notion of 'contemporary'. The week-long interaction will initiate a professional exchange between all participants.
Carnatic Vibes Zoom
Keen to take their music to new and unexplored spaces after a very fruitful and productive tour in India, Lucas Niggli and Karthik S will now play with other members of the ZOOM trio and Sarah Büchi (vocals) in Switzerland.
When Karthik S, a young and established percussionist from Bangalore, India met the immensely talented and well-known Swiss percussionist Lucas Niggli in Zurich in September 2007 during his Residency, the atmosphere reverberated with the sounds of percussion instruments that hailed from across continents. Keen to take their music to new and unexplored spaces after a very fruitful and productive tour in India, Lucas and Karthik will now play with other members of the ZOOM trio and Sarah Büchi (vocals) in Switzerland.
25 March 2010 Uster, Qbus in der Reihe PAM at 2030
26 March 2010 Bern, Vidmarhallen at 2030
27 March 2010 St Gallen, Gambrinus at 2030
Lucas Niggli - drums, percussion
Karthik Mani (Karthik Subramanya) - percussion
Nils Wogram - trombone
Philipp Schaufelberger – guitar
Sarah Büchi - vocals
Lucas Niggli percussion - drums
Lucas Niggli was born in 1968 in West Kamerun. He then moved to Switzerland. Between 1987 and 1995, he played at the experimental New Jazz formation ‘Kieloor Entartet’. In 1995 he founded the avant-core band ‘Steamboat Switzerland’ with Dominik Blum and Marino Pliakas. More than 150 concerts, 4 CDs and 2 vinyl recordings testify to the group's passion and hard work. ‘Lucas Niggli's Zoom’ was founded in 1999. The trio have performed at all of Europe's big festivals, (Moers, Saalfelden, Willisau, and Le Mans) as well as in Vancouver and have recorded many CDs. Lucas Niggli has had the chance to work with musicians from all over the world and belonging to a range of different scenes. Lucas has played along the likes of Barry Guy, John Cale, Pierre Favre, Butch Morris, Trevor Watts, Fred Frith, Hans Koch, Peter Kowald, Peter Waters, Samul Nori, Tom Cora, Ikue Mori, Tenko, Michel Doneda, Michel Wintsch, Collegium Novum, Urs Leimgruber, Arkadij Shilklopper, Jean-Luis Matinier, Martin Schütz, Irene Schweizer, Susanne Abbuehl, Wu Wei, Phil Minton, the filmmaker Peter Mettler, Susanne Abbuehl, Erika Stucky, ARTE Quartet, Andrew Cyrille and many more.
Karthik Mani percussion – drum
Karthik Mani, a Bangalore based percussionist is known for his expertise on the Mridangam. Karthik is energetic and has a solid foundation in South Indian Classical Music. He hails from a family of musicians – his father, TAS Mani is a renowned percussionist of "The Karnataka College of Percussion", and his mother R.A. Ramamani is a reputed ground breaking Carnatic maestro. Karthik Mani started learning how to play the mridangam, as well as Carnatic Classical music at a very early age. He gradually moved on to other percussion instruments. Karthik Mani has performed internationally and with noted musicians. To name a few: Louis Banks, Karl Peters, Keith Peters, Amith Heri, Ranjit Barot, Ramesh Shotham, Mike Herting, Carnatic maestro Mandolin U. Sreenivas, Carnatic flute Maestro N. Ramani and Vasundhara Das. He has also played for an album with the internationally renowned Jazz legend Saxophonist Charlie Mariano. Karthik was selected by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council to visit Zurich on a residency in September 2007, where he attended workshops with Lucas Niggli.
