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Live Arts Week
Live Arts Week is a project by Xing, born in 2012 out the fusion of the experiences of the two Bologna festivals (2000>2011): Netmage - International Live Media Festival and F.I.S.Co. - Festival Internazionale sullo Spettacolo Contemporaneo. Live Arts Week takes place in Bologna, Italy, once a year, and it is developed throughout one week in different locations and settings in town. Mission Event dedicated to live arts, it hosts a blend of artworks and productions that revolve around the presence, performance and perceptual experience of sounds and visions, with a program of live works (performances, environments, concerts, live media, expanded cinema) presented by important personalities in the international and contemporary research scene. The set-up suggests a citywide event, involving several spaces, organizations and institutions active in the field of contemporary arts in Bologna. History Edition 2012 Venues: Palazzo Re Enzo • Teatro Duse • Spazio Carbonesi • Hotel P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xing (cultural Organization)
Xing is a cultural organization based in Bologna, Italy, dedicated to the production and support of experimental practices within the arts. Xing was founded in 2000 by Daniele Gasparinetti, Silvia Fanti, Andrea Lissoni, Giovanna Amadasi and Federica Rossi. Their research focuses in particular on the field of live arts, performing arts and electronic arts. Activities From 2000 to 2011, Xing organized in Bologna the festivals Netmage - International Live Media Festival, dedicated to electronic art and live media, and F.I.S.Co., F.I.S.Co Festival Internazionale sullo Spettacolo Contemporaneo, dedicated to performing arts. Since 2012, the two festivals merged in the project Live Arts Week, an annual event dedicated to live arts, taking place in different locations in the city for ten editions (2012-2021). In 2021 Xing launched a vinyl-only record label of works by both Italian and international personalities linked to live performativity, entitled Xong. Since 2003, Xing has been cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:Alexandra Bachzetsis
Alexandra Bachzetsis (born 1974) is a Greek-Swiss choreographer and visual artist Her artistic media include visual arts, dance, performance and theater. Biography Bachzetsis was born Zürich, Switzerland in 1974. She studied in the Zürcher Kunstgymnasium and in the Dimitri Schule in Verscio, both in Switzerland. She studied the Performance Educational Program in STUK Arts Centre in Leuven, Belgium from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2004 she was a dancer in Les Ballet C. from the B. Sasha Waltz & Guests in Berlin, Germany, although she created her own company in 2001 where she participates as dancer and choreographer. She did her Masters studies in Choreography and Performance in Das Arts in Amsterdam, Netherlands between 2004 and 2006. In 2015 she was an artist in residency at three different spaces: Sterna Nisyros Residence in Greece, Tanzhaus Zurich in Switzerland and in Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida, United States. Bachzetsis is represented in Mexico City by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:Trond Reinholdtsen
Trond Reinholdtsen (born 7 November 1972) is a Norwegian contemporary composer and vocalist. Reinholdtsen graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Music where he subsequently completed his diploma degree in composition. Reinholdtsen’s first pieces were modernistic, complex works in the German style, of which the best known is perhaps ''Psalm (Narrative Studies)'' for sinfonietta recorded on the album ''Faces'' (2000). He has also distinguished himself as a singer in the ensemble Nordic Voices, and is active as a culture critic and commentator. Since his debut, Reinholdtsen’s music has developed in a performative direction; conventional music passages are fused with performance-based forms of expression including essayistic interpretations, live-camera filming and elements including statistical facts, and face-making. A trademark feature of his performances is the concert-ending “composer’s speech to the audience”; a talk that could be performed live on screen, in recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:Leif Elggren
Leif Elggren (born 1950, Linköping, Sweden), is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm. Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to work in the combined worlds of audio and visual. A writer, visual artist, stage performer and composer, he has many albums to his credits, solo and with the Sons of God, on labels such as Ash International, Touch, Radium and his own Firework Edition. His music, often conceived as the soundtrack to a visual installation or experimental stage performance, usually presents carefully selected sound sources over a long stretch of time and can range from quiet electronics to harsh noise. His wide-ranging and prolific body of art often involves dreams and subtle absurdities, social hierarchies turned upside-down, hidden actions and events taking on the quality of icons. Together with artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff, he is a founder of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:Lamin Fofana
