http://www.arttoday.org News and events from the schedule of Art Today Association Plovdiv en Copyright (c) Arttoday.lab blum@arttoday.org blum@arttoday.org Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:29:40 +0300 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:29:40 +0300 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sunday 20 Contemporary Art in Plovdiv, Bulgaria RSS Builder 60 http://www.arttoday.org http://www.arttoday.org/art-base/site/images/logo/at-logo.png 41 40 Arttoday logo http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art CCA Plovdiv - The Ancient Bath announces RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:29:40 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#198 http://www.arttoday.org Media and video artists all around the world are invited to send video for the first edition of Facade Video Festival that will be held in Plovdiv from 5th - 10th October, 2010. You can find more information on festival's website address www.facade.arttoday.org RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:27:45 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#197 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art CCA Plovdiv - The Ancient Bath presents RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:18:35 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#196 http://www.arttoday.org SITES + SUBJECTS. Performance Art Weekend June 18 - 20, 2010 The Chronicles. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:07:11 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#195 http://www.arttoday.org Thursday – June 17, 2010 One day before the official opening of the festival the Austrian delegation of DaDa Da Academy followed the invitation of the counsellor for cultural affairs of the Austrian embassy in Sofia to the Austrian library. Here the donation of a DaDa Da Academy rack was announced to the library´s director Prof. Dr. Emilia Staitcheva who appreciated this initiative. The shelf will be assembled on top of Liechtenstein´s rack representation within the Austrian library. This pleasant prelude to SITES + SUBJECTS project was afterwards celebrated back in Plovdiv in the Ancient Bath premises. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:05:18 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#194 http://www.arttoday.org Friday - June 18, 2010 Opening session with Aleksan Tchobanov playing the chello in the oval hall of CCA Plovdiv, followed by Aymeric Hainaux´ intimate performance. His bodily examination of space and surrounding was attended by a large audience. The evening program continued with Albert Mayr´s – alias jonnyhawaii – performance, using mundane objects: a bucket and a blower, played on with a golden Rolex fake. A common diaprojector produced frantic lightscapes. The final session included Elisabeth Penker, Susanne Rogenhofer, Marina Faust, Panos Papadopoulos and again Aleksan Tchobanov, including sound and body performance as well as the visual device „Tagtool“, which was presented by students of the local Academy of Arts and Music. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:04:26 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#193 http://www.arttoday.org Saturday - June 19, 2010 The second evening started with the opening of DaDa Da Academy archive ON VIEW with works by Selma Doborac, Marina Faust, Lazar Lyutakov, Albert Mayr, Alexandar Peev, Elisabeth Penker, Panos Papadopoulos, Maximilian Pramatarov, Susanne Rogenhofer, Tamuna Sirbiladze, Axel Stockburger and Dorota Walentynowicz. Marina Faust´s work was shown in an extended version in Sariev gallery, accompanied by a performance of Prodan Markov from Sofia. Djane Sweet Susie attracted a lot of interest – not only amongst aficionados of electronic music but also of the local police office who finally pulled the plug. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:03:24 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#192 http://www.arttoday.org Sunday - June 20, 2010 The architecture of the Ancient Bath worked out as a contemplative and most fitting setting for WILHELM GROENERs performance – a deconstruction of the language of liturgical gestures and poses. Subsequently the exhibition of forever and a day was opened in the second hall of the CCA Plovdiv with mainly figurative works of Berlin based artists Ben Cottrell, Matthias Dornfeld, Andrew Gilbert, Mariola Groener, Erwin Kneihsl, Markus Selg and Astrid Sourkova. With DJ Rayo Georgiev the festival SITES + SUBJECTS was completed after three days. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:01:57 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#191 http://www.arttoday.org SITES + SUBJECTS. Performance Art Weekend PROGRAM Friday, June 18, 2010, 7 P.M. – Center for Contemporary Art / The Ancient Bath Performance program with Elisabeth Penker (A), Susanne Rogenhofer (A), Marina Faust (A/FR), Aymeric Hainaux (FR), Albert Mayr (A) and students from the Academy for Music and Arts AMTII in Plovdiv. Saturday, June 19, 2010, 7 P.M. – Corridor Gallery, 36 Konstantin Stoilov Str., Plovdiv Opening “DaDa Da Academy archive: ON VIEW” with works by Iris Brosch, Selma Doborac, Marina Faust, Lazar Lyutakov, Albert Mayr, Alexandar Peev, Elisabeth Penker, Panos Papadopoulos, Maximilian Pramatarov, Susanne Rogenhofer, Tamuna Sirbiladze, Axel Stockburger, Dorota Walentynowicz. Performance by Yovo Panchev / studio dauhaus Sofia. Opening party at artnewscafé, 9 P.M. – 38 Otets Paisy Str., Plovdiv DUB Club Vienna presents: DJ Sweet Susie and jonnyhawaii live. Sunday, June 20, 2010, 7 P.M. - Center for Contemporary Art / The Ancient Bath Ensemble WILHELM GROENER (Berlin): “33 sketches”. Forever and a Day Büro presents “Lontano” with works by Ben Cottrell, Matthias Dornfeldt, Andrew Gilbert, Mariola Groener, Erwin Kneihsl, Markus Selg and Astrid Sourkova. This years summer season at the Center for Contemporary Art CCA Plovdiv is dedicated to various forms of Performance Art, crossing the division lines of visual art and installation, sound, voice and dance. From Friday till Sunday, June 18 - 20, 2010, the CCA Plovdiv hosts as much as twenty international and local artists who will perform in interdisciplinary constellations and thus create unique settings for artistic encounters. Friday´s soiree in the CCA will start with Elisabeth Penker and Susanne Rogenhofer, two Viennese artists whose work is dedicated to the examination of possible overlaps between the language of music and pictorial structures. For their Plovdiv performance they will collaborate with the austrian artist Albert Mayr as well as with students from the local Academy of Music and Arts Plovdiv (AMTII). In the course of the evening the audience will witness a performance by the young french performer Aymeric Hainaux, whose music derives from voice and breath that “fashion between silence, frictions, heartbeats, rhythms and intense mass of sounds. It leaves much to improvisation and gives, to whom attends his performance, the impression of a whole experience. Raw, poetic and fragile.” (Anthoni Dominguez, Mouvement) The program will be flanked by two films of Marina Faust - “Transport” and “The Park”. Her work tells us about “spectacle, about a reality-haunted theatre which allows distance, which conceives of time as an immeasurable treasure, which is neither life nor its opposite, which is just like life, which binds itself down to life, not transfiguring but continuing it.” (Stéphanie Moisdon) On Saturday, Art Today Association´s Corridor Gallery will open an exhibition of DaDa Da Academy – a group founded two years ago in Vienna as an open collective for artistic production and exposition. DaDa Da Academy is focused on creating conjunctions between art, sound and poetry, engaging international artists, writers and musicians who deal with this topic in their work. In order to deconstruct and renew grammatical structures within these areas, multiple visual/linguistic/musical languages are developed. The Plovdiv exhibition´s ambiguous caption “archive / ON VIEW” scrutinizes the idea of a retrospective by displaying also new and non-members of DaDa Da Academy. The Corridor Gallery will show works and projects by Marina Faust, Lazar Lyutakov, Albert Mayr, Alexandar Peev, Tamuna Sirbiladze, Iris Brosch, Panos Papadopoulos, Elisabeth Penker, Maximilian Pramatarov, Susanne Rogenhofer, Dorota Walentynowicz, Selma Doborac and Axel Stockburger. Following the opening, Dj Sweet Susie, co-founder of the legendary DUB Club and one of the few known female Dj’s coming out of Vienna’s electronic music scene, will take us together with Jonnyhawaii on a journey into different genres of electronic music, like Breakbeat, Electro House, Dub Step, Dub, Global Beats and many other styles. Starting at 9 P.M. in artnewscafé. With “33 sketches” the weekend festival culminates on Sunday, June 20, with a site-specific choreo-graphy by the ensemble WILHELM GROENER from Berlin. “The duo Mariola Groener and Günther Wilhelm devotes itself to basic questions addressing choreographic spatial assignment, the technical study of accurate movement, and their medial reflections. And covering all this is a fine veil of irony, refraction, and humour” (Franz Anton Cramer, Tanzplattform Düsseldorf). WILHELM GROENERs Performance in the Center for Contemporary Art CCA Plovdiv will be accompanied by “Lontano” - an overnight exhibition curated by Forever and a Day Büro with works by Berlin based artists such as Ben Cottrell, Matthias Dornfeld, Andrew Gilbert, Mariola Groener, Erwin Kneihsl, Markus Selg and Astrid Sourkova. SITES + SUBJECTS is made possible with support of our institutional partner Goethe-Institute Bulgaria, the Austrian Embassy in Sofia and the Academy for Music and Arts Plovdiv. ARTISTS Elisabeth