ResidenceSEA - Sensing your Environment through Art is an artist residency located in the bay of Heraklion. ResidenceSEA aims to bring international artists to Heraklion, so they can work with the local community and be inspired by the surrounding Cretan culture. During their stay artists dive into a creative and collaborative process with the community and the environment. ResidenceSEA supports the creation and presentation of critical dialogues forming the dynamic and evolving heritage of contemporary art. We collaborate with FORTH, the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Hackerspace To LABaki, Texnopolis Park, CineStudio Live, LK architects and ARTHOUSE Heraklion.
Exploration is a solo exhibition of Antje Larsen’s photography.
This Friday ResidenceSEA presents ‘Exploration’, a photography exhibition, about the interplay between lights and the dynamics of the sea. It is a solo-exhibition of the photography work of Antje Larsen, site-specific, combining photographs, poems and sounds, using the architecture and the space of ResidenceSEA, in collaboration with sound artists Rifa from Austria and Markos Mastorakis from Crete.
Born out of quark, we make the sound stuffs. Frau Seidel is drumming and the tupperware and Herr Schäfer is der Warst with the telephone. we make since 2014. Is best! We can all!
Stephanie Felber a performance artist working with choreography, dance, and photo-videography.and Ludger Lamers dancer and choreographer will collaborate on the research of what is performativity in our everyday lifeand interact with the local community in Heraklion. The performativity in daily life and in particular in the central zones of the city, attracts Stephanie curiosity since almost a decade. Especially conscious and unconscious productions of postures and gestures that have communicative functions in social and political contexts and also appear as a personal signature are part of a specific interest. Continue reading Welcome Stephanie Felber→
Sea Expression it’s a work by Anastasiya Kopteva in collaboration with Shane Meadows, realised during their ResidenceSEA in Greece.
Sea Expression explores the differences in how the human brain experiences environments through expressive movement. Brain activity and video was recorded while conducting structured dance improvisation. Recordings were conducted over the course of one day to allow for comparative neurophysiological analysis by limiting factors that can cause additional differences in recording such as weather, humidity, and temperature.
Last year polish artist Dorota Walentynowicz was working at the ResidenceSEA building props for her short film “Unveiling a Parallel”. Following her line of work with camera-objects, she constructed a mobile “Marsochod” – a travesty of a space vehicle, which is exploring and scanning the surface of a foreign planet.
On Sunday, August 6 at 9 PM the film will be screened at the open-air theatre Pyli Vithlem in Heraklio.
(Ανοιχτό Θέατρο ‘Πύλη Βηθλεέμ’ Ηράκλειο)
Once upon a time Mars was that other place, where the future was projected. Now we know that there is no other place.
synopsis:
Drawing from history of optics, mass-media, literature, chemistry and astrobiology, Dorota Walentynowicz creates an interdisciplinary narration about how development of imagination is conditioned by the development of technology. The main scenario of the movie is based on Victorian feminist dystopian novel “Unveiling a Parallel” by Ella Merchant and Alice Ilgenfritz Jones (1893), presenting Mars as idealised parallel better world, governed by a just social order, equality of sexes, respect for nature and ideal system of values. The film also employs a para-documentary material about the mineral structure of the “red planet”, laboratory sampling, spectrum analysis, and experiments in abiogenesis – here the visual material is accompanied by a song about environmental catastrophe, which ends the film in a manner of a music video, questioning humanity’s infinite faith in science and progress.
“ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΗ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΡΑΛΛΗΛΟΥ” (2016)
Τον παλιό καιρό, ο Άρης ήταν ένα άλλο μέρος, όπου εκεί προβαλλόταν το μέλλον. Τώρα ξέρουμε ότι άλλο μέρος δεν υπάρχει.
σύνοψη:
Με έμπνευση από την ιστορία της οπτικής, τα ΜΜΕ, τη χημεία και την αστροβιολογία, η Ντορότα Βαλεντίνοβιτς δημιουργεί μια διεπιστημονική αφήγηση για το πώς η ανάπτυξη της φαντασίας ορίζεται από την ανάπτυξη της τεχνολογίας.
Το βασικό στόρι της ταινίας στηρίζεται στο βικτωριανό δυστοπικό μυθιστόρημα “Unveiling a Parallel” των Ella Merchant και Alice Ilgenfritz Jones (1893), όπου ο Άρης παρουσιάζεται ως ένας εξιδανικευμένος παράλληλος καλύτερος κόσμος, με ένα δίκαιο κοινωνικό καθεστώς, ισότητα των φύλων, σεβασμό στη φύση και ένα ιδανικό σύστημα αξιών. Η ταινία παρέχει επίσης υλικό αντι-ντοκιμαντέρ για την ορυκτή δομή του Κόκκινου Πλανήτη, εργαστηριακά δείγματα, ανάλυση φάσματος και πειράματα στην αβιογένεση – εδώ το οπτικό υλικό συνοδεύεται από ένα τραγούδι για την περιβαλλοντική καταστροφή, κλείνοντας την ταινία σε μορφή βιντεοκλίπ, αμφισβητώντας την απύθμενη πίστη της ανθρωπότητας στην επιστήμη και την πρόοδο.
Director : Dorota WalentynowiczDirector of Photography : Vasilis FlourisEditing : Vasilis Flouris, Dorota WalentynowiczColoring : Vasilis FlourisCamera operators : Anna Domańska, Vasilis FlourisMusic : Thomas Woerle
cast:Master - Antonis PerantonakisElodia - Eleni StratakiSeverinus - Ian AbtzigiannesClytia - Maria FourakiAriadne - Anna DoxastakiNarrator - Konstantinos ChliavorasAssistant Director - Maria PapadakiActing coach - Konstantina PalliProducers - Fani Anagnostou, Martha LyroniAssistant Producers - Myrto Alexaki, Maria PapadakiGaffer - Yiannis MathioudakisHair & Makeup - Myrto AlexakiScript – Anastasia PalisidouSound Supervisor- Tomas SchenkBoom - Marietta GrammatikakiProps: Dorota WalentynowiczCostumes : Terril Scott, Dorota WalentynowiczOriginal Music : Thomas Woerle“Environmental catastrophe”lyrics: Dorota Walentynowiczmusic : Angelika Reichertperformed by : Angelika Reichert and xxx“Cassini Radio Emissions”NASA sound libraryCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 remixed by : Dorota Walentynowicz
Scientific supportdr Claire Cousins (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St. Andrews, UK)dr Giannis Grammatikakis (Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Greece)prof Iossif Papadakis (Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece)dr hab Włodzimierz Zgoda (Department of Chemistry, Gdańsk Medical University, Poland)dr hab Katarzyna Lemańska (Department of Technology and Instumental Analysis, Poznań Economic University, Poland)astral imagery : curtesy of Skinakas Observatory Crete and the Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greeceshot on location:Exo Mars testing site, Namafjall, Krafla, IcelandPsiloritis (Mount Ida), Crete, GreeceFunded and Supported byCity of Gdansk Culture Scholarship Cultural Scholarship of Pomerania VoivodshipEurope Direct Crete Laznia Center for Contemporary Art Gdansk EEA Grant Iceland-Liechtenstein-Norway Special thanks to:
The Social Centre of Kalokairinos' Foundation, Heraklion GRDiaRtiriteo, Heraklion GR Municipality of Anogia GR LaCulturelá Crete GRResidenceSEA Heraklion GRSoundplay Residency Seidisfjordur IS
sponsored by:Enagron Ecotourism Studio Anna Ellie Pharmacy Freshsnack Catering
This month ResidenceSEA hosts Anastasiya Kopteva, a Houston-based dancer, choreographer, and researcher and Shane Meadows, industrial designer and visual artist.
