Collapse / A Visual Concert

PROGRAM 1 . Sergei Rachmaninoff Trio No1 in D Minor, Op.9, élégiaque 2. Antonín Dvořák Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor, Op.90 / "Dumky Trio" 3. Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Trio No2 in E Minor, Op.67

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ollapse is a visual concert which aims to make coexist a projection of a combination of video art and animated film with the live performance of classical music. The Trio Dell'Arte, a classical chamber ensemble, collaborates with the Cypriot video artists Nicolas Iordanou and Sylvia Nicolaides and the animator Charalambos Margaritis to create a renovating proposal of artistic expression which is based on the balance of sound and image.

The enrichment of the concert space with projections which are invited to accompany and converse with the music, aims to give to the viewers a twofold and more vivid interpretation of each musical composition. It attempts to become a wholesome experience for the viewer.

The objective is not the descriptive illustration of the musical compositions, but the rendition of instantaneous impressions that meet in a singular and at the same time infinite present.

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hree screens, composed by three layers of semi-transparent cloth are set behind the musicians.

Three musicians, three instruments interpetating three chamber music compositions.

Three visual artists create three films which combine video art and animated film. They interprete visually, in their turn, the three musical pieces.

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ollapse is, before all, a triptych. Yet the harmonious composition of the three is constantly threatened and inevitably broken by the internal inconsistency of the paradigm upon which it is set. The musical pieces do not evolve in three movements and the visual references are set upon the four elements of nature. The pretention of harmony cannot hold.

The mathematical perfection of the trinity is undermined by these elements reminding us of its fallacy. It collapses and the music becomes an elegy and a dithyrambe at the same time, a resounding wind through the ruins.

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away" Percy Bysshe Shelley

Collapse / A Visual Concert (full concert) 77' Collapse / A Visual Concert (short version) 6'

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The Collapse Prints

he intention behind Collapse was to offer a unique aesthetic experience to the audience. To attent a presentation of Collapse is a unique musical and visual experience. It is about entering into a universe of music and images that alters one's understanding of the way these arts are proposed and perceived.

To complete this, two original woodcuts where created by Charalambos Margaritis, in a limited number of prints and were put on sale as a memorabilia of the event. This helped as well fund the event which is completely independently produced.

Trio Dell'Arte

www.triodellarte.com

Emilie Moutin

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riginally from Savoie, Emilie Moutin begun her musical studies in Lyon Region National Conservatory. Versatile and complex musician,continued her educational program in Paris where she received prizes (Diplomas) for Piano, Chamber Music and Piano-accompaniment with the best honors, following particularly the guidance of Stephen Paulello in Paris and Irina Kataeva in Evry.

She studied with pianists Françoise Tillard,Yves Henry from which she was introduced to the chant accompaniment sensibility.In-between, she entered to the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris, where she obtains brilliantly prizes of Music Analysis, Musical Culture and Musical Writing.

As piano soloist,she recently performed the Concerto in G major by Joseph Haydn and the first ballad of Chopin in the musical show "Zielen Stanislas, who wanted the Green sun"; She is a member of the Trio dell'Arte who they perform regularly every year in Europe.

Her eager to share her passion for classical music to as many people as she can, Emilie is designing and performing educational concerts for young audiences with collaboration with various companies (Chanthéâtre Company, Reading otherwise Chevrefeuille, Thalia Company, and others) Piano accompanist of Roissy singing class in France, and very experienced working with singers, she recently discovered a passion for choral conducting and now shares between her piano activity and choirmaster while parallel teaching piano.

Frédéric Dupuis

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orn in 1 965 in Rouen in a musicians family, Frédéric Dupuis started the cello at the age of seven. After his tuition in Rouen Region Conservatory (with A. Bane) and in National Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatory region (with Mr. Strauss ), he entered the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris in the class P. Muller, and won a first prize in cello and chamber music.

Since 1 991 , Frédéric Dupuis is principal cellist of the Orchestre National d'Ile de France. At the same time, it gives many chamber music concerts in the most varied formations.

In the “String Trio of Paris”, he meets today's composers whose works he created with as much pleasure as he interprets the classical repertoire, regularly covered with “Dimitri quartet”. He appears as soloist with the most prestigious conductors of today and he has performed among them concertos by Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Honegger, Greif, Haydn and others.

Recently, Frédéric Dupuis has made several recordings for Bayard Music, the Quartet for the End of Time of Olivier Messiaen, a recital for cello and harp and also he recorded three string trios Edith Canat of Chizy under the label Harmonia Mundi. All his recordings had an excellent critical acclaim.

Chrysostomos Neofytou

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hrysostomos Neophytou was born on the 21 st of September 1 981 in Paphos.

At the age if 1 5 he got his diploma grade 8 of the Royal College of Music with Andreas Nicolaou as his professor.

In 2001 he moves to Paris, where he studies at the National Conservatorium under the guidance of two exceptional professors of violin, Mrs Marie Jo Calvi and Mr. Pierre Olivier Queyras. He receives two diplomas of musical studies, one in violin and the other in chamber music. In Paris he teaches students of various levels while at the same time he takes part in concerts. He has taken part as a solist and 1 st violin in various concerts with the orchestra of the National Conservatorium of Music and Dance of Argenteuil. Through his concerts he develops a special interest in contemporary music. This leads his to the beginning of a series of collaborations with many conductors, like Ivan Bellocq.

In 201 0 he moves to London, where he graduates in 201 1 with the Masters of Arts in Violin Performance and Administration of Music from the Royal Academy of Music. There, he takes part in various concerts, he organises various festivals with international participations. He has taken part in various conerts in Mexico, with the first world premiere of Ivan Bellocq ‘Six Forests’ for violin and piano.

