The Warp presents a new performance installation in the Glass House
from 17 January – 21 February 2021 -> read the review in NRC newspaper (in Dutch) and in Parool
This performance installation is visible and audible from the outside. If Covid-19 measures allow inside performances in the last weekend (to be announced). The Contraband & Company develop Unloomed #1: An Installation for Strings and Certain Sketchy Objects of String Theory.
This project is part of the light festival that The Warp presents every year in collaboration with Zone2Source in the Amstelpark during the dark winter months. The work is presented in the Glass House in such a way that the installation and performances that take place inside can also be seen and heard from the outside. The project also includes live streams that mark the opening and finissage of the project and remain available on the website.
Visit: Daily from 17 January until 21 February 2021 from 14.00 – 19.30, best time to experience is at the end of the day.
Performances: The performance the ensemble Todo Modo plays Set #4 of Tenuous Attachment (visit Facebook event)is on Saturday 20 February 18:30 – 20:00 performance. Previous performances can be watched at www.thewarp.org or on this website if you scroll to the bottom of the page.
The installation results from a series of performances by three groups who perform under the name of ‘The Contraband & Company, which focuses exclusively on the processing of works of art by working in contrast, ‘contra’, with each other. Working separately, through specific ‘lines’, a visual installation is created that serves different purposes for each group, while together a whole new phenomenon is created. 𝙐𝙣𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙙 refers to the groups that do not work together in the interwoven way as the 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗽’𝘀 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 that will be centred around the concepts ‘looming’ and ‘weaving’ as the symbolization of collaboration.
The framework within which the performances of ‘Unloomed #1‘ is developed is string theory. String theory is a physics concept and refers to particles replaced by one-dimensional objects called ‘strings’. String theory describes how these strings propagate through space and interact, serving as inspiration to produce visible and audible interaction. An installation combining light and strings spanning the insides of the glass pavilion will create a changing landscape of different patterns and moving shapes, while the strings are being ‘played’. The sound this produces is audible for the audience outside. The strings will be extended beyond the space into a feedback zone around the building which can be explored by spectators moving along and through the building.
The three groups that make up The Contraband & Company are: the ‘Ensemble Todo Modo’ that works entirely with non-musical objects for the creation of musical installations (with Alan Purves, Francico Rosaly, Dirk Bruinsma, Christian Smith, Robbert van Hulzen and Tristan Renfrow); The Transactors’ Receptive Interference creates audiovisual performances with optics, multiple projections, lasers and layered soundtracks, usually against a complex spatial arrangement (with Vladimir Grafov and Olivia Ainsley); ‘Radiozone’ is a group that makes radio sound art, installing radio frequencies in and around the Glass House, creating a relationship between sound and the architectural terrain.
More info: www.thewarp.org
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*WARNING: This video may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy.*
Unloomed #1: An Installation for Strings and Certain Sketchy Objects of String Theory
Music by :: The Ensemble Todo Modo (Dirk Bruinsma, Robbert van Hulzen, Alan Gunga Purves, Christian Smith
Lasers by :: The Transactors’ Receptive Interference (Vladimir Grafov & Olivia Ainsley)
Recording Engineer – Andreas Tegnander
Video Production and Editing – C. Smith Cameras
Operated by Lee Ellickson and A. Tegnander
1,001 Strings installed by L. Ellickson, Max Van der Wal, A. Tegnander & with assistance from the performers who each designed their own individual areas of the installation.
Performed by The Ensemble Todo Modo (Dirk Bruinsma, Robbert van Hulzen, Alan Purves and Christian Smith) instrumentalizing the installation -The Tenuous Attachment: Unloomed #1, created by The Transactor’s Receptive Interference (Olivia Ainsley, Lee Ellickson and Vladimir Grafov) at Het Glazen Huis in the Amstelpark presented by The Warp and zone2source
Sound Recorded and Mixed by Andreas Tegnander
Video Produced and Edited by Christian Smith
Next in our series for the installation, is Outliers, 1:1. Premiere date is set for Saturday, February 6th 2021
Outliers, 1:1
Performed by The Taciturn Receiver Dancers: Maria Mavridou, Manuela Lucia Tessi, Isabela Pacewicz-Wysocka, Stefania Petroula,
Voice: Senna Laura Leezenberg, Lee Ellickson,
Lasers: Vladimir Grafov
Electronics: Dirk Bruinsma
Percussions: Alan Purves
Installation: The Tenuous Attachment: Unloomed #1, Created by The Transactor’s Receptive Interference (Olivia Ainsley, Lee Ellickson and Vladimir Grafov)
Location: Het Glazen Huis in the Amstelpark presented by The Warp and zone2source.
Sound design by Andreas Tegnander.
Texts by Michelle Grangaud, Harry Mathews, and Michele Metail – edited and reassembled into variants by Senna Laura Leezenberg and Lee Ellickson
The performance was recorded by Andreas Tegnander and filmed & edited by Christian Smith.
