PARALLEL CITIES DELHI 2013
A project curated by Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias, PARALLEL CITIES DELHI, as part of the 15th Bharat Rang Mahotsav invites artists to devise interventions in public spaces that exhibit parallel existences.
PARALLEL CITIES DELHI 2013
interventions in public spaces curated by Stefan Kaegi ad Lola Arias
9 – 18 January 2013
An interactive performance part of the 15th Bharat Rang Mahotsav
Presented by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan.
PARALLEL CITIES BROCHURE (PDF file)
PARALLEL CITIES SCHEDULE (JPEG file)
Introduction
After Berlin, Buenos Aires, Warsaw, Zurich and Kolkata, Stefan Kaegi and LolaArias bring PARALLEL CITIES (CIUDADES PARALELAS ) to Delhi. In each city, this portable festival is re-contextualized and staged with local performers.
Shopping malls, libraries and campuses... these are functional places, not usually thought of as interesting. They are to be found in every city, and they are what make cities inhabitable. Their ubiquitous, parallel existences the world over mean these places are instantly recognisable, each modelled on similar rules but displaying a local face.
For ‘Parallel Cities Delhi 2013’, Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias have invited several artists to devise interventions in these omnipresent public spaces. Four artists have each chosen a location in Delhi as observation stations for urban phenomena. As observation stations, the project makes a stage out of public spaces, and seduces the viewers into staying inside that space long enough for their perception to change.
The pieces vary in form: You can listen to some of them, while others you can read or feel. The performers include a singer, others writers, passers-by and the audience themselves.
Via headphones, Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells whisper to us over the silence of a library reading-room.
Mariano Pensotti turns four authors into literary surveillance cameras who describe scenes in a campus hub as they happen. The viewers read the texts as a novel unfolding live on large screens over the heads of its real-life figures.
The Ligna activists choreograph their listeners in a shopping mall, turning their movements into a conspiratorial radio ballet.
And, late in the evening, Stefan Kaegi invites you to a roof with a view over the city to review all these experiences with a blind musician. Rewinding the experiences from his perspective you find yourself wondering what you will remember of the day.
The project makes theatre out of public spaces, and invites the audience to subjectively experience places built for anonymous crowds. Parallel Cities Delhi 2013 offers four perspectives on one city. A festival, that doesn’t transport stage sets or companies of actors but ideas.
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Library
The Quiet Volume
Ant Hampton, London and Tim Etchells, Sheffield / New York
The National Archives of India Library, Janpath, New Delhi
The Quiet Volume is a whispered, self-generated and 'automatic' performance for two at a time, exploiting the particular tension common to any library worldwide; a combination of silence and concentration within which different peoples' experiences of reading unfold. Two audience members / participants sit side-by-side. Taking cues from words both written and whispered they find themselves burrowing an unlikely path through a pile of books. The piece exposes the strange magic at the heart of the reading experience, allowing aspects of it we think of as deeply internal to lean out into the surrounding space, and to leak from one reader's sphere into another's.
Dates: 9 to 11 & 14 to 18 January 2013
Time: Every 20 minutes from 12 noon to 6:00 pm
Duration: 60 mins
Venue: The National Archives of India Library, Janpath, New Delhi
Language: English
Entry: By registration only
(For registration call: +91 +919582297249 (from 10 am to 6 pm) / email: parallelcitiesdelhi@gmail.com)PartnerThe National Archives of India / www.nationalarchives.nic.in<//a>:
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Meeting Point
Sometimes I think, I can see you
Mariano Pensotti, Buenos Aires
With Indian writers Amrita Tripathi, Asif Haider Ali, Divya Guha and Rajesh Tailang.
National School of Drama, Mandi House, New Delhi
A festival hub. Four authors observe the space from various perspectives. Typing into their laptops, they write live on what they see in the campus and other things, too: private observations, things they make up, or historical information. Every word they type is projected onto a large screen, a separate one for each author.
Like surveillance cameras recording anonymous individuals’ every movement in the vicinity, each writer transforms the spontaneous progress through a public space into narratives conveying what is going on – or might be going on – inside people’s heads in parallel with the bustling life of the surrounding area. The viewers and chance passers-by become part of their narrative. One glance at the screen reveals that they have become figures in the process of being invented. Over the space and the time they share with the authors, the viewers are able to influence the fictionalization, and become part of a collective story.
Dates: 10 to 13 January 2013
Time: continuously between 5:30 to 7:00 pm and 7:30 to 9:00pm
Duration: 90 minutes
Language: English and Hindi
Venue: National School of Drama, Mandi House, New Delhi
Partner: National School of Drama / www.nsd.gov.in
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Shopping Mall
The First International of Shopping Malls
LIGNA, Hamburg and Berlin
Select CITYWALK, Saket, New Delhi
The shopping mall is a utopian place. An entire city is assembled in ideal-typical form below a glass roof under which time would appear to be frozen. Tropical plants create a paradise-like atmosphere. The wares displayed in shop windows patiently await their future owners. Apparently, they possess no more life of their own than the mall as such. Architecture and merchandise alike seem mute. And yet, they do possess a voice. The stories they could tell if they wanted to! The floor-tiles, for instance, that remember the footsteps of every shopper who walked across them without even noticing what was under their feet. And the consumer goods on sale have first-hand knowledge of people’s futile attempts to find happiness in them.
The Hamburg-based activists Ligna have been developing radio-ballets as interactive forms of radio-plays – in which audiences almost unconsciously turn into subversive crowds – in festivals around the world. For Ciudades Paralelas they focus on the shopping mall as a form of parallel city.
DELHI – SELECT CITYWALK
Dates: 14 to 18 January 2013
Time: 6:00 pm / Duration: 60 minutes
Venue: Select CITYWALK, Saket, New Delhi
Language: English / Entry: By registration only
For registration in advance call: +91 +919582297249 (from 10 am to 6 pm) / email: parallelcitiesdelhi(at)gmail.com) OR
register on the spot 15 minutes prior to the performance.
