The Pitfall Ensemble: Writhing, still, Estee Makampo: Rite of Healing, Leela Collective: Retreat to the Trees
For the final event of the Warp summer program three performances are designed to interact with the installation Floris Ex Machina created by Andreas Tegnander as a unique interface between the Shadow Floriade program in the Beatrixpark and the Audio Visual Spatial program in the kunstkapel. However, the date of 9 11 remains a chilling anniversary and for this program each of the projects takes a view of the lives we have lived since this historic boundary line and how it impacts on the life of the trees today.
Henk Wolters, a tree expert and Elodie who knows all about the history of Beatrixpark will join Andreas Tegnander in a conversation about the trees and history of the park. We will gather at 15.45 at the Kiosk (the little drinkhut) close to the kids’ pool.
Flora ex Machina is a sound installation acting as a public sensory organ. It is a new way to experience the Beatrixpark and the complex hidden sounds of its trees. While the park’s soundscape is filled with people talking, birds chirping, trains passing and music playing, there are certain layers of sounds in the park not available to us, because they do not travel through the air.
Each tree is represented by a unique Omnidirectional speaker sculpture, creating an immersive experience that isolates only the sound inside of the trunks of these trees.
As part of the Shadow Floriade 2022 program The Warp presents
EUREKA! in the Beatrixpark on the weekend of October 1 and 2, in which audiences are invited to take a nighttime journey through the park to experience a visual art and science performance side show. This carnival of wonders is inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s final work, Eureka!, in which Poe revealed incredible ideas such as an expanding universe, the big bang and black holes which he intuited with the immediacy of a walk in the park… And hence it was decided amongst these artists to engage with what might be considered the first conscious work of art science which placed its primary focus on the ability to Imagine.
This after dark performance installation is enacted by a Collective of ten artists very well known in the burgeoning field of art science:Joost Rekveld, Matthijs Munnik, Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, Vladimir Grafov, Zalan Szakacs, Daniela De Paulis, Mint Park and BMB con: Justin Bennett & Roelf Toxopeus
Audiences will assemble at the Meeting point located at the Park Kiosk BEA, Beatrixpark 1 off Boerenweteringspad at any time between nightfall and late night.
Promenades will commence every fifteen minutes from the meeting
Point during which audiences will be led on tour to experience eight unique works in the darkness of the park. The entire performance is expected to take eighty minutes. The event is offered free of charge.
This project is presented by The Warp in connection with The Shadow Floriade, fiftieth anniversary celebation in the Beatrixpark, in association with Zone2Source in the Amstelpark. Eureka! is produced with the support of:
Gemeente Stadsdeel Zuid, Stimulerings Creative Industries, Amsterdam Fonds voor de kunst, Mondriaan Foundation, and Prins Bernhard Kultuurfonds.
Summerlessness AudioVisualSpatial programs IV, V, and VI
The Warp continues the AudioVisualSpatial program for Summerlessness with three remaining evenings which push the boundaries about what the concept of lessness can mean and how expansive it can become.
AVS 46 Summerlessness part IV: The Living Daylights (In the Space of Subtractivity by Design)
1 September 18:00
This program commemorates the previous incarnation of the Kunstkapel as a gallery specifically for design concepts rather than fine art following on its previous identity as a part of the Sandberg Art Institute and previously the St. Nicolas catholic school (which prompted Summerlessness I and II). These projects take the lessness decree and apply it to the concept of a laboratory for design.
The Walkback performs Summer Stock
Summer Stock is a very familiar phrase in the theatre world, referring to the production of older or tried and true productions made during the summer months in venues found in more off center or vacation oriented locations. But The Walkback ensemble takes the phrase more literally to gather up literally all familiar actions, gestures and utterances that have become actually so familiar and repetitive as to be deemed stock coming out of the strangely unifying experience of the Covid pandemic particularly in what is perceived as the first summer of apparent freedom. More than ever people seem to find themselves reduced to saying the same things with all new significant and learned gestures to go with it. This would seem to suggest a new unified design for living. As usual, The Walkback takes this research as the starting point for a performative walk back through this new reality in order to observe what this reduction may have done to us and where it might lead. The Walkback includes Dorn Whitlow, Cathy Matthis, Randall Crane, Natalie Telema Bourne and Terry Gornick.