At ResidenceSEA, Anastasiya and Shane will explore choreography and brain response by creating an installation piece using movement, video, and electroencephalography (EEG).
Anastasiya Kopteva studied dance at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Houston, and Joffrey Ballet School in New York City. She has recently performed in Hannibal Buress’ national tour at the House of Blues, Katja Loher’s exhibition at the Anya Tish Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Suchu dance company, and at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. She choreographed and performed in a full-length musical with Opera Leggera. Kopteva has worked as a Neuroaesthetics Researcher at the Non-Invasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems Laboratory at the University of Houston and at Methodist Research Institute studying how art creation and perception are manifested within the brain. She investigates the interaction between art and the audience through the use of non-invasive mobile brain-body imaging (MoBI) technologies.
Shane Meadows is an industrial designer with a degree from the University of Houston. Born in Alaska and son of a fighter pilot, he transplanted to Houston after growing up in San Antonio. He has studied in four countries and designs with a global perspective. Shane enjoys technology and the bleeding edge of innovation while still having a firm grasp on craftsmanship and aesthetic sensibilities. When not designing he can be found repairing machines of all varieties and exploring the world.
Two Netherlands-based artists — Lieneke Pisters, a music theatre performer and Hee-Seung Choi, a visual artist and composer — will share their time at ResidenceSEA, reflecting on different aspects of existential experience in modern society: “energy” and “public image.” With their different artistic backgrounds, they intend to use ResidenceSEA as a platform for artistic exchange by engaging in discussions and assisting one another. They will look for inspiration in the new rhythms, new sounds, and old tales of Crete that are rooted in the origins of European culture.
In her latest work about “energy,” Lieneke researched the experience of burnout, a state of emotional, mental and physical exhaustion. It’s a phenomenon that is frequently encountered by young urban people. Here on the island she would like to add another dimension to the project, while exploring the possibility of integrating the Greek chorus that is part of ancient Greek theatre. She will use sound, including her own voice, as the main medium.
Lieneke Pisters completed her master’s course in Modern Music Theatre (T.I.M.E.) at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, graduating in 2014. Being both a performer and fitness trainer, she has a fascination for issues concerning wellness and health. Since last year, she has been developing a musictheatre performance under the working title of Energy, its most recent developments have been showcased in different cities in the Netherlands. As the project continues to grow, she formed a band together with drummer Maximilian Hilpert. Starting from last winter, Lieneke has also been training with a vocal coach Roderik Povel as part of expanding her artistic expression.
Hee-Seung is interested in the concept of “public image” that has become more relevant in the age of social media: it is defined by the public and largely focuses on popularity and fame. In approaching the subject, Gertrude Stein’s novel Ida will be used as a starting point. In the novel, the protagonist Ida is depicted as someone who constantly rests, responds to the desires of others and becomes famous for being famous. Combined with her personification of Mount Ida, a famous landmark of Crete, she plans to create her own version of “Ida” using text, video and physical movement.
Hee-Seung Choi (1976) is a Korean-American artist based in Amsterdam. Her initial background is in music. Before relocating to the Netherlands, she was mainly a composer and instrumentalist. She draws her inspiration from familiar signs, routines and arrangements found in everyday life; and works in a combination of media, including video, performance, sound and installation. Text has always been an integral part of her work as her artistic conversation is closely intertwined with literary discourse.
The developments made during the residency will be presented as a performance at the end of their stay in Crete at ResidenceSEA.
Pictures of Mount IDA, Psiloritis and Zeus ‘s cave.
Embodying Landscape explores the possibilities of impromptu dance as a tool to analyse local realities and social spheres. See photos of Embodying Landscape project developed by VAGA during their ResidenceSEA here.
On Friday evening, the 2nd of June, ResidenceSEA presents Embodying Landscape, a video installation and performance by VAGA Body & Multimedia Experimental Group made-up of a transdisciplinary artist Kuo Ying Hsiu, from Taiwan, and a dancer/ choreographer Yang Liu, from China.
楊柳 Yang Liu (Chinese), born in 1991, choreographer, body explorer, who graduated from Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, MFA in dance. Recently she is exploring body sense and present exploration, seeking the personality in body and sensational instinct.
郭盈秀 Kuo Ying Hsiu (Taiwanese), born in 1985, transdisciplinary artist. She’s been focused on social issues and the relation between field and identity, researching social interaction and symbolic interaction both interpersonal and between people and field. Through observations and social experiments during the last few years, she created different works in the various field.
Greek version ——
Την Παρασκευή 2 Ιουνίου το ResidenceSEA φιλοξενεί την VAGA Body & Multimedia πειραματική ομάδα, η οποία δημιουργήθηκε από την transdisciplinary καλλιτέχνιδα Kuo Ying Hsiu, από την Ταϊβάν, και την χορογράφο Yang Liu από την Κίνα.
Η ομάδα VAGA θα παρουσιάσει το ερευνητικό project EMBODY LANDSCAPE το οποίο αποτελείται από παρουσίαση video και σκηνική ερμηνεία.
Το project EMBODY LANDSCAPE μελετά τις δυνατότητες του αυτοσχέδιου χορού ως μέσο ανάλυσης ενός τόπου, της πραγματικότητάς του και των κοινωνικών σφαιρών που περιστρέφονται γύρω από αυτόν.
Βιογραφικό σημείωμα των καλλιτέχνιδων: Η χορογράφος και body explorer Yang Liu γεννήθηκε το 1991 στην Κίνα και αποφοίτησε από την Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, MFA in dance. Πρόσφατα, ερευνά την αίσθηση του σώματος αναζητώντας την προσωπικότητα στο σώμα και το αισθησιακό ένστικτο.
