Hans Koch performs at Sound Reasons
An evening of live electronic music by Swiss musician Hans Koch and Ish S. The evening will feature collaborations and solo performances (edGeCut | diFfuSed beats).
An evening of live electronic music by Swiss musician Hans Koch and Ish S. The evening will feature collaborations and solo performances (edGeCut | diFfuSed beats).
Sound Reasons Festival (Live)
An evening of live electronic music by Hans Koch and Ish S as a part of the 'Sound Reasons Festival'. The evening will feature collaborations and solo performances by Hans Koch and Ish S(edGeCut | diFfuSed beats). They will be improvising live in a solo/ duo and also re-interpreting works by difFuSed beats and edGeCut.
| Hans Koch| diFfuSed Beats | edGeCut | Ish S |
3 February I 7 pm onwards I Devi Art Foundation, Sirpur House Gurgaon
'Sound Reasons' via this festival and various other productions will be trying to promote the contemporary transcultural strain of international electronic music and sound art in India by expanding awareness among the audience. As a part of a multidisciplinary domain for sound art and experimental electronic music - our objective at 'Sound Reasons' is to create Installations, Concerts/ Live performances along with workshops. There are various other Sound-installations and performances happening all over the City in the month of November. Please check soundreasons.in for more details and Dates plus info on other Performances
HANS KOCH
Hailing from Biel, reeds player Hans Koch has been a constant presence among improvised music’s global cream of the crop for over thirty years. Dropping a successful career as a classical clarinetist in mid-1970s Switzerland, he went ever further ahead on the path of improvisation, first exploring jazz-based idioms before venturing into more abstract forms of musical expression.
He has been working with everyone from Cecil Taylor to Fred Frith since the eighties. As a composer he has shaped the sound of Koch-Schütz-Studer since the beginning as well as working for radio-plays and film. Since the nineties he has been working with electronics as an extension of the saxes/clarinets as well as with sampling/sequencing. As a reed-player he is always working on his very own vocabulary and sound, which makes him a very unique voice on the actual scene. As we reach the end of the 2000s, Hans Koch stands as one of the foremost proponents of European improvisation, while still churning out some of the most explosive tunes around within the revered flagship of on-edge Swiss music, the Koch-Schuetz-Studer Trio. Instead of releases on prestigious labels like Intakt and ECM Koch has also been a pioneer in integrating electronic tools into his live performances, often using his laptop and software such as Max MSP to add unexpected twists and turns to his flights on the saxophone and the clarinet.
MORE: KOCH-SCHUETZ-STUDER INTAKT RECORDS
|edGeCut | diFfuSed beats | Ish S
edGeCt is a electro Acoustic project by Ish S (Sound Reasons). The music can be described as a mixture of acoustic compositions arranged with synthetic electronic sounds that build crystalline shimmering layered music and sonic spaces. These live sets have their share of acoustic instrumentation ranging from Guitar and vocals to flute and percussions. Ish has studied Western Classical guitar and then moved into Latin American and Jazz music. These Influences and those of electronic music can be heard in the edGeCut ‘live sets’He has performed at the elecktron @ Fete De la Musiqe’ in Geneva, Art Basel and at F+F Schule fur Kunst und Medien Design in Zurich. Ish has installed sound as a solo Artist and in collaboration in the Action field Kodra, Greece / London College of Communication, London / Sarai-CSDS / Project 88, Mumbai etc Ish Shehrawat is a Composer,Guitar Player, sound artist and Producer from Delhi. He currently produces and composes music under 3 different projects, that are edGeCut, 4th World Orchestra and diFfuSeD beats (diF).
Swiss presence at India Art Fair 2013
Pro Helvetia presents Swiss video artists at the Video Lounge of the India Art Fair. The screening has been put together by Indian curators who were mentored by the Swiss curator, Mirjam Varadinis.
