Event Nights - Dopes to Infinity
Thursday, October 15 2009 / 21:00 Theater Kikker, Main Hall “I have something more cosmic in mind It's a warpage of time and it's bliss for everyone” - Monster Magnet, ‘Dopes to Infinity’ Time has this strange quality: it must be paced by events for us to be able to orient ourselves with it. This seems so natural that we don’t even regard our temporal relation to events as something that dictates how we structure meaning and position ourselves in this world, thinking instead of the space-time continuum as an ideal outside reality, unless - of course - the temporal orientation process is dismantled or overthrown in some way. The performances in this programme disrupt the structure, the pattern of time. Using analogue instruments, including 16mm projectors, these artists generate a variety of sensory manipulations, drawing and reflecting on psychological and phenomenological effects of speed, motion and repetition. On one level or another some disruption or displacement of conscious processes occurs, lapsing into unconscious and visceral sensations; a recirculation of orientation and perception. Time is collapsed - leaving us dazzled, between shimmer and bliss.  A flm projector is not only a source of light but also of sound. Nobody understands this better than Bruce McClure who with his immersive ...  A key fgure in British avantgarde cinema, Guy Sherwin pushes the limits of cinema with his flms, installation works and performances, in which he explores ...  In his work, flmmaker and media artist Dirk de Bruyn deals with the disorientating and traumatic experience of mediasaturated environments. His performance ‘LanterNfanten’ for three ...  Core of the Coalman is one of the alter egos of composer and visual artist Jorge Boehringer, a project in the musical no man’s land ... |
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