Offshore Tours Brussels
&& Offshore open lab
in Oscillation festival 2022
http://www.oscillation-festival.be/2022/
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Offshore Tour Operators
Fri 29, 2pm/6pm
Sat 30, 11am/3pm
Sun 31, 11am/3pm
The Offshore Tour Operator is a psycho-geographic GPS prototype that
guides you through the 800,000 addresses of the ICIJ's Offshore Leaks
database. The walks bring the participants to search for the physical
traces of offshore banking within the architecture of various
neighborhoods of the city of Brussels. Thus, the walks transform into a
real hunt for shell companies, trust firms, domiciliation agencies and
shadow finance offices and agents. At the end of each walk, a collective
discussion offers a platform to participants to share their experiences
and documents, in order to shape collectively an up to date image of
finance that challenges the very notion of 'offshore'.
http://rybn.org/thegreatoffshore/index.php?ln=en
Registration required, please email i...@q-o2.be
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Offshore open Lab Brussels
Wed 27 & Thur 28 april, 10am/6pm
In this two-day open lab, RYBN will plot, trouble-shoot and discuss the
walks of the coming days with local invitees. Public visits are welcome
with appointment (by e-mailing to info @ rybn.org ).
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-- Oscillation festival
The fourth edition of the Oscillation festival is dedicated to the
question what it means to address a public, and how, by changing the
site of a performance, the relationship between audience and performer
shifts. Inspired by the transitory nature of public space, many artists
are drawn to formats which resist the demands of the traditional
performer/audience dynamic. Experimental formats such as soundwalks,
itinerant performances and virtual events, allow work to move into
public spaces where it interacts with a changing and unstable
environment. A public is not necessarily a crowd, and experiments with
small scale and outside formats are proving resilient, and raising
meaningful questions about notions such as public and private,
environment and nature, aspects of introspection and connection.
Public Address System (PA), is an umbrella term for a set of
technologies that allow a person to address multiple people
simultaneously, typically via a system of microphones and speakers, such
as in a venue, train station, or supermarket. In each case, the system’s
design reflects and defines the mode of address. In the examples above,
a single speaker addresses many listeners who cannot speak back,
defining a power relationship. As systems of address are shifting
online, the model of a single speaker with multiple receivers has
increasingly fractured, producing new and often contradictory modes of
publicness. By taking the term public address as a banner for this
year’s Oscillation festival, we want to ask: what other systems of
address are possible, and what kinds of public might they speak to? By
experimenting with the system of address itself can we find other ways
of being public?
The festival will explore a number of alternative formats for sound in
public space, interpolated by concerts which try to unpick the question
of public address from within a more traditional dynamic. These
experiments are grounded in the research of historian Elena Biserna,
with whom we are developing a publication due in Autumn 2022. The
publication will serve as an epilogue to the festival’s four days of
walks, performances, talks and workshops.
http://www.oscillation-festival.be/2022/?about=on&agenda=on
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