Metropolis lab 2008
Transfused

Again this year, recoil will be joining the Metropolis lab. This year it will take place at Kulturkajen Docken in Nordhavn, Copenhagen.
In the days for 30th of june till 4th of july 2008, Ole kristensen and Tina Tarpgaard will be continuing our work towards creating transnational internet collaboration between artists. This time the focus will not just be on live performers, but also on how to make an installation that uses limited bandwith and that includes its audience in a genorous and playfull way.
See more about the Metropolis Bienalle at cph-metropolis.dk

Metropolis lab
urban[enter]face


In connection with the festival METROPOLIS 2007 in Copenhagen, recoil did a research on connecting live performers and urban spaces via internet streaming, a development of our GRENZSTADT concept.

The Laboratory took place in the period from Monday July 30th till Friday august 3rd with participation of artist from Lebanon, Serbia and Denmark: Alia Hamdan (dancer), Pelle Skovmand (musician), Rastko Lazic (musician), Ole Kristensen (media artist), Charbel El Haber (musician) and Tina Tarpgaard (dancer).                                                                       
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During our Laboratory week we experimented with new ways of creating performances across borders usually difficult to overcome.
So far our GRENZSTADT performance/workshops revolved around the meeting between the audience and the performers in two locations. This time the focus was on engaging public and private spaces in the city to be part of the meeting between two or more simultaneous performances.

On August 4th 2007 at 11 pm we did a work demonstration and a presentation of our dreams and ideas of a network that could develop from this platform of trans-national, live artist  collaborations. The presentation took place in "Byens Lys", the charismatic  cinema on Christiania.                                                                          
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CYNETart06 award

We are very happy to inform that our dance installation cognitive debris has won the CYNETart award donated by the Stiftung für Kunst & Kultur der Stadtsparkasse Dresden.
The CYNETart award winners are selected by an international Jury as part of the CYNETart_06 humane, an international festival for computer assisted art in Dresden, Germany, that takes place from the 9th till 19th of November 2006.

About the installation the CYNETart Jury wrote:
"Zapping your self" could be the motto of the dance-installation by Danish dancer Tina Tarpgaard and the musician Pelle Skovmand. Next to the high quality of dance scenes the project is exceptional in its emancipated use of audio-visual media. Everyday life tools of entertainment industry- like a remote control- quickly becomes a simple hedonistic means. Controle instruments makes it possible for the dancer to design her own stage environment in realtime during the piece with the help of a simple and flexible technology. Thus the dancer isn't the puppet of choreographers and directors of dance pieces any longer. A playful self-editing process is allowed for as the dancer samples the image of her own body just like using an instrument- bringing the magic to a dull place. The accomparying new approach to the body is mechanistic, even hedonistic with the dancer being her own editor. Cognitive debris is a minimal but poweful work.

The award ceremony will take place on November 15th at the Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau in Dresden, Germany.
The installations will start at 7pm and the award ceremony at 8pm.
For more information see www.body-bytes.de