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Wanda & Nova deViator / Ljubljana (Slovenia) - Artistic residency. From 10 to 20 December 2010
Event within the program Via del Confine / The East Side (of the moon)
by Nhandan Chirco, YANVII in collaboration with Rad'Art Project/Artéco and Teatro E. Petrella
17 Dec. h 21.00
Wanda & Nova deViator
Frozen Images
Production Emanat Institute, Ljubljana
19 Dec. h 18.00
Wanda & Nova deViator
Transmittance - preparation of the tools / open rehearsal work-in-progress
with theoretical interventions by Adele Cacciagrano, Tihana Maravic, Silvia Mei
VIA DEL CONFINE / THE EAST SIDE (of the moon) – artistic residencies and presentations from Eastern Europe
Having lived and worked, over the last ten years, across Italy, Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia, I had the opportunity to know the former Yugoslavia’s art scene thoroughly, and to understand its qualities and the specific strength of both its traditional forms and contemporary experimentation. I also realised how feeble is the communication between Italy and such areas of Eastern Europe, although geographically very close to each other. There is a considerable lack of information regarding what happens within the artistic field, and in general on the other side of the Adriatic sea, as if our national borders were thicker on the east side. It is also a mental boundary, resulting from a separation entrenched in the imagery, derived from the Cold War polarisation. In cities such as Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade and Sofia, there is a lively independent artistic community, a vivid and articulated artistic and theoretical production, together with a very strong theatrical and musical tradition. The VDC/TES programme - promoted by the association YANVII in 2010 in the context of the Hotel Limbo Festival in collaboration with Il Laboratorio dell’Imperfetto, then carried out in partnership with Teatro Petrella, Rad’Art Project and other local and foreign institutions – is the outcome of a series of personal encounters and artistic collaborations. I have purposely involved artists who in many cases are also friends, whose work I personally know, and with whom I have sometimes collaborated and shared research paths, following the development of their artistic work for an extended time span. It is important for me to highlight this as I wish to avoid the pretension of a standardised logic in the way of outlining a programme of events, rather, by overthrowing the usual attributions of value, I aim to create a space openly founded on direct contacts, both personal and artistic, on the “intimacy” of artistic relationships. I believe that such resources are crucial, especially in this moment of economic crisis, to promote cultural production – and a cultural production not based on mechanical processes, not “bureaucratised”. At present, the events of the VDC/TES programme are made possible thanks to the motivation of the artists and operators involved. The programme features some of the most significant and/or innovative artists coming from Eastern Europe, not only presenting shows and concerts, but also offering moments of reflection, opening up the creative process. Alongside these presentations are theoretical meetings to which participate research fellows from DAMS – University of Bologna, open rehearsals and screenings, as well as the opportunity of informal dialogues with the artists involved. – Nhandan Chirco
“My decision for creating in the
medium of contemporary dance is connected with a possibility to construct a
dance idiom, to explore and articulate it. What I am particularly interested in
is entering a process, which does not anticipate the final result. I never
perceived dance language as a mere result, bound to a certain project,
performance, but rather a fruit of continual research and examination of the
limits and borders of the medium itself. I always search for points of support
in dance language, or better, I test the limits of a certain expression. The
field of contemporary dance thus presents to me a continual challenge, as it
allows not only the examination of the medium but the questioning of me as an
individual as well.” Maja Delak
Maja Delak
is a choreographer and a dancer. In her opus of twelve dance performances, Maja
Delak has traversed numerous worlds, which – despite the different themes and
approaches to work – whirl into an anchorage of the author's dance poetics,
with which she is making a clearer and clearer definition of the methodologies
of contemporary dance. In 2010 she received the Prešeren Fund Award,
the highest recognition for achievements in the field of art in the Republic
of Slovenia.
Luka Prinčič is a musician, a sound designer and a media artist who participated in a number of sound-music and multimedia projects. His work is in particular focused on personally reflective and socially critical use of new technologies within contemporary audio-visual contexts. Most of his work is based on hacker ethics and DIY philosophy.