Pro Helvetia presents Swiss video artists at the Video Lounge of the India Art Fair. The screening has been put together by Avijna Bhattacharya and Rikimi Madhukaillya from India who have been mentored by the Swiss curator, Mirjam Varadinis.
Like the previous Edition, the 5th Edition of India Art Fair will host an exclusive Video Lounge where the visitors will have the opportunity to view video art by established and emerging artists from India and around the world.
CURATED WALKS AT INDIA ART FAIR
India Art Fair 2013 has organised a range of curated walks for visitors. Individuals or groups will have the opportunity to explore the diverse art on display with students of art history. Swiss Curator, Mirjam Varadinis will be mentoring the students, and leading the Curated Walks Programme, supported by Pro Helvetia New Delhi.
Dates : 1st, 2nd and 3rd February 2013
Timings : 2:30, 4:00 and 5:30 pm Meeting Point : Information Desk
Mirjam Varadinis
Mirjam Varadinis is an art historian, curator and writer based in Zürich, Switzerland. She has been a curator at Kunsthaus Zürich for the past ten years. Responsible for contemporary art at the Kunsthaus, Mirjam has curated many exhibitions including Aleksandra Mir: Switzerland and Other Islands (2006), Shifting Identities (2008), and Motion Picture(s) (2010). Mirjam has also co-curated the exhibition Broken Lines as a part of the annual art festival ‘Printemps de Septembre’ (2006) in Toulouse, France. She has edited ‘Parkett: 20 Years of Artists’ Collaborations’. As a curator she has many solo exhibitions to her credit, such as those of Rosa Barba, Adrian Paci, Mircea Cantor, Runa Islam, Tino Sehgal, Erik van Lieshout, Aleksandra Mir, Nedko Solakov, Urs Fischer, David Shrigley to name a few. In 2012, she co-curated ‘TRACK’ in Ghent (Belgium), together with Philippe Van Cauteren. In 2005 she launched the internet-platform www.azple.com in collaboration with Annie Wu.
Mirjam Varadinis is in India as the international jury member of the SKODA PRIZE 2012.
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Rikimi Madhukaillya is an independent curator and art writer. She has been researching on Modern and contemporary indian art with a focus of North eastern states. Worked with National Gallery of Modern Art and Osians- Connoisseur of Arts apart from the other activities. She has been teaching in various art institutes for the last couple of years. Currently she is an Asst. Professor at the Dept of Fine Arts, Kurukshetra University.
Avijna Bhattacharya is a freelance art writer, curator and observer currently working from Kolkata. Her involution with contemporary art began with her art schooling in Kala,bhavana , Santiniketan and Faculty of Fine Arts Baroda between the years 1998-2005, her observations and studies has been evolving ever since. Along with imagining curations, Avijna enjoys writing on art the most amid the miscellany of activities within and around the art world she has been involved in. She has been contributing articles, reviews and essays in exhibition catalogues and art magazines based in New Delhi and Kolkata since 2007.
Swiss writer, Dorothee Elmiger ’s India visit
Swiss author, Dorothee Elmiger to participate in the Hyderabad Literary Festival, Hyderabad; Long Night of Literature, New Delhi; Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2013 and for a reading at the Pune University, Pune.
Pro Helvetia New Delhi has invited Swiss author, Dorothee Elmiger to participate in the Hyderabad Literary Festival, Hyderabad; Long Night of Literature, New Delhi; Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2013 and for a reading at the Pune University, Pune.