Tensegrity Co-op performs We have designs but Given the Situation We Will Just Have to Make Due
Utilizing drawings and plans shown thru a complex overlay of slide projections and field recordings of construction sites an analysis of design alternatives for the space is offered. This is a timely analysis in the face of the future remaking of the Kunstkapel venue into its new identity as the conservatory of Amsterdam. But this study is made purely within the realm of the provisional which allows the imagination to run wild and thus the presentation puts forward incredible flights of fancy offered within the most limited means of presentation and representation: some very spare drawings which pile up in complexity with more elaborate explanation. The project has developed into a parody of the presentation of architectural renovation plans offered lately for major major venues and locations within Amsterdam which it can be noticed is under constant rebuilding to more fully realize its future as a new real life Disneyland for Europe. Tensegrity Co-Op currently includes Ettiene Minoury, Pascal Wissolu and Hubert Foure.
The Archetechtonic Assembly performs Designing Residue : The Itinerary of Endless Summer Places
The Kunstkapel is again the location of surround cinema and circular sound design which takes its cue from the idea of Summer blockbusters, summertime blues, and the romance of summer places which are far and away from one’s workaday world. All of these ideas are residues at the end of the summer that have contributed to a life lived apart and which must be always bid a bittersweet farewell as part of its very design. In that sense this piece is a kind of elegy for the traditional idea of the summer break particularly in the context of this post pandemic moment. Highly processed imagery is placed in widescreen surround format along with competing soundtracks to produce a highly disturbed memory of this summer idyll. The Archetechtonic Assembly includes Grant Harris, Deborah Lane, and Lee Ellickson.
AVS 47 Summerlessness part V: The Last is the Least (But don’t call it minimal!)
5 September 18:00
The challenge to these performative groups is to take the rule of lessness as absolute principle. Thus a most demanding evening is imagined in which the slightest gesture might have the greatest impact. This program reprises the three groups that contributed to the first event of Summerlessness and these three groups will further refine this state of lessness into the final program of the season.
Ambulant performs Instances are Fewer And Farther Between
This work is a refinement of a continuing project from this group project centered upon social contracts, shared rhythms and perpetual cycles of movement and interaction between bodies in daily life. Having developed a score of basic activity, the attempt here is to apply the rule of lessness by slowing down and establishing intermittency as an operating rule such that we witness a gradual slowing down of physical activity wherein contingent events, gestures and motions occur literally as “fewer and further between”…. Ambulant includes Terrence Franson, Heap Mathers, Abigail Anson, and Nicole Read.
The Discordian Knot performs One Less Action Can Be Lesser Than
The Discordian Knot continues to make examples produced from its rule of five principals in which all performances are entirely developed out of the limitation of five rules without any further planning or scripting. The five rules in this case pertain rather than spurs to greater improvisational possibility more to severe limitation and restriction. The Discordian Knot includes Rory Hernandez, Dawn Porter, Della Rittenal, and Roland Cassel.
The Distraught Foundation performs We Made Very Little of It
This ensemble is formed from a reduced group from many of the refugees who performed in the inaugural event of Summerlessness as well as several of the individuals who are working with them from this side. The refugees are challenged to engage critically with their experience as refugees and the overwhelming impact of statelessness and ambiguity with which they have had to continually adjust themselves. In reducing these experiences to the bare bones, a provocative image of a strange holding pattern in life emerges where every opportunity seems but a provisional projection.
AVS 48 Summerlessness part VI: In the Event that Nothing Happens (Three Renditions)
10-11-12 September 16:00
The title of this final event would apparently speak for itself and its command is taken with great seriousness by the participants who return again from the first and fourth events of Summerlessness in order to push the challenge of lessness to its most provocative interpretation. Each group has developed its own unique interpretation as to how to deal with the challenge of this title. The result of such an enterprise is that the result is invariably marked by longueurs of considerable duration and so therefore the spectator is warned that this is a very demanding event not for the squeamish nor the impatient.
