BOISSEAU & WESTERMEYER 

Sylvie Boisseau and Frank Westermeyer form a French-German artist duo that lives and works between Berlin and Geneva. Their art films and video installations have been shown in international exhibitions, including an ongoing show at  Große Kunstschau Worpswede Museum, and at various festivals such as transmediale Berlin and Kino der Kunst Festival in Munich. The duo develops a research through the means of art, as in the 2021 publication Jouer à être humain (with David Zerbib), available at HEAD editions and Naima. Frank Westermeyer is Head of the Information Fiction section within the Visual Arts departement at HEAD – Genève.





EXHIBITION DATES
Youtube live link available on August 24th

August 24, 7pm - 10pm EST: Telescope II
August 25, 4pm - 7pm EST: Odd Couples
August 27, 7pm - 10pm EST: Postponed

ƒ IN BETWEEN THE LEVELS OF ORGANIC (2021)

Ƒ is tiring of the possibilities that his hypersmart car offers him. He no longer wants to use its technological improvements to transcend the limits of his own body. Can he experience himself in a new way by embodying every stage of organic life, both animal and plant? Inspired by this line of inquiry, he ultimately decides to view the world first from the standpoint of a quadruped, and then, from the immobile position of a plant.


https://www.filmerei.net/%C6%92-in-between-the-levels-of-the-organic

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GORDON WILLIAMSON

Gordon Williamson (b. 1974, Ottawa) is a Canadian composer currently based in Hannover, Germany. Recent activities include commissions from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, CBC/SRC, SWR and the Canada Council for the Arts with premieres by RSO Stuttgart, Neue Vocalsolisten, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal+, Asian Art Ensemble and Sonar Quartet at international festivals such as MNM, ECLAT, KLANG and the Beijing Modern Music Festival. Prominent artist residencies include Künstlerhof Schreyahn (Germany), the Styria Artist-in-Residence Program (Graz), Centre Récollets (Paris) and Casa Baldi (Italy). Gordon Williamson's main composition teachers Johannes Schöllhorn (Hannover), Sven-David Sandström (Bloomington), Bent Sørensen and Hans Abrahamsen (Copenhagen). He has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover in 2010 and he has been Guest Professor of Composition and Director of the Incontri Institute for New Music since 2015.



EXHIBITION DATES
August 27,   Postponed untill further notice
August 28,   Postponed untill further notice
August 29,   Postponed untill further notice

ODD COUPLES (2021)

ODD COUPLES is a catalogue of 24 duos composed by Gordon Williamson in 2021/22. These miniatures explore a unique combination of voice and/or instruments, such as tuba and electric guitar, organ and harmonica or flexatone and trombone. Each piece is a brief musical exchange or encounter between two instruments that normally would not perform together, almost like a little ‘speed date’. ODD COUPLES is an online, interactive composition: one can peruse/surf through various duos in any order they choose. Each of the 24 links above opens a new page with an ODD COUPLE and at the bottom of each page are three suggestions of which video to see next. There is also a ‘home’ button, should one want to find their own unique path through the duos.

The concept for ODD COUPLES was developed in close collaboration with the visual artist Sascha Hahn. In addition to its online form, the work can also be performed as a ‘hybrid concert’, with some duos being performed live and other duos projected on screens. A mobile video set was developed for this purpose, with which the musicians documented their part audio-visually. Comparable to the notation of the pieces, the visual parameters were also given.

An initial impulse for the project was a creative response to the Corona pandemic and its challenges to international collaboration as well as the need to find a solution to the difficulty of filming concert music.  The duos were recorded in various cities in Europe and North America in 2021 and 2022. Enjoy a moment – or many moments – of discovery!

https://www.gordonwilliamson.de/odd-couples-en/?lang=en

EMILIA BENITEZ

Ecuadorian dancer and choreographer, Emilia Benitez has a vast career both in Latin America and Europe. She has been principal dancer at the National Dance Company of Ecuador, and performed also with the Ecuadorian Chamber Ballet, the Front Indépendant de Danse, the Franco-Ecuadorian Collective Paralel 0 and was a guest dancer with the National Ballet of Chile. As a choreographer, she has created works within the FDI, the National Dance Company of Ecuador, the German College of Quito and as an independent artist for the Ombligo project. Her work TRANSITAR has been presented in Quito, Paris and Nantes. Due to its fantastic reception, Emilia has received support from the Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Creativity (IFAIC) to create and complete a second part of this work. Since 2019 she is part of Compagnie NGC25, based in Nantes, where she continues her career as a performer and choreographer.




EXHIBITION DATES
November (tbd)

TRANSITAR (2017)

In utter darkness, a brilliant blue light rises from a lower level corner of the stage. A small creature, full of papules and shells, moves on its knees across the floor to the rhythm of a mantra in the Bengali language. The first thing being is compassion. Silence. From a cocoon grows a hesitant voice that remembers the mantra and finds hope in this prayer. Show one arm, both arms. It is not a strange creature or a monster, it is a shell that encloses a person who lives his own skirmish against himself. The piece transits in the desire for liberation and transformation.

The solo 'Transitar' by Emilia Benitez is a contemporary dance piece that promises, from the title, not to be static but to go or pass through -or within- us. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hvPtgn0gHU&t=102s&ab_channel=EmiliaBenitez

FAROUT ARTISTIC RESEARCH

Farout Artistic Research is a research and artistic creation gorup, formed by Dr. Saenz, Dr. Hermans and Dr. Pomés. We conceptualise, conceive, and develop multidisciplinary performative projects through practice-based research, and research through performance. We take our name from the farthest discovered planet in the Solar System, nicknamed Farout. Like the planet, we find ourselves on the border between the known and the unknown, looking at tradition, but wondering what lies beyond, aiming at writing the new pages on artistic creation, research, and experiences.

Our artistic designs revolve around the artistic performance, and the study of the processes, and strongly encourage the generation of new insight through processes of transdisciplinary emergence. Our projects are of an artistic, scientific, and participatory nature, where the research objective and artistic outcome are in constant dialogue.




EXHIBITION DATES
November (tbd)

TELESCOPE II (2021)

How can we trust our perception if we don't know what we're looking at?






We observe the Universe, with curiosity and amazement, looking for answers. The more we discover, the more we realize how infinite and practically empty it is. All this while being limited by our own senses, with which we do observe reality but only how the matter of the universe behaves. It is a sum of lucky coincidences. What would be our incentive to question our perspective on a planet with an opaque atmosphere, where we could not see the moon or the stars? And even now, what are we missing? Our senses have us believe that the stars move around the Earth. And so we have believed for millennia. It has been only during the last 500 years that science has put us in our place, not at the centre but as inhabitants of what Carl Sagan called a pale blue dot, orbiting an ordinary star in a vulgar galaxy. A planet among billions, and at the same time a unique planet, where life and consciousness have emerged.

Telescope II:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxWcm8Z0Gx8


For more information:
https://www.faroutartisticresearch.com/telescopeii