november 27th, 2010 | Per
Introduction
November 21, 2010. 07:17:53
“All this does not displease me, so continue,” said Don Quixote. “You arrived; now, what was the queen of beauty doing? Surely you found her stringing pearls or embroidering some device with golden threads for this her captive knight.”
“No, that I did not,” answered Sancho; “she was winnowing two bushels of wheat in a backyard of her house.”
If there were a patron saint for projectionists their talisman would bear an image of a charitable figure bent under the weight of equipment en route to another engagement. Unlike camera or film based work my performances cannot be archived or distributed by intermediaries and require my presence for enactment. My object of attention resists documentation and cannot exist until convened before a bio-synod. Gratefully I was invited and sponsored by PNEK to visit three Norwegian cites: Trondheim (November 6, 2010: TEKS and the Meta.morf Biennial), Bergen (November 9, 2010: Lydgalleriet) and Oslo (November 14, 2010 Atelier Nord, Norsk Filminstitutt and The Dream That Kicks) where my work was supported and given temporary lodging.
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november 21st, 2010 | Per
Bruce McClure with the altitude of an idea goes underground in Trondheim
(rapport av Jean Matthee, teoriprofessor ved Kunstakademiet i Trondheim)
On a cold snowing Trondheim night in a cavernous space, Verkstedhallen, on the 6th of November 2010 at the end of a brilliant month long constellation of live concerts and performative events Bruce McClure with the altitude of an idea embodied in a shift of position – from camera to projector, a shift from power to the side of the people – reformulates the world! At the end of this exhilarating month long Meta.Morf Biennial for Art and Technology, book-ended between two extraordinary conferences: New Brave World and Making Reality Really Real – Consciousness Reframed. A biennial curated by Espen Gangvik from TEKS with at least 60 international collaborators drawn from some 20 nations…
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november 17th, 2010 | ida
Piksel10 (Un)stable, The 8th annual Piksel festival for Electronic Art and Technological Freedom Bergen, Norway. The festival subtitle (Un)stable, points to the temporarily placed and unsteady constructions – mobile spaces, code in constant development, a globally charged political climate. The festival is divided into a day program consisting of presentations and hands-on workshops, an evening program of live art performances, and several exhibitions – all on the topic of free technology and art.
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Lør 6.nov: Bruce McClure + Greg Pope i Verkstedhallen, Trondheim
Tirs 9.nov: Bruce McClure + Greg Pope på Landmark, Bergen
Søn 14.nov: Bruce McClure solo på Cinemateket, Oslo
Vi er stolte av å kunne presentere tre unike live performances med film/celluloid som utgangspunkt. New York-kunstneren Bruce McClure er i Norge for første gang, men har i flere år spilt i kinoer, festivaler og museer i USA og Europa. Han lager ikke film, han framfører dem, ved hjelp av flere modifiserte 16mm-fremvisere, filmlooper og gitarpedaler. Resultatet er en forestilling som utfordrer sanseapparatet vårt, fordi den beveger seg på grensen av hva den menneskelige hjerne klarer (og ikke klarer!) å oppfatte av lyd og bilde.
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