The Distraught Foundation performs First Rendition (In the Event that Nothing Happens)
The third Summerlessness performance created by this amalgam of refugees and compatriots who work with them are challenged to confront the dictum of the event title.
The Distraught Foundation performs Second Rendition (In the Event that Nothing Happens)
Once again the Discordian Knot utilizes its five rule principle to create even greater restriction to produce their interpretation of the event. The Discordian Knot includes Rory Hernandez, Dawn Porter, Della Rittenal, and Roland Cassel.
Ambulant performs Third Rendition (In the Event that Nothing Happens)
What is expected to be the longest rendition of the evening, given the interest in the group in rhythms and perpetual cycles over time, the attempt to stage nothing happening at all would seem an inevitable and natural activity. Ambulant includes Terrence Franson, Heap Mathers, Abigail Anson, and Nicole Read.
The Underwriters’ Labortory performs The Epitome of Spectacular Indifference
29 August 18:00
The Underwriter’s Laboratory has undertaken a most unusual study in its attempts to understand the function of the Warp as an active cultural mechanism in Amsterdam. The object is to make a careful study of the reception and response to the program over the last decade and ruefully subject a series of test performances (consisting of some of the more ambitious, ephemeral or outlandish ideas promoted by the Kunstkapel location) to these auto critiques which are made directly in a call and response fashion by a ring of onlookers. The results may be taken as parody, satire or outright travesty… but directed at the performers or the audience themselves? This becomes the self reflective question as what the study demonstrably shows is that given the general perception the performers discover it would be better for them to do…. Nothing! Thus the overarching theme of a summer of lessness receives its most disturbing and absurdly hilarious rendering in this performance. The surprise performers have been gathered from distant and recent Warp projects such that their actual experiences come to play in the performance. Principal members of the Underwriter’s Laboratory include Christopher Wrener, Dara Navi, Bastien Calla, and Ithey Cornish.
For the first time in its long residency in the Kunstkapel The Warp presents a summer program to dwell particularly on all the elements that are traditionally avoided: long daylight, fewer people in town, and even reduced energies and circumstances… These unusual projects are made as a prelude to Fallouts, the final Warp program in the Kunstkapel presented this autumn from September 21 to December 12 in anticipation of the coming closure of the venue as it enters a winter hibernation of renovation for the coming years.
Summerlessness part I: Ghosts in Broad Daylight (We are Still Referriing to it as a Chapel Are We Not?) 22 August Sunday 2:00
1: The Dischordian Knot & Our Sorrows’’ Two Thirds perfrom Sunday Service
This piece attempts to recreate an actual Sunday Service in recognition of the role the chapel played in the Catholic St Nicholas School for which it was built. While the room was designed as a seminary rehearsal room it did stand in for chapel duties throughout the history of the school. This collaboration brings together two duos: Wilton Carrol and Babette Sauvigny establish a rigorous service based on five dischordian rules while Odile Teretz and Dessy Merrin interlace song sung in Latin.
2: The Distraught Foundation performs The Least We Could Do
A gathering of refugees (from several groups active in Amsterdam with which The Warp has collaborated previously) take up transitory residence in the Chapel, reminding one of another traditional role of the chapel in strong communities. The refugees each offer an image, a sound and position as an act of sharing.
3: Ambulant performs The Mass is Over
A slow summer dissolution to the precedings in this performance which raises the question of where to from here?
Summerlessness part II: Darkness at Noon (Did You Feel Like Ending it All in Art School?) 24 August Tuesday 16:00
1: The IrkSumSet performs Reduced Circumstances (Art School Confidential)
Over the summer period the former Restaurant As has played temporary residence for an initiative uniting the energies of graduates from Amsterdam arts institutions and this project is designed as a free space for their interaction which is laid out in the usual IrkSumSet manner such that all manner of disparate activities occur over several hours and which gradually produces a sense of an orchestrated arrangement of spontaneous actions…
2: Guiser’s Palace performs The Limping Model
A spontaneous show and tell performance by Lee Ellickson which addresses the shifting premises of the Kunstkapel as well as the struggle to keep up with warped spacetime…
3: The Paraneural Record performs Endless Summer
A confounding experience of cinema in broad daylight: the infamous mid sixties Bruce Brown California surfing landmark that graced movie theater screens with a “whole new mode of entertainment” they claimed is here given an unrecognizable makeover both in terms of sound and image… The sounds and images are distributed roundabout the 360 degree space and calls for close attention.
