Mental Overdrive is the moniker Norwegian artist and producer Per Martinsen has released most of his electronic music output under, from early industrial techno through legendary Belgian techno label R&S Records back in 1990, through a variation of dancefloor friendly beats on imprints such as Smalltown Supersound, Discfunction, Full Pupp, Ploink, Music Man and his own Love OD Communications.

Spectra Aberdeen

until 19 March 2018

For this exhibition at CCBB Belo Horizonte, FILE Festival has chosen the theme “Electronic art in the disruptive age”. These exhibitions purpose a rupture at the traditional form of art appreciation, here the visitors can experience: new sensations and perceptions; senses the relationship between real and digital movement; interact with the works and immerse themselves into virtual reality.

Lawrence Malstaf
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FILE Festival Belo Horizonte 2018

The Northern Assembly held its third sitting during the Barents Spektakel 2017 and, since then, has expanded across the entire Barents region. In a euphoric mood, it was fervently decided that The Northern Assembly was to be registered as a political party. Since then, no less than twenty-five Northern Assemblies have been held, tonnes of t-shirts have been sold and gallons of vodka have been drunk. 
Amund Sjølie Sveen is working with a wide range of expressions and medias which common ground mainly is the use of sound and the investigation of current political issues in the globalized world of market economy. With Liv Hanne Haugen, Erik Stifjell & guests

We are extremely proud to officially announce that Annelies Van Parys has the great honour to write a chamber opera for Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin) and Folkoperan (Stockholm): USHER. 

The opera will be departing from the unfinished opera "La chute de la maison Usher" of Debussy. Gaea Schoeters did a wonderful job on the libretto, the stage direction is in the hands of Philippe Quesne and... there is more good news:
USHER is on the shortlist for the Fedora Prize! 
There also is a public award. 
>>> Please vote HERE <<<

Woman takes centre stage in this concert: sometimes seductive and provocative, sometimes fighting for her place in society.
In 1897, the collection of erotic poetry entitled Chansons de Bilitis inspired Debussy to compose a cycle of songs for female voice and piano. Wim Henderickx has reinterpreted these songs for the Revue Blanche ensemble.
The refined sensuality of this music is complemented by Maurice Ravel’s explicit Chansons madécasses and pieces composed by Annelies Van Parys.

8, 9, 10 February - 20:00
11 February 2018 - 15:30

Ivo van Hove directs Ed Lyon and Marie Hamard in Leoš Janáček 's The Diary of One Who Disappeared. Annelies Van Parys composes an answer to this intriguing tale about detachment.

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, co-produced by Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Klarafestival, De Munt/La Monnaie, Kaaitheater, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Opera Days Rotterdam and Beijing Music Festival. 

Wiener Kammeroper is presenting Pelléas et Mélisande in an arrangement for small orchestra by Annelies Van Parys that nevertheless retains the richness of the original score.

until 4 March 2018

Matters of chance: Intentional artistic accidents and poetic re-reading of a technological society seen in the digital age are at the heart of the next central exhibition of the international Némo Biennial of digital art at Le CENTQUATRE: Les Faits du hasard. A way for Man to resume control over the machine?

The exhibition Les Faits du hasard includes a.o. installations by 
DAVID BOWEN and LAWRENCE MALSTAF

until 3 June 2018

The exhibition presents an overview of Kiki Smith's artistic practice over the past three decades. Early works from the 1980s emerged in the wake of explosive changes in political, social and cultural conditions marked by the AIDS crisis, a fervent discourse on sexuality and gender, and feminist activism. However, since the early 1990s, Smith has become increasingly interested in alternative narratives, exploring history, myths, legends and tales, religious belief and the traditions of nonwestern cultures. "Procession" embraces this multiplicity and maps its development into the present day.
The exhibition is curated by Petra Giloy-Hirtz and organized by Haus der Kunst.

Exhibition catalogue in German and English - Pages: 224 - Price: 49,95 € 

The exhibition Red Lead Index by Pieter Laurens Mol focuses on the artist’s exploration of the historic pigment red lead (minium, Pb3O4). In drawings, painted over photographs and installations, spanning a creative period of over 40 years, he examines the poetic dimension of this specific colour, which goes back to the early era of painting as shown in the miniatures of medieval illuminated manuscripts.

Event in Paris: Jacques Charlier's ‘100 sexes d’artistes’ will be unveiled for the first time to the audience of the city of light! 
Back from a long journey, this famous series will now be shown in Paris and the names of caricatured artists will be revealed...