Note: Please carry a valid ID card to participate and arrive 15 minutes in advance. The audio piece for the performance is pre-recorded and in English.
Partner: Select CITYWALK
JAIPUR – PINK SQUARE MALL
Date: 12 January 2013
Time: 6:00 pm / Duration: 60 minutes
Venue: Pink Square Mall, Janta Colony, Raja Park, Jaipur
Language: English / Entry: By registration only
For registration in advance call: +91 +919582297249 (from 10 am to 6 pm) / email: parallelcitiesdelhi(at)gmail.com) OR
register on the spot 15 minutes prior to the performance.
Note: Please carry a valid ID card to participate and arrive 15 minutes in advance. The audio piece for the performance is pre-recorded and in English
Partner: Pink Square Mall, Jaipur
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Review
Stefan Kaegi
Sagar Apartments, Tilak Marg, New Delhi
On winter nights roofs become living spaces. Halfway between the distant street noise and the thick, urban-glow above, the audience meets somebody who spent his day in the city without seeing. Blind people orient themselves with the help of smells, the sounds of cars and the pavement's edge. What the audience has seen during the festival is reviewed and mapped onto the acoustic image of an invisible city. What remains in your memory?
Dates: 9 to 14 January 2013
Time: 5:00, 6:30 and 8:00 pm
Duration: 60 minutes
Venue: Sagar Apartments, Tilak Marg, New Delhi
Language: Hindi and English (5:00 pm in Hindi / 6:30 pm in English / 8:00 pm in Hindi)
Entry: By registration only.
(For registration call: +91 +919582297249 (from 10 am to 6 pm) / email: parallelcitiesdelhi(at)gmail.com) Partner: RK Global
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Partners
Local partners:
Bharat Rang Mahotsav XV
Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, New Delhi
Global partners:
HAU Berlin
Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Zürich Schauspielhaus, Zürich
Teatr Nowy
Goethe-Institute Warschau
Goethe Institut Buenos Aires
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Art Council, Zürich
Venue partners:
National Archives of India Library, New Delhi
National School of Drama, New Delhi
Select CITYWALK, New Delhi
RK Global
Pink Square Mall, Jaipur
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Registration Information:
Free registration passes available at NSD from 7 January 2013 onwards.
For registration enquries call: +91 +919582297249 (from 10 am to 6 pm) / email: parallelcitiesdelhi(at)gmail.com
Parallel Cities is a coproduction between HAU Berlin and Schauspielhaus Zürich, in collaboration with Goethe-Institute Warschau, Teatr Nowy and the foundation of Teatr Nowy. Commissioned by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council and Goethe Institut Buenos Aires.
www.ciudadesparalelas.com
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Kolkata and Delhi to host PARALLEL CITIES (CIUDADES PARALELAS)
A project curated by Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias, PARALLEL CITIES (CIUDADES PARALELAS) invites artists to devise interventions in public spaces that exhibit parallel existences.
A project curated by Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias, PARALLEL CITIES (CIUDADES PARALELAS) invites artists to devise interventions in public spaces that exhibit parallel existences. Kolkata and Delhi are scheduled to host the project in December 2012 and January 2013 respectively.
Hotel rooms, shopping centres, factories... these are functional places, not usually thought of as interesting to the outside eye. But without them life in the city would be uninhabitable. Their ubiquitous, parallel existences the world over mean these places are instantly recognisable, each modelled on similar rules but displaying a local face.
For “Ciudades Paralelas”, Lola Arias and Stefan Kaegi have invited several artists to devise interventions into these kinds of spaces. Six artists have each chosen a location in the city as observation stations for urban phenomena. Some of them chose to work with radio receivers or headphones, others with people in their workspaces.
The pieces vary in form: You can listen to some of them, others you can read or touch. Some are for a single, others for 100 spectators. The performers include factory workers, cleaners, a blind musician, writers, passers-by or even the audience itself.
Gerardo Naumann’s factory workers take viewers on a subjective journey along the production line at their place of work.
Via headphones, Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells whisper to us over the silence of a library reading-room.
Mariano Pensotti turns four authors into literary surveillance cameras who describe scenes in a Metro station as they happen. The viewers read the texts as a novel unfolding live on large screens over the heads of its real-life figures.
The Ligna activists choreograph their listeners in a shopping mall, turning their movements into a conspiratorial radio ballet.
Lola Arias presents hotel rooms haunted by the stories of the cleaning staff – ghosts who appear when nobody else is there and clean up after the guest has left.
And, late in the evening, Stefan Kaegi invites you to a roof with a view over the city to review all these experiences with a blind artist. Rewinding the experiences from her perspective you find yourself wondering what you will remember of the day.
The projects make theatre out of public spaces used every day, and seduces the viewers into staying long enough for their perception to change. They invite you to subjectively experience places built for anonymous crowds.
“Ciudades Paralelas” offers six perspectives on one city. A festival that doesn’t transport stage sets or companies of actors but ideas.. Via location scouting and casting sessions the six artists are networked with each city. In this way, Ciudades Paralelas wanders from country to country as a mobile research laboratory, building up an archive of guerrilla tactics for appropriating cities.
Ciudades Paralelas is a coproduction between HAU Berlin and Schauspielhaus Zürich, in collaboration with Goethe- Institute India, Teatr Nowy and the foundation of Teatr Nowy. Commissioned by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council.
Kolkata Schedule:
11 to 18 December 2012 Factory- La fabricà / Monginis Bakery Kolkata
11 to 18 December 2012 Library- The quiet volume / Ramakrishna Mission Library
11 to 18 December 2012 Station- Sometimes I think I can see you / Park Street Metro Station
11 to 17 December 2012 Hotel- Room Service / Taj Bengal
11 to 18 December 2012 Roof- Review / Everest House
11 to 18 December 2012 Shopping Centre- The first international of Shopping Centers / South City Mall
After Kolkata, Ciudades Paralelas wil be presented in New Delhi in January 2013.
