The
artists met first time in April 2008 in Reykjavik where they
started their collaboration with the prehistorical-lunar experience
of Blue Lagoon. The narrative basis for the performance is
9 prophecies, written by Kate Pendry, who acts as an oracle
teller, following the traditional role of female interpretation
of divine messages in the ancient Greece.
The
premiere of NINE took place in Fylkingen,where Mottingen event
was organized by LARM in Stockholm, June 2008. The performance
has received funding from NORDIC
CULTURE POINT, LARM
and ARTS
COUNCIL OF FINLAND and is part of SENSING CHANNELS.
NATUROLOGY[PERFORMANCE
2008]
Naturology
is a process which started in August 2007 during my residency
at SAT, Montreal. It was presented first time there for a
test audience and continues in progress.
This work studies nature using all kinds of visual tools,
from HDV camera to Max/Msp/Jitter, resembling a scientific
project. Technology becomes a mirror reflecting both the investigator,
a human being and the nature, both questioning each other,
still fundamentally sharing the same biological source and
resources. In this process of investigation "nature"
experiences a synthetic transformation.
A journey into the heart
of darkness.
Kaamos is a finnish term for the darkest period of the year
in the north, when the light turns into shades of grey and
sun is a rare visitor. Two women travel to a spring in the
middle of the forest. This spring is known for its magical
healing powers, that can cure from blindness. On their return
it becomes obvious that the way back home is not what it used
to be ...
PERFORMANCE
Video: SOLU
Audio: ARBOL
VIDEO
Audio:
Circle: Jäljet (Traces)
Kontackto:Mustikkaa Silmissä (Blueberries in the Eyes)
Mika Vainio: Kotiin (On the Way to Home)
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RAMSCAPES[PERFORMANCE,
2005-06]
RAMscapes (also sometimes REMscapes)
is best descibed as poetic realtime audiovisual journey. From
the visual matrix appears stories that talk to us in the language
of digital dreams.
Audio
provided by dj SOLU.
CAMP
EVENT[PERFORMANCE,
2007]
SOUND: Tobias
Kirsten, Fried Dähn
VISUALS: SOLU
I projected on two opposite
walls different visuals with two laptops. The style was minimal
and based on texts, lines and figures appearing from the wall.
The texts moved around the wall like they were on ledscreens...
SOUND:Masayuki
Akamatsu, Ricardo Caballero, Tobias Kirstein, Mark L. Kysela,
Thomas Maos
VISUALS:Philipp
Geist and SOLU
Philipp and I improvised visuals
to very short audio sets. we created a panoramicscreen with
projectors, projecting images on top of each other, worked
wonderfully...
The international Festival CAMP (Creative Arts and Music Project)
is an innovative forum and interactive laboratory for soundartists,
musicians as well as for artists dealing with video, installation,
projections and the new media. It is characteristically marked
by experimental and electronic music in convergence with visual
disciplines. For several days a selected group of artists,
who belong to the international avantgarde in their field,
work in a "laboratory of time" on audio - visual
projects which will be presented to the public at the final
performances.
Invited artists:
masayuki akamatsu, ricardo caballero, fried dähn, friedrich
förster, anja füsti, philip geist, paul hubweber,
kasumi, tobias kirstein, mark l. kysela, thomas maos, vj oxygen,
solu and sabine weissinger
PUNTO
Y RAYA[LIVE
AV, 2007]
AUDIO: Raúl
Santos (Supercinexcene)
"Punto y Raya" was
a collaboration between Rául Santos and Solu. The visuals
were to be made using only dots and lines. The performance
took place at la Casa Encendida, Madrid in September 2007.
More info about the event organized by MAD
ACTIONS.
THE
SCHOOL OF THE HIDDEN DOOR [PERFORMANCE,
2005]
The school of the hidden
door was a site-specific performance in collaboration with
musician David Dalmazzo, for the art academy
"Bellas Artes" in Barcelona. The visuals were projected
on a blackboard, which was chalked before the performance
in order to have a special texture. The performance was a
story of a kamikaze lost in the clouds, having no way forward,
nor back, and dealing with his doubts about the ideas he had
been tought in his life and the methods of nationalization
of a country like Japan.
In a symbolic level this theme was contrasted to the mythological
story of Saint George (Bush?) killing the dragon, the symbol
for wisdom in the east. As the story goes, Saint George didnt
agree to kill the dragon before all the villagers had converted
into christianism. Science versus Beliefs.
Special invited guest : Stephanie
Vanderdriecche, who recitated a text on the marvels of human
being.
The title comes from Bujinkan, where Togakure Ryu (Hidden
door) is one of the nine schools of ninjutsu.
SUCH
A WHISPER[PERFORMANCE,
2004]
Such a Whisper was a series
of audiovisual fairytales created in collaboration with musician
Alex Bordanova. Following the tradition of
storytelling we used texs, images and sound to interpret the
stories. For the first session we chosed texts from Daniil
Harms, a russian absurdist writer. The performance was shown
in Convent de Sant Agusti, Barcelona.
"On falling into filth, there is only one thing for
a man to do: just
fall, without looking round. The important thing is just to
do this with
style and energy." DH
For the next session we chosed the texts from the Assassins.
The performance was shown in Gijon.
"The Assassins, a medieval Persian sect of esoteric
terrorists, founded in 1090 AD by Hasan-i Sabbah "The
Old Man of the Mountain" at the Rock of Alamut. Anyone
who opposed their secret freethinking propaganda might be
rubbed out by a fanatical hit-man. Hasan-i Sabbah built an
exquisite garden at Alamut as a lure and reward for his secret
agents -- according to legend he gave them hashish before
showing them the garden, and told them it was Paradise."
REMIX:
LESLIE THORNTON[PERFORMANCE,
2004]
Audiovisual collaborative
performance with musician C.D. (Christian Dergarabedian),
based on the audio and videomaterial of the experimental american
video artist Leslie Thornton (Peggy and Fred in Hell, a work
that has been in process for 17 years).
Commissioned by STITCH & SPLIT-Selves and Territories
in Science Fiction organized by CONSTANT at Fundacio Tapies
in Barcelona.