Surabhi Saraf and Nadav Assor collaboratively known as NASSA will be performing at Netmage 10 International Live Media Festival, Bologna, Italy. Jan 21st-23rd 2010
The tenth edition of the Netmage festival (Bologna, 21,22,23 January 2010) will present, in the historical castle of Palazzo Re Enzo, an unpredictable scenario of contemporary audiovisual research featuring live media, live cinema, concerts, performances, sound and visual installations.
Netmage festival, focusing on multi−media design, electronic arts and cutting−edge style, works as a meeting point for video−makers, multi−media and visual artists, musicians and performers from Europe, North America and Asia. In its ongoing investigation, Netmage presents some of the latest trends in live media. Together with research on essential aspects of perception and the intersection of visual and acoustic phenomena, the festival introduces a very wide range of approaches.
Featuring: Rachida Ziani/Dewi de Vree (F/NL), Francesco Cavaliere/Marcel Türkowsky (I/D),Harappian Night Recordings (UK), The Hunter Gracchus (UK), Lee Hangjun/Hong Chulki (KR), My Cat Is An Alien (I), Ectoplasm Girls (S), The Magic State (S), Be Maledetto Now (I), Richard Lainhart(USA), Cluster (D), Canedicoda (I), Nassa (Nadav Assor/Surabhi Saraf) (USA), Andrê Gonçalves(P), Es (Fin), Margareth Kammerer/Andrea Belfi/Stefano Pilia/Daniela Cattivelli/Michaela Grill(I/D/A), Carlos Casas (E), Vincent Dupont (F), Nana April Jun (S), Aaron Dilloway (USA).
See hereunder the complete programme of Netmage 10 (including the following sections: Mangrovia, Live Media Floor, Elektrolab, Cemetery and Performing Arts).
Netmage festival was conceived and created by Xing, a cultural network operating in Italy and abroad, with the purpose of planning, supporting and promoting products and events characterized by an interdisciplinary approach toward the issues of contemporary culture.
Artistic direction: Daniele Gasparinetti, Andrea Lissoni. Performing Arts: Silvia Fanti. International Live−Media Floor: Lino Greco, Riccardo Benassi.
Netmage 10 is supported by: Regione Emilia−Romagna, Comune di Bologna, Ambasciata del Regno dei Paesi Bassi, Culturesfrance. Media partners: The Wire, Mousse, Edizioni Zero, Blow Up, Nero, Alias, Il Manifesto, Città del Capo−Radio Metropolitana, Radio Città Fujiko.
Netmage 10
venue: Palazzo Re Enzo − Piazza Nettuno Bologna − Italy
headquarters: Xing − Via Ca’ Selvatica 4/d Bologna − Italy
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Festival’s Introduction:
Impossible to keep still. On the other hand, it would seem essential to stop, to take a moment, reflect. If the flow is unstoppable, how is it possible to keep it framed? Netmage 10 attempts to confront this apparent contradiction by postulating it as a condition: continue moving while staying still, and its reverse. At ten years of research it’s no longer a question of unstable dispositions or interstitial post-disciplinary forms such as live media or the rivulets of practice between visual and performing arts, nor between more or less visionary, escapist or tormented cinematic audiovisual hazards. The cycle of research, begun with Netmage 08, hypothesized the existence of a constellation of imaginary. In 2009 the form of that drawing had evolved, enough to catch a glimpse of a galaxy. In 2010, we can say that if a universe of imaginary exists, it is definitely moving. Beyond whatever expansion is or is not demonstrated with the existence of dark matter, it certainly is not the case that the universe of Netmage 10 is pervaded by space and an oneiric, ambiguous, not entirely occidental character. In this way, complex operating theaters and measured chemical experiments produce sonic environments and transduced visions of rituals and magic, alternating with natural landscapes inhabited by alien presences, and dark atmospheric backdrops vibrating with sudden flashes. The manipulation of subtle materials, evocative and transmutational processes. The figure that inhabits and resonates more than others in Netmage 10 is probably the wake. The wake is something like the visible ghost of an event: not a temporal condition, such as an echo, that appears more or less immediately afterward; rather something that indicates an object, testifies to its movement. That is why the visual identity of the festival is in this sense exemplary: layers upon layers of images and sounds that unwind, generating completely unexpected and unusual forms and music, rendering the base – that is, the background – recognizable. And if the metaphor of this glimmering, ceaseless movement is simply too obvious, in its profundity it is impossible not to recognize unsettling streams of exotic animals, prides of elephants in migration, wakes of transmutating bodies. These animals, like the multiple sounds that accompany the migration, are in inexorable movement. It is principally this solution that Netmage in its tenth edition is searching for: other worlds, other sounds and visions, respecting the tension between what has been and what takes place within us – and it is undeniable how much that internal has been extraordinarily dilated in the last decade. The imaginary is never ideal, absent of references. It is above all the place where something occurs or is acted upon. It can be thought of as a palace, a city or village, but also as an unreachable, mythical elephant cemetery, hidden in who knows what shadowy cone between Asiatic and African continents. The imaginary, finally, is a site of representation but above all of projection. Which is why, in absence of the great framed images, we concentrate on their margins, on the wakes of occurrence. We will therefore not stop to project, in this shared, evolving necessity.
http://www.netmage.it/2010/program.html
http://vimeo.com/netmage
