The rise of internet streaming, internet radio, and podcasts means (audio) content is accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Does being present give an added value to the experience of a performance? What remains of a performance when it is captured and experienced as a recording?
Radio Calling goes live from TENT at 13.00, with TENT on Air. It kicks off with DJ Ben Penn (Red Light Radio) playing funk, jazz, and soul, then artist Floris Visser broadcasts his Radio Voicemail project, and performance artist Jasper Griepink gives a radio meditation session. For his performance, The Whale’s Ear, Timmy van Zoelen makes a live connection to the print room of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. This new performance is based on the etching ’De gestrande potvis bij Katwijk aan Zee’ (The Stranded Sperm Whale at Katwijk aan Zee) (1598) by Jacob Matham. Professor Philip Auslander (US, Georgia Institute of Technology) will give a keynote Lecture, via Skype, on the relationship between live performance and online digital space. TENT has invited the London artist duo Beech & Thomasson to Rotterdam to develop a performance, which will be premiered at Radio Calling. From TENT, we’ll go live to Camden Arts Centre in London for Camilla Wills and Jane Fawcett‘s performance. Artist Daan Samson reports live from the Alaçatı on the Turkish Riviera about his Corendon sponsored holiday. The selected artists from the Open Call – Toon Fibbe, Max Dovey, Cecilia Vallejos and Georg Bohle – realise the performances they have developed for Radio Calling.
The day concludes with a panel discussion led by TENT curator Jesse van Oosten, with the artists and Capucine Perrot, curator at Tate Modern and the Roodkapje art space provides snacks and drinks.
The first episode of Radio Calling (December 2013) explored Internet as a platform and medium for art in lectures and contributions by artist and radio producer Ernst Markus Stein, curator Huib Haye van der Werf, filmmaker Catherine van Campen, and philosopher Marc Schuilenburg, and radio performances by Koen Taselaar, Jay Tan, Jeremy Evans, Remco Torenbosch, Jonas Lund, and Sarah Tripp, amongst others. Radio Calling is a long-term partnership between TENT and Camden Arts Centre in London.
Programme
13:00 – 14:00 Live radio /lunch TENT on Air | DJ Ben Penn with Floris Visser & Jasper Griepink
14:00 – 15:00 Performance Open Call artist: Max Dovey
Skype lecture Philip Auslander (Georgia Institute for Technology)
15:00 – 15:30 Performance Timmy van Zoelen
Performance call Daan Samson & guest calling in from Turkey
15:30 – 16:00 Performance Open Call artists: Cecilia Vallejos, Georg Bohle, Toon Fibbe
16:30 – 17:30 Performance Lucy Beech & Edward Thomasson | TENT to CAC
Performance Camilla Wills & Jane Fawcett| CAC to TENT
17:30 – 18:15 Panel conversation Capucine Perrot, Timmy van Zoelen, Beech & Thomasson
18:15 End of Program Drinks and records by DJ Ben Penn
About the participants:
Philip Auslander (US)
Philip Auslander is Professor of Performance Studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He is author of the book Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture (2008), in which he discusses the changing experience of live performances of art, music, and dance, through the emergence of new technologies. He is also an art critic for ArtForum, amongst others.
Capucine Perrot (FR/UK)
Capucine Perrot is Assistant Curator for the Performance Programme at Tate Modern since 2010. Her recent projects include ’Performance Room’, a series of live performances conceived for online audiences, for which she has curated newly commissioned works by Meiro Koizumi, Nicoline van Harskamp, Ragnar Kjartansson and Cally Spooner. She was part of the curatorial team that organised the inaugural programme of The Tanks, Tate Modern’s new spaces dedicated to performance (July – October 2012). Her independent curatorial projects include I Proclaim, You Proclaim, We Proclaim at Stroom Den Haag, The Hague (3-4 November 2012).
Lucy Beech and Edward Thomasson (UK)
Since 2007, the duo Beech & Thomasson have worked together on performances in which movements of groups of people are developed into choreography. The movements function as soundtracks to the performances. The work of Beech & Thomasson was seen in Camden Arts Centre, London earlier this year and has been screened at the Biënnale de Belleville in Paris, Kepi Kredi Culture Centre in Istanbul, and Frieze Projects, London.
Camilla Wills & Jane Fawcett (UK)
Camilla Wills lives in London. Using video and print technologies, interior situations are projected onto dominant, gendered landscapes creating images of estrangement, and of proximity. Recently she has exhibited in Mexico City, Copenhagen, Missouri, Oslo, and London. She works as part of the editorial team at Book Works, London. Jane Fawcett lives in London. Her work investigates the reading process and presents her encounters with listening, reading and speaking as positions of displacement. She recently exhibited ‘Freighted cirriculum and my family and landscape’ at Legion TV, and has exhibited internationally, including in London, Rotterdam, Cologne, and Geneva.
Timmy van Zoelen (NL)
Timmy van Zoelen lives and works in Rotterdam. He attended De Ateliers in Amsterdam from 2011 to 2013, where he studied the relationship between image and sound through video, photography and sculpture. He recently exhibited at Galerie Fons Welters and De Appel in Amsterdam. In September, he begins a residency in New Orleans, where he will be working on a film.
Daan Samson (NL)
Daan Samson is an artist addressing affluence, and whose work deals with new media, social taboos, and pain points. His work consists of performances in which he is looking for alternative forms to the traditional art exhibition. Samson exhibits throughout the Netherlands.
About the Open Call participants:
Toon Fibbe (NL)
In his work, Toon Fibbe researches the financial and political systems of the current cultural landscape from the perspective of the spy, as a trader of secrets, one that encodes and decodes, and whose identity always remains unclear. Toon Fibbe is currently studying at the Jan van Eyck Academy, and previously studied at the Rietveld Academy and the Piet Zwart Institute.
Cecilia Vallejos (AR/EN)
Cecilia Vallejos is a theatre maker and an artist whose work explores how art practices can work and change in a social context. Her projects and performances have been realised in Spain, Germany, and Argentina.
Max Dovey (UK/NL)
London artist Max Dovey is currently studying at the Piet Zwart Institute. In his work, he combines performance, theatre, and new media, and examines the impact of technology on public space. His Works have been screened at the Venice Biennale and in Berlin, London, and Madrid.
Georg Bohle (NL)
Georg Bohle graduated from the Design Academy in Eindhoven in 2007. From 2007 to 2010, he worked for the design studio Makkink & Bey, where he worked on projects in the public domain, furniture design, and interior design. In his work he draws meticulous and detailed urban-like landscapes. Bohle is represented by Galerie Frank Taal.
With thanks to: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen