Particle Live audio visual performance by D-Fuse in collaboration with Novak as part of Reinventing the City.
Friday 2 October 18:30 – 21:00 Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle Upon Tyne Cities exist on several different levels. Places that we know and live in have been superseded by spaces of flows, webs of connections for communication, exchange and control that have come to transcend the limitations of actual physical space. Traditional ideas of territory (spatial as well as ideological) have almost been dissolved in this process, while new centres of power are emerging at the nodal points that regulate the flows of global networks. Particle alludes to this fragmented reality of everyday life, deconstructing the urban fabric to reveal a city that exists as much in an immaterial web of connections as it does in actual space. Evading the allure of indiscriminate technological utopianism, Particle also probes the faultlines and frictions that arise between the realms of the virtual and that of lived experience. Working with the renowned North East collective Novak for this show, D-Fuse will incorporate the sights and sounds of Tyne & Wear into the live performance to create a stunning and evocative new work featuring our unique locale. This version of Particle has been specially created for Reinventing the City, a festival celebrating 200 years of Urban Imagination on Tyneside: 19 Sep to 11 Oct 2009. www.reinventingthecity.org.uk D-Fuse are a group of London based artists founded in the mid 90’s by Michael Faulkner who explore a range of creative media, from art, architecture, photography + film to live A/V performances. Working in a trans-disciplinary method with cutting edge technology D-Fuse encourage their audience to reflect on the process of experiencing art in a multi-dimensional, multi-sensory way with emphasis on the key relationship between sound + image. D-Fuse’s visual art has been shown internationally - incl. The V&A Museum [London], Sonar [Barcelona], onedotzero festivals, Nokia Labs [St Petersburg & Moscow], Mori Arts Center [Tokyo], Rotterdam + Seoul film festivals, Eyebeam [NYC], San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Prix Ars Electronica [Linz], TriBeca Film Festival [NYC], Lisbon + Valencia Biennales and Get It Louder [China]. NOVAK is a collective that comprises three innovative, professional and diverse art organisations based in North East England: NAME, Preamptive and Retina Glitch. They work seamlessly on a project by project basis across digital media, music, video, design and audio visual performance. Novak's work has been shown around the world and are the originators of 3D Disco, a fully audio visual 3D club experience that has been performed at Glastonbury Festival, with Calvin Harris and Chemical Brothers at Trafalgar Square, Kraftwerk in Bucharest and many more. www.dfuse.com www.novakcollective.com This is a free event, but capacity is limited and admittance will be on a first come, first served basis. Schedule: 18:30 –19:00: Drinks reception (complimentary drinks will be served on arrival and a pay bar will be available throughout the evening) 19:15 –20:15: Particle performance 20:15 – 21:00: Socialise at the bar and explore the newly renovated museum Presented by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums and supported by culture10 www.twmuseums.org.uk Michelle Hirschhorn Project Manager, Reinventing the City at GNM: Hancock _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