Nils Wogram trombone
Nils Wogram was born on 7 November 1972 in Braunschweig, Germany. From 1984 to 1992, Nils took music-lessons at the municipal conservatory of Braunschweig, from Reinhard Feldmann (member of the Braunschweig Symphony Orchestra), at Hannover from ‘Helmut Seifert’ (member of Northern German broadcasting company Symphony Orchestra) and Martin Göß (member of the “Bamberger Symphoniker"). Nils has been a soloist in New Music for the Krahnenbaum Company which was nominated for the SWF (Southern German Broadcasting Company) Jazzprize. He is credited for various compositions and has conducted trombone-workshops at the Conservatory of Hannover. Nils Wogram is counted as one of the most important musicians of the younger generation in Europe. He appears in many important festivals and tours Europe and other continents extensively. Nils Wogram records his own music every year and releases them on labels like enja records. He is currently a member of many bands, namely Root 70, Nostalgia Trio, Nils Wogram Septett and Lush. He also plays as a duo with Simon Nabatov and Conny Bauer. Nils has received numerous awards such as the culture-prize of the ‘Münchner Abendzeitung’ (Munich newspaper), the culture-prize of the State of Northrhine Westphalia, the jazz-prize of the city of Nürnberg and the Festival Jazz East-West, the SWF (Southern German Broadcasting Company) Jazzprize and the Cologne Artists Scholarship in 1999. He also received a prize at the International Julius Hemphill Competition, USA. Nils has released several CDs which include ‘Speedlife’, ‘Odd and Awkward’, ‘Root 70’ and ‘Starting a Story’ to name a few. Since September 2004, Nils Wogram teaches at the Luzern Music Conservatory.
Philipp Schaufelberger guitar
Philipp Schaufelberger was born in Göttingen in 1970. He has been touring and recording for almost 20 years with the groups of Harald Haerter, Pierre Favre and Lucas Niggli and has performed with musicians like Dewey Redman, Michael Brecker, Paul Motian, Kenny Wheeler, Arthur Blythe, Jim Black and many others. Phillipp has been part of tours in various parts of Europe, Canada, USA and recently even China. He has participated in prestigious Festivals at Montreux, Willisau, North Sea, Moers, Leverkusen, Vancouver, Shanghai, Bath, Amsterdam, Rome, etc. As a producer and composer he can be heard on 'measured & detale' as well as on numerous radio dramas for Swiss and German National Broadcasts. Philipp hosts the 'Fizrok Show', a bimonthly improv, broadcast out of Zurich.
Sarah Büchi vocal
Born in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1981, Sarah learned to play the violin, the piano and the electric guitar at an early age. During high school she started studying western classical singing and performed in different formations. In 2000 she finished school with an award for a musical which she wrote herself. Since 2001 she conducts different projects and choirs. In 2002 she began studying jazz singing at the Jazz School of Lucerne with Lauren Newton and Susanne Abbuehl. In October 2005, she traveled to Bangalore India to study Carnatic classical music & Konnakkol from Vid. R.A. Ramamani, and Vid. T.A.S. Mani. Her latest project is titled ‘Thali - the South-Indian meal’ which is a fusion between jazz and Carnatic music.
More: http://www.lucasniggli.ch/english/0400_daten/index.asp
Blue Remix - a journey through the skin
Blue Remix - a journey through the skin by Yann Marussich, a contemporary artist and choreographer from Switzerland is an hour-long performative installation of thermal regulation and precisely calculated timing.
Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council
in collaboration with Alliance Française de Delhi presents
Blue Remix - a journey through the skin
an hour-long performative installation by
Yann Marussich, a contemporary artist and choreographer from Switzerland
on Wednesday 3 March 2010 at 7:30 pm
at Alliance Française de Delhi, 72 Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003
Entry is open to all
Brief
Blue Remix is a journey through the skin – an hour-long motionless performance of Yann Marussich in a transparent container. Through thermal regulation and precisely calculated timing, the artist creates a controlled biochemical choreography of methylene blue, which progressively seeps out of all the orifices in his body; from eyes, mouth and nose to eventually the pores in his skin. This way, Marussich opened the paths between the inside and the outside world - secret passages from the unconscious, straight to the conscious. The performer’s outer immobility draws the spectators’ attention towards the contrasting continuous inner movement of the body. Marussich presents universal themes of the body by externalizing the internal, through the permeable membrane of the skin. The sounds have also been taken from the inside of the performer’s body and remixed by a local musician for the performance.
Each time the spectacle is performed, a different (local) musician accompanies Yann. This exceptional - unique and one-time - confrontation of a musician with a performance establishes a new relation between the sound and the created image. The spontaneous meeting of two artists brings an element of risk and uniqueness to the event, as if the music explored the spectacle over and over again and depicted new ways of perception.
Yann Marussich
Born in 1966, Yann Marussich, a unique character in contemporary dance, delivers performances which have a true impact on the audience. In parallel he evolves from 1993 to 2000 in the field of artistic programmation as a director of the « Théâtre de l’Usine » (Geneva) where he programs almost excusivelly contemporary dance and more specifically new forms of expression. He is the founder of the ADC Studio (Geneva) created in 1993. In 2001, Yann Marussich choreographed Bleu Provisoire, his first completely immobile piece. Today he is moving towards solo, performance and Body-art which he sees as genres as themselves.