More:
http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/kol/en10108358v.htm
www.ciudadesparalelas.com
LAYOUT 2, a location based collaborative construction
Swiss artist Navid Tschopp collaborates once again with Indian artists Sayantan Maitra Boka, Susanta Mandal and M. Pravat to present LAYOUT 2, a location based collaborative construction as part of the Kochi Biennale.
Swiss artist Navid Tschopp collaborates once again with Indian artists Sayantan Maitra Boka, Susanta Mandal and M. Pravat to present LAYOUT 2, a location based collaborative construction as part of the Kochi Biennale. The project aims to create spatial voids deliberately rather than incidentally during the process of construction.
“Layout02 ” is a location based 'aesthetic construction' , that interrogates the standard engineered urban space, in this case an urban Kochi landscape . Four artists make a partnership seeking to transform and mutate the typical architectural process using four distinct approaches. The resulting convergence of these four unique eccentricities is seen to function as one self-contained artwork and the product of the interaction is a source of discovery for both the artists and the audience.
Within the dynamic morphology of cityscapes, any attempt at forming representational models to reflect that dynamism poses a number of challenges, more so because any city itself is largely constituted by innumerable layers of images and imaginations. Whereas many images find a picture-plane, there are imaginations, desires, and resentments that gradually seep into fissures and cracks to form a different substrata. With excavation and archival retrieving as the most commonly spoken-about tropes today, could there be other ways to illuminate that which is beneath? This initiative aims to delve into that substrata, albeit not with a mind to excavate but to 'project onto' through the diverse approaches of 4 creative practitioners from India and Switzerland. Such a process of discovery aims to unravel the various layers defining the semantics.
Layout is an artist collective which was born in November 2010, at an artist studio space in New Delhi, India. All were interested in making site specific art installation working mostly with construction material, partially influenced by the DIY culture . The artists are concerned with a specific cultural landscape whose character is influenced by the geological structure , history and culture into which they integrate their work. The group draws inspiration from technology in order to create a new reality that is solely expressed through hypothetical projects. The members are M Pravat , Navid Tschopp , Sayantan Maitra Boka and Susanta Mandal.
M.Pravat is a prolific painter who studied from Baroda and participated in innumerable shows in India and abroad. Currently he has been meditating on the notion of flexibility of the designed space, and his prior works dealt it by creating 'fake' architectural blueprints.
Navid Tschopp , is a Swiss artist and his artistic approach is in the field between orient and occident and contains the many layers between image and action ,his research is about identity in the field of transcultural images and in context art. He has studied architecture and art.
Sayantan Maitra Boka is an architect and scenographer by qualification, and a career in art by choice. He heads an interactive design firm , Illusion In Motion and is an active member of the NGO, Shelter Promotion Council (India) , through which he has started producing and curating Public Art Festivals in different parts of North East India to identify issues and questioning them through the medium of contemporary and new media art.
Susanta Mandal's recent art practice is involved with the issue of energy; whether it’s pipeline politics or other form of mechanism involved with energy. His mixed media installations, which often utilize spotlights and kinetic mechanisms seem playful, but are actually uncanny and ultimately disconcerting constructions.
The collective is currently working on the Sarai Reader Show 09 in Devi Art Foundation , Gurgaon and Kiran Nadar Museum , Noida .
Parallel Cities - Time Out Delhi Photo Exhibition
Parallel Cities - Time Out Delhi Photo Exhibition / Call for photo submission.
It’s no secret that despite their banal uniformity, malls are no longer just shopping centres, but social areas that are firmly integrated into Delhi’s cultural landscape. They’re not just places where you go for retail therapy, but for catching a rare documentary, cutting-edge art, talks, performances and of course, chit-chat and people-watching.
Time Out Delhi, in collaboration with Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhawan, invites professional and amateur photographers to submit photographs that capture the inside of a shopping mall. Twenty images will be selected for a forthcoming exhibition in early January, while eight of the best images will be published in Time Out Delhi.
The Delhi exhibition is an extension of PARALLEL CITIES, a project curated by theatre professionals Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias from Switzerland and Argentina respectively. The duo have previously worked with artists in cities such as Berlin, Buenos Aires, Warsaw and Zurich to devise interventions in public spaces for their Parallel Cities project. These interventions have included a radio ballet in malls, a walk through an installation composed of the biographies the invisible cleaning staff in hotel rooms, and a journey through the production line of a factory, with a focus on its workers. The curators will stage interventions with local performers in Delhi as well. Be a part of exploring these “parallel cities” and, next time you’re in a mall, start clicking away.
For information on the Parallel Cities project visit www.ciudadesparalelas.com.
Exhibition dates: 10 - 12 January 2013
Venue: Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhawan, New Delhi
Selected eight images will be published in the January issue of TIME OUT DELHI.
Selected twenty images will be exhibited in the PARALLEL CITIES - TIME OUT DELHI PHOTO EXHIBITION
Theme: The inside of a shopping mall.
The images should offer different perspectives of the inside of a mall.Images should be illustrative, conceptual or offer a symbolic representation of the shopping mall.
The publication looks forward to receiving images that showcase the photographer's unique interpretation of the subject.
Manner of submission:
Via e-mail: parallelcities.timeoutdelhi(at)gmail.com
Specifications: low-res jpeg images / 200dpi.
Hi-res images will be requested for if selected for the exhibition or for publishing.
The submission should be accompanied by a few lines introducing the photographer and the image(s).
Last date for submission: 25 December 2012
Photographers of selected images will be notified via email. Time Out Delhi and Parallel Cities reserves the right to make the final selection.
There is no fee provided for the images that are published or part of the exhibition.
All images will be duly accredited.
PROJECT PARALLEL CITIES (CIUDADES PARALELAS ): DELHI JANUARY 2013
A project curated by Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias, PARALLEL CITIES invites artists to devise interventions in public spaces that exhibit parallel existences. Ubiquitous locations, like the mall and the library have been chosen in Delhi as observation stations for this urban intervention. In Delhi the project is jointly presented by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan. PARALLEL CITIES is a coproduction between HAU Berlin and Schauspielhaus Zürich, in collaboration with Goethe-Institute Warschau, Teatr Nowy and the foundation of Teatr Nowy. Commissioned by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, the Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and Goethe Institut Buenos Aires.
For more information: www.ciudadesparalelas.com/
Nicole Seiler to mentor young choreographers at FACETS
Swiss choreographer Nicole Seiler will participate as a mentor at FACETS, Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts’ International Choreography Residency, in Bangalore.
Swiss choreographer Nicole Seiler will participate as a mentor at FACETS, Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts’ International Choreography Residency, in Bangalore, India from 8 December 2012 to 11 January 2013.
Residency dates: 5 December 2012 to 23 January 2013
Venue: Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore.
The Residency will act as a mentored production period in which 16 emerging choreographers will benefit from Nicole Seiler’s expertise and experience. The outcome of this mentorship will be a new quality performance piece in a creative environment that will premiere at the Attakkalari India Biennial 2013.
Names of other mentors at FACETS:
Sankar Venkateswaran, theatre
Jatin Vidyarthi, sound and music
Lars Erik H. Bratlie, light designer from Norway
Margie Medlin, digital artist from Australia
Helena Waldmann, choreographer from Germany
Gideon Obarzanek, choreographer from Australia
About Nicole Seiler
Nicole Seiler, a Lausanne-based dance and theatre performer has collaborated with dance companies such as Buissonnière Co., Teatro Malandro, Alias Compagnie, Compagnie Philippe Saire and Massimo Furlan. In 2002, Seiler founded her company whose research combines dance and multimedia video. Her research has given form to dance multimedia, videos and choreographic installations and in recent years has continued his explorations between image and sound. In 2009, Seiler received the cultural prize for dance from the Vaudoise Foundation for Culture.
For more information on Compagnie Nicole Seiler visit: www.nicoleseiler.com
For more information on FACETS visit: www.attakkalari.org
Organiser/ Partner: Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore
3 Profiles - sound installation by Bernd Schurer
'Sound Reasons Festival' for sound art and electronic music presents 3 Profiles: Vector Streaming Waveform Segregation Version - a sound installation by Bernd Schurer.
'Sound Reasons Festival' for sound art and electronic music in collaboration with Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and British Council New Delhi presents
3 Profiles: Vector Streaming Waveform Segregation Version
a sound installation by Bernd Schurer
Opening on 16 November 2012 at 7 PM at the British Council, 17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi. Installation on exhibit from 16 - 20 November 2012
Brief on installation:
"3 profiles" presents 3 different segregated audio stereo- streams that run in parallel, each of these 3 in turn get visualized by the vectorscope. The image is written into a matrix, that is used to modulate the sound profiles' properties of frequency, phase and amplitude and therefore create a recursive audiovisual system.
Examining a shared interest in the inherent connection between auditory and visual elements, the contrasts of sensory aspects constitute the foundation for these audiovisual studies, generating “beautiful” visual displays from the combination of basic synthesized waveforms through the lens of a vectorscope (an oscilloscope’s x-y mode). This metering device originally used in audio engineering for the process of vinyl mastering, where the precise parallel correlation of phases is essential for record pressing, is a common device, that has since been integrated into stereo image monitoring equipment to deliver a graphic representation of the stereo signal.
The meter displays a two-dimensional rectangular coordinate system. The device can visualize three different attributes of sound - it’s amplitude, frequency and phase correlation. Here, the left channel of sound is represented by one axis and the right channel by the other. The resulting visual output is affected by the difference of the input signals, and something referred to as lissajous patterns appear and move on the display, which was what ultimately drew my curiosity.
Throughout the experimentation phase, the idea of the image as a functional accompanist to the sound was abandoned and the audio element was subordinated in favor of the image, which creates an aesthetics that is otherwise mostly absent from technical audio metering.
Bernd Schurer
Schurer’s artistic focus lies on the work with sound in a broad spectrum of different contexts: a constant shift, although, mostly investigating the experiential relationship between sound and what one would generally describe as space and the body. There is a strong fascination in the study of the perception of sound and our interpretative patterns, and there has been done artistic research in the domains of Psychoacoustics, Architecture, Auralization, Sonification and Audio- Visual Representation Systems. Presentations may vary from Computer Music Diffusion to Installation work to abstract Sound Art. Some of it has been exhibited internationally on various scales, from micro galleries to public space, from “art at home” to the Venice Art Biennial. Since 1996 he is co-editor and curator for electronic sound pieces at the domizil.ch imprint in Zürich, together with Marcus Maeder.
Bernd Schurer was born 1970 in Zurich, and currently lives in Berlin. He studied Philosophy and Film Science at the University of Zurich and Visual Art at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He is currently a Masters student in Electroacoustic Composition and Theory at the Zürich Univeristy of the Arts with Professors Germàn Toro- Peréz and Dr. Martin Neukom.
More:
http://heterophenomenological.net/
http://domizil.ch/
Sound Reasons Festival' for sound art and electronic music
Swiss musicians Bernd Schurer, Jasch, Robin Meier and Thomas Peter will be participating in the 'Sound Reasons Festival' for sound art and experimental electronic music.
The 'Sound Reasons Festival' for sound art and experimental electronic music will take place in Delhi from 4 - 22 November 2012.
The festival comprises of sound installations, live music/ sound performances and workshops that are spread across November and are happening in Delhi and Banglore. Swiss artists participating in the festival are Bernd Schurer, Jasch, Robin Meier and Thomas Peter.
Music composed in collaboration with Hans Koch will also be presented.