Summerlessness part III: Unus Mundus 27 August Friday 20:00
1: Unfolding, duo with Vilbjørg Broch and Manuela Lucia Tessi
Unfolding – intersection between witchcraft and mathematics- is a work created in 2019. This project is a further exploration of precognition in the arts and in creation. Our media are algorithmic computer music, dance and vocal performance. The electronic music consists of live generated computer music which is created for this project. We deepen the research around the question of training a sensitivity between constructed composition frameworks and intuitive listening. As in ancient divination techniques, a knowledge of events yet to unfold is achieved through the intersection between set frameworks and chaos. We listen to draw knowledge from the silence. Click here for the trailer.
2: Sheet Metal performed by Dead Fish Fuck
This unique project has been in development over many decades and has traveled several continents. Dead Fish Fuck Creator/performer of sound objects utilizing found materials and experimental playing techniques. Sheet Metal: large plate of metal suspended in space and played by rubbing surface with wooden sticks of various sizes. Click here for the more information about this performance.
3: Dust’s Memory performed by Salmon & Broch
Improvised duo piece with Vilbjørg Broch – voice , Miriam Den Boer Salmon – violin.
Maria Mavridou and Erik Van de Vijdeven perform Couples Therapy
The result of a long-term collaboration between brilliant improvisers produces a work of spontaneously generated complications, tensions and co-mingling which is the inevitable territory of couples’ therapy. This spoken movement piece challenges performers and audiences alike to explore the dynamics of relationship in an engaging and always surprising manner.
Jonathan Nagel and Anna Heuer-Hansen performs Eventually
The duo of double bassist and composer Jonathan Nagel and dancer Anna Heuer-Hansen performing within a light creation developed by Ellen Knops is further enhanced by the spatial installation of speakers in the room. The musical composition is built from a repetition of simple motives and chords, spanning the arc from intimate chamber music sounds to giant amplified sonic landscapes. “eventually” deals with the perception of time: The term ‘eventually’ implies time invested toward an eventual goal. When you arrive ‘eventually’, it may not have been easy getting there, but the process has been all important. At the same time, ‘eventually’ contains the word ‘event’, which both underlines the aspect of the live experience as well as the extraordinary fact that the dancer has reached the second trimester of pregnancy which brings a powerful poignancy to this project, incorporating one of life’s more remarkable and recurrent springboards…
▶ Springboard Salon Pi: The Circumference of the Circle
Friday April 23 Salon Pi, 18:00 – 02:00 Then Again, Klub Kring and Some Rites of Spring:
FAR (The Fabulists’ Ardent Renditions) performs Then Again: Not So Much A Program, More a Way of Life, Zalan Szacas performs Kring, Contraband and Company performs Hidden Rites of Spring (impromptu performances by The Walkback, The Relapse and Ambulant). This eight hour event presents a live and online salon evening in which three aspects meet head on: short sketches presented in connection with the upcoming online series Then Again, the misty environment of Zalan Hzacas’s work Kring and the free play of spontaneous performances within this environment provided by Contraband in Company which is founded on the idea of simultaneous but contrary activities in a given environment. Performers include Natalya Golofastova, Julia Kiryanova, Zalan Hzacas, Lee Ellickson, Ira Preston, Pharrel Redman, Vera Rustin, Carl Gadge, Reynolds Parse, and Arnold Varney.
Saturday April 24 This Springing to Life, 19:30
Robbert Van Hulzen performs Lockdown Litanies
Robbert Van Hulzen offers a collection of tunes using only sounds contributed by (people like) you during the first lock down, and sampled and processed and combined and mangled and arranged by RVH along with beats with pots and pans, birds in their gardens, singing voices, instruments, garage doors, tripping dogs, and so much more.