At present, Yann is on a residency in India. The Residency has been supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.
Dance Platform 2010
An initiative to provide a stage where those engaged with contemporary dance in India and Europe can facilitate an exchange on its current practice and discourse in the field of contemporary choreography.
Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council and Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan
present
Dance Platform 2010
New Delhi 7 – 14 March 2010
with participation by choreographers
Philippe Saire from Switzerland and
Eszter Salamon from Germany.
The Dance Platform 2010 is an initiative jointly developed by the Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan and Pro Helvetia New Delhi. It will bring together artists from Switzerland, Germany and India for a week of workshops and work-in-progress performances.
The dance platform seeks to provide a stage where those engaged with contemporary dance in India and Europe can facilitate an exchange on its current practice and discourse in the field of contemporary choreography. It is a project designed to share ideas and increase an understanding of each participant's notion of 'contemporary' along with initiating a professional exchange between all participants.
PROGRAMME:
Dance For Nothing
a performance by Eszter Salamon
on Sunday 7 March 2010 at 6.30 pm at the arts-i, Scindia House, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
open to public
Seminar
understanding the contemporary in dance
chaired by the cultural theorist, Sadanand Menon
on 8 March 2010 from 10 am to 5 pm at the Lecture Room at India International Centre Annexe
open to public
Workshops
with Eszter Salomon and Philippe Saire from 9 to 13 March 2010
at the Conference Room (2nd Flr) India International Centre and GATI
open to selected participants only
Film Screenings
Cartographies
presented by Philippe Saire / Thursday 11 March 2010 at 6:30 pm
venue: India International Centre Auditorium
open to public
Rhythm is it
by Thomas Grube and Enrique Sánchez Lansch / Friday 12 March 2010 at 6:30 pm
venue: India International Centre Auditorium
open to public
Work-in-progress presentations
14 March 2010 from 11am to 4pm
at Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg
entry by invitation only
Biography of Philippe Saire
Philippe Saire was born in Algeria and lives in Switzerland. In 1995, the Compagnie Philippe Saire inaugurated its own creative workspace, the Théâtre Sévelin 36. Situated in Lausanne, the theatre is entirely dedicated to contemporary dance. The Theatre is host to performances of international stature, but also programmes dance by local companies in order to encourage their development. Amongst the highlights of the theatre’s annual programme are the Lausanne International Dance Festival and the Printemps de Sévelin Festival, which is dedicated to the work of young, contemporary choreographers. Artists-in-residence programmes complete the list of the theatre’s regular activities.
The Compagnie Philippe Saire has created 25 shows to date, with more than 1'000 performances in 160 towns and cities across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. The Company also performs regularly at exhibitions and art galleries, in gardens, urban spaces and other outdoor venues. Parallel to his work as a choreographer, Philippe Saire has also created and directed several video films about the universe of dance, often inspired by shows performed by his own company.
Biography of Eszter Salamon
Eszter Salamon is a Hungarian choreographer living in Berlin. Following her classical dance studies at the National Academy of Dance in Budapest, she moved to France in 1992 and worked with choreographers such as Mathilde Monnier and Francois Verret. Since 2001, she creates her own work: the solos "What A Body You Have, Honey" and "Giszelle" in collaboration with Xavier le Roy for 'Le vif du sujet' at the Festival d'Avignon and the group pieces "Reproduction" at Podewil (Berlin) where she is artist-in-residence. She also worked with Hungarian folk dancers and musicians at the Les Intranquilles festival in Lyon and at the PACT Zollverein (Essen).
Eszter created the film-choreography "AND THEN" (2007) at Les Subsistances (Lyon) and the concert-performance "Without You I Am Nothing" in collaboration with Aranxta Martinez. Her latest work is a duo with Christine De Smedt. In 2008, she participated in 6Month1Location, an artistic research project based on self-organisation and self-education at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier. Salamon assisted in the direction of the opera Theater der Wiederholungen by Bernhard Lang at Steirischer Herbst (Graz - cultural capital 2003). She also staged the music of Karim Haddad in the frame of the project Seven Attempted Escapes from Silence at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin).
