Forma Productions May – July 2007. Click For Infos.
We are pleased to announce Forma’s new season of worldwide, interdisciplinary arts productions.
Presented by venues in the UK, Europe and Australasia, our international programme for May – July includes world premieres of three new installation works, and extensive touring of both exhibition and live performance.
Forthcoming
Ryoji Ikeda world premiere of two new installations
at Le Fresnoy, FR>
Lynette Wallworth’s specially commissioned
Hold: Vessel 2, 2007, at BFI, UK>
Lynette Wallworth – Damavand Mountain
at Monash University, AU>
Ryoji Ikeda performs dataphonics and exhibits data.tron
at De Vleeshal, NL>
New tour dates
Ryoji Ikeda: new worldwide touring dates announced>
alva noto performs xerrox at Dissonanze Festival, IT>
Still showing
Lynette Wallworth – Evolution of Fearlessness
at Auckland Triennial, NZ>
First solo exhibition in UK by Lynette Wallworth>
Award–winning film installation by Mike Stubbs
at Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, NL>
RYOJI IKEDA – DATA.TRON + DATA.FILM
2 Jun – 15 Jul Panorama 8
Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing (Nr Paris), FR
data.tron [prototype], the new audiovisual installation by the renowned electronic composer/visual artist, presents with mathematical precision a vast sea of data–derived imagery. Both the scale and intensity of data.tron invite total immersion in this work.
The sculptural wall installation, data.film nº1-a, creates a horizontal band of bright light that bisects the gallery wall. On closer inspection, the work reveals microscopic data codes printed on 35mm film.
Produced by Le Fresnoy
Co–produced by Forma
Ryoji Ikeda – data.tron [prototype]>
Ryoji Ikeda – data.film nº1-a>
LYNETTE WALLWORTH – HOLD: VESSEL 2, 2007
23 Jun – 2 Sep BFI Southbank Gallery, London, UK
For this new installation, Wallworth further develops her celebrated work Hold: Vessel 1, 2001. In commissioning two new videos for Hold: Vessel 2, 2007, the BFI has enabled Wallworth to update a work already acclaimed as ‘a new media classic’.
Hold: Vessel 1, 2001, is commissioned by and courtesy of Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, AU
Hold: Vessel 2, 2007, is commissioned by the BFI, London, and produced by Forma
Touring produced by Forma and supported by Arts Council England
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LYNETTE WALLWORTH – DAMAVAND MOUNTAIN
5 Jul – 28 Jul Regarding Fear and Hope
Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, AU
Filmed in the small Iranian mountain village of Poloor, this video installation uses imagery that tracks the cycle of a short–lived poppy flower, a woman and a snow covered mountain. Damavand Mountain is shown as part of Regarding Fear and Hope, an exhibition featuring the work of Australian and international artists that explores issues of immigration, diverse identities, racism, refugees and difference, as well as new cultural formations.
Damavand Mountain is commissioned by New Crowned Hope,
produced by Forma and supported by Australia Council Fellowship
New Media Arts Board and Visual Arts Board
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RYOJI IKEDA – DATAPHONICS + DATA.TRON
30 Jun dataphonics [concert version] 30 Jun – 9 Sep data.tron [prototype] De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
The Netherlands premiere of the latest Ryoji Ikeda exhibition work, data.tron [prototype], opens with the artist performing his dataphonics concert. data.tron is an immersive audiovisual installation that combines mathematics and raw data with breathtaking technical precision. Performed as a multi-channel concert for a blacked-out space, Ikeda’s composition for dataphonics creates a unique and highly physical sound field.
dataphonics is produced by Forma
data.tron is produced by Le Fresnoy and co–produced by Forma
Ryoji Ikeda – dataphonics [concert version]>
Ryoji Ikeda – data.tron [prototype]>
RYOJI IKEDA – DATAMATICS
24 May datamatics [ver.1.0] Videoex Festival, Zurich, CH
26 May datamatics [ver.1.0] Territorios Festival, Seville, ES
Ikeda synthesises dynamic imagery with a powerful, hypnotic soundtrack in his acclaimed audiovisual concert, datamatics [ver.1.0]. This work is part of Ikeda’s datamatics series, an art project that explores the potential to perceive the invisible multi–substance of data that permeates our world.
Produced by Forma
Co-commissioned by AV Festival 06 and ZeroOne San Jose, ISEA 2006 and supported by YCAM and RML
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ALVA NOTO – XERROX
2 Jun Dissonanze Festival, Rome, IT
Using samples from muzak, advertising, soundtracks and entertainment programmes to create the audio and visual components of xerrox, noto (Carsten Nicolai) endlessly copies his sound sources, manipulating them through a series of increasingly complex and dynamic audiovisual states. noto transforms his sampled material beyond recognition so that the link to the original source remains as a concept only.
Touring Produced by Forma
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LYNETTE WALLWORTH – EVOLUTION OF FEARLESSNESS
9 Mar – 3 Jun Auckland Triennial, NZ
For Auckland Triennial, Lynette Wallworth presents her latest installation piece Evolution of Fearlessness, a work that responds to touch and deals intimately with themes of survival and loss.
Produced by Forma
Commissioned by New Crowned Hope
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LYNETTE WALLWORTH | NATIONAL GLASS CENTRE, UK
17 Mar – 17 Jun National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK
Following her Arts Council England International Artist Fellowship at the National Glass Centre in 2006, leading Australian artist Lynette Wallworth presents three powerful video installations: Damavand Mountain; Hold: Vessel 1, 2001; and Invisible by Night, in her first UK solo show.
Produced by Forma in association with the National Glass Centre
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MIKE STUBBS – CULTURAL QUARTER & CITY OF CULTURE
31 Mar – 19 May Nederlands Institute voor Mediakunst, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, NL
British artist and filmmaker Mike Stubbs shows two video works that blend social realism and political awareness with an acute emotional sensibility. Cultural Quarter and City of Culture are presented as part of the group exhibition Dark Mirror, which sets out to explore the relationship between human behaviour and social conditioning.
Produced by Forma
Cultural Quarter is supported by NewcastleGateshead Initiative
and Arts Council England