Kimonos Art Center's crew

www.kimonosartcenter.com

Nicolas Iordanou

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icolas Iordanou was born in 1 975 in Paphos, Cyprus. He studied Photography at Columbia College Chicago.

In 2000 he was assigned as a photographer in ‘CITY2000’ (Chicago in the Year 2000) a project about the social and cultural aspects of Chicago, which was exhibited at the Museum of Science and Industry of Chicago in 2001 . From 2001 until 2006 he worked as a photographer, dealing with conflict and postwar photography in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Palestine/Israel, Uganda, Lebanon and also covered the September 1 1 attacks in New York City. He collaborates pro bono with the United Nations (UNHCR).

In 2005 he was invited by the Goethe Institut as a reviewer in the 1 st Photography Festival of Berlin. In 2007, he was assigned to photograph an international project called ‘Challenging Walls’ in collaboration with Akademie der Künste – Berlin and Sibylle Bergmann, whose goal was to bring conflicted communities closer. This project was exhibited in Abu Dis, Israel/ Palestine. In 2009 he had his first solo exhibition titled ‘Prologue’ in "Diatopos" in Nicosia. In 201 2 he co-directs the short film 'About Us'. In 201 3 he participates in the exhibition ‘Catharsis/Rebirth’ in Paphos, Cyprus and codirects a short film presentation from it, which was selected and presented in the Louvre Museum in Paris as part of the Michelangelo Pistoletto’s exhibition ‘Annee Un – Le Paradis Sur Terre’. In 201 4 he co-directs the mockumentary 'Salvador' and in 201 5 the documentary ‘Cementography’.

Sylvia Nicolaides

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orn in 1 984, Sylvia Nicolaides originally trained in education focusing on the visual arts and received a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Cyprus and a Master’s Degree from the University of Exeter in the UK. In 201 0 she received her Bachelor’s Fine Arts Degree from Chelsea College of Art and Design (University of the Arts) London and her second Master’s Degree in Audio-Visual Studies in the Academy of Performing Arts, in the Film and Television department (FAMU) in Prague, Czech Republic.

She participated in several group art exhibitions and her films were screened at several film festivals both in Cyprus and internationally. In 201 1 she was short-listed at the Façade Video Festival in Plovdiv Bulgaria. In 201 3 she participated in the exhibition ‘Catharsis/Rebirth’ in Paphos, Cyprus and co-directed a short film presentation from it, which was selected and presented in the Louvre Museum in Paris as part of the Michelangelo Pistoletto’s exhibition ‘Annee Un – Le Paradis Sur Terre’. In 201 4 she directed the 3D video art ‘Airground’ which was premiered at the 3D Korea Film Festival in Seoul and awarded with the Jury's Special Prize. In the same year she co-directed the award wining mockumentary 'Salvador' and in 201 5 the documentary ‘Cementography’ a three-year project.

Charalambos Margaritis

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haralambos Margaritis was born in 1 985 in Cyprus. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Beaux Arts de Paris in 201 2. He works mainly with stop motion animated films, woodcuts and drawings.

From 2009 – 201 4 he was accepted in the 1 4th, 1 5th and 1 6th International Biennale of Engraving of Sarcelles. He presented his solo exhibition in 201 1 titled ‘Caetera’ in the École Nationale Supérieure de Beaux Arts of Paris.

In 201 4 he developed a stop-motion animation workshop in the Studio 1 3/1 6 in the Centre Pompidou (as a part of the event Stopmotion, organized by Boris Tissot). In the same year he participated in the group exhibition titled ‘Othello – Rebirth’ in the abandoned cinema ‘Othellos’ in Paphos, following the proposition of the Rebirth day concept by Michelangelo Pistoletto.

His short animated films "Workhouse" (201 2) and "Large Scale Absurdities / Vol. 1 " (201 5) have participated and received awards in several festivals around the world.

In 201 5 he participates in the concert "Trio Dell'Arte" by the classical music ensemble Trio Dell'Arte, which was presented in Nicosia, Limassol and Paphos, with three short animated films which were projected at the same time as the live performance by the musicians.

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Collapse

egimes, world economy, computer systems, and buildings (especially their walls) are some things (let’s call them this way) which face the threat of collapse.

The same, as we know, stands for our civilisation, and life on planet Earth. The same stands for human beings.

Music, in various northern mythologies, is considered to be the beginning of everything, the first cause for the creation of our world.

Creation is not the opposite of collapse: creation is collapse’s other. Inside their prolific Difference, sounds and images are being freed. The space, or the area where the work of art is founded, is called Possibility.

The work “Collapse”, as a visual concert is a venture of occupancy in Possibility; it’s a gesture of going deeper in the prolific essence of Difference; and it’s an attempt of widening our common Continuance.

Possibility / Difference / Continuance: the work of art’s time and space is a continuing, even eternal present: Here & Now, which means: Always.

A single Moment.

Music is not a soundtrack for the images, and the images are not an illustration for the music. The visual concert equals a discussion, and a balance. The priority belongs to the unseen third factor: the Relationship.

The work “Collapse” is not the product of this relationship between music and images: it’s the work as the revelation of the Relationship in progress, which finally means that the Work of art is the Relationship itself.

We must think of Love, or, to be more accurate: Eros, who used to live in that fluid area of difference, between Porus (meaning: wealth) and Penia (meaning: poverty), his parents. Always in the middle.

Always, in between.

The visual concert “Collapse” is a work of art set in these borderlines. And borderlines are always a minefield, a dangerous and threatening place. The visual concert “Collapse” faces the threat of collapse.

That’s OK, since love is a risky game.

And so it goes.