Polypluse
This presentation will highlight content from a chapter on polypulse from Ned McGowan’supcoming PhD thesis on speed in music. While most music is built by hanging its various layers upon a single central pulse, it is also possible to have music where multiple pulses coexist. Polypulse music will be contextualized within historical practice and then dissected from compositional and performative perspectives via McGowan’s works. Themes of entrainment, modalities for metronomes and practical applications will be treated.
Ned McGowan (1970) is a flutist and contemporary classical music composer, born in the United States, living in the Netherlands. Known for rhythmical vitality and technical virtuosity, his music has won awards and been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw and other halls and festivals around the world by many orchestras, ensembles and soloists. Ned is the head of Artistic Research and teaches composition and Advanced Rhythm and Pulse at the Utrecht Conservatory, and is also a Artistic Research coach at both the Codarts University of the Arts Rotterdam and the Fontys School of Performing Arts Tilburg.
Nabuurs&VanDoorn are Dutch artists and artistic researchers based in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Investigations take them to untouched archives, forgotten characters, and locations haunted with forlorn memories. Their laborious projects are intended to function as a fractured mirror reflecting humanity - or lack thereof. They use their toilsome body of research to compose installations, videos, imagery, writings, and performance. Their work has been featured in numerous exhibitions internationally including institutions such as the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, The New Museum in New York, Villa Empain in Brussels, 12 Hay Hill in London and The Forgotten Bar Project in Berlin. Their work belongs to collections such as the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, the Lucius Buckhardt Foundation Basel, V&A Museum London and the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts Los Angeles.
International residencies include and Hotel Furka Blick Switzerland (2016), FILTER Detroit (2017), Boghossian Foundation Brussels (2018), and Viafarini Milan (2019). The artists have participated in Documenta 12 (2007) and Documenta 14 (2017) and were nominated twice for the International Follow Fluxus Award.
L.O.V.E. is a dance performanceon the connection of speech and body, focusing on the translation of couples’ interviews into choreography and movement. The project draws from psychology, researching the deeper meanings behind the concept of love and the ways feelings conveyed in speech can be reflected into movement, to mirror and reproduce expressive encounters.
All participants involved in the project come from the city of Tilburg, the choice aiming at creating an inclusive space where local citizens, professional dancers and artists will actively contribute to the produced work. The public space setting as a stage is meant to open creativity and free expression to a wider and more diverse audience while activating the city.
The basis of L.O.V.E., the love stories recorded, is found in actual love stories of people living in Tilburg. Interviews with volunteer couples were recorded before the rehearsal period, during the ‘transcription, research and dramaturgy’ phase. The couples are all of different ages, nationalities and genders. The final four stories selected provide the text on which the final dance composition is based on and create a soundscape framing dancers’ movement. During the rehearsal phase, dancers are asked to connect to these stories and each other, embodying the expressed feelings and aesthetics of love.
During the final performance, set at the colorful Wingerdhoek street in the center of Tilburg, performers and audience navigate a certain route, in which different duets will dance four different love stories. The intimate performances will be framed by a sound composition featuring the words of interviewed couples.
L.O.V.E. is supported by Makersfonds/KunstlocandMakershuis Tilburg.
MetaMuziek Percussion Group has a variable working formation. Despite having three percussionists as founders, MetaMuziek aims for constant collaborations, making the group appear in many possible dispositions. Having percussion as the starting point, MetaMuziek stretch its branches to other instruments, other groups, as well as other art forms, having multidisciplinary very present.By having this work environment filled with constant challenges, we intend to promulgate and broad the percussion repertoire.”
post/de/anti-colonial tools for artists, educators and art-educators
The workshop will address current non-western perspective son oral history and narrative inquiry. David Limaverde will present a brief case-study as an example on how to apply Oral History methods in an art project, and the participants will be able to experiment them with practical exercises. The workshop is directed to anyone interested in Narrative Inquiries, History, Relational Art, Critical Pedagogy and any field that consequently crosses these areas.
About David Limaverde
Kort Contact (Brief Encounter)
Learning to improvise through movement
When we are in contact with someone else, we are constantly improvising.
The way we deal with proximity and touch is different for everyone.
