Assoiffes, theater play

The theater play that I attend was pretty good actually. Assoiffes' is a nice show written by Wajdi Mouawad and edited and directed by Benoît Vermeulen.

On the stage we saw 2 actors Marie-Eve Huot and Benoît Landrythat with special skills for singing, playing music, physical theater and classical acting.
Ambient music composed and played from the main actors on experimental, (looks like) hand made instrument, with few drums and easy electronic samples was waiting for the audience to enter and sit on their places.

In the beginning when I saw the big screen like part of their scene design, the music in the background I thought it would be more performance or experimental theater then classical theater supported by the other contemporary forms.

Very soon the first start and the first dialog put us in the story. With the level of french that I know even hard to understand everything I catch the idea of the intro. Modern story, nowadays character living his „normal day life“ and secret part, alter ego connected with historycal character. Day freak in the regular life, musican, thinker..that goes very often deep inside his crazynest. Forensic antropologist reveals a strange discovery that changed his life and his beliefs. Throughout the history of Murdoch Norwegian teenager who can not stop talking, a person afflicted with a transparent vulnerability. He guides as trough the similarity of this guy and look into his own adolescence which resurfaces the ghost of a dream abandoned.

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"Hungry or Assoiffes is one of those essential products that is not coming out unscathed, a kind of grand masterpiece. Why a great vintage? Because we will not soon forget the strong cry that it hears. Because Murdoch, the young rebellious teen, is one of the finest theatrical characters ever seen here. Because the staging of Benoît Vermeulen is stunning [...]. Because the staging of Raymond Marius Boucher is exceptional and that the whole talking to teens in a language that is their and comes to look into what is the revolt." Michel Bélair, Le Devoir, November 21, 2006.




A theater show in a French Quebec style, full of vitality. There is that invisible line between this two stories that are mixed in one..the story of two young mummified bodies found in the St. Lawrence and also the story of two teenagers Murdoch and Norway: in one way when they decides to tell everything or stopping to talk and more adults return to the absurdity of their behavior, the other hidden and silent, locked in their room.

Hmm, et voila, s'est tout. :D

#experimental_nighT

Amazing finding was the concert that we attend this Wednesday []10.1110] d day before my BIRTHday. One friend of mine told me about the program of this event called 'festival Musiques Volantes' few hours before the start and it was great that for such a little time after he told me he found the invitation for me, so I could attend too.

It was concert for electronic, ambient, experimental music on which I had opportunity to listen two artists with different styles of electro and to watch one vj..

The first or the resident were KOMPARCE from Metz and they were perfect combination of experimental video and sophisticated electronica ambient with sound that flow and create positive fluids in the atmosphere. Progressive with some industrial, even moments with melody that's rich with musical mix beats, samples, analog sequences over the lines etc.. amazing project by Christophe Biache (MR BIOS) & Samuel Ricciuti (DOG BLESS YOU)

this is the video that I made from small part of their set_

JAN JELINEK is a German electronic musician who also operates under the names of Farben, Gramm and The Exposures. His music is usually categorized as minimal techno, glitch or microhouse, and is characterized by deep basslines, extensive use of samples from earlier jazz and rock recordings, and clicks & cuts effects. He is the founder of the German record label Faitiche. (f...wikipedia is doing a good job sometimes)

..he had some problems with the live..some of the cables were not working proper and every time he wanted to go up with the frequencies the sound was scratching and stopping. Even that he had this problem during his set he made amazing work too..for me interesting, because of his bit dark mood in the sound, on moments making it out of the definitions – psychedelic.

KOMPARCE myspace

http://www.chezkitokat.com

JAN JELINEK @ ~scape-records or faitiche

MultiMedia @ VoiceOfaRt

On the multimedia workshop @ Voice of art the participants had opportunity to learn more about the process of creating a video. From writing the scrip, recording the material and the editing process that comes on the end. The [multimedia] workshop was leaded by Agnieszka Piatczak, Poland and Ramses The Lonelywarrior, France.

They choose to show stereotypes about some of the countries in Europe that were taking part in this YE, so they decide to use the stereotype about the love and the breath (baguette) for France, drinking coffee as stereotype for Turkey, the green salad for Macedonia, the music of Shopin as stereotype for Poland etc.
In one of the scenes there is the circling around the trees that as metaphor for me means a lot..and also the universal circle from all of the participants that shows the Solidarity that connect all the nations. I really like the moment with the pronunciations of Solidarity on different languages, is so similar, almost the same..to bad that I didn't have time to make the shooting for the Macedonian version „Солидарност“, but let it be for some other time.

In very short time, like 24 hours at all, more or less for 3 days the team from this workshop made great video. Congrats for them! The solidarity as Voice of Art. We really made master pieces on this exchange.

Enjoy the video :)

the union between many ideas and concepts from different nationalities to achieve something together.

L'union entre plusieur idées et concepts de differentes nationalitées dans le but de réaliser quelque chose ensemble.

Monster.S for soliDAR*ity

For the exhibition that took place in the Maison de la famillies in Metz I decide to create art piece that will be mix of the three techniques/ workshops that were actually part of the youth exchange connect with contemporary art called Voice of Art.