H transdisciplinary καλλιτέχνιδα Kuo Ying Hsiu γεννήθηκε στην Ταϊβάν το 1985. Το ενδιαφέρον της εστιάζεται σε κοινωνικά ζητήματα και στη σχέση μεταξύ του τόπου και της ταυτότητας, ερευνώντας την κοινωνική και συμβολική επίδραση του τόπου τόσο σε προσωπικό επίπεδο όσο και μεταξύ ανθρώπων. Τα τελευταία χρόνια, μέσω παρατηρήσεων και κοινωνικά πειράματα δημιούργησε διάφορα έργα σε διάφορα πεδία.
VAGA body & multimediaexperimental is a collaboration of a transdisciplinary artist Kuo Ying Hsiu, from Taiwan, and a choreographer Yang Liu, from China.
At ResidenceSEA VAGA will work on the theme “Embodying Places”. This project is a nomadic platform of artistic research exploring the possibilities of body as a tool to analyse local realities and social spheres.
During this 3 weeks in Crete VAGA will be focusing on the following questions: How to define “Environmental Impromptu Dance”? What is the possibility of the impromptu dance in the field, and interaction with local people? What is the relationship between body and field, and what is the influence in the place? What kind of social experiments can be done with “Environmental Impromptu Dance”? How can videos capture the body and social interaction in the place? Does the “place in the moment” really exist ? What kind of place can a theater represent? What is the meaning of “present” and “represent” to the place and to the artist?
楊柳 Yang Liu (Chinese), born in 1991, choreographer, body explorer, who graduated from Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, MFA in dance. Recently she is exploring body sense and present exploration, seeking the personality in body and sensational instinct.
郭盈秀 Kuo Ying Hsiu (Taiwanese), born in 1985, transdisciplinary artist. She’s been focused on social issues and the relation between field and identity, researching social interaction and symbolic interaction both interpersonal and between people and field. Through observations and social experiments during the last few years, she created different works in the various field.
Capsule Archetyp is a multi media installation realised by Sadie Weis during her ResidenceSEA in Heraklion. She did research about the local community and the surrounding, collecting stories and materials, crystallizing them in a site-specific work.
Sadie Weis talk about her experience at ResidenceSEA: “During my period of time at Residencsea, I created a documentary archeological project of Cretan cultural identity by chronicling contemporary social and habitually human behaviors and by immersing myself in the lattice work of the island and it’s inhabitants. It was important for me to go beyond the border of easy space and make efforts to explore and learn the stories of individuals, from the supermarket to the sea. One can explore the forth most areas, but it was important for me to make efforts to get lost, so to speak, and to talk to local strangers and absorb their stories and their perspectives. In this case, I made a point to walk around every corner of city and village I could manage. I would often also go to the bus station, to listen to the destination of travellers, local and beyond, or asking a stranger where to go, and then simply grabbing a ticket to see where I would end up, and to listen and learn. My project was able to flourish spontaneously in this way, and I gathered stories, emotions- both political and passionate, artefacts, pictures, text, video, dreams. I collected these elements as treasures and transformed them, some by an actual scientific crystallization process, many as they were discovered naturally, and incorporated them into a multi-media installation as well as a cultural time capsule of demographic culture and a further journey to the understanding of identity.”
For more info about Sadie’s work visit her website at http://www.sadieweis.com/
Thanks Sadie Weis and Antje Larsen for the photography
Sadie Weis arrived at ResidenceSEA last night from Berlin! She will stay here for 3 weeks to create a cultural time capsule of the Cretan culture.
She said: ‘As the project develops and matures, as human behavioural elements are crystallised in time and space, I realise that keen awareness of the presence is an important tool to penetrate the future.’
Sadie will collect and excavate cultural artefacts of the local and surrounding environment, such as articles and remnants of human traces and other living elements of Crete. These elements will by documented, recorded, and then preserved through a scientific crystallisation process and presented into an multi-media installation.
Sadie Weis is a multi-media artist from Kansas, United States based in Berlin. Her work reflects on the concepts of the occult, magic and science fiction using video, printmaking, sculptures and installations.
For more info about Sadie’s work visit her website at http://www.sadieweis.com/
Celebration of the Deep is a project by Jorgen Teller realised during his 2 weeks at ResidenceSEA in April 2017.
Jørgen Teller was daily working on texts under the title ”Celebration of The Deep”. Shooting videos and manipulating them in a special RGB MAX/JITTER patch. Recording the sea-waves from different locations inside the house. Rehearsing and tuning a Höfner shorty electric guitar in search for a strong open tuning. Preparing pulsation-synth to accompany the wave-recording and finalising a series of beats w. efx for his presentation.
J. Teller also performed at Blow Up Bar/Heraklion for a good house of listeners. He prepared colour painting posters with ”DEEP IS THE BEEP” / ”BEEP IS THE DEEP” to put side by side of the 45 minute slow motion video screened during his Celebration of The Deep.
As a side project he started writing app. 45 pages w 4×4 liners of free prose inspired by visits to Heraklion and South of Crete: Matala, Petrokafali, Sivas and Agis Pavlos. Filming videos everywhere and recording underwater sounds at ResidenceSEA. Producing abstract colour paintings a couple of nights. Visiting sound artist and colleague Marinos Koutsomichalis in Heraklion.
J. Teller’s review: “The ResidenceSEA house is a mad and stimulating place to live in. The sea can be heard 24/24 so it enters your deep sleep with strong low frequencies and noise from the waves.
I have had a serie of incredibly confronting dreams here. The funny old menues on the wall of the bar was also very inspiring.
The neighbourhood is both nice and deranging lonely. I had shifting family-members with me which helped my focus and kept me flexible.
The large kitchen worked well for experiment with local vegetables, baby squids, rice etc.
The largest spacey room served me well as a place for thoughts, interaction for different projects etc.
Best wishes for all artists and people passing through this unique site.
This month ResidenceSEA hosts the electronic musician Jørgen Teller from Denmark. He will perform his new solo project: STATIC TELLER at Blow Up in Heraklion city center the 13th of April at 9pm (21:00).
Jørgen Teller has a long career as an electric guitarist, vocal and electronic musicianand he released many records solo and with Jørgen Teller & The Empty Stairs. He co-labed with players like Rhys Chatham, Fast Forward, David (Pere Ubu) Thomas & foreigners, Coal Hook (with Ron Schneiderman, Sunburned), Lazara Rosell Albear, Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva.
Thalassoporos ou pelos poros do mar is a project by Rafa Carvalho
The Brazilian poet, performer and musician Rafa Carvalho was inspired by the sea and created a performance of two hours with action poetry in Greek, English and Portuguese languages. All the visitors participated actively in his play and had a magic and poetic night with the artist. Now Rafa is touring his work along the Mediterranean sea between Greece and Italy.Continue reading Thalassoporos ou pelos poros do mar→
Today the Brazilian poet Rafa Carvalho arrived at residenceSEA! He comes to work with us and to improve performing techniques and poetry inspired by the SEA sensations.
