audiovisual Improvisation for Festival in Cali / Colombia
ISO Fest
(T) Raum. Online Live improvisation for Festival in Cali – Colombia
Author: luisnegron
soon on a Mexico-tour
being invited to join the Unstumm Project in Mexiko – conversation between sound and image – I am preparing to turn on the magic engines of another derivation of Telefante
- CASA (Centro de las Artes San Agustin)
- Maco Museum, Oaxaca (https://museomaco.org/)
- Concert at Festival International de Cine, Casa del Lago, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexiko Stadt (https://ficunam.unam.mx/el-festival-de-cine-que-flota-en-un-mar-de-lava/)
- LARVA Guadalajara
- Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro
- Cmmas, Morelia (http://www.cmmas.org/)
- Museo Soriano, Cuernavaca (https://mmacjuansoriano.org/)
Telefante ? – but what is it ?
poster from Colombia tour 
looking through … 
inside the magic 
always moving the thinking 
traveling box 
collage 
transparency 
telefante
Live Cinema Works at Raketenstation – Insel Hombroich on Thursday, October 10, 2019
after a week in Artist-in-Residence at Insel Hombroich/Rakentenstation in May 2019, I proudly presented Klangsondagen für Thomas Kling at Neues Kunstraum Düsseldorf and Academy of Media Arts Cologne with my Colleges Matthias Muche (trombon), Nicola Hein (guitar & electronics), Christian Reiner (voice) and Mathias Neuenhofer & me working on the live video level.
More information about the place https://www.inselhombroich.de
https://www.inselhombroich.de/en/calendar/2019/10/10
Concert will be taking place at 10th of October 2019 in Haus de Musiker
Publication at KHM Journal #10
on Bifurcations, Combinatorial Thinking and Space Production
Since 2005 I have been working with the colombian artist – Juan Orozco as Telefante, exploring with the language of live cinema, the improvisation and the speculative in medial spectacles by appropriating a a kind of (new)media archeology.
The following lines are a re creation of texts that I wrote live in three audiovisual improvisations done in Tokyo , Seoul and Kuala Lumpur between the 13th and 27th of February 2018 creating a collage of thoughts around the unknown, the speculative and the production of knowledge:
>> you are invited to download the lines as PDF from here
Klangsondagen für Thomas Kling
For Klangsondangen for Thomas Kling the trombone guitar duo Matthias Muche/Nicola L. Hein, the Viennese vocal artist Christian Reiner and the video artists Luis Negrón van Grieken and Matthias Neuenhofer have processed texts from Thomas Kling’s work (in the sense of the “language installation”) visually/digital, musically and vocally and developed them into musical-spatial compositions.
The work of the writer Thomas Kling has left its mark on German literature and set new standards in many areas. In his texts, Kling often emphasizes the tonal dimension of language through the omission of vowels, the use of different dialects, the conscious accumulation of chains of sounds, and a special kind of performance without dissolving the semantics of language. He also did groundbreaking work on the communication of music/text and the musicality of poetic language.
These place the intimate interlocking of text, music, language and image at the centre of the work, thereby throwing completely new perspectives on the communication of music, image and language and the works of Kling used here.
The rehearsals will take place in the architect Raimund Abraham’s architecturally highly interesting building, in the immediate vicinity of the Thomas Kling Archive at the Hombroich rocket station in Neuss, where an additional performance will be presented on 10 October 2019.
Colombia / Argentina Tour with UnStumm in February 2019
Conversations of moving image and sound in South America in February and March 2019
Project Website : http://www.unstumm.com
UnStumm is a project for improvised film and music (Echtzeitfilm) for cross-disciplinary and crosscultural collaboration between filmmakers, video artists and musicians from Germany and other countries. The project is organized and curated by video artist Claudia Schmitz and guitarist/soundartist Nicola L. Hein.
The cooperation partners from Colombia are:
Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, Mapa Teatro, Manizales: Universidad de Caldas, Rogelio Salmona University Cultural Center, Medellín: Museo De Arte Moderno, Santa Marta: Museo Bolivariano de Arte contemporáneo
The participating artists from Colombia are:
Ricardo Arias – ballon
Santiago Botero – double bass
Juan Orozco Velásquez – Video/performance (www.telefante.de)
Juan Restrepo – live-video (https://vimeo.com/juanrestrepo)
The participating artists from Germany are:
Nicola L. Hein – guitar (http://www.nicolahein.com)
Claudia Schmitz – live moving image on sculpture (http://www.cces-claudiaschmitz.de)
Axel Dörner – trumpet, electronics (http://axeldoerner.org)
Luis Negrón van Grieken – video/performance (http://mis.audiovisiones.info/)
Interview in Santa Marta
It aims to create an environment of cultural and creative exchange, where a common complex artistic language is invented and used to communicate narratives, textures, colliding, combining, attracting worlds of sight and sound. The group of eight artists will work together in two different groups for three days to create an audiovisual performance that explores multidisciplinary improvisation as well as structure and narrative. The resulting artworks reflect on the themes of interculturality, cultural identity, cross cultural communication, the history of artistic thought (in different cultures) and many other philosophical topoi. The concert encompasses two Echtzeit-movies, which are improvised by a group alongside a conceptual composition that has been worked out during the rehearsals. Every group presents a piece that is in between 40-50 minutes long.
