Sweden for Beginners in France.
Me and Robert Willim will perform our live A/V piece Sweden for Beginners at this years Videoformes in Clermont Ferrand, France.
22.03>19.30 at Maison du Peuple.
Here is a short taste of SfB.
The audiovisual performance Sweden for Beginners is an imaginative journey, calling forth a surreal account of the country Sweden. The performance is based on live improvisation, through which audiovisual material from field recordings and archives are combined into electronically engendered phantasms. Sounds and images from Swedish everyday life, from objects and landscapes are entangled with twisted stereotypes like Bergmanesque gloom, erotica and nature romanticism.
The video by Anders Weberg is based on field recordings in various contexts in Sweden made solely with a mobile phone. During the performance, the material from the field recordings is transformed into a dreamlike, organically fragmented and layered visual expression.
The sound by Robert Willim is based on soundscapes from Swedish everyday life, sounds from The Folklife Archives in Lund, Sweden, as well as electronically generated sounds. The sounds are broken up, processed and remixed into multitextured compositions that to some extent are sonic counterparts to Weberg’s fragmented and organic imagery.
Sweden for Beginners is related to a number of other works by Weberg and Willim, like the still ongoing series of city-specific films Elsewhereness, or earlier works like Surreal Scania (2006), Being There (2006) and Domestic Safari (2007). All of these deal with ideas about imaginary geographies, and the non-representation. They can be seen as experiments in world making and the rendering of culture, evoking parallel worlds that are ephemerally connected to places that are alluded to in the works.
SfB will only be performed live.
The current set is around 40 minutes.
http://www.willim-weberg.com
28th Video Art & Digital Culture International Festival Of Clermont-Ferrand
Full program: http://fr.calameo.com/read/0000112770bc24eece7d5
Maison du Peuple
Place de la liberté
63000 Clermont-Ferrand
28e MANIFESTATION INTERNATIONALE D’ART VIDÉO & CULTURES NUMÉRIQUES DE CLERMONT-FERRAND
28th Video Art & Digital Culture International Festival Of Clermont-Ferrand
FESTIVAL : 20.03 > 23.03
EXPOSITION / EXHIBITIONS : 21.03 > 07.04
NUIT DES ARTS ÉLECTRONIQUES : 23.03
• PROJECTIONS / SCREENINGS : PRIX VIDEOFORMES 2013, FOCUS PROGRAM (AFRICA, CAGE SUITE, MADATAC,…)
• TABLES RONDES / ROUND TABLES
• PERFORMANCES : Jacques Perconte & Edie Ladoire, Anders Weberg & Robert Willim
• NUIT DES ARTS ELECTRONIQUES : Franck Vigroux & Philippe Fontes, Mat3R Dolorosa, Kangding Ray, Reworks (LIVE) + Wood
• EXPOSITIONS / EXHIBITIONS : Nicolas Clauss, Pierre Coulibeuf, Giuliana Cuneaz, Gabriel Mascaro, Philippe Fontès et Bruno Capelle, Triny Prada, David Blasco, Sébastien Camboulive, Véronique Mouysset, Nelly Girardeau, Pierrick Sorin, Bertrand Gadenne, Enrique Ramirez…