You are welcome to meet him at the residenceSEA during the next 3 weeks, he is open to collaborate with local artists and the community of Heraklion.
Rafa wrote a book of poems called “auto-mar” and created a musical project named “nau frágil”, and travel with them. Having the rhythm as a base for songs, poems, dances and storytelling, Rafa wants to conceive a new presentation at residenceSEA interacting with multimedia resources, new partners, SEA facilities and Heraklion community. Rafa Carvalho works with Poetry in a constant dialogue with all kinds of artistic languages, such as video , photos, music and performative arts. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil, at 1985 and has very strong roots in Bahia, influenced by Indigenous, African and Mediterranean ancestors. The sea is a central theme of his work. Rafa has lived and travelled around the world, through about 20 countries, 4 continents, either being a poet, a teacher, a hitch-hiker, part of a circus crew, a monk. And so the list goes 😉 He is definitely an interesting poet to meet at residenceSEA.
On Saturday, the 18th of February 2017 ResidenceSEA presented Myth of Europe, next chapter – by Łukasz Krupski in collaboration with the group Spin the wheel.
Łukasz Krupski is a sculptor from Poland. His work explores the interconnection between Greek mythology and contemporary culture.
Spin the wheel is a group of creative cyclists who collaborated with us to create this event to raise money for African schools.
Łukasz Maria Krupski arrived today at ResidenceSEA. He is a young sculptor from Poland and he will research ancient Greek sculpture and the connection with contemporary hyperspace. Łukasz got his Master of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and studied philosophy and psychology at Warsaw University.
Lukasz’s statement: “I like to emphasize the dependence of contemporary men on technology, computers and the Internet – and ask following question: Can we live without it? Do people from ancient times, the authors of myths, still have something important to tell us? Is tradition still necessary for the contemporary culture, in the times of postmodernism? These are the issues that I want to touch upon with my sculpture. I want to intensify, in creative way, a reflection on the relation between our modern culture and the cultures that were standing in the beginning of civilizations.”
“Being in the midst of a creative fervour, struggling with profound questions, often eternal as a history itself with giants whose images I process anew to meet them and somehow face them – it is worth to pause, look back and ask myself “why?” The decisions that I have made in almost immemorial times of childhood have impact on my life, over the years are fulfilled with new meanings, new contexts. Therefore, I ask myself the following question: “what is my sculpting?” It is connected largely with contradictions, the expression of tragism, which is a part of human condition. A sculpture is, for me, an attempt of my own spiritual condition, is an attempt to understand my place in culture, in time. It is an attempt to answer the question ‘what is this “human condition”? Struggling with the material world, shaping the masses is a fascinating try to catch the spiritual reality in a material space. It is absolutely amazing, almost unreachable, because how to include L O G O S in the clods of clay?! A sculpture is, therefore, a tragical try, a try of Sisyphus, to connect something that is not to be connected. My goal is not to connect the worlds of the matter and the spirit in a complete way – Sacrum and Profanum, my goal is to follow after this impossible connection, to struggle. And after this effort, there come my choices of topics. Stories included in the literary works, great myths of humanity, legends are the pretexts for reflection, for questions most contemporary – “who am I?”, “What is culture?”, “What was culture and what it becomes?”. Therefore, when I, for example, interpret The Greek Myth of Europe, I ask myself: What is the culture that I grew in? And, what goes with it, where does it head for? I would like to ask these questions to people who have gone, but who remain in some other form. These people whose genius, heroism and sacrifice turned out to be more permanent then themselves. All these masses that I shape, which reflect my thoughts and perceptions of the reality, have a goal to record these ephemeral experiences, materialises them and share them with others. And it is the time for me to open myself to other cultures and to exchange these ephemeral experiences.”
Today arrive at ResidenceSEA LOSE COMBO a performance company based in Berlin, founded by the German artist Jörg Laue. Since 1994 Lose Combo developed several hybrid long-time project series – manly on the issues of “myth/history”, “ghost-stories of media” and “labyrinths of time”.
Jörg Laue will stay at ResidenceSEA for tree weeks and collaborate with the visual artist Esther Ernst creating a new project series on “performance and cartography”. The leading question of this series is: what may be a map as a performance? Or the other way around: in which ways it may be possible to devise a performance piece as a map?
Jörg Laue is working on the borderlines of theatre performance, visual arts and contemporary music. See for example the performances: Time Zones, Hydras Trace, or the installation in the photo below called BRAUN light.
The artists said:“One part of the project should deal with the Myth of Europe that is sadly and alarmingly up to date these days again (the whole complex of violence, escape, rape and abuse, of seduction, foreignness and vain hopes…). Therefore I’d like very much to do research at one of the places of the myth’s origins and to do literally mappings of Europe’s “first goal” and the so-called European values.The process of research/mapping I consider as the beginning of a performance piece itself, just as the Myth of Europe keeps a process.”
Jörg Laue, born 1964 in Gudensberg (Germany), lives in Berlin. From 1988–93 he studied Applied Theatre Studies at University of Giessen; in 1994 he founded LOSE COMBO, through which he is realizing live-art-projects on the borderlines of stage-performance, visual arts and contemporary music. He also is creating sound-, light- and video-installations and writings, lectures, been recipient of several residencies and scholarships and is teaching at Universities and Art Schools in Germany and Switzerland.
Esther Ernst , born in 1977 in Bale, lives in Berlin and Switzerland. She studied Fine Arts and Stage Design at Art Schools in Zurich, Bale, Hamburg and at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She is working in media of drawing and is realizing long-term collection projects. She did a large amount of solo and group shows at home and abroad, is presented in various art collections and has received several international awards and scholarships.
Rocamadour (Fleur Khani) and Berten Vermander share the residenceSEA this August 2016. They present their work parallel to each other and invite you to come join them for an evening of music, installation and conversation.
ResidenceSEA presents Belgian actress and musician Fleur Khani with her new pop project Rocamadour. About a year ago Khani decided to start putting her texts into electronic music. The result is a series of upbeat, kinda hard and brutally honest songs about psychiatry, boys, friends and also her mother. In ResidenceSea she’s working on new material.
Berten Vermander presents Poseidon’s Pride, an organically grown trash core beach castle. In ResidenceSea he started collecting every non organic element left on the beach and in the bushes in the area: objects, straws, cups, bags, trash, bottles, cigaret butts… With the installation Poseidon’s Pride he wants to honor nature and sealife and questions the effects of plastic pollution on the ecosystem and on our own health. The act of collecting trash daily becomes a performance in itself, a way of interacting with the surroundings and the people. Berten’s daily practice of collecting waste is a statement about our common responsability in working towards a solution for the global trash problem.
This month at ResidenceSEA we host the Belgian artist Fleur Khani.
