As announced, on Thursday evening the exhibition “Dancing Machine” opened in Lille St Sauveur. Martine Aubry (behind me on the picture), major of Lille and boss of the French socialist party (this is the reason why everyone thinks she might have the opportunity to beat Sarkozy at the next elections) said some warm words to the huge crowd which came to see the show. I didn’t really understand what she was talking about, but eventually I could take over the microphone and also have a little speech.
Below, there are two short videos of the IDP, which I shot during the opening. The first clip features the inofficial team of bouncers that protectet the dancefloor. And the second video shows the sophisticated transforming mechanisms of that party-in-a-box thing.
The openig tomorrow is for free and open for everyone. It will involve the consumption of alcohol in addition to the presentation of some really nice artworks. So I can definitely recommend you to come and to rock the International Dance Party!
Ok, I was lazy with posting. Or let’s say, I really didn’t have the time up to now, yet. Last Friday opened a very nice exhibition about air machines. Arno Scheper has invited Der Wexel,Ronald van der Meijs,Neon & Landa and me to the Hague, where we have turned an old shop into a blowing, plopping and whistling machinery. You still have the chance to visit this really nice show next weekend (Fr/Sa/Su, from 12 to 6) in the Boekhorstsrtaat 139 in The Hague. Have Fun!
For the show, I’ve built an architectural intervention – a special entrance situation, where visitors have to pass a wind tunnel before they can enter the exhibition space.
So you missed my show “Maschinen”, that finished last Sunday in Zürich? No problem! Here’s an interactive walkthrough, where I explain the exhibited pieces and where you decide where you want to go:
Have fun! And here’s a map to help with the navigation:
At the last day of my show “Maschinen” at Kunstraum Walcheturm in Zürich, we carried out an “Eat Shit Duchamp!” tournament. The visitors were invited to drive the racingtrack in the exhibition as fast as possible with a remote controlled urinal. Raphael, the organizer of the exhibition had hard fights with Tobi, who documented the show. Soon it turned out that this will be a battle amongst two serious pros. At the end, Raphael made the course 40 milliseconds faster than Tobi and received the E.S.D. Champion Trophy.
Here’s a video of one of Raphaels highly concentrated speedruns:
And here are some pictures:
“Eat Shit Duchamp!” – Trophy (filled with beer, can play “The Final Countdown”, blinks and congratulates on a LED display)
I’ve just uploaded a video of the “Surprise Control!” workshop, that I gave last week in Zürich and Basel. If your screen is too small, hit the fullscreen button of the player.
If you want to find out more about the workshop, click here.
The exhibition is open and the first weekend was already quite a success! Millions of people came to see the show and I tell you, on Saturday and Sunday it all looked like a second Woodstock. Just better. Of course, the local Zürich press has sent their most profiled writers to report about the event:
At the beginning of May, I’ll be in Switzerland for my solo exhibition at the Kunstraum Walcheturm (more info will follow soon). And as part of the package, I’ll also give three workshops there. Here are the dates:
Wednesday, May 5th, 2PM & 8PM at Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich
The idea will be to build little electronic machines, based on the “surprise controller”. Depending on where the participants attach what kind of peripherials, the controller will always behave in a different way. And the outcome will be many little funny machines which are all special!
So now, please don’t ask me where to enroll for those workshops. I have actually no idea. I guess, this research will be the first part of the surprise. But maybe you start your quest here: http://www.digitalbrainstorming.ch/
The International Dance Party is currently shown in Paris – to be more precise, it is at the Ladie’s toilet of the “Maison des Arts Créteil”. As you can see, the Ladie’s really seem to enjoy it! If you want to see the show (it’s really good), it ends next Sunday. So be quick!
Btw.: On the lowest picture, in the back on the right, Peter William Holden is lurking at the young girls. Peter has three super beatiful installations in the exhibition: Arabesque, AutoGene and SoleNoid. Here’s a video of “Arabesque”:
To make it short: the performance of Adrien M yesterday was an absolute hit! Very poetic and amazing to watch.
But another amazing thing also happened yesterday evening: The exhibition “Dancing Machine” opened in the Maison des Arts Créteil – 847km away from Perpignan, where I am right now.
And of course, the International Dance Party has to be part of that show. But – because the machine was shown until last Sunday in Australia, no one thought that the machine would arrive in Créteil by the opening of the show. Now here are the crazy news: It arrived! Exactly three hours before the opening! And my good old headbanger-buddy Volker was hanging out there to show his Heavy Metal piece Moshpit Amp.
However, hardcore-Volker was up to the challenge to install the IDP in the Ladie’s toilet, right before the exhibition openend, and I helped him a little bit via Skype.
Thanks again, Volker!
I will still stay here in the south of France until Tilt ends on Saturday – but then, I’ll head right away to Paris in order to find out how much the IDP still rocks the Ladie’s toilet in Créteil!
Ok, the headline says it all. Of course, there was a nice opening performance and then, there was also a Catalan TV station, which filmed my machine. I think it was this station.
After that, there was a buffet, and free drinks, and you know how this all usually works. But I have to say that I’m really curious about what will happen tonight! There is a picture in the program book, that really attracted me:
The text sais, that it will be a performance of Adrien M. And whoever that might be – I’ll find it out tonight! But I could read already in the description that the show will be something with computers and juggling. How cool sounds that!? And the combination of juggling and computers reminded me – of course – a lot to Claude Shannon.
