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European Bridges Ensemble was established for Internet and network performance. Using the term bridges as a metaphor, their initiative makes an attempt to bridge cultures, regions, locations and individuals, each with their particular history. Their concerts, which bring together musicians from the former West (Germany and Austria) and East (Hungary) as well as a participant from Serbia, demonstrate the potential of Internet performance as a means to overcome national borders and political single-mindedness. The aim of the project is to further explore the potential of taking participating musicians and artists out of their political and social isolation by creating communities of like-minded artists.
11 November, 2013 | 10.30 pm | A4 – Space for Contemporary Culture, Bratislava
Ivana Ognjanović (Serbia; 1971) graduated in composition at Belgrade’s University of Art, Faculty of Music. She completed her MA in Multimedia Composition in HfMT, Hamburg. She is working on her DMA in composition at Belgrade’s University of Art. She collaborated with Joanna Mac Gregor, Jennifer Hymer, Ana Sofrenovic, Julia Hening, Marek Choloniewski and David Girten. Her music was performed in Greece, England, Serbia, Latvia, Macedonia, Hungary, Germany, Japan, Finland and USA. She has experience in multimedia, interactions in art, web programming, applied music and performance. Lonesome Skyscraper is an electronic version of the piece composed for Quintet.net software environment, inspired by a fascinating abandoned skyscraper in Pécs, Hungary.
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Stewart Collinson (United Kingdom) Collinson’s work covers a range of activities: as an artist making moving image work for singlescreen viewing, gallery installation, live mixing, projection of video and digital imagery for performance. Collaboratively, he has created audio/ visual work for The Making New Waves Contemporary Music Festival, Sonic Arts Network, The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and The BBC’s 21CC. Since 2006 he has been the member of the network music group, European Bridges Ensemble. He is a senior lecturer in Moving image on the BA Contemporary Lens Media and MA Fine Art Degree Courses at the Lincoln University, UK. Shadowplace Taking Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows as its starting point, the work explores the luminal zone existing between illumination and occultation, light and shade. The deep metaphors of occidental thought, identifiable in concepts such as “the dark ages” and “the enlightenment”, reveal a binary opposition, a division. Attempting a synthesis, Jung wrote, “Everyone carries a shadow and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.” Shadowplace is a meditation in sound and Super8 film on the inevitability of shadows.