Fleur Khani is a meta artist working with performance, voice, music theatre and scenography. Her last CD Doctor is the first single of Khani’s forthcoming EP (march 2017). She writes and produces deep pop, bringing female fierceness back into the European mainstream. Her work called “Space Agency” it’s a time machine on stage where present, future and past get mixed up in a dream world of multiple dimensions. She work and lives in Brussels.
Space Agency it’s a research for a choir in space.
Heroshima Sign6 it’s a work inspired by the history of radioactive bodies, of bodies that do not hold themselves, of infections that are not curable.
This month we welcomePatrícia J. Reis to ResidenceSEA. Patricia is an artist from Lisbon, Portugal who currently lives in Vienna, Austria. In her work she pursues new ways of interaction and sensorial engagement with the public in the interdisciplinary field of art and technology. During her stay at ResidenceSEA, she will work on the project entitled Medusa Vs Odalisque in collaboration with the Polish artist Dorota Walentynowicz.
Patricia J. Reis
Medusa Vs Odalisque is a participatory installation inspired by the battle between Medusa and the Odalisque described in the fictional novel Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace.
In a first stage of the installation the participant is invited to enter a close dark space where two pedestals offer the holographic representation of two fiction characters dancing with the back to the viewer. In a second room a delayed projection of the participant previous interaction is beamed on a wall. The video projection acts as a mirror reflecting his or hers performative act of visual pleasure, a self-recognition of his or hers role as a voyeur. Following on Wallace novel, the audience is submitted to a sort of punishment perpetuating the Medusa myth. The spectator is sensorial affected through visuality, metaphorically is ultimately disembodied by their own perception of the scene.
During the residence period the artists will start an open call followed by a casting in order to select the two candidates for performing the fictional character role displayed in the video holographic image.
Open call: casting! casting! casting!
We are looking for 2 actors with no preference in gender. The actors will be asked to perform a dancing movement with their back to the camera. The recorded image will be presented as a holographic video. The technology used is inspired in the phantasmagoria technology of the 19th century.
Requirements: (Dancing experience preferred. Actors need to be in good control of their bodies).
As an artist and researcher she is interested in the intimate cultural and political relations between the subject of vision and the body of representation, in photography, video and interactive media. She is looking for a different type of visuality, with a haptic approach. She uses interactive technology to stimulate other corporeal perceptions. Furthermore, she takes a feminist approach in her work focusing on the female roles in digital media and on the lack of female participation in producing new technologies and art. Patricia is a member of Mz* Baltazar’s Lab, a feminist hackerspace in Vienna, Austria.
Patricia Reis has exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2013 she was awarded the Media Art prize from the Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst in Germany and in 2011 she received a grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology in Portugal. Click on the links to know more about her research.
In 2011 Patricia graduated with a masters thesis in Production and Creation, in the Technological Art Master program, at the Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal, with the title Inside out: Myself as Diana – Audiovisual participatory Installation. Female representation and its relation between public and private. In 2016 she received her Ph.D. degree in art with the thesis Underneath the skin another skin: Body, screen and interface for an interactive haptic visuality presented at the University of Évora, Portugal, with summa cum laude distinction. She was a fellow researcher from National Science Technology Foundation of Portugal (2011-2015). From 2006 to 2012, she was teaching Photography, Video and Digital Arts at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Portugal. Currently she teaches at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna and at the Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria.
MIke says: “The video Shadows of Silk was made as part of my residency at SEA Artists Residency in Heraklion on the island of Crete in June 2016. It is dedicated to Vilmos Szigmond and Laszlo Kovacs two of my favourite cinematographers in particular for the memory I have of McAbe And Mrs. Miller from Vilmos and Easy Rider from Laszlo.”
This month at ResidenceSEA we host the British musician and composer Mike Cooper. He will be working for four weeks at the residenceSEA , continuing his research called Island Gardens to create music for imaginary, hyperreal beach scenes. He will also make a new audio piece for release on Room40 records later this year titled ‘Raft’, which will be dedicated to William Willis and Vital Alsar who both sailed balsa wood rafts across the Pacific Ocean from South America to Australia.
Mike Cooper plays lap steel guitar and sings, he is an improviser and composer, he works with video/sound installations and he is a radio arts producer. He his open to meet remarkable people for collaborations. He will be walking, listening and recording for a month in Crete, searching for a model to create an experience of imaginary landscape of sound and story telling by discovering the Genius Loci: the ‘spirit of the place’ of Crete island.
‘Island Gardens’ is an on-going multi screen short video installation project connecting small island cultures around the world by exploring their sound, story, myth, magical thinking and visual beauty. Island Gardens project was filmed in Bali, East Timor, Guadaloupe, Singapore, Hong Kong, Greece, and other exotic locations. The work Island Gardens was premiered at GRIM Marseille in 2014 with 17 of the videos projected on five separate flat screens with headphones.
About the artist
Mike Cooper is a colourful, iconoclastic performer and composer whose career began in the late 1960s. For the past 50 years he has been an international artistic explorer constantly pushing the boundaries. After establishing a profile as a folk/blues/jazz musician and, later, exploring the Hawaiian-styled guitarist, he have also collaborate with the avant-garde contexts of the London Musicians Collective. He has performed with other notable experimentalists such as Mike Gibbs, David Toop, Lol Coxhill and Mike Abrahams, and released a series of recordings on independent labels and self-released CDs. He has developed a repertoire of music for several silent films re-contextualising the traditional music and image. He traveled around the Pacific and collaborate with musicians, filmmakers and visual artists around the world. He is now based in Rome, and work with sound-fields recordings, performances, tours and writing music about the sound and culture of islands.
On Wednesday, May 25, at 21:00, ResidenceSEA will present Spiritus, an installation by Caitlin Harder and Tomoe Tsutsumi. Spiritus is a work utilizing moving image, sculptural form and the spatial dynamics of the ResidenceSEA structure itself, in order to investigate the relationship between individual human perception and the power of outside forces. Continue reading Spiritus→
This month we welcome to the ResidenceSEA two international artists working and living in New York: Caitlin Harder from USA and Tomoe Tsutsumi from Japan. They willcollaborate together and work on a project entitled Spiritus. Spiritus explores the relation between humans perceptions and the forces of nature.
