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For some time now, Eva-Maria Bogaert has made it her task
to replace what she sees as a lost component of fine art: sound.
She combines film techniques and painting not only with music, but
above all with an investigation of those sounds that can become
apparent during the perception of colours: tonal impressions gained
from colours, the "coloured hearing" that may be translated
using the specialist term "auditio colorata". This concept
describes the synaesthetic phenomenon meaning that for some people
certain colours produce sounds and various tones radiate colour.
For her piece "2Bis", the artist has assembled a form
of text collage using words from different languages – Flemish,
Italian, German, English – and then transposed these into
music, in order to translate this music, in turn, into colours.
The piece that emerged in this way is to be presented in an installation
performance in Studio 240. In Studio 3, the artist will also be
showing a new interpretation - entitled "Blitz" - of various
previous works, including a musical instrument she constructed that
enables her to "play" words.
(16.th January - 1st February 2004, Studio 3
+ 240)
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In her video films, Karen Yasinsky makes use of the technical
efforts involved as a means of insight: the complex techniques of
animation are a welcome instrument with which to become more deeply
engrossed in the characters. First the artist makes the figures
and sets herself and then films them using a portable camera with
24 images to the second – a complex process demanding time
and great patience. The actual scenes are then determined successively.
Yasinski designs her figures and sets to be so like puppets and
models that they never lose their unreal quality and distance from
the viewer. References to fairy tales (especially the Brothers Grimm)
and fable are combined with research on the characteristic behaviour
of animals, particularly of wolves. In this way, "Who’s
your true love?" stages the mysterious encounter between a
man, a woman and a small, eyeless girl with a group of wolf-like
animals. The film is being shown as a large screen DVD projection
in Studio 2.
(16.th January - 1st February 2004, Studio 2)
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OPEN STUDIOS + LIVE concert with Frank Bretschneider
a.k.a. Komet >> 15th January 2004, from 5 p.m. >>
Studios on the 1st and 2nd floors + Casino on the ground floor
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On 15th January, the artists of the International
Studio Program are opening their studios to the public: Sergio
Belinchón (E), Gerson Bettencourt Ferreira (LUX), Heman
Chong (SGP), Richard Grayson (AUS), Roderick Hietbrink (NL), Katarina
Löfström (S), Alex Morrison (CAN), Jorge Queiroz (P),
Reynold Reynolds (USA), Egill Saebjörnsson (IS), Marike Schuurman
(NL), Monika Sosnowska (PL), Evanthia Tsantila (GR). From 5 p.m.,
1st and 2nd floors.
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Finally, as a special highlight of the evening
at 9 p.m., there will be a sound-image performance by Frank Bretschneider
a.k.a. Komet in the Casino on the ground floor of Künstlerhaus
Bethanien.
A member of the label raster-noton, he will present the new, 45-minute
production Gold (2003), whereby visuals will be projected onto
a large screen by beamer. These are not film material or videos,
but the visual transposition of frequency and amplitude patterns
in music. The basis for the sound is a computer-aided synthesiser
system using classical synthesising techniques which the artist
has subsequently processed on the computer.
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