Agenda

(h)ear with Asra - La Poupée Vivante and Manon de Boer

An initiative of artist Mike Kramer of the Kunstencentrum Signe kuS (centre for the arts) and the Poppodium Nieuwe Nor, (h)ear focuses on experimental audio research. (h)ear incorporates the concepts of John Cage in two ways. On the one hand, it presents a visual and audio programme from Asra, La Poupée Vivante by Timo Van Luyk (FIN/B) and Raymond Dijkstra (NL). Using wind instruments, violin, tapes, glass, contact microphones and all sorts of other objects, they create peculiar areas of sound full of droning, feedback and grinding noises.

The performance also includes the screening of films by the internationally renowned artist Manon de Boer (1966, India/Brussels). Dissonant (2010) is a recording of a dance performance in which both the dancer and the viewer are challenged to fill in the empty spaces. The film Two Times 4'33" (2008) is an experiment based on John Cage’s famous composition 4'33" from 1952. De Boer filmed two performances of the same work, and explores the impact of the different recordings on the spectator.

3 oktober / 20:30 / (h)ear with Asra - La Poupée Vivante and Manon de Boer / Kunstencentrum Signe kuS / Admission € 5,- 

This performance is part of the programme:

John Cage, Of what is and what might have been

Of what is and what might have been is the title of the programme to be presented on the occasion of the exhibition The Anarchy of Silence - John Cage and Experimental Art in SCHUNCK* Heerlen which will open on 3 September 2010. As a musician, writer and philosopher, Cage strived to push back the boundaries of the accepted, not only in music, but in other art forms as well. This approach formed the cornerstone of a philosophical exploration of an aesthetic free from conventions, taste, and traditional ways of looking at subjectivity. In a series of concerts, installations, readings, lectures and performances, various contemporary artists provide their interpretation of Cage’s oeuvre: they present what is there, and what it might have been.