* “The sea and the night sky as spaces are at once reflective and absorptive; deeply personal, but also relating to a collective (and timeless) human consciousness. In “Spiritus,” which translates to “breath,” or “spirit,” we will explore the relationship between human action and the power of outside forces. The work will integrate aspects of our own cultural backgrounds and our interpretations of contemporary Greece from the perspective of visitors, while also taking into account the universality of materials, forms and spaces when presented in a broader context. During our residency, we will experiment with the creation of handmade objects which relate to the navigation of the sea, including reflective beacons, illuminated origami boats, and other ephemeral light sources. We will expose these objects to the outside elements of wind, water, and the passage of time. The final result will be a video installation that utilises moving image, sculptural form, and the natural sounds and physicality of the ResidenceSea space itself.” *(Caitlin & Tomoe)
Caitlin Harder is an artist from Vermont, USA. She holds an M.F.A. in Sculpture and Dimensional Studies from Alfred University and a B.A., Magna Cum Laude, in Art Studio and History from Marlboro College. She has also studied literature and philosophy at Mount Holyoke College. Growing up in rural New England, Caitlin developed a relationship with the natural world that has had a lasting influence on her research and artwork. She is particularly interested in the metaphorical qualities of raw materials, imagery and processes and their relationship to a shared human experience.
Tomoe Tsutsumi is a visual artist living and working in Ridgewood, New York. She was born in Tokyo, Japan. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons the New School for Design and a BFA in Fine Arts, Painting from Colorado State University. She explores the themes of individuality, community, communication and the relationship between them. The medium of her work varies from drawing, painting, sculpture, video, performance and community projects.
“Krpff: Syllable Space Flooding”is a sound poetry performance using speeches of politicians and recordings of demonstrations to create an expressive field of interpretation, flooding the space by using the phonetic aspects of speech and sounds instead of semantics and syntactics.
Videopoetry extended video, speechsounds, asemantic signs: thomas havlik used voices: yanis varoufakis, angela merkel, obama, putin
Video of the performance at ResidenceSEA
Thomas Havlik, born 1978, from Vienna, Austria, creates art on the borders of text, sound, visual and performance-poetry. He is co-editor of the Vienna based online sound poetry magazine www.huellkurven.net, dedicated to sound poetry, noise poetry, sound-text composition, auditive poesies, letter-sampling, performance.
This month Thomas Havlik is at ResidenceSEA working on and doing research in the field of performance, sound and visual-poetry; Combining voice live-processing with prepared micro pieces of letters, alphabetic strings, phonemes and text snippets. Expanding the abilities of live literature tested for the first time on March 11th at Cabaret Voltaire Zürich (CH) and on March 31th at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London.
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Syllablesshooter, 30 Milliarden Silben SoundPoetry Performance and CD-Release
Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich 16.3. 2016
Soundpoetry, Sounds, Text, Performance: Thomas Havlik Camera, Cut, Audio-record: Bruno Schlatter
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Kakania: a project celebrating the great figures of Habsburg Austria one hundred years on – a series of original commissions from 21st century London artists refracted the great figures of Habsburg Vienna. www.kakania.co.uk Supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum.
The sixth Kakania event in London, held at the Austrian Cultural Forum saw six new commissions, on March 31st 2016. www.theenemiesproject.com/kakania2016
During March 2016 Dorota Walentynowicz, from Gdansk, Poland, was working at ResidenceSEA on her new project called “Unveiling a Parallel”. The project is inspired by a 19th century feminist science fiction novel and investigates the processes of crafting our knowledge about Mars and fantasies about possible life on it.
“Unveiling a Parallel” Synopsis: In David Bowie’s song, Mars is a promise of a far greater life somewhere, which is followed by the bitter disappointment, that we don’t have access to it. The video installation “Unveiling a Parallel” is not only that, but also a visual study of human fantasies about the planet Mars, seen through social history, contemporary media and the fetish of science.
The project has three parts: 1. a theatrical scene of feminist 19th century utopia presenting Mars as the desired parallel better world 2. a study of optical instruments and video technology used historically to imagine and fantasize about Mars and also contemporary technology to observe, measure and scan its surface 3. a para-documentary narration about the mineral structure of the “red planet”, the geological findings and a material sample analysis.
On Monday 22th of February at 8pm the artists duo Nele Suisalu and Maarja Tõnisson show their artistic research AffectSpace developed during this month at ResidenceSEA.
Maarja Tõnisson and Nele Suisalu – Photography by Jannik Weylandt 2016 @residenceSEA
Nele Suisalu dancer and vocal artist and Maarja Tõnisson dancer and performance artist are from Estonia. They call themselves hackers of the human body-voice-mind. They came to ResidenceSEA to experiment, research and experience the space with their body, voice and movement, to develop the analog stage of their new performative work AffectSpace.
Quoting the artists: “AffectSpacewill be a performative work relying on two-voiced and two-bodied hybrid entity aiming to create a multi-sensorial space for the spectator/experiencer. We consider movement/sound to be a trigger for the affective reaction process within each and every audience member. Voice as a body part. Dance as vibrations in the body. The meaning-making lies in trying to connect with audience and to absorb it into the present moment and experience.“
Photos of the presentation by Antje Larsen and Pantelis Sakkadakis
A thought from the Portuguese architect Maria João Durão on our minds:
“Being – and by extension living – in a place is, therefore, possible only in material embodiment and so it is the body that connects things and places, since we are in a place through our own body. Between body and place there is much more than position, there is the data of our experience and expectations. To have a place is also to exist as sensible body.”
What has happened in our hacking process? I think, we have been translating the inputs from the surrounding environment into basic body-mind-space-voice protocols for sensing/creating a space. Somehow the shared space-time has made possible for our minds-bodies to process – using a chaos-trusting time release – some natural elements into performative materials.
First we felt the need for making fire (the sight), then came a storm with great Northern wind (the hearing), and then I brought water inside the house: I filled the drinking water bottles we had emptied during our stay with sea water where we have been bathing often and placed them inside the building (the touch – the water that we drank touched all of our cells from inside, the sea touched our skin from the outside).
Maarja Tõnisson and Nele Suisalu
Photography by Vasilis Flouris
Here is a short audio excerpt of our working session on wind/hearing:
Reflections from the audience:
,..some reflections that i consider necessary after this experience. – i will not discuss or argue why i received this artistic present with such strong emotions, in the same way that we do not discuss or argue about the people that we love. – please dont speak: it came from the bottom of my heart. – artistic theories, intellectual points of view, aesthetic and philosophical systems, all worthless and pointless empty words – no, i do not want to give arguments: feel it, sense it, it is there. – finally: the wholeness of a seemingly loose anti-construction that redefines time and space and warmth inside you, and such a beautiful song, all these could be one more definition of art, aob*. But thankfully, it is not. It is a nice moment, a pleasant meeting, a good breath. thank you, dear Ladies.
This month ResidenceSEA is hosting two artists from Estonia: Nele Suisalu (dancer and vocal artist) and Maarja Tõnisson (dancer and performance artist).
They call themselves hackers of the human body-voice-mind.
The working title for their collaboration is Affectspace. Quoting the artists: “Affectspace is a performative work relying on two-voiced and two-bodied hybrid entity aiming to create a multi-sensorial space for the spectator/experience or to take place in. Considering movement/sound to be a trigger of the a ffective reaction process within each and every audience member. Voice as a body part. Dance as vibrations in the body.