PERFORMANCE DATES:
7th November | Alliance Française de Delhi , 72, Lodi Estate, Delhi | 7 pm | Wednesday |Live Performance | Thomas Peter | Jasch | diFfuSed Beats |da Saz | Robert millis |
9th November | Goethe Institut, Max Muller Bahwan, Kasturba Gandhi Marg/ Delhi | 7 pm | Friday |Live Performace | Jasch | Petri Kuljuntausta | Robert Millis | edGeCut | da Saz |
10th November | Jaaga, Banglore | 7 pm onwardsThomas Peter | Jasch | diFfuSed Beats | Robert Millis | Masta Justy | Yashas Shetty |
INSTALLATIONS BY SWISS ARTISTS:
Bernd Schurer | 15th November – 21st November | Queens Gallery, British Council, KG Marg /
Robin Meier + Ali Momeni | 6th – 12th November | Whats up Bharat, 1 Hauz Khas Village |
The festival is supported by : Pro-Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council, Sarai-CSDS, Japan Foundation, Goethe Institut/ Max Mueller Bhawan, British Council and Alliance Francaise de Delhi.
More: http://soundreasons.in for the updated schedule.
Confluence, the coming together of two maestros
The legendary Indian musician Dr. T.V.Gopalakrishnan and the multifaceted European maestro Siegfried Kutterer will be performing in Chennai on 18 November 2012.
Confluence is a unique effort to connect different musical and cultural genres, conceived and composed by Dr. T.V.G and Siegfried Kutterer. The logic and discipline of Indian classical music connects with the free improvisation and movement of jazz and percussion. It is a fine play and balancing act between the similarities and accruals of the two musical genres.
The concert is supported by Pro Helvetia-Swiss Arts Council and the Goethe-Institut.
The famous T.V. Gopalkrishnan has helped to tirelessly shape the dialogue between east and west through his concerts with George Harrison and representatives of free jazz, and now with Vein, a popular trio from the Swiss jazz scene and DeciBells, a percussion trio from Germany that plays avant-garde music. Siegfried Kutterer has studied Mridangam and the theory of Carnatic music for many years.
Duration: 90-100 minutes
Dates & Venue: 18 November 2012, Chennai, Music Academy - Book tickets for Chennai show
Programme
1. Kanakangi - Golden Shawl All artists
2. Straight Inside DeciBells & Vein Jazz and Western Percussion
3. Mallari Saxophone, Violin, Keyboard, Percussion
4. Indigo DeciBells & Vein Jazz and Western Percussion
5. Chaturangam Rhythmical musical composition Raga - Swara - Bols - Paran
Voices and Instruments
Intermission
Global premiere of Confluence in Raga Resikapriya, a blend of European and Indian raga and tala
Artists from Europe:
DeciBells (Siegfried Kutterer, Szilard Buti and Domenico Melchiorre)
Jazz Trio VEIN (M. Arbenz/ Piano, T. Laehns/ Bouble Bass and F. Arbenz/ Percussion)
Artists from India:
T.V. Gopalkrishnan, Vocal, Mridangam
Devie Neithiyar, Vocal
S. Varadarajan Violin
G. Ramanathan, Saxophone
Biju Paulose, Keyboards
Tripunilhura, Radhakishnan, Ghatom
Intersections, the Yellow Line Project films screenings
The Yellow Line Project residency brought together dancers and media artists, including Swiss artist Frédéric Lombard to make 5 films. INTERSECTIONS returns these evocative and dynamic films.
The Yellow Line Project (YLP) residency brought together dancers and media artists, including Swiss artist Frédéric Lombard to make 5 films in different public sites around New Delhi in 2011. As a build-up to IGNITE! Festival of Contemporary Dance, INTERSECTIONS returns these evocative and dynamic films to the city's architecture through a mobile projector.
The film screenings have been supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.
The Yellow Line Project - Film Screening / Films by:
Rajyashree Ramamurthi & Desmond Roberts
Parimal Phadke & Dhanya Pilo
Surjit Nongmeikapam & Frederic Lombard
Preethi Athreya & Yashaswini R
Rakesh MPS & Asim Waqif
The schedule* for Intersection film screenings(time 6pm onwards):
19 Oct- CP, Inner Circle, Central Park
20 Oct- CP, Inner Circle, Central Park, British Council
21 Oct- CR Park Pandal
22 Oct- CR Park pandal
23 Oct- Kamani, Mandi House, NSD, Bengali Market
24 Oct- Khirkee
25 Oct- Hauz Khas- BIN, TLR, Kunzum
26 Oct- Khan Market, Pandara Market
27 Oct- Nehru Place, GK1 N+M Block
28 Oct- Alaknanda Market, M Block
(NOTE: *tentative and subject to change)
ABOUT THE YELLOW LINE PROJECT:
The Yellow Line Project (YLP) aimed to create an experimental space for collaborative interactions between dance, film and the city of New Delhi. YLP invited collaborations between 6 choreographers and 6 media-artists. Each choreographer worked with a media artist to produce a short, 4-6 minute dance-film. The residency began 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.
The Yellow Line Project (YLP) was jointly supported by Royal Norwegian Embassy, Ministry of Culture, Japan Foundation, Pro Helvetia- Swiss Arts Council, The British Council, South East Dance, Bharat Forge and Meeto Memorial Award.
Mirjam Varadinis on Skoda Prize jury
Pro Helvetia New Delhi is delighted to be associated with The Skoda Prize for Indian Contemporary Art for the third consecutive year and has announced a one-month residency for each of the two runners-up. Mirjam Varadinis, Swiss art historian, curator and writer will be part of the jury.
Swiss Jazz quintet ‘Pommelhorse’ tours India
Embassy of Switzerland presents the Swiss Jazz quintet ‘Pommelhorse’. The band comprises of Lukas Roos, Joel Graf, Gregor Lisser, Jeremiah Keller and Olivier Zurkirchen. [dated October 2012]
The Embassy of Switzerland with the support of Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council presents the Swiss Jazz quintet
‘PommelHORSE’ in New Delhi, Pune, Mumbai and Kolkata.
Schedule:
25th October: Gig at Blue Frog, Delhi, 8.30 pm
26th October: Gig in Pune as organized by the Pune Jazz Club
27th October: Gig in Mumbai orgasnized by Jazz Utsav
29th October: Gig at the Dalhousie Institute Club, Kolkata
3rd November: Gig at Bflat Bangalore
NOTE: Dates and timings will be confirmed closer to the concert. You are requested to contact the local partner fo further details.