Voice of Art was a youth exchange organized by the association Together, on my blog for my stay in France you can find other articles connected with it. In this exchange participants from 6 countries were able to learn more about contemporary art and also to create part of their ideas participating in three workshops: street art, art installations and multimedia.

The street art workshop was leaded by me and can find more about here. The other two workshops were leaded by Bruno de Sario, Italy [art installation] and Agnieszka Piatczak, Poland and Ramses The lonelywarrior, France [multimedia].

I have some expirience with video/ multi media and installations from before and I felt perfect opportunity to try to play with this three forms and create mixed media work that will be connect and will express the way how I accept and understand the topic of this excange 'solidarity'

The last period I use my facebook status to write some shorts about monsters and monster mood and somehow I find connection between the monster.s and solidarity. I try to show the main feelings that I have when I think about solidarity. I made monster[s] that [are] push[ing] for solidarity.



In the painted form I played with graff, stickers and expressionistic techniques. The stickers that I made before I apply in the wooden board same as sometimes I put them on the walls around the places where I travel.. ..

In the installation I try to use as less as possible, because one of the aim in my works is to show that a lot of things can be created from low budget materials, most of them organic and easy for recycling.This ecoLogic.al way of creating art in my eyes is the future of the contemporary design, art & living.



In the short conceptual and bit experimental video I give a soul to the monster that I already have it in 2 forms..that comes to my concept like finishing the circle of 2D, 3D with bringing the monster in moving and giving him life. I create monster with feelings..

The combination of this 3 forms bring my idea and concept in final result in which the message is clean..if u understand it good if not again good :)


Monster for Solidarity from Kihu Potru on Vimeo.

DAR* - in Macedonian means gift..most of the time not material one..

VoiceOf_aRt [almost]

We are almost on the beginning of our new youth exchange connected with art. We named this exchange as Voice of Art and is something like updated version of our first project with art since I'm volunteer in Together – Power of Art.

The web page for this exchange is already done and as it writes in the info there we will host 30 participants from 6 countries interested in developing their art skills.

We've plan few concrete workshops connected with the modern or contemporary influence in the art today and as part of this exchange we'll have the participants divided in 3 workshops. Mostly the people will have the free will and the idea of mixing those parts of the art in their pieces but mainly the ways of expressions will be trough:

• street art

• conceptual or installation art

• video & multi media

In all this workshops the participants will have the opportunity to learn something more about this fields and also to create art pieces that in this or that way will be connected with this brunces of the contemporary art era.

We choose Voice of art because during all this art workshops there will be breeze (message) about solidarity. We'll try to input in the topic influence of the solidarity as one of the main engines of the democratic society.

As this project is part of the Youth in Action program we organized our time also for activities as discussions on different topics important for every young person as hopes, fears, future plans/ projects, simulation games, and also cultural events where all the countries participants will present their countries on some unique way.

More about the project sO.On :)

poster & logo by: kihuPotru

web design by: Agnieszka Piatcczak

Listen to your eyes

Interesting exhibition that I visit in Metz. Few rooms that you need to visit one by one in the way like the author wants. We start with one room in which there was white canvas and the audience was asked to keep silence during the visiting process.
From that white room with white canvas or something we went in very dark room. In the middle there was a book closed in a glass box. Only this part of the room (the center) was lighted and also there were some speakers in the dark part of the room from where some voice was telling something.

The next room that we visit was room full with television (TV sets). There were about 20 TV's and they were in two lines one on the top of the other. On the top line TV's there was a women that with deaf signs was telling some story. I couldn't understand. On the line under, on every one of the TV's there was the same experimental video going in different time in which the scenes were not actually connected a lot between but in general were showing some explosion or something.








The next room was separated on two. In the two parts there was screening of documentaries. I took the head phones and start watching the first documentary. It was very strange movie. There was chore of deaf people and they were actually trying to sing some religious song. It was strange, morbid, weird to watch this. O.k., not so much to watch it because they were dressed in some church uniform but the sound. I start feel sorry about them in one moment. The other film was with the same topic. The problem of deaf people. There were people standing in a group and expressing their feelings for a different topics. Telling parts of their life.







We open a door that took us up to a stairs. In the end of the stairs there was different piece of art. I think that is some art that belongs to the gallery but is not part of the exhibition. We couldn't find connection between this piece and the other parts of the exhibition. It was something like big light that in the past was used for old TV or I made this comparison only.



Big white room with 3 ventilators in the center. Every one of the ventilators for one of the walls. Sticked video tape makes a circle form. From the air produced by the ventilators they keep circling on one centimeter from the wall. It was first time to see that, I didn't know before that actually this kind of process can exist.

On one of the walls there were lines with numbers I don't remember now what was the connection between the lines. Behind the wall from one hole light was projecting circle on the wall.
That was all from the exhibition. On the end there was the last room with one more documentary. About the silent melody. Piano artist is playing silence something like John Cage "4'33"" (you need to check this with the numbers :D)
Calm movie, bring me peace on the end.