We are interested in research-oriented and curiosity-based art: our final forms are defined by experimenting with the chosen materials and feeding them on feedback. We are focusing on opening up and entering into subject-matters as phenomena to be discovered and made perceptible. The meaning-making lies in trying to connect with audience and to absorb it into the present moment and experience. We consider movement/sound to be a sensory a ffective process within each and every audience member. ”
The artists will stay at ResidenceSEA until the end of February. Below we show some of their previous works:
Heraklion: Where old and new exist side by side in harmony
“Shaped by various cultures and influences over the ages, Heraklion is a major Mediterranean port city with world-class museums and archeological sites which also holds great appeal for the forward-looking modern traveller.” ( article by Fotis Vallatos)
ResidenceSEA is listed in the Aegean airline BLUE magazine with what to see together with Minoan Palace, Natural History Museum, Malia Palace, the Archeological Museum, the Venezian wall, Knossos palace, the Morosini fountain and the Heraklion central market.
WHAT TO SEE article from the Aegean airline BLUE magazine n.55:
Jagannathan Sampath from India stay at ResidenceSEA for 4 weeks experimenting with binaural drones.
Jagannathan Sampath, aka Jag, is a researcher, programmer of software and author of DIN is Noisea musical instrument for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. He started out writing software for computer games and film special effects. Then, about 8 years ago, he learnt to program computers to make sounds Continue reading Welcome Jagannathan Sampath→
On Friday the 2nd of October, 22:00, the artist duo LOLO & LAUTI from Argentina presents their project DIRTY BEACH in collaboration with RODRIGO MORAES Uruguayan artist at ResidenceSEA in Heraklion. The evening continued with the premiere of two amazing bands from Heraklion: QUEEN TAKES JACK and LOLLIPOP and end with MARY & MATTHEW CRAWLEY DJs.
LOLO & LAUTI are an artist duo from Buenos Aires who have been working together since 2011. Their project Dirty Beach is a video installation based on a performance that Lolo & Lauti made using trash recollected from Amoudara beach. During their stay at ResidenceSEA LoLo & Lauti worked with Rodrigo Moraes and Vasilis Flouris, documenting and datascaping the psychogeographic perception of our surroundings. They created a floating living sculpture, emphasising the thirst for shopping. Lolo & Lauti say: “We discover narrative and storytelling in the real world: We believe there is nothing more fantastic than non-fiction, that the world we live in, is the ultimate participatory installation”.
“Dirty Beach” project by Lolo y Lauti in collaboration with Rodrigo Moraes.
Rodrigo Moraes create a conceptual work about Moby the dog keeper of the ResidenceSEA. Rodrigo Moraes and Michela Pelusio certifies that MΩMΠI having satisfactory completed all requirements and thereby demonstrating satisfactory evidence of artistic competence, is hereby awarded the title of Permanent Artist and is entitled to all rights and privileges appertaining thereto. Given in Heraklion, Greece on the second of October in the year 2015. (See the certificate below)
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Actor: Marios Bardakis, Interview and translation by Roberta Bellante, Director of Photography Vasilis Flouris
Curator Michela Pelusio, ResidenceSEA production
Moby collaborated also with Tasos Stamou in July 2015 for the sounds composition entitled Musique con Crete.
Poster of the event by Rodrigo Moraes in collaboration with Maria Antaloudaki.LOLO & LAUTI are an artist duo from Buenos Aires who have been working together since 2011. Their project Dirty Beach is a video installation based on a performance that Lolo & Lauti made using trash recollected from Amoudara beach. During their stay at ResidenceSEA LoLo & Lauti worked with Rodrigo Moraes and Vasilis Flouris, documenting and datascaping the psychogeographic perception of our surroundings. They created a floating living sculpture, emphasising the thirst for shopping. Lolo & Lauti say: "We discover narrative and storytelling in the real world: We believe there is nothing more fantastic than non-fiction, that the world we live in, is the ultimate participatory installation”.
The evening continued with live gigs:
The Queen takes Jack were founded in the summer of 2014. Their music is a hybrid of dark wave vocals and alternative guitars, rock bass and drums with progressive elements. Their sound is influenced by bands such as the Dresden Dolls, Placebo, Muse, Queens Of The Stone Age, Porcupine Tree and Portishead.
Queen takes Jack
Queen takes Jack first live debut in Heraklion….
LolliPop was founded in summer 2013, intended to give a harder style to famous pop songs. The motivation has been a discussion among the band’s members about how catchy some pop tunes are, and how the average metalhead would hardly admit it. This pushed them to bridge the gap by creating a pleasant atmosphere in live shows, covering Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Ricky Martin and Backstreet Boys, just to mention a few!
Thanks to our Photographers: Antje Larsen, Vasilis Flouris, Pantelis Sakkadakis, Art Imagine, Nickolay Dorozhkin, Art and Science Photography.
Thanks to our supporters: NowHeraklion / Cafe Akrovatis / Transfer Post production studio / Cinestudio live
GREEK VERSION BELOW (press release)
Την Παρασκευή 2 Οκτωβρίου, στις 22.00 το βράδυ, το καλλιτεχνικό δίδυμο απο την Αργεντινή Lolo & Lauti, θα παρουσιάσουν το έργο τους “Βρώμικη Παραλία” στο ResidenceSEA στο Ηράκλειο Κρήτης. Η βραδιά θα συνεχιστεί με δύο εκπληκτικές μπάντες, τους Queen takes Jack και LolliPop στην πρώτη τους εμφάνιση και θα κλείσει, με τα DJ sets των MARY και MATTHEW CRAWLEY.
Οι Lolo & Lauti είναι ένα καλλιτεχνικό δίδυμο απο το Μπουένος Άιρες της Αργεντινής, οι οποίοι συνεργάζονται από το 2011. Το έργο τους “Βρώμικη Παραλία” είναι ενα βίντεο βασισμένο σε μια παράσταση τους στην οποία χρησιμοποιήσαν μόνο σκουπίδια που συνέλεξαν στην παραλία Αμμουδάρα στο Ηράκλειο Κρήτης. Κατά την διάρκεια της διαμονής τους στο ResidenceSEA, οι δύο καλλιτέχνες συνεργάστηκαν με τους Rodrigo Moraes καί Βασίλη Φλουρή στην καταγραφή της ψυχογεωγραφικής αντίληψης τού περιβάλλοντος μας. Δημιούργησαν ένα πλωτό ζωντανό γλυπτό, με σκοπό να τονίσoυν τη δίψα για ψώνια. Οι ίδιοι τονιζουν: “Ανακαλύπτουμε αφηγηματικά, τον πραγματικό κόσμο. Πιστεύουμε ότι δεν υπάρχει τίποτα πιο φανταστικό από το μη φαντασιακό, ότι ο κόσμος στον οποίο ζούμε, είναι η απόλυτη συμμετοχική εγκατάσταση.”
