Tallieu Art Office

Shrink & Nemo Observatorium

FILE Festival
CCBB, Rio de Janeiro (BR)

Nemo Observatorium 02002 - Styrofoam particles are blown around in a big transparent PVC cylinder by 5 strong fans. Visitors can take place one by one on the armchair in the middle of the whirlpool or observe from the outside. On the chair, in the eye of the storm it is calm and safe.Spectacular at first sight, this installation turns out to mesmerise as a kind of meditation machine. One can follow the seemingly cyclic patterns, focus on the different layers of 3D pixels or listen to its waterfall sound. One could call it a training device, challenging the visitor to stay centred and find peace in a fast changing environment. After a while the space seems to expand and one's sense of time deludes.

Shrink 01995 - Two large, transparent plastic sheets and a device that gradually sucks the air out from between them leave the body vacuum-packed and vertically suspended. The transparent tube inserted between the two surfaces allows the person inside the installation to regulate the flow of air. As a result of the increasing pressure between the plastic sheets, the surface of the packed body gradually freezes into multiple micro-folds. For the duration of the performance the person inside moves slowly and changes positions, which vary from an almost embryonic position to one resembling a crucified body.

http://file.org.br

The Physical Mind

FILE Festival
CCBB, Rio de Janeiro (BR)

During a residency in Shanghai, Teun Vonk discovered by chance that it eased his stressed body and mind to apply physical pressure to his body. Contrary to what one may expect, the registration of sensory input does not improve in a heightened state of sensitivity, such as stress. Such a state serves the evolutionary purpose by filtering out irrelevant information, only focusing on the accurate response: fight or flight. When experiencing such a state, applying pressure to the body has a strong stress-relieving effect.

With The Physical Mind, Vonk seeks to let participants experience the relation between their physical and mental states by applying physical pressure to the body. The installation consists of two inflatable objects. The participant lays down in between, is lifted up and gently squeezed between the two inflatable objects. The lifting creates an unstable feeling, a slightly stressful sensation that is directly contrasted with a secure feeling of being gently squeezed between two soft objects. Paradoxically, this forced physical stimulus reduces feelings anxiety and paradoxically stress and the flight- or fight-response disappear. The participant experiences and increased sensitivity to stimuli, normalized alertness and a calm state of mind. The positive effects of this increased receptivity can continue for a few hours after the experience. The installation evokes empathy in bystanders who witness a participant undergo the experience.

http://file.org.br

Interview David Bowen

TRACKS/ARTE
Ars Electronica, Linz (AT)

For the occasion of his presentation of flyAI  at Ars Electronica, Linz (AT) in September 2017, David Bowen was interviewed by TRACKS/ARTE (Emission du 13.04.2018 - en français).

Watch here: https://vimeo.com/266277261

Mental Overdrive featured in 'The Wire'

The Wire
Global Ear - Murmansk

' ... Per Martinsen aka Mental Overdrive is a veteran of the Norwegian dance scene. “Without party we wouldn’t survive,” he declares. A festival highlight, his show is built on glitched, minimal, sparse beats and straightforward dance rhythms, which he breaks down with ambient glaciers. Adjusting the kind of music he makes according to season, he tends not to escape but to explore the theme of weather and polar areas. At an artist’s talk he remarks on the concert of local musician Jasnazima, whose sound seems to him “individual and site-specific”...' 

http://inversiafest.com

The Wire - April 2018 - Issue 410 - download PDF below for the full article.

FILE SOLO 2017. Lawrence Malstaf featured on Google Arts & Culture

FILE SOLO at CCBB
São Paulo (BR)

Check 'FILE SOLO. Lawrence Malstaf - The Poetics of Immersion' on Google Arts & Culture here: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/KwJCuqNdz06LLg

Mental Overdrive LIVE at Spectra Aberdeen's Festival of Light 2018

The Tunnels
Aberdeen, Scotland

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

Het Kanaal

Ostade A'dam & NTGent
Amsterdam - Gent

26 & 27 January 2018 
Ostade A'dam (NL)

6 & 7 February 2018 
NTGent (BE)

On a beach near Calais a young refugee prepares himself to swim across the Channel, towards his new future. On the English side, on the chalk cliffs of Beachy Head, a (transsexual) woman bids life goodbye; in a few instants she will jump to her death. 
The new text by author Gaea Schoeters is mirrored by recently recovered Shakespeare-text. 

Composer Annelies Van Parys uses the Shakespeare-text as a libretto for a cycle of songs, which set the refugee theme in a historical perspective. The soprano is also the intermediary between past and present, audience and play; via other spoken Shakespeare fragments she sets the story in a different perspective, turning the personal stories into a sharp reflection of society, both in the 16th century and today – because the similarities are, alas, striking. 

Text Gaea Schoeters Composition Annelies Van Parys Direction Gable Roelofsen & Romy Roelofsen / Het Geluid Maastricht 
Actors Katelijne Verbeke & Adams Mensah 
Vocalist Naomi Beeldens Lute/guitar Maarten Vandenbemden Scenography Anneleen De Causmaecker Co-produced by Perignem vzw

Muziektheater Transparant
Het Geluid Maastricht
Antwerp Queer Arts Festival

The Physical Mind

CTM Festival 2018
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (D)

During a residency in Shanghai, Teun Vonk discovered by chance that it eased his stressed body and mind to apply physical pressure to his body. Contrary to what one may expect, the registration of sensory input does not improve in a heightened state of sensitivity, such as stress. Such a state serves the evolutionary purpose by filtering out irrelevant information, only focusing on the accurate response: fight or flight. When experiencing such a state, applying pressure to the body has a strong stress-relieving effect.

With The Physical Mind, Vonk seeks to let participants experience the relation between their physical and mental states by applying physical pressure to the body. The installation consists of two inflatable objects. The participant lays down in between, is lifted up and gently squeezed between the two inflatable objects. The lifting creates an unstable feeling, a slightly stressful sensation that is directly contrasted with a secure feeling of being gently squeezed between two soft objects. Paradoxically, this forced physical stimulus reduces feelings anxiety and paradoxically stress and the flight- or fight-response disappear. The participant experiences and increased sensitivity to stimuli, normalized alertness and a calm state of mind. The positive effects of this increased receptivity can continue for a few hours after the experience. The installation evokes empathy in bystanders who witness a participant undergo the experience.

CTM 2018 Exhibition

USHER SHORTLISTED FOR FEDORA - PRIZE FOR OPERA 2018

Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin) and Folkoperan (Stockholm)
Berlin & Stockholm

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!
We are on the shortlist for the Fedora Prize! 
There also is a public award. 
You can vote HERE 

Shrink at FILE Belo Horizonte 2018

CCBB
Belo Horizonte (BR)

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
Shrink 01995 
FILE Festival Belo Horizonte 2018