Accompanying Dorothee Elmiger are German writers Inka Parei, Katy Derbyshire and Theresa Hahl
Programme: Hyderabad Literary Festival, Hyderabad Date: Sunday 20 January 2013 Venue: Taramati Baradari, Hyderabad Event Details: Panel discussion and reading
Swiss writer Dorothee Elmiger has been invited by the Hyderabad Literary Festival to participate in a panel discussion and read from her works. Hyderabad plays host for the third time to writers from across the world, and the festival offers a unique opportunity for lovers of literature to listen to and interact with some of the best writers, established and upcoming. During the festival talks and discussion readings with Indian and German speaking authors will take place. Entry: Festival rules apply
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Dorothee Elmiger Dorothee Elmiger, born 1985 in Switzerland, studied at the Swiss Institute of Literature in Biel (Switzerland) as well as in Leipzig and Berlin. Her debut novel "Einladung an die Waghalsigen" (Invitation to the Bold of Heart) won several prizes, including the Aspekte Literature Prize 2010 for the best German debut prose. Dorothee Elmiger has published in several literary magazines and newspapers and was a resident fellow at the Villa Aurora, Los Angeles in 2012. Dorothee Elmiger lives and works in Switzerland.
PARALLEL FOCUS – the Shopping Mall
PARALLEL CITIES DELHI 2013 and TIME OUT DELHI present PARALLEL FOCUS – the Shopping Mall, a Parallel Cities - Time Out Delhi Photo Exhibition.
PARALLEL CITIES DELHI 2013 and TIME OUT DELHI
in collaboration with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council present PARALLEL FOCUS
– the Shopping Mall a Parallel Cities - Time Out Delhi Photo Exhibition
11 January 2013 - 15 January 2013 10 am to 7 pm daily at Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi
An extension of PARALLEL CITIES DELHI 2013, the exhibition showcases photographs of a mall submitted by professional and amateur photographers & selected by Devika Daulet-Singh, Director PHOTOINK.
Featured photographers: Alexander Hahn, Amit Bhatia, Anil Cherukupalli, Anurag Sharma & Anush Singh, Imran Ahmed, Javier Marquerie Thomas, Julia Gutge, Kameshwar Tangirala, Karolina Gembara, Kishore Sali, Mahfuzul Hasan, Riddhi Narayan Nandy, Rohan Shah, Sachin Bharti, Sandeep Biswas, Shaheen Ahmed, Shamsher Ali, Soumita Bhattacharya, Sunanda Khajuria, Tania Sen, Tania Talwar and Udit Kulshrestha.
PARALLEL FOCUS INFORMATION FLYER
Gilles Aubry at Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC 2013)
Swiss artist-in-residence Gilles Aubry will particpate at the 8th annual Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC 2013).
Swiss artist-in-residence Gilles Aubry will particpate at the 8th annual Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC 2013) scheduled to take place in Bhimtal in the Himalayan Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Gilles Aubry, a Berlin based sound artist is currently on a studio residency in Mumbai, India.
Dates: 7 January- 27 March 2013
Studios:
Cona Studio, Mumbai: 7 January- 16 February
New Delhi residency: 16 February- 27 March
Gilles will work and research related to movie soundtracks (Bollywood and independent), do field recordings to get familiar with the (mostly urban) Indian context and in particular its musical and auditory culture, listening and recording in the city's public space, as well as networking with local artists.
Gilles will be making a presentation at the 8th annual Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC 2013).
Long Night of Literature 2013
A literary evening of contemporary writing in German, Long Night of Literature is jointly hosted by the German Book Office, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.
A literary evening of contemporary writing in German, Long Night of Literature is jointly hosted by the German Book Office, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council. Moderated by the author Veena Venugopal, this event of prose and poetry includes conversations and readings from books by German and Swiss authors.
Friday 18 January 2013, 6 pm Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110001
SCHEDULE
6:30 pm Welcome by Veena Venugopal
6:45 pm Live performance - Theresa Hahl
7:00 pm Dorothee Elmiger with Dr Rekha Kamath
7:45 pm Inka Parei with Dr Jyoti Sabharwal
8:30 pm Break
9:00 pm Katy Derbyshire with Akshay Pathak
9:30 pm Live performance - Theresa Hahl
The programme will be in German and English and is open to all.
THE AUTHORS
Dorothee Elmiger
Dorothee Elmiger, born 1985 in Switzerland, studied at the Swiss Institute of Literature in Biel (Switzerland) as well as in Leipzig and Berlin. Her debut novel "Einladung an die Waghalsigen" (Invitation to the Bold of Heart) won several prizes, including the Aspekte Literature Prize 2010 for the best German debut prose. Dorothee Elmiger has published in several literary magazines and newspapers and was a resident fellow at the Villa Aurora, Los Angeles in 2012. Dorothee Elmiger lives and works in Switzerland. Moderated by Dr Rekha Kamath,Professor, Centre for German Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
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Katy Derbyshire
Katy Derbyshire is a London-born literary translator who has been in Berlin since 1996. She translates various contemporary German and Swiss writers, including Inka Parei and Dorothee Elmiger, Clemens Meyer, Simon Urban, Helene Hegemann, Sibylle Lewitscharoff and Tilman Rammstedt. Katy writes a blog about German- language literature by the name of love german books. Moderated by Akshay Pathak, reader, writer, translator and theatre enthusiast
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MODERATOR FOR THE EVENING Veena Venugopal is an MBA from S P Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, who gave up a promising career in mergers and acquisitions to be a poorly paid journalist. She is the author of Would You Like Some Bread With that Book? a collection of 14 essays on books and reading published by Yoda Press in May 2012. Her next book will be published by Penguin in 2014. She lives in Delhi.
Cindy Van Acker presents LANX AND OBTUS
Pro Helvetia New Delhi presents LANX and OBTUS by Swiss dancer and choreographer, Cindy Van Acker in Mumbai in partnership with Indian Council for Cultural Relations and in Bangalore as part of the Attakkalari Biennial.
Cindy Van Acker presents LANX AND OBTUS Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council in partnership with Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Mumbai & Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore presents LANX AND OBTUS by Cindy Van Acker
Schedule:
Mumbai: Tuesday 29 & Wednesday 30 January 2013 at 7 pm
Venue: St Andrews Auditoruim, Bandra
Bangalore: Saturday 2 & Sunday 3 February 2013 at 7 pm Venue: ADA Ranga Mandira Auditorium as part of the Attakkalari Biennial
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LANX
In Lanx, a continuous current circulates between the body and the geometrical motifs that encircle it. Balancing on the lines, unfolding its sides, its ridges, its angles, playing with perspectives that continually renew themselves, the body sounds out its capacity to inscribe forms in a predetermined space. Transforming itself as if it were under the effect of an optical illusion, the décor starts to vibrate, to transform itself.
Creation 2008 /
Length : 26 minutes
Choreography and dance : Cindy Van Acker
Sound composition: Mika Vainio and Denis Rollet
Scenography : Line Fontana, Cindy Van Acker Light : Luc Gendroz Realisation scenography and technical direction : Victor Roy Costume : Aline Courvoisier Administration and promotion : Tutu Production Production : Cie Greffe
Intermission for stage change : 20 minutes
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OBTUS
It all begins with a hand. Two arms follow that speak of flying, head down. Tamara Bacci has taken off into Obtus, a solo that carries its name well as the dancer begins a persistent exploration of a ray of light. Meditative gestures, slow, continuous movements, a body in peril which finds its most beautiful expressions when equilibrium is pushed to its limits. The dancer moves with exquisite precision and sensitivity, playing with a ramp of neon lights making parts or all of her body disappear. The lighting designer Luc Gendroz has created a work of volume and substance, which unsettles our perception of depth producing floating effects and playing with disappearance into the dark. Transported by light and sound, the choreographic material refuses to be pinned down in order to float, thereby toppling the perceptions of the spectator who, as if under a spell, links the consciousness of his own body to the body of the dancer.
Creation 2009
Length : 35 minutes
Choreography : Cindy Van Acker Interpretation : Tamara Bacci Sound composition: Mika Vainio and Denis Rollet Light and scenography : Luc Gendroz, Victor Roy, Cindy Van Acker Costume : Aline Courvoisier Technical direction: Victor Roy Administration and promotion : Tutu Production Production : Cie Greffe Coproduction: La Bâtie – Festival de Genève ------------
Compagnie Greffe benefits from a joint funding agreement from the Ville de Genève, Canton de Genève and Pro Helvetia. Supported by Loterie Romande.
For information on Compagnie Greffe: www.ciegreffe.org
Cindy Van Acker, choreographer and dancer Trained in classical ballet, Cindy Van Acker first worked in the Flanders Royal Ballet, Belgium. After joining Geneva’s Grand Theatre, she decided to settle in the city. Interested in the opportunity that modern dance offers for experimentation, she began creating her own pieces in 1994, and launched an international career with Corps 00:00 at the Geneva ADC in 2002. In 2003, Cindy Van Acker created two other solos, Fractie and Balk 00:49. In 2005, Italian director Romeo Castellucci chose Van Acker to represent Switzerland at the Venice Biennial. This first meeting then developed into an artistic collaboration with Castellucci, who suggested that she create the choreographic part of his production of Dante’s Inferno for the 2008 edition of the Avignon Festival, and for Parsifal, which he presented at La Monnaie in January 2011. In 2007, Kernel provided an opportunity for an unusual and stimulating collaboration with Finnish composer Mika Vainio of the Pan Sonic group which created and played the performance’s musical score. This experience continued with the creation of the sound effects for three solos produced between 2008 and 2009, Lanx, Nixe and Obtus. Obvie, Antre and Nodal completed this series of six solos and the same number of films directed by Orsola Valenti. Cindy Van Acker also ran courses in movement for student actors at Manufacture, Lausanne’s Theatre School, from 2006 to 2009. After the six solos, she created a group piece for 6 dancers called Diffraction in 2011. Her choreographic scripting, which allies aesthetic gravity, minimalist movement, precise composition and electronic music, allows Cindy Van Acker to examine the connections between body and spirit, sound and rhythm with almost scientific precision, and to create works that cross the barriers between dance, performance and the plastic arts.
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Tamara Bacci, dancer (Obtus)
Tamara Bacci studied classical ballet and contemporary dance at the Ecole de Danse de Genève and was part of the Junior Ballet directed by Beatriz Consuelo. She began her professional career at the age of 17 and a half at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, then at the Bejart Ballet Lausanne and continued in the neo-classical register within the Linga Company in Lausanne. In 2003, she crossed the path of Foofwa d'Immobilité, then Ken Ossola, Cindy Van Acker, Thomas Lebrun, Gilles Jobin, Cie Quivala and Estelle Héritier. In 2008, Claude Ratzé, director of the ADC Theatre in Geneva, gave her carte blanche to choose three choreographers. She then performed choreographies by Juan Dominguez, Ken Ossola and Cindy Van Acker. Since 2005, a particular artistic affinity built up between Tamara Bacci and the Flemish choreographer Cindy Van Acker. The choreographer allowed Tamara Bacci to assist her, notably, for the choreographical creation she realised for Inferno, invited by Romeo Castellucci and also Parsifal, created by the Italian director for the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels in 2011. In this latter piece, she also performed as a dancer. In 2010, Pascal Rambert, author, stage director and head of the Théâtre de Gennevilliers, asked her to be the performer of a solo that he wanted to create for her: Knocking on heaven's door. She collaborated on Déproduction, in 2011, a piece created by the Franco/Swiss choreographer, Perrine Valli. In May 2012, she began a first research work with the stage director Guillaume Béguin in Lausanne. She conceived a project in collaboration with Marthe Krummenacher and Perrine Valli, Laissez moi danser, that will be shown in April 2013 at the ADC in Geneva. As a pedagogue, Tamara Bacci teaches regularly at the Junior Ballet in Geneva, occasionally in Lausanne and at the Conservatory of Geneva.
For more information please visit: www.ciegreffe.org
Organiser/ Partner in India: Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Mumbai Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council
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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