Penker lives and works in Vienna and Rome. In her multimedial works she examines possible overlaps between the language of music and pictorial structure, with her main focus on postcolonial discourses of cultural translation. She studied in Vienna, Oslo and Maastricht and holds a Ph.D. Recent exhibitions include roma contemporary (Rome, 2010), Galerie Rosemarie Schwarzwaelder (Vienna, 2010), Kunsthaus Graz (2006). Susanne Rogenhofer alias Sweet Susie – Djane, Electronic composer, and artist, Sweet Susie successfully reveals her ability to experiment in several artistic realms and mediums. With ease, she manages to adhere to her authentic sound and style while also exploring new options of innovation. www.sweetsusie.net Marina Faust (born in Vienna, Austria) is an artist and photographer living and working in Paris and Vienna. She has been working as a photographer i.a. with Magnum agency and Maison Martin Margiela. In 1995 she expanded her artistic practice into other disciplines by first creating an ongoing series of short autobiographic videos. Her body of work today includes videos, collages, objects, photo reliefs and photography. Her videos, objects and photo works have been shown in Europe, the US, Japan and Korea. www.gallerandethefilm.com www.marinafaust.com Albert Mayr lives and works in Vienna. His approach is properly described as expanded sculpture, being an artist´s articulation in space, matter and form. His artistic alter ego jonnyhawaii crosses the borderslines drawn between spatial installation and sound performance. Aymeric Hainaux was born in Bordeaux, France. His work is a fusion of vocal sound in a corporeal performance. He collaborates with many artists like Oguri, Christine Quoiraud, Lexie Mountain Boys, Lucky Dragons, White/Lichens, Radikal Satan. His performance in Plovdiv is part of a hichthiking tour, starting in the Foundation Cartier in Paris and including other performances in various european countries. www.unpoisson.com DaDa Da Academy archive ON VIEW DaDa Da Academy was founded in 2008 by Elisabeth Penker and Panos Papadopoulos in Vienna. Since then it operates as an overt constellation of artists working in various media on the intersections of visual art, installation, sound and poetry. DaDa Da Academy scrutinizes the distinction of (working) process and artistic oeuvre and - following - of producer and audience. So far, more than 30 artists from various european countries participated in the public activities of DaDa Da Academy. www.dadadaacademy.org WILHELM GROENER The visual artist, Mariola Groener and the dancer-choreographer, Günther Wilhelm, have been collaborating on projects since 2000. Since then a dozen pieces have been created, in which the duo combine dance, installation and visual media. The core of their work is concerned with the exploration of physical experience in the choreographed space and, at the same time, with its dissolution. www.wilhelmgroener.net Forever and a day BÜRO Forever and a day Büro was founded by the artists Ben Cottrell and Mariola Groener in May 2002. The exchange of international artists in Berlin, the possibility to show in an environment independently created and maintained by artists and the steady communication and creation of dynamic networks were the basis of this project space. At the moment Forever and a day Büro is no longer tied to one fixed place. The project manifests itself in different locations in Berlin and beyond. www.foreverandadaybuero.net RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:56:35 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#190 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art – Plovdiv, Ancient Bath ART POSITIVE 20.04.2010 and continues till 20.05.2010 Idea by Jakob Racek Optimism Doom-mongering is booming. Hardly a day goes by without news of currency crash, bankruptcy and crisis. It seems that the crisis has become the paradigm of our time. It´s found to be everywhere: in the economy, in our social values and last but not least in art. Hard times for optimists. But artists are experts in crisis. They meet the incessantly bad prognoses with alternative models, for their capital is creativity and is thus decoupled from the fluctuations of the global economy. Art has the power to create new spaces and discourses. This is as naive as self-evident. The power of art is its liberty, and that means its critical attitude towards prevailing opinions and moods. Participants: Antonia Kostova, Velizar Dimchev, Vyacheslav Esenkov, David Haywood, Desislava Dimcheva, Eleonora Hadjinikolova, Emil Mirazchiev, Krasimir Dobrev, Kosta Tonev, Lora Parmakova, Maria Mitkova, Natasha Kiupova. Working time: Tue-Sun From 14:00 to 18:00h Entrance fee: 1lv.(for students and pensioners fee 0.50 lv.) Supported by: RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:34:31 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#163