What can we learn from the way dance professionals work together, how they interact and their ability to sense each other?
How can this, combined with their knowledge about choreography and movement, affect our audience?
Kort Contact is a dance performance that evolves into an interactive session between participants and dancers.
Dansnest sees social developments as an inexhaustible source of inspiration for new work. In the midst of these themes, Dansnest creates site-specific work that shows how we can contribute to encounters, dialogue and interaction with dance. Dansnest creates space to explore boundaries, to make you think about your place in the world, experience new forms of beauty and have meaningful contact.
Let’s bring an artist mindset to the most pressing and complex societal challenges. Let’s do this by creating space for imagination, beauty and play on places that are stuck in scarcity.
This is the mission of Merlijn Twaalfhoven, composer and artistic entrepreneur.
To bring more artivism to the worlds biggest challenges, he founded the Turn Club, a lab for arts in society. In this way, he connects artists and other change makers to places, organisations and people that are working on turn towards a sustainable world.
As a composer, Merlijn creates music in conflict areas, refugee camps and other unusual places. Working with artists, scientists, diplomats, and other idealists in unconventional and creative ways, he seeks beauty, experiment and change.
He received a UNESCO award, is part of the Fifty For The Future project of the Kronos Quartet and worked with many orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. He published the acclaimed book Het is aan ons (It’s up to us), where he illustrates the power of art for pressing societal challenges and invites the reader to activia an artist mindset and overcome any hesitation to start saving the world.
In his keynote presentation Falk Hübner will take us on board of the journey he has been on with the professorship Artistic Connective Practices so far. After a brief introduction to the work of the professorship in its first year, he will share a conceptual framework of artistic connectivity and the different "circles" that work and have worked on this - including the audience of the research festival. Falk will offer various practices as inspiring case studies of artistic connectivity. The key methodological approach in this work is "thinking together" - which we will also take part in this Saturday!
Aart Strootman is an internationally sought-after guitarist and composer. He has won the Gaudeamus award, the Prix Annelie de Man and the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize. His practice is a convergence of performing guitarist, composer and instrument builder in which writing new works often goes hand in hand with building the instruments on which it should be played. This provides interesting insights and dialogues that also form the beating heart of his current research. An important topic is the digital modeling of the developed instrument in order to make it deployable worldwide.
How to Provide Affordable and Fitting Workspaces for the Creative Sector? – A social business model approach.
Abstract
Since 2018 the Real Estate department of Fontys University of Applied Science together with the TU/e Urban Lab of Eindhoven University of Technology have been working on a large scale research project investigating the spatial conditions for creative production. This project – entitled ‘Bloeiende Broedplaatsen’ – explores the cultural, social, economic, spatial and institutional arrangements that are needed for developing and maintaining creative hubs, art residencies, and cultural in cubators in our towns and cities. In such a way that these locations do not only facilitate an inspiring and suiting working environment for artists and other creative professionals. But also that these places are well embedded within society, being connected with local communities as well as recognized by a range of stakeholders – from policymakers to property owners – asvaluable assets of the urban environment.
About Bart de Zwart
Bart de Zwart, PhD(1980) is Professor of Real Estate at Hanze University of Applied Science in Groningen and Senior Researcher at Fontys University of Applied Science in Eindhoven. Hegraduated as an architect from Eindhoven University of Technology and in 2015 completed his PhD on the political agency of spatial design in regional planning. His research focuses on exploring futureproof scenarios for real estate in a societal context. This includes developing attractive inner cities, sociable neighbourhoods, flourishing innovation districts and creatieve hubs, as well as high street regeneration, placemaking and sustainable area development.His work has been published in periodicals such as OASE, Ruimte & Wonen, Real Estate Research Quarterly, Agora, De Architect and ArchiNed, as well as several books.
In his work, Bart tries to connect research, education and practice. He aims to inspire students, lecturers and researchers, as well as public sector and business professionals to embrace practice-oriented research as a powerful tool for creating regional social impact.
In this hands-on workshop Emily Huurdeman will introduce the ‘Research Catalogue’ and demonstrate how this online tool can be used to boost artistic research processes through creating online expositions, collaborations in real-time or through building an online media repository.