The quintet from Switzerland is inspired by jazz and rock. Their carefree spirit allows them to combine and produce varied sounds. As part of their performances at the Jazz Utsav, PommelHORSE will tour Pune, Mumbai, and Kolkata.
The tour to India and participation at the Jazz festival supported by Pro Helvetia- Swiss Arts Council.
The PommelHORSE
pommelHORSE was founded in 2008 by Lukas Roos (Cl), Joel Graf (Sax), Gregor Lisser (Dr) and Jeremiah Keller (eb). Simon left the band in the summer of 2010 and was replaced by Olivier Zurkirchen (Rhodes). The appearances at the Cully Jazz Festival in Bern was followed by the recording of their first studio album. Produced by Markus Gfeller the album was mixed and mastered by Chris Diggelmann in Mazzive Sounds Studio.
The first album 'POMMELHORSE' was conceived and recorded in March 2012. The album's release was celebrated with a release tour that included 22 concerts in Switzerland and in neighboring countries. PommelHORSE won accolades at the preliminary round of the Le Scimmie Milan (It) European Jazz Contest. The finale, with the best five bands will take place in Rome.
The complex video of dance, drama and performance for the composition 'When It Started To Snow' was realized by the artist Sarah Hugentobler. This video won Sarah Hugentobler the prize of £ 30,000 at the Aeschlimann Corti prize.
For more information: http://www.pommelhorse.ch/
Lecture-Performance –‘Act Like You Mean It’
Swissnex India in collaboration with National Gallery for Modern Art, Bengaluru present ‘Act Like You Mean It’, a lecture-performance Thomas Grunwald and Anton Rey. [dated October 2012]
Swissnex India in collaboration with National Gallery for Modern Art, Bengaluru present
‘Act Like You Mean It’
a lecture-performance by Swiss researchers Thomas Grunwald, a neurologist from the Swiss Epilepsy Centre in Zurich and Anton Rey, a dramaturg from the Zurich University of the Arts.
On Friday 12 October 2012 from 18:00 hrs – 19:00 hrs
at the National Gallery for Modern Art, Bengaluru (Entry: Open to all)
In Bangalore, the duo present the balcony scene of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with the help of Bangalore-based professional actors Parvathi Om as Juliet and Shrunga B V as Romeo.
In a five-act ‘lecture-performance’, the two researchers explore whether, according to the brain, actors in a play express genuine emotion or just fake it.
For more information visit: http://www.swissnexindia.org/
Ruth Buck at Ahmedabad International Arts Festival
Ahmedabad International Arts Festival and Pro Helvetia present 'come back to earth' by Swiss artist Ruth Buck in collaboration with Center for Environmental Planning and Technology University (CEPT). [dated October 2012]
'come back to earth' by Swiss artist Ruth Buck at Ahmedabad International Arts Festival, Ahmedabad
Date: 26 - 28 October 2012
Time: 11:00 hrs to 20:00 hrs
Venue: Faculty of Arts & Humanities, CEPT University, 4 Principal Bangla, Commerce Six Roads, Navarangpura, Ahmedabad
Entry: Open to all
Ahmedabad International Arts Festival and Pro Helvetia New Delhi presents „come back to earth‟ by Swiss artist Ruth Buck in collaboration with Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Center for Environmental Planning and Technology University (CEPT).
The exhibition comprising a slideshow and photographic prints involves an exploration of photography as a reflective means of intervention and interpretation of society.
Ruth Buck was on a residency in India awarded by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council. The presented works are an outcome of her residency during which she travelled to different places in India capturing images and experiences on her camera.
'Come Back to Earth' is Ruth‟s unique and unusual way of discovering India. The focus of the work is directed towards the ground, which reveals a great deal about social organisation, rules and conditions. It tells of humans, habits, orderliness and regulations, cultures, home, beliefs, needs, desire, beauty, fears, ideals, difficulties, and more. The work raises many questions about the relationship between an individual and the public space and about how the need for control impacts space and property.
Swiss artist Ruth Buck was born in Römerswil, Switzerland. In her works, Ruth goes beyond the margins of art genres and operates in different art media. She produces tactile works and conceptual works with words, images and sounds.
For more information visit: www.prohelvetia.in; http://aiaf.in/ahmedabad.html
Organiser and Partner: Ahmedabad International Arts Festival; Faculty of Arts & Humanities, CEPT University; Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council Artist in Residency
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
Pro Helvetia welcomes Pio Pellizzari from Fonoteca Nazionale Svizzera, Stefano Cavaglieri, Fonoteca Nazionale Svizzera and Jacqueline von Arb, Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound, Norway. [dated October 2012]
Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council is delighted to support
the 43rd Conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
and welcomes the delegates including Swiss participants
Pio Pellizzari from Fonoteca Nazionale Svizzera
Stefano Cavaglieri, Fonoteca Nazionale Svizzera and
Jacqueline von Arb, Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound, Norway.
Date: 7 - 11 October 2012
Venue: India International Centre, New Delhi
Entry: By registration
The theme of the conference is "In Transition: Access for All". The conference will address matters connected with accessibility of collections as well as copyright issues and required technical systems and infrastructure. The objective is to investigate and discuss the issues pertaining to access alongside the following subthemes: copyright and IP, technologies, users, access, online access and funding.
Partners: International Association of sound and Audiovisual Archive; AIIS Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology
For more information visit: http://2012.iasa-web.org/
Traces from iaab: Akshay Raj Singh Rathore
Akshay Raj Singh Rathore, currently on a residency at iaab Basel, presents 3-works at an artist run archive space called DOCK in Basel. [dated September 2012]
Akshay Raj Singh Rathore, currently on a residency at iaab Basel, presents 3-works (i- series videos, The unbearable lightness of being I & -culure I) at an artist run archive space called DOCK in Basel. The exhibition will be on view until end October.