Lamin Fofana is an electronic music producer, DJ, and artist. Fofana grew up in Sierra Leone and Guinea before moving to the United States when he was a teenager. With a repertoire consisting of instrumental electronic, experimental, ambient and techno music, Fofana explores themes of displacement, identity and immigration, drawing inspiration from his own life and the migrant experience at large. Fofana spent most of his early childhood in Freetown, Sierra Leone until the civil war of the 1990s forced his family to flee to Guinea. When he was just a teenager, his family relocated once more to the United States where he split his time between Harlem, New York and Alexandria, Virginia. This move to the west and its inherent unfamiliarities shaped his understanding of the world at an impressionable age, pushing him to explore more experimental forms of artistic expression to give voice to his experiences and those of people like him. The artist’s eclectic music is also greatly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:Florian Hecker
Florian Hecker is a German sound and visual artist. Born in 1975 in Augsburg, Germany and raised in Kissing, Germany Hecker studied Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics at Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Munich and Fine Arts at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, where he received his diploma in 2003. He lives and works in Vienna and Kissing, Germany. In performances, publications and installations, Hecker deals with specific compositional developments of post-war modernity, electro-acoustic music as well as other, non-musical disciplines. He dramatizes space, time and self-perception in his sonic works by isolating specific auditory events in their singularity, thus stretching the boundaries of their materialization. Their objectual autonomy is exposed while simultaneously evoking sensations, memories and associations in an immersive intensity. Solo exhibitions include: MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; IKON Gallery, Birmingham an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:Duppy Gun
Duppy Gun is a dancehall record label run by Cameron Stallones of Sun Araw and M. Geddes Gengras, based in Los Angeles, California. The label began in Portmore, Jamaica in 2011 after a collaboration between Stallones, Gengras and Jamaican vocal group The Congos on the album Icon Give Thank for RVNG Intl. Duppy Gun releases feature collaborations from American experimental electronic artists and Jamaican singers. Past albums have included production from Peaking Lights, Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, Matthewdavid and vocals by I Jahbar, Lukani, Fyah Flames, G sudden, and Dayone. Since their second release, the 12" vinyl Spy / Up Wit You, the label has been distributed by Los Angeles' Stones Throw Records Stones Throw Records is an American independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. Under the direction of founder Peanut Butter Wolf, Stones Throw has released music ranging from hip hop to experimental psychedelic rock. '' LA Weekl .... The 2014 double LP Duppy Gun P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:Vera Mantero
Vera Mantero (born 1966) is a Portuguese dancer and choreographer. After performing for five years with the Gulbenkian Ballet, she turned to choreography in 1987 and has since performed widely in Europe and North and South America. A major figure in new Portuguese dance, she frequently improvises with Mark Tompkins, Meg Stuart and Steve Paxton Steve Paxton (born 1939 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an experimental dancer and choreographer. His early background was in gymnastics while his later training included three years with Merce Cunningham and a year with José Limón. As a founding mem .... References 1966 births Living people People from Lisbon Portuguese ballet dancers Portuguese female dancers Portuguese choreographers Portuguese women choreographers Ballet choreographers {{Portugal-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:Seth Price
Seth Price (born 1973 in Palestine) is a New York City-based multi-disciplinary post-conceptual artist. He lives and works in New York City. Early life Price was born in the village of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, Palestine in 1973. His parents had travelled to Sheikh Jarrah on behalf of the Quaker organization American Friends Service Committee and established a legal aid clinic for the local Palestinian population. Price lived there until he was two years old. Price then moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he attended Brookline public schools. He later attended Brown University where he received his BA in 1998. Price has described his ethnic heritage as "Welsh/Greek/American WASP." Writing Recently, Price published "Machine Time" in ''Heavy Traffic 1''; in a year's end roundup in ''The Paris'' ''Review'' assistant editor Olivia Kan-Sperling cited it as "the best fiction I read this year;" it was also acclaimed in ''Interview Magazine'.'' In 2020, Price published the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:Philip Corner
Philip Lionel Corner (born April 10, 1933; name sometimes given as Phil Corner) is an American composer, trombonist, alphornist, vocalist, pianist, music theorist, music educator, and visual artist. Biography After The High School of Music & Art in New York City, Philip Corner received his BA (1955) at CCNY, where his most important teacher was Fritz Jahoda; and an MA (1959) from Columbia University where his composition teachers were Otto Luening and Henry Cowell, The two years in between (1955–57) were spent in Paris at the Conservatoire Nat'l de Musique, following the class "Philosophie Musicale" of Olivier Messiaen. Equally important was his friendship with the Canadian painter Paul-Emile Borduas, who introduced him to "la grande aventure nord-américaine", to which he returned and became part of the group around John Cage. At the same time he resumed his studies of the piano with Dorothy Taubman, which was to have a significant role in his compositional as well as pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