The Supernumeraries Contemplating (The Weather) perform Rhythmanalysis 0:1
Iza Pacewicz Wysocka considers life’s ultimate springboard: her own pregnancy at the end of the second trimester. She is joined by Manuela Lucia Tessi and Thalia Laric to reflect on and embody the shifting rhythms of everyday life and the sudden changing cycles that come with transformations. This work initiates a series that is informed by the work of proto Situationist Henri Lefevebre, as is the following work on the program.
The Ensemble Todo Modo performs Mode d’Emploi Exemplar: Deconstructions of Everyday Life
Dirk Bruinsma, Robbert Van Hulzen, Christian Smith and Alan Purves draw familiar domestic elements, old habits and common household pieces of their lives to present a concert that attempts to, as the title suggst, desconstruct commonalities of everyday life into a sonic derive that intends to surprise and reorient our complacency particualrly in this time of pandemic and lockdown when our domestic worlds have become prisons for many of us.
Zalan Szakacs performs Kring
Kring invites the audience into a subliminal intervention within the Kunstkapel environment. As a tribute to the Kunstkapel’s role as a springboard for so many projects over the last decade, Kring enacts the space. Through intangible gestures such as ambient sounds, a circling light beam, and circular walking paths by the audience, the ritual continues beyond material realities. As such, the memory of the space lives on in and amidst our bodies.
Sunday April 25, Points of Departure: What Was Once a Lift Off Might Now Be AJump to Conclusion, 21:00
The Relapse performs Recurrence 3:1 with the collaboration of The Supernumeraries
Andreas Tegnander, Max Van der Wal and Lee Ellickson perform an unveiling of inscrutable phenomena drawn from the hidden recesses of the Lunstkapel space itself. The work absorbs hidden archives of images and sounds that unlock concealed temporal spatial tricks of reality… The work advances both through implicate and explicate orders… on the one hand suggesting a Chinese puzzle box of spaces within spaces while laterally overlapping multiple timeframes…
The Shadow Seminary School perform Apopthegmata
This is the first part of the five-part project called The Edifice Built Thru Conducting Bodies which is an investigation into certain origins related to the Kunstkapel’s original life as a seminary rehearsal space in a Catholic school. This work is suggested by the sayings of the Desert Fathers which are considered formative to the foundation of the Catholic Church. This project charts the creation and spread of the Shadows and the Blood of the church which apparently spawned from a white desert space. The Archesonic technique of Mark Bain, with which he plays the building itself to powerful effect, is a crucial aspect of all Shadow Seminary School performances. The Ensemble includes Maria Mavridou, Manuela Lucia Tessi, Thalia Laric, Ferdinand Doumic, Jonathan Nagel, Simone Gosling, Tamira van Wijngaarden and Vladimir Grafov.
AudioVisualSpatial interdisciplinary performances in a 360 degree round immersive space live and online
The Warp presented its seasonal program of AudioVisualSpatial works in the Kunstkapel with Springboard. Springboard is defined as a beginning from which an enterprise is launched and this can remind us that The Warp perpetually begins again with every new assembly of projects while; suggesting not only the “jumping off point” of inspiration artists and performers are taking from the Kunstkapel location but also from the altered realities with which we live and the current Coronavirus restrictions. A series of programs combining several projects were presented live in the location and online following current requirements in the period from April 1 to April 25.
Springboard is divided into two sections:
April 1 to April 9: The Place In Itself: These are Springboard experiments with the Place: a series of projects originally initiated at the Kunstkapel previously are resuscitated to contemplate the space through a series of tests and experiments pointed toward future developments that include the recreation of the space as an augmented reality.
April 14-25: A Personal Place to Be: These are Springboard experiments with the Personal: commencing with the Final performance of the Springboard workshop of the Borderline Proxy, a series of projects are developed and presented that explore more personal creative relationships with the location with broader implications of creativity that continues beyond the breeding space. It is perhaps not even an irony that two of these projects are concentrated on actual pregnancy.