Apart from this presentation at DOCK Basel, a major part of Akshay’s residency was a site-specific work 'Let it Bloom', executed on a swiss farm outside of Zurich. This is a time bound work and the final realization will happen when the plants bloom in November end.
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Artists brief on project:
Let it Bloom - a site -specific installation
I applied to the Pro-Helvetia residency programme with Let it bloom, a site-specific installation. Finding the right environment and the right person/organisation to host it was an integral part of the project. Thanks to IAAB, I met Martin and could work at his farm on a beautiful and insüiring land. Beyond the realisation of this particular project, working at Martin’s farm had a very important resonance on my entire residency and the conceptualization of my work around the larger notion of ‘–Culture’.
Let it bloom stems from an earlier work of mine titled Rai Ka Pahad. Close to the English expression ‘don’t make a mountain of a mole hill’, this first work, Rai Ka Pahad - literally ‘mountain of mustard’ is titled after a very commonly used Hindi phrase from which the idea of the sculpture originates. The seeds accumulate to shape a floating organic mountain chain. Imposing, mountains frame our landscape and defy the sky. Symbol of immutability, they pass through times, like myths and phrases are transmitted from a generation to another…magic of human oral legacy. Rai Ka Pahad is a very literal sculpture of a mountain covered with mustard seeds and in that sense it deliberately plays with a strictly formal approach to the medium and first layered imaginary of the metaphor. The parable of Mathew in the New Testament says that ‘if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain move from here, and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you’. The painstaking accumulation of mustard seeds evokes this same quantity of faith it takes to do the impossible.
In collective, political and geographical imaginaries, mountains stand alone complex. Natural territorial borders or geopolitical ones, they have been at the heart of disputes and decisive historical battles. In this context, Rai Ka Pahad takes on the shape of Eastern Ghats hills. Located in Orissa, these have been at the centre of agitation lately, because of their aluminium resources disputed between the locals-asked to relocate- and Vedanta, the industrial company wanting to mine the rich grounds threatening to uproot the lives of thousands…
Let it bloom is an organic mustard mountain, blooming in a natural environment and landscape. Carrying on further the various explorations and researches initiated during the process of making Rai Ka Pahad, this is a new phase of the work, a mountain of mustard sculpted in a natural environment, with natural soil and sown seeds, which, with time, will bloom.
Beyond the interesting but evident visual contrast between the two works, the idea is to explore the evolution from one physical form to another- here from the barren to the fertile- and the meanings such an evolution can carry intrinsically. After relying on the literal meaning of Rai Ka Pahad, with Let it bloom, I explore further the simplicity and maybe triviality of a literal reading of metaphors. Like in the parable of Mathiew, Rai Ka Pahad stands as the first phase, it accumulates faith to enable the bloom. The displacement of the disputed chain of mountains to a peaceful and neutral country, Switzerland, is possible but metaphorical.
Akshay Raj Singh Rathore
Hof Blum, September 2012
Alexander Hahn to participate in seminar on Curatorial Practice
Swiss electronic media artist, Alexander Hahn will be participating in the seminar moderated by Bangalore-based artist and curator, Anil Kumar at the United Art Fair. [dated September 2012]
'Curatorial Practice & its Intervention in Artistic Practice and Theory’
A seminar presented by The United Art Fair with the support of Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council
29 September 2012 / Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
Swiss electronic media artist, Alexander Hahn will be participating in the discussion moderated by Bangalore-based artist and curator, Anil Kumar.
Date: 29 September 2012
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Venue: The United Art Fair Seminar Hall
Entry: As per United Art Fair rules
Beside Alexander Hahn and Anil Kumar other panelists include Johny ML, Head Curator, United Art Fair and the artist Chintan Upadhyay. The seminar aims to address current questions about curation. Whether curation acts as an ‘alibi’ to theoretical practice of visual culture is debatable. Does it clamor for an ‘independent identity’ of its own, as a separate stream from and akin to artistic practice and theory? The discourse continues as the panelists aim to delve into whether site-specificity of an artwork and context-specificity of curation have a possible meeting point, real or metaphorical?
Swiss-born Alexander Hahn is in India on a three-month residency. A pioneering electronic media artist who lives and works in New York and Zurich, Hahn is a fellow of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. His videos, installations and computer prints have been exhibited worldwide, most recently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kunstmuseum Solothurn/CH, Museum der Moderne Salzburg/AT, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara/IT, National Art Museum of China, Beijing/CN. Hahn is the recipient of the following awards: New York State Council on the Arts Grant, Zurich Work Award, Cultural Prize of St. Gallen, and the Swiss Federal Grant.
Curatorial practice as a production's process
Pro Helvetia New Delhi in collaboration with 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore presents a presentation and discussion by Swiss curator and academician Patrick Gosatti in Bangalore. [dated July 2012]
Pro Helvetia New Delhi in collaboration with 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore presents a presentation and discussion on
Curatorial practice as a production's process
by Swiss curator and academician Patrick Gosatti
Date: Wednesday 25 July 2012 at 6:00 pm Venue: 1 Shanthi Road, Shanthi Rd, Bangalore
HA Anil Kumar, Indian curator and critic has kindly consented to be the moderator.
Entry is open to all.
For more information contact 1 Shanthi Road at 98802 27706
Photo credit: Uriel Orlow, The Short and the Long of it II (installation view), 2011, la rada, Locarno (CH).