Η βραδιά θα συνεχιστεί με δύο μουσικές εμφανίσεις. Οι “Queen takes Jack” ιδρύθηκαν το καλοκαίρι του 2014 και απ’τις αρχές του 2015 ξεκίνησαν να γράφουν τα δικά τους κομμάτια. Η μουσική τους είναι ένα υβρίδιο από dark wave φωνητικά και alternative κιθάρες, rock μπάσο και ντραμς με προοδευτικά στοιχεία. Ο ήχος τούς είναι επιρρεασμένος απο μπάντες όπως Dresden Dolls, Placebo, Muse, Queens Of The Stone Age, Porcupine Tree και Portishead. Οι LolliPop δημιουργήθηκαν το καλοκαίρι του 2013 έχοντας σκοπό την διασκευή pop κομματιών σε πιο σκληρό ύφος. Αφορμή για αυτή την απόφαση ήταν μια κουβέντα που είχαν, σχετικά με το πόσο “πιασάρικες” είναι οι μελωδίες των κομματιών αυτών, αλλά δύσκολα θα παραδεχτεί ο μέσος μεταλλάς ότι του αρέσουν, κάτι που τους ώθησε να αναλάβουν τον ρόλο του διαμεσολαβητή και να δημιουργούν ευχάριστο κλίμα στα live, διασκευάζοντας μεταξύ άλλων Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Ricky Martin και Backstreet Boys!
From today and for the following two weeks ResidenceSEA will be hosting 3 Artists living in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
LOLO & LAUTI is an artist duo from Argentina working together since 2011 and Rodrigo Moraes is an art director and film maker from Uruguay.
LoLo & Lauti will work together in Heraklion for two weeks in collaboration with Rodrigo Moraes documenting and datascasping the psychogeographic Continue reading welcome LOLO & LAUTI→
The Blue Keeper, a work by Ilaria Villagrassa in collaboration with Roberto Ghisu and Vasilis Flouris.Oil painting on canvas 100x150cm - I. VillagrassaStill image from the video: The Blue Keeper
This week a duo of Italian artists will arrive at ResidenceSEA: Ilaria Villagrassa, painter, and Roberto Ghisu, film maker. They will work and experiment at ResidenceSEA until mid August.
Ilaria Villagrassa and Roberto Ghisu will collaborate on their project titled: “The Blue Keeper”. See below.
Tasos Stamou is an electroacoustic music composer, an improvised music performer, an alternative music technologist and tutor, currently based in London. During a decade he has been exploring and utilizing several different mediums of original sonic creation, into various recordings and performances; arrangements with self-modified electronics (circuit bending) and found objects, electronic music gear (modular synths & software), acoustic instruments (prepared zither, reeds, whistles, vocals, etc) and video synthesizers. Mostly as a free improvised multi-instrumentalist performer Stamou has presented live sets in solo projects and collaborations with other experimentalists and improvisers (London Improvisers Orchestra, Adam Bohman, Steve Beresford, Mike Cooper, Andrea Parkins, Kuupuu & Lau Nau, Terry Day, Adachi Tomomi, Ilan Manouach, Ignaz Schick, Magda Mayas, Arma Agharta, etc.) around venues and festivals for innovative music. Since 2008 he runs “Kukuruku Recordings”, an independent label for ephemeral exploratory sound works. He is currently leading workshop series for circuit bending & hardware hacking for experimental sound production.
Photos of the presentation at ResidenceSEA
"Musique con Crète" project by Tasos Stamou
Photographers:
Antje Larsen and Pantelis Sakkadakis
Join us 20th of July from 5pm till 10pm for a circuit bending/hacking sound toys workshop, led by sound artist Tasos Stamou. The workshop provides an introduction to modifying techniques and alternative electronic instrument designs. It is suitable for beginners as well as to more experienced hackers and sound explorers to push forward their ideas and projects of innovative sound interfaces.
This week Tasos Stamou, a sound artist, will arrive at ResidenceSEA. His project is to approach traditional Cretan music and the geographic space of Crete, using contemporary music media. Tasos will use electronic manipulation of original instrumental and field recordings (urban and rural), rare archived recordings and a series of studio recordings to createa new Continue reading Musique Con-CRETE→
Social graphic design and punk music at ResidenceSEA in Heraklion
heARTWORKs is a presentation by the graphic designer Kostas Karnikis about graphic design work and digital art with the icon and the shape of the human heart. Many commercial logos, digital art, illustrations and stencils have the shape of the human heart. Kostas questions this well-known shape and analyzes if it fears or clears Continue reading heARTWORKs→
Here are the photos from the ResidenceSEA presentation of “Tsipras as Kolokotronis” by Mathew Halpin. The night continued with the an open DJs set where many DJs came to play experimental electronic music. See you at the next ResidenceSEA event.
Mathew’s paintings are often satire and reflections of our society and human relations. He mostly uses retro and kitsch images, thereby contrasting the underlying serious messages.
ResidenceSEA presents Mathew Halpin: Tsipras as Kolokotronis
On Saturday, 7th of March 2015, at 20:00, ResidenceSEA will open the season with a presentation and talk by the artist Mathew Halpin. He will show and talk about a selection of his paintings and premier his latest painting “Tsipras as Kolokotronis”.
Tension_Flow_Fury, a Tape Art project by Fiorakis Manolis and ASK.
Manolis Fiorakis, one of the artists, says: ResidenceSEA is not just the space, where this batch takes place. It is also the lab, where the ingredients of this process are purified. Tape art is not just the medium. It’s the law that compels the whole process.About the project: The project Tension-Flow-Fury consists of 3 separate yet undivided aspects, united as one concept:
Tension (force): A more personal and self-analytical part of the project. A static unknown and raw force of continuous pressure that stretches within but at the same time blows off into the outer world and space itself.
Flow (process): An effort to convert the force of Tension to a stream of acts and works. From a raw and harsh state to a more active and rounded form that spreads across space.
Fury (result): A manic and sharp but concentrated outcome of the previous processes. A feeling of intense and chronic anger.
Manolis Fiorakis (aka oot) was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1983. In Athens he studied Civil Engineering and Interior Design, and he now works as an Interior Designer in his recently founded architectural studio in Heraklion. About a year ago, he started experimenting with tape art and has stuck ever since. Designs on canvas, murals and freestyle street art are his thing, but he is always searching for different ways to use tape as a medium. His current project is called “out of tape”. See more at www.outoftapedesign.com
ASK (Andreas Stavrianoudakis Kampas) was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1979. He studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. He already presented his work in three solo exhibition in Germany and in Greece and participated in more than twenty group exhibitions in different countries