About
Wanda & Nova deViator
Wanda's first appearance was in a performance Ways of Love with the
re-appropriation of the song "You Don't Own Me" rendered into a
punk-electro reinvention where she provided screamy yet powerful vocal
intervention. In the process of improvisation on home-grown granulators in Pure
Data she displayed subtle sensibility to delicate sounds dispersed in time. All
this was the reason for inevitable further collaboration with Nova deViator who
has been in and out of the Slovenian electronic and noise "scene" for
more than a decade. His music/noise ranges from electronic break beats to noise
drones. This urban-born yet dweller of the deep woods has succeeded again and
again to provide unpredictably hard-to-find unstable output. You can find them
on the internets.
Wanda & Nova deViator: Frozen Images
The process of freezing is a break between
movements. As such, the structure of the concert, perforated with suspensions -
breaks between points, is an emergence of a performance of frozen images, full
of texts, contemporary electronic rhythms, exasperated guitars, noisy
oscillations, and hypnotic bass lines. Along with the performers' actions,
tactile interfaces, and moving pictures, the performance raises questions about
hypersexualisation and pornification, fetishisation in consumerism, mechanisms
of the image and visual culture, idealization of love, and the meaning of art
and culture. Movement, text, and frozen images open up in their primary way
precisely based on contemporary organised noise. The music, ambivalently
contextualised through the video image and movement, stretches out to the body
and its vibration, rational and affective. Frozen images get broken by the
vibration of the word and the moving of the actual flesh/body in all its
resistance.
Authors: Wanda & Nova deviator
Advising: Maja Smrekar
Music:Vocals, keyboards, electronics: Wanda.
Vocals, electronics, guitar: Nova deViator.
Audio advising: Irena Tomažin
Movement/actions/space:Wanda
Programming, sensors, real-time video: Nova deViator
Video: WNdV, Boštjan Božič, Miran Bratuš, Ivana Gregor
Performers on video: Matej Kejžar, Boštjan Antončič, Jianan Qu,
Andrasz Dobi, Katja Kosi, Irena Mikec
Costumes: WNdV, Matija Ferlin/Artikl
Design: Mauricio Ferlin
Photography: WNdV
Translation: Katja Kosi
Language editing: Simona Ana Radež, Eric Dean Scott
Production: Emanat Institute, Ljubljana
Supported by: Ministry of Culture RS, MOL - City Municipality of Ljubljana
In collaboration with: Delavski dom Trbovlje; KUD Mreža - AKC Metelkova
mesto. Partners: Radio Student; K 6/4; Kliping; Mladina
Promotion and coordination: Sabina Potočki.
Office coordination: Nina Janež
Executive production: Andrea V. Atwood
Transmittance - preparation of the tools
Open rehearsal with theoretical interventions by Adele Cacciagrano, Tihana Maravic, Silvia Mei
Transmittance explores artistic and scientific collaboration which is local, global, networked and broadcasted. It involves small artistic group of performers, visual and sound artists and computer programmers to research performative possibilities of streaming, broadcasting and telepresence forging new types of performance and audience with focus on critical and socially aware artistic languages. The main goal of Transmittance is to develop and share performative and improvisation activity based on body, visual and music/sound art using accessible and
free telepresence technologies. Research in Teatro Petrella residency will focus mainly on developing tools and methods of creating and improvising in different media preparing for artistic situations that are planned in the project. Transmittance project connects Emanat Institute - Slovenia, YANVII, Teatro Petrella, Rad’Art Project and Il laboratorio dell’Imperfetto - Italy, Polis Adriatic Europe Festival - Croatia, ESC Gallery - Austria, Kapelica Gallery - Slovenia.
LINKS:
http://wndv.si
http://www.emanat.si/ProjectDetail.aspx?ProjectId=20
http://wndv.si/10/02/25/frozen_images/
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