Information on Patrick Gosatti:
• University of Art & Design, Geneva | Aesthetics and Art Theory Teacher 2010Prepared Master classes and provided bibliographic references and organized workshops
• Festival Les Urbaines, Lausanne | Co-Curator 2010-12 Conceived the exhibition’s programs, organized installations in the public space, negotiated collaborations with institutions
• Art Collector magazine, Basel | Art Journalist 2010Prepared backround research and wrote articles in French on contemporary art
• Kunst-Bulletin magazine, Zürich | Italian Editor 2009Provided monthly coverage of international contemporary art, edited and proofread layouts, participated in editorial meetings
• IILA Pavilion, 53th Biennale di Venezia | Freelance Coordinator Assistant 2009 Coordinated large-scale installation, developed and supervised the budget, planned travels and logistics
• la rada_spazio per l’arte contemporanea, Locarno | Co-Curator 2008-12 Organized exhibitions, edited catalogues, arranged loans, established budget and collaborations
• Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich | Production Assistant 2008 Scheduled artwork’s production, supervised the production’s process, prepared the artworks for exhibitions and collections
• Galerie VU’, Paris | Gallery Assistant 2006 Organized the collection for archiving and restoration, fostered contacts with international institutions, guided gallery’s visits
Selected Publications
• Uriel Orlow, The Short and the Long of It, Mousse Publishing 2011
• Solvej Dufour-Andersen, Collection Cahiers d’artistes, Pro Helvetia 2011
• Twisted Realism, Raphaël Cuomo & Maria Iorio, Mousse Publishing 2010
• Veduta, Adrien Missika, Mousse Publishing 2010
• Wang Qingsong, in Timer / Intimacy, cat., Skira, Milano 2007
Languages spoken: Italian, French, German, English
Swiss film at European Film Festival in Ahmedabad
The Embassy of Switzerland in India presents Stationspiraten, a Swiss film by Michael Schaerer on the occasion of ‘Europe in Amdavad’ - the European Film Festival 2012 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. [dated July 2012]
The Embassy of Switzerland in India presents Stationspiraten, a Swiss film by Michael Schaerer on the occasion of ‘Europe in Amdavad’ - the European Film Festival 2012 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Date: 25 & 26 July 2012
Venue: Cinépolis, Ahmedaba
The film “Stationspiraten” (Bold Heroes) Fiction, 90 min., by Michael Schaerer / Switzerland, Sep 2010
The lives of five teenagers intersect in a hospital. Four of the five have cancer; one is waiting for his diagnosis. Each reacts to the situation in a different manner: although Benji battles the constant pain in his leg, he keeps the station in good spirits. Michi is waiting for his leg prosthesis, aiming to be out on the football pitch again soon. Kevin discovers newfound courage thanks to Laura on the 7th floor. Jonas' passion for flying is stronger than any medicine he‟s taken. And Sascha learns how to be a true friend. Together the five “station pirates” confront the fatal illness head on. Together they seize life.
Written by: Jürgen Ladenburger
For more information on the film visit: www.stationspiraten.ch
For screening details kindly contact the festival coordinator at afa.culture@yahoo.fr or visit www.cinepolisindia.com
Organisers: Alliance Française d‟ Ahmedabad, British Council Ahmedabad, Goethe Zentrum Ahmedabad
Partners: The Embassy of Switzerland in India, European Union Delegation office, EU Film Festival, FFSI
Patrick Gosatti at Experimenter Curator's Hub, Kolkata
Swiss curator Patrick Gosatti to participate at the Experimenter Curators Hub 2012. Patrick teaches at the University of Art & Design, Geneva and has co-curated the Festival Les Urbaines, Lausanne. [dated July 2012]
Swiss curator Patrick Gosatti will be participating at the Experimenter Curators Hub 2012 in Kolkata this July. Patrick has been teaching Aesthetics and Art Theory at the University of Art & Design, Geneva and has been the Co-curator of the Festival Les Urbaines, Lausanne. He has also been writing for the Art Collector magazine, Basel and the Kunst-Bulletin magazine, Zürich.
Date: 27 & 28 July 2012 Time: 11 am – 7 pm Venue: Experimenter, 2/1 Hindusthan Road, Gariahat Kolkata 700029 Entry: By registration / to register 033 - 24630465 / 40012289
Synopsis:
The objective of the Experimenter Curators Hub 2012 is to secure and take forward exchange of thoughts, views & possibilities of collaborations between the curators at the hub. Another objective is to discuss how curatorial practice can be developed through innovations and collaborations.
For more information please contact: Experimenter at 033 - 24630465 / 40012289
Organiser and Partners: Experimenter ( www.experimenter.in )
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Talk at 1 Shanthi Road in Bangalore
Patrick Gosatti will also be making a presentation on ‘Curatorial practice as a production's process’ at 1 Shanthi Road in Bangalore. Date: Wednesday 25 July 2012 at 6:00 pm Venue: 1 Shanthi Road, Shanthi Rd, Bangalore
Entry: Open to all
Information on Patrick Gosatti:
• University of Art & Design, Geneva | Aesthetics and Art Theory Teacher 2010Prepared Master classes and provided bibliographic references and organized workshops
• Festival Les Urbaines, Lausanne | Co-Curator 2010-12 Conceived the exhibition’s programs, organized installations in the public space, negotiated collaborations with institutions
• Art Collector magazine, Basel | Art Journalist 2010Prepared backround research and wrote articles in French on contemporary art
• Kunst-Bulletin magazine, Zürich | Italian Editor 2009Provided monthly coverage of international contemporary art, edited and proofread layouts, participated in editorial meetings
• IILA Pavilion, 53th Biennale di Venezia | Freelance Coordinator Assistant 2009 Coordinated large-scale installation, developed and supervised the budget, planned travels and logistics
• la rada_spazio per l’arte contemporanea, Locarno | Co-Curator 2008-12 Organized exhibitions, edited catalogues, arranged loans, established budget and collaborations
• Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich | Production Assistant 2008 Scheduled artwork’s production, supervised the production’s process, prepared the artworks for exhibitions and collections
• Galerie VU’, Paris | Gallery Assistant 2006 Organized the collection for archiving and restoration, fostered contacts with international institutions, guided gallery’s visits
Selected Publications
• Uriel Orlow, The Short and the Long of It, Mousse Publishing 2011
• Solvej Dufour-Andersen, Collection Cahiers d’artistes, Pro Helvetia 2011
• Twisted Realism, Raphaël Cuomo & Maria Iorio, Mousse Publishing 2010
• Veduta, Adrien Missika, Mousse Publishing 2010
• Wang Qingsong, in Timer / Intimacy, cat., Skira, Milano 2007
Languages spoken: Italian, French, German, English
