Neu/Now Festival 2010
16 February 2010
The 2010 NEU/NOW Festival will take place in Nantes, France, at the end of October. We want the best and most exciting graduating young artists from across Europe to be there. Therefore, we are pleased to invite ELIA members and members of partner networks to nominate their graduating talent. And since the live festival coincides with the ELIA Biennial Conference, drawing 400-500 participants, we also invite all Biennial participants to come and see !
The deadline is 1 June. You can also download the full call here.
See www.neunow.eu for projects at last year’s live and virtual festival, and click on the category NEU/NOW to read the live blogging from last year’s festival.
Publics and purposes at GradCAM
16 February 2010
The conference arts research: publics and purposes opened yesterday in Dublin, and to our eternal regret, we can’t be there. Organized by GradCAM, the Irish institute for research in the arts, it addresses a question that so far has rarely been asked: how are artist researchers going to find an audience? For who is this made? And why? Combining the search for a public with reflection on the purposes, and five days of sessions with a range of exhibitions and performances, the conference comes with the most concise rationale I have ever seen:
who for? what for?
This could well be a landmark event where the discussion gets beyond mere discussion. At any rate, the search for a public seems to be rather succesful, for almost every event of the week is fully booked.
Live blogging from the Neu/Now festival (4)
20 November 2009
Something about the opening, after all
So Europe’s got a new a president, and the Lithuanian president couldn’t be at the opening because she had to attend a certain long dinner in Stockholm – a dinner that started days before. Here, the festival goes on as before; I haven’t heard any cars hooting as when Obama won.
There hasn’t been anything so far on this blog about the opening. And rightly so, because openings are speeches and wine. Read the rest of this entry »
Live blogging from the Neu/Now festival (3)
20 November 2009
Dance in the pocket hall
What a day. Where to begin? Let’s start at the end. We were packed together in the smaller hall of the Arts Printing house, appropriately called the ‘pocket hall’. People were sitting on the floor to see the dance. Well that’s nothing odd in informal settings, and I like the touch of underground or living-room performance it gives to our EU-logo-laden festival. (Anthony Dean tells me they also do it in the State Opera here in Vilnius, it’s part of the local folklore that people will use every aisle or step to sit on and “fully booked” is a malleable expression.) If the festival wasn’t free we’d be selling out. Read the rest of this entry »
Live blogging from the Neu/Now festival (2)
19 November 2009
Marloeke van der Vlugt: Patchmaker
It’s as if you enter an anatomical theatre. Marloeke van der Vlugt is sitting there, with a camera and a mirror pointed at herself, serenely, waiting for you to press the sensors on her body. Around her are video screens, and windows that double as mirrors. In her installation “Patchmaker”, body contact calls up video and sound – while you are intimately close to her, touching her feet and belly and hand and shoulder and neck, you are also playing her like an instrument. Read the rest of this entry »
Live blogging from the Neu/Now Festival
19 November 2009
Koji Wakayama’s robot gardens
What you see here is a robot garden. In fact, it’s Koji Wakayama’s installation works with robots pushing around flower pots – for better or for worse, it was selected under “design”. But then Koji’s background is as a designer, at Konstfack in Stockholm – he is a self-taught programmer and robot engineer. Read the rest of this entry »
Neu/Now is there for sure
17 November 2009
Yes we’re there and not to be missed. These are some pics Adina made in the streets of Vilnius this a.m. If clicking on the image doesn’t work, here’s the full link:
http://picasaweb.google.com/adinaluncan/NEUNOWFestivalVilnius02#
Judging from them, the whole place must be full of orange stars – enough, at least, to give everyone the impression that something is going on.
Neu/Now is online!
9 November 2009
The Festival Is Opened. That is, the Virtual Festival site www.neunow.eu went live today. With nine days to go before the Live Festival itself opens in Vilnius, you can already find here 144 young artists and collectives, graduating or graduated this year, whose projects have been selected from all around Europe – a showcase of the new talent now emerging from art schools in every discipline.
On the evening of Wednesday 18 November, Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė will officially open the festival. From 19 November on, there will be four days of performances and exhibitions throughout Vilnius. 29 Participants have been selected to perform or show their work.
Languages through Lenses – vote online!
19 October 2009
As you are reading this, the second edition of Languages through lenses is going through its first week of viewing at the Prix Europa Festival in Berlin, where votes will be cast for the Jury and the Public’s Choice Award. The winner will be presented on the evening of 24 October.
For this edition, we received 122 proposals from students studying at art schools located in 18 European Union member states as well as Norway and Turkey. An international jury has selected 15 scripts, from which now 15 short films of either 1 or 3 minutes have been made, each in its own way reflecting the theme of multilingualism.
On the Prix Europa site, you can view all 15 films and cast your vote.
http://www.prix-europa.de/prix_europa_2009/languages_through_lenses/
Vitrines ou fabriques de la création?
26 June 2009
Symposium (3 July) at the Mégaphone festival in Dijon, 27 June – 4 July.
Now of course you have to be in Sofia for the Teachers’ Academy, so you can’t attend the discussion in Dijon, but I just can’t help liking the phrase:
“Festivals de musique: vitrines ou fabriques de la création?”