The Borderline Proxy performs Doom Patrol (pilot issue): Leap in the Void–The Pencil Sketch Dummy
The Borderline Proxy has undertaken a very ambitious project for the Spring production workshop which was slated for a month-long period starting in mid-March. Doom Patrol is an exploration of performers, personal trauma, social media, parallel reality, private fantasy and alter egos. The concept is for a long-term project which will produce a series of numbered issues in the manner of a comic book (the title is drawn from a crucial comic book title that introduced the traumatic anti-hero into the genre of superhero adventures as well as the concept of personal quirks that bring both estrangement and empowerment). For the pilot issue the group has decided to consider their first performance as a Pencil Sketch Dummy: a rough esquisse for what they have in mind to develop in the years ahead. The Borderline Proxy includes Maria Mavridou, Stefania Petroula, Tashi Iwaoka, Thalia Laric, Manuela Lucia Tessi, Jonathan Nagel and Roman Zotter.
AudioVisualSpatial interdisciplinary performances in a 360 degree round immersive space live and online
The Warp presented its seasonal program of AudioVisualSpatial works in the Kunstkapel with Springboard. Springboard is defined as a beginning from which an enterprise is launched and this can remind us that The Warp perpetually begins again with every new assembly of projects while; suggesting not only the “jumping off point” of inspiration artists and performers are taking from the Kunstkapel location but also from the altered realities with which we live and the current Coronavirus restrictions. A series of programs combining several projects were presented live in the location and online following current requirements in the period from April 1 to April 25.
Springboard is divided into two sections:
April 1 to April 9: The Place In Itself: These are Springboard experiments with the Place: a series of projects originally initiated at the Kunstkapel previously are resuscitated to contemplate the space through a series of tests and experiments pointed toward future developments that include the recreation of the space as an augmented reality.
April 14-25: A Personal Place to Be: These are Springboard experiments with the Personal: commencing with the Final performance of the Springboard workshop of the Borderline Proxy, a series of projects are developed and presented that explore more personal creative relationships with the location with broader implications of creativity that continues beyond the breeding space. It is perhaps not even an irony that two of these projects are concentrated on actual pregnancy.
The Daedaleum Cursor with The Supernumeraries performs Semapherics (Live Transmissions): Distress Signals
A live collision of three simultaneous locations recently utilized by The Warp for performance events: the glass house in the Amtelpark, the Archive Terrain behind the old city archive building built around an expanding performance by the Supernumeraries (Maria Mavridou, Stefania Petroula, Manuela Lucia Tessi, Izabela Pacewicz-Wysocka). The Daedaleium Cursor resuscitates its original work of recreating the Kunstkapel as a human scale Zootrope in which the Distress Signals are adumbrated and transmitted.
Underwriter’s Laboratory performs White Out Terminus: Tests
The Underwriter’s Laboratory performs precisely what its original namesake has carried out for more than one hundred years: the testing of the potential of the Kunstkapel for sound and vision: its strengths and its weaknesses. These recording tests will play a crucial role in the upcoming augmented reality recreation of the actual space and sound of the Kunstkapel. Each experiment is set in the context of a white limbo and many of these tests will find their way into the upcoming online series Then Again: Not so Much a Program, More a Way of Life. Members of the Underwriter’s Laboratory include Christopher Wrener, Dara Navi, Bastien Calla, and Ithey Cornish.
A Meme Splice, Cultivator performs White Balances: Diffusions
The very white space of the Kunstkapel is invariably subjected to a succession of white balances in every visual recording made there. This performance is made up of the increase of whitening elements of light and whitening elements of sound and their gradual subtraction. In this process comes about an intense attention to gradations of sight and sound. With the participation of Gordon Isaacs and Morey Frobisher.
▶ Saturday April 3Spring Torrents (Night Clock Limits)
The Daedaleum Cursor performs Torrential
A collection of layered history of Kunstkapel imagery is layered into a live transmission /torrent that rapidly compresses all projects into a night clock passage that cycles through its material at regular intervals based on programming algorithms. This performance will act online during night clock hours simultaneously with those below.
