HORNBILL Public Art 2011
Ruth Buck, a Swiss artist will be participating in the Hornbill Public Art Festival, which is part of the Hornbill Festival at Kohima, Nagaland. Ruth is currently on a residency in India. [ dated December 2011]
Ruth Buck, a visual artist from Switzerland will be participating in the Hornbill Public Art Festival, which is part of the Hornbill Festival to be held from 1 to 7 December 2011 at Kohima, Nagaland. Ruth is currently on a residency in India.
Date: 1 to 7 December 2011
Venue: Kisama Model Village, Kohima, Nagaland
Entry: Festival rules apply
The artist: Ruth’s studio apartment at Sanskriti Foundation is drowned in the cackle of a thousand birds, the unusual calls building up to a cacophony in sudden crescendos, crashing like waves against our ear drums. Recorded at Percé, Qué in Canada, Ruth Buck intends to use these sounds at the Nagaland public art festival in December. Previously having played these sounds at a metro station at Montreal, Canada, the artist piqued the curiosity of the passersby, overlaying their regular associations of the space with new ones. Released from their origin to an urban or geographic setting where they did not belong, Ruth used the sound scapes to create new meanings, deconstructing their notions and experience of that space.
During her ongoing Pro Helvetia studio residency in Delhi, the artist has been continually fascinated with what she is able to see and find on the ground on her walks around the city, evocative of the contrast and diversity that she thinks epitomizes India. From garbage to manicured lawns to the coolness of the stone flooring beneath her feet at a Mughal tomb, Ruth is currently working on a project where she wants to ‘hang’ pictures of the ground on the wall. Using light as her constant source of inspiration and expression, an artwork of hers that the artist wants to carry to Nagaland to work on with the people there, apart from her sound-scapes, is her photo-performance. Titled ‘Blind Date’- the installation, initially put up in 2003 at her residency in Canada, consisted of light boxes with ethereal pictures of the artist in different body postures. Hidden behind the gauze screen, would be the bodies and stories of the Nagas whose faces need to be seen, who are an inconspicuous part of the country today. It is such mediums of expression that the artist works with, where there are multiple meanings new meanings to be discovered where the result cannot be known.
For more information please visit: www.hornbillart.blogspot.com/2011/11/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html
Organiser and Partner: Shelter Promotion Council, India The Art Festival is being supported by Lalit Kala Akademi, Ministry of Culture, Nagaland and Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council
EXPERIMENTA, the International Festival for Moving Image Art
ANYMA & Marc Duseiller from Switzerland will participate in EXPERIMENTA 2011, the International Festival for Moving Image Art in India. ANYMA & Marc will work together with ISRO. [dated December 2011]
Pro Helvetia New Delhi in collaboration with EXPERIMENTA 2011 is pleased to invite artists ANYMA & Marc Duseiller from Switzerland to participate in EXPERIMENTA 2011, The International Festival for Moving Image Art in India.
ANYMA & Marc Duseiller will work together with Indian Sonic Research Organisation (ISRO) from Bangalore to perform live and to conduct an open workshop.
Date: Friday 2 and Saturday 3 December 2011
Venue: Bangalore
Schedule:
Friday 2 December / 11 am to 2:00 pm at JagaaWorkshop on DIY Musical Instruments & Hacking Electronics. For registration please contact music.returntosender(at)gmail.com
Saturday 3 December / 6:30 pm onwards at 7 High Street (7HS) Improvised electronics music and videos, a live performance by (ISRO/ ANYMA and Marc Duseiller (dusjagr).
Entry: Please check partner website
EXPERIMENTA, India’s only film festival celebrating artists’ film and video continues to play an integral role in showcasing uncompromising, fresh and compelling moving image art from across the world. EXPERIMENTA will host a retrospective of the cinema of Adolfas Mekas, a central figure in the western avant garde independent film movement. The competition programme presents a fresh selection of international films and videos.
The Indian Sonic Research Organisation, Bangalore will collaborate on a sound performance with Swiss artists ANYMA and Marc Duseiller (dusjagr). The artists will perform live with electronic music toys and create visuals with the VIDEOBASS invented by Michael Egger (member of ANYMA) who has also invented several open source visual music instruments. The award winning VIDEOBASS is a bass guitar that plays images instead of sounds, lets you choose a video clip on the strings with your left hand, and trigger it in rhythm with your right. The visual artists and musicians will work in an improvisational dialogue. This performance promises to be both musical and cinematographic –a layering of textures that forms abstract visual poems.
Indian Sonic Research Organisation, Bangalore, ANYMA and Marc Duseiller will together conduct an open workshop on DIY Musical Instruments & Hacking Electronics.
For more informatin visit: experimenta.in/2011/11/experimenta-2011/
The Yellow Line Project
Pro Helvetia New Delhi in collaboration with Gati Dance Forum has invited Frédéric Lombard, filmmaker, video artist, and stage light designer to participate in the Yellow Line Project. [dated December 2011]
Pro Helvetia New Delhi in collaboration with Gati Dance Forum has invited Frédéric Lombard, filmmaker, video artist, and stage light designer to participate in the Yellow Line Project. Frédéric will work together with Indian choreographer Surjit Nongmeikapam.
Date:
Open screenings:
Gurgaon Premiere- 17 December 2011
Delhi Premiere- 18 December 2011
Venue: New Delhi (tbc - for venue details please check partner website)
The Project:
The Yellow Line Project (YLP) aims to create an experimental space for collaborative interactions between dance, film and the city of New Delhi. YLP will invite collaborations between 6 choreographers and 6 media-artists. Each choreographer will work with a media artist to produce a short, 4-6 minute dance-film. The residency begins with an intensive week of explorations into the genre of dance-films as well as workshops on site-specific performance, the city and specifically the city of Delhi. This first week will be led by Indian and international experts in these areas, and will serve as an intensive R&D period for the residents. Built into the structure of the residency, therefore, are opportunities for dialogue and debate, exchange and exposure to new ideas and skills.
Frédéric Lombard
Frédéric Lombard was born in France in 1975 and is based in Berlin. He is a filmmaker, video artist, and stage light designer. Frédéric graduated from the Fine Arts University of Marseille France in 2002. He studied cinema in University Arcis, Santiago de Chile. Frédéric has collaborated as a filmmaker with numerous Swiss choreographers like Young Soon Cho Jaquet, Perrine Valli Geneva, Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon CIE 7273 and Estelle Héritier. Frédéric Lombard’s films Champignon ( 2005) and Dry Fish (2007) were selected by the Cinematheque of Lausanne Switzerland. His films Durée déterminée (2005) and A5 (2004) were selected in Festival Dance on Screen London, video dance Athens and the Cinematheque of Lausanne Switzerland. Frédéric Lombard is known for his innovate video art. The Wall / Projet : La Palestine comment? (2008), terrain vague (2007) and Voluptas (2006) are worth a mention.
Surjit Nongmeikapam
Surjit Nongmeikapam studied Choreography from Natya Institute of Kathak and Choreography. He was part of the Natya Stem Dance Kampni and Natya Maya, Bangalore as a contemporary and traditional dancer. He has trained in different forms of movement and continues to learn from different Gurus/Mentors. He is the founder of "Nachom Arts of Contemporary Dance Company" based in Manipur (2008). He also performs with other choreographers and directors as a freelance dancer.
Organiser and Partner: Gati Dance Forum - www.gatidance.com