Kindly supported by
¿Cuánto hay en el Pote? – Mixed Media Installation at Art Fair Bogota / Colombia
In a play of identities between Professor Negrón (creator of the TV show Monte su Cauchos Goodyear in the 50’s) and Luis Negrón as the author of the piece, recreate this installation a document by mixing real events with the subjective vision of the same author, by creating a place where found materials collide with personal insights of the artist and therefore reflecting likewise the complexity between TV, dictatorship and modernity in the Venezuela of the 50s.
curated by Andres Jurado
Artists:
Estefany Alfaro
Ana Maria Montenegro
Óscar Moreno Escárraga
Adriana Rojas Pretelt
Javier Morales
Olivia Jack
Juan Orozco
Luis Negrón van Grieken
Paula Villegas
Santiago Díaz Escamilla
María Rojas
Luisa Giraldo
Post Konflikt ?
(only in german available)
Symposium zur Rolle der Künstler, Theatermacher, Musiker, Filmemacher im Kolumbianischen Konflikt.
an der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
„Über die Notwendigkeiten und Möglichkeiten künstlerischer Interventionen“
Austellung in der Gallerie der KHM, Glasmoog: Archipielago
Die KHM veranstaltet in Zusammenarbeit mit der UNAL, Partneruniversität in Bogota, Kolumbien, ein Symposium zur Rolle der Künstler und Filmemacher, mit Fragen nach deren gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung und den Möglichkeiten von Interventionen in einem komplexen gesellschaftlichen Drama vor dem Hintergrund imperialistischer Geschichte, Globalisierung, Narration und aktueller nationaler und internationaler Politik.
Wie steht es um den bewaffneten Konflikt in Kolumbien?
Kann der heutige Umgang miteinander der am jahrzehntelangen Konflikt Beteiligten als Blaupause für zahlreiche andere große bewaffnete Konflikte weltweit herhalten?
Das Symposium POST-KONFLIKT soll Vorträge, Screenings, Performances und Installationen zusammenbringen, um einen Raum zur Diskussion zu schaffen.
Mit Gästen aus der Kunstfakultät der Universidad Nacional de Colombia / Bogotá und weiteren Referent*Innen wird somit die Komplexität dieser spannenden und schwierigen Zeit vor und nach den ersten erfolgreichen Friedensverhandlungen durchleuchtet.
6-7. Februar 2018
6.2.
Screening
7.2.
10.00 – 19.00 Symposium
19:30 – 23.00 Ausstellungseröffnung in Glasmoog / Archipel
Konzeption / Organisation
Luis Negrón van Grieken
Prof. Frank Döhmann
Yasmin Angel
Presse und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Dr. Juliane Kuhn
KHM
The Persistence of Memory with Ali Chakav in Marl Medienkunstpreis
for the Inauguration of Medienkunstpreis at Skulpturen Museum Glaskasten Marl I did a show together with Ali Chakav called “The Persistence of Memory” on October 14th, 2018.
Bienal de Arte Contemporaneo Cuenca / Ecuador
La tecnología somos nosotrxs
Sala Proceso, CCE Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador 15th March until May 25th 2018.
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Si para definir nuestra especie nos atuviésemos estrictamente a lo que la historia y la prehistoria nos presentan como característica constante del hombre y de la inteligencia, no hablaríamos del hombre como Homo sapiens, sino como Homo faber. Henri Bergson
TELEFANTE / en un principio conocido como un colectivo que comencé desde del 2005 con Juan Orozco realizando presentaciones de videos performáticas con un instrumento especial desarrolado para hacer momentos interminables de re-combinaciones visuales con materiuales de desecho, y buscando momentos de improvisacion en la realización de numerosas cooperaciones con musicos, actores y los mas disitintos espacios alrededor del mundo. Ahora nos invitaron para particpar en la Bienal de Arte Contemporanea de Cuenca Ecuador sendo parte de la muestra colectiva La Tecnologia somos nosostrxs, la cual fue curada Pedro Soler y Tatiana Avendaño.
El proyecto La tecnología somos nosotrxs busca resituar la relación entre Homo faber y el mundo, saliendo de la narrativa colonial y inventando, o redescubriendo, otros imaginarios y practicas.
“El humano es el animal que fabrica herramientas (faber), que emplea la tecnología –no es el único en la tierra, pero si el más prolífico–, mientras que el pensamiento (sapiens) es una capacidad de muchos seres, incluso vegetales. Por esa razón, autores como Hannah Arendt o Henri Bergson consideran el nombre Homo faber más apropiado que Homo Sapiens para la especie. Hoy, lo que durante milenios fue de bien común o magia natural, se ha desequilibrado, convirtiéndose en una máquina voraz que está acabando con la diversidad cultural y biológica de nuestro planeta. Frente a este nuevo colonialismo, el arte propone estrategias de subversión: otros usos de la tecnología que apuntan a espacios de autonomía imaginativa y formal, a la hi/low tech, al ancestrofuturismo y a la colectividad como relación y relato.”
La instalación audiovisual TELEFANTE, de Juan Orozco y Luis Negroón, conecta tiempos y geografías diferentes a través del encuentro de tecnologías antiguas y contemporáneas en una caja de cartón