The Orientation Conservancy Project perform Acculturation Exam Diffusions
The Orientation Conservancy unites the efforts of many artists who have worked in the Kunstkapel over the years. Performances of the acculturation exams begun previously on the Archive Terrain during Some Vast Grey Area and in the kunstkapel as part of Spring Quandary in Spring 2020 as now reobserved from position three times removed as another kind of “third world”…..these acculturations (texts, drawings, performances somehow redolent of eastern culture emerging in new contexts) are now seen as recordings to be remixed and recombined into loops that reintegrate in the circular space of the kunstkapel. A custom online version is being perfected. Participants include Sindra Morrel , Rithy Ambon, Cora Akan Gal, and Shiri Ristelhuber,
The Chronic performs The Volatile Market of Secret Shares
The Chronic reverses its regular focus on broadcast information into a narrow cast mirror of secret sharing. The process of information becomes quarantined and secret, determined to share its realities with a consciously narrowing public body. This results in a collection of alternate audio visual reality checks occurring throughout the Amsterdam lockdown and night clock offered as alternative news network. These secret shares periodically break into the ongoing Torrent during the night clock hours. The group includes Brian McKenna, Robbie Musselwaite and Abbie Matthews.
▶ Friday April 9Back to the Drawing Board
Tensegrity Co-Op performs Prospective Renovations
A series of audio-visual experiments to consider even more unlikely renovations to the Kunstkapel chamber in response to the coming plan to radically remake the eccentric Kunstkapel space to function in a more utilitarian fashion as a music conservatory space. Projections of these idiosyncratic plans crisscross through the space and will be further developed for inclusion within the augmented reality recreation of the Kunstkapel on other sites later in the year. Tensegrity Co-Op currently includes Ettiene Minoury, Pascal Wissolu, Hubert Foure, Jacqueline Basset and Darcy Garnier.
The Mutual performs A Third Timer Bounce Down
Inspired by the original concept of sound mixing by “bouncing down” tracks The Mutual initiates a work based on the Kunstkapel which bounces down a series of actions and sounds which gradually fills up the Kunstkapel space with a increasingly dense image of space and time occurring live in the space while simultaneously projected on the walls. Performed by Irene Fera Wood and Steina Phipps.
Blank Stereo Type performs Night Clock Surveillances: The Old Sourdough Bakery
A live camera multiple projection surveillance of the now vacated bakery space in the basement of the Kunstkapel building formerly occupied by Restaurant AS. As usual with Blank Stereo Type a curious narrative develops through the use of opticals involving objects and light tricks and foley sounds. A series of uncanny events seems to take place in what would seem to be an empty silent space. The ensemble includes Severin Vaughan, Jacqueline Basset and Darcy Garnier.
AudioVisualSpatial interdisciplinary performances in a 360 degree round immersive space live and online
The Warp presented its seasonal program of AudioVisualSpatial works in the Kunstkapel with Springboard. Springboard is defined as a beginning from which an enterprise is launched and this can remind us that The Warp perpetually begins again with every new assembly of projects while; suggesting not only the “jumping off point” of inspiration artists and performers are taking from the Kunstkapel location but also from the altered realities with which we live and the current Coronavirus restrictions. A series of programs combining several projects were presented live in the location and online following current requirements in the period from April 1 to April 25.
Springboard is divided into two sections:
April 1 to April 9: The Place In Itself: These are Springboard experiments with the Place: a series of projects originally initiated at the Kunstkapel previously are resuscitated to contemplate the space through a series of tests and experiments pointed toward future developments that include the recreation of the space as an augmented reality.
April 14-25: A Personal Place to Be: These are Springboard experiments with the Personal: commencing with the Final performance of the Springboard workshop of the Borderline Proxy, a series of projects are developed and presented that explore more personal creative relationships with the location with broader implications of creativity that continues beyond the breeding space. It is perhaps not even an irony that two of these projects are concentrated on actual pregnancy.
