audiovisual Improvisation for Festival in Cali / Colombia
ISO Fest
(T) Raum. Live improvisation over youtube channel
audiovisual concert
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
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
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.
Live-Cinema sessions in Tokyo, Seoul and Kuala-Lumpur
UNSTUMM
Conversation of Moving Image and Sound
unstumm.com
Photo Credits to MasafumiTsuji
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.
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.
Axel Dörner
Luis Negrón van Grieken
Claudia Schmitz
Nicola L. Hein
Toshimaru Nakamura
Tetsuzi Akiyama
Akiko Nakayama
Harata Atsushi
Tokyo : De-Luxe
Seoul: Insa Gallerie
Kuala Lumpur – [toccata Studio] – [Goethe Institute Malaysia ]
Kindly supported by
Special Thanks go to: Masafumi Tsuji, Takafumi Tsuji
VERDE
VERDE is an documentary project in the tradition of expanded cinema focused on three natural landscapes of Colombia: the Sasardí nature reserve located in the Darien, Sumapaz and San José del Guaviare. All three places have special environmental conditions, and different natural characteristics and ecosystems.
They are distant from each other in the colombian geography, they are different from the biological perspective but also have elements in common: they are lungs of the planet, water factories with incalculable potential, and all are places of great fragility that have been contaminated by the socio-political conflict that has taken place in the country.
GREEN project is also the result of an audiovisual and inter-medial creation laboratory – with a strong emphasis on improvisation – of a group of artists from different institutions and disciplines. With the participation of: Nelson Vergara, Roberto Garcia Piedrahita, Javier Olarte, Ricardo Arias, Rodrigo Restrepo and Luis Negron van Grieken
Live-Video-Performances in Chile
Luis Negrón van Grieken
touring on following dates in Chile:
17th November 2017, Ciclo TURREL / Proyecto TárabusT, Din399, Region del Valparaiso.
Tu. 21th November 2017, Sala SCD, Plaza Egaña, Santiago
Th. 23th – Sa. 25. November 2017, Festival Relincha, Valdivia
Su. 26th November 2017, Molino Manchmar, Puerto Varas
Pablo Giw (trompete) – D
Sven Hahne (laptop video) – D/CL
Marcelo Maira Moya (saxofon, flöten) – CL
Matthias Muche (computer, posaune) – D
Nicolas Spencer (soundart) – CL
Benjamin Vergara (trompete) – CL
Georg Wissel (saxofon) – D
activated by Zeitkunst e.V. (Sven Hahne und Matthias Muche)
Proyecto Tarabust
The Crimson Intellect [‘agl-i-sorkh]
Lecture-, Laser- & Sound-Performance
This multidimensional event is contained by a decentralised medial scenography, where light (and shadow), sound and voice will engage the visitor for an immersive situation of that possible labyrinth. Pointing into the more darker side of the inaugural episodes of Western thought – the myth of Plato’s cave – this space will show the engagement of shadows with knowledge.
This project is also influenced by Sohrevardi’s philosophy of Eshragh (Illumination) where light and colour are a continuum of manifestations by physical and metaphysical “bodies”.
In a luck of improvisation the images are chosen by navigating thought an analog archive of images, combined with a digital approach the space will create that sorcery moment of the image making, where also words are in the same ontological level as images.
The results of this necessarily incomplete intercultural and multi-temporal ‘reading’ of an ‘impossible’ text will be presented as an audio- visual lecture- performance post-theatrical event, using elements of light, video-projection, locational electronic sound feedback system, tonality, analytical and poetic commentary, deconstruction, and space- time illusion.
Luis Negrón van Grieken (Laser performance), Sina Seifee (Lecture performance), Ali Chakav (Sound performance)