In the summer of 2009 Electrified will take the form of a summer camp, organized jointly by Arts Centre Vooruit and Timelab (an open laboratory for hybrid arts grafted onto the activities of a Fablab in Ghent). Running from July 12th to 19th 2009, the Electrified summer camp is an intensive week of work for 15 artists and 3 organizations with the city of Ghent as their scenery, their territory, their sparring-partner and challenger.
After the artists have given a presentation of their work, 3 organisations are asked to prepare a workshop. By the end of the week (July 18th) the artists are given the opportunity to present their work and/or their ideas or their proposals and suggestions on the city to an audience.
Electrified takes to the streets: listen to the sounds of the Keizersbrug
A site-specific sound installation designed by Jodi Rose
Australian sound artist Jodi Rose sees bridges as potential music instruments.
They produce plenty of sounds that passers-by may not notice, but that are there nonetheless.
With the help of contact microphones, Rose registers the sounds the bridge makes; she amplifies the cables, handrails and other parts of the bridge structure that are suitable for sound amplification. This way, the Keizersbrug becomes a music instrument for one afternoon. The sound is set up in different places on the bridge, so you will hear different things as you walk along it. The sounds will also be streamed, so people who are not on the bridge, or in Ghent, can follow the ‘bridge concert’ via the Internet. The material will not only be streamed live, it will also be filed in Jodi Rose’s online archive.
On www.singingbridges.net you can browse and listen to the bridges that Rose previously played.
- Read more: www.timelab.org/summercamp09
- Read more about the participating organisations
History
Electrified was set up in 2008 by Arts Centre Vooruit in association with SMAK and 5voor12 with a view to presenting work in the visual art, media art and sound art triangle. This festival brought together the work by artists who are not usually presented in the same context because of their different backgrounds and approaches. Take the city as a sparring-partner and challenger and you have the principles of the ‘Electrified’ concept.
Electrified kicked off in 2008 with artists Ronald Kuivila and Edwin van der Heiden showing work in the KunstNu area of the SMAK and in Citadelpark respectively. It consisted of two evenings of live audiovisual performances with (among others) Rikkert Brok & Maarten Halmans, Boris and Brecht Debackere and Janek Schaefer.
This project is part of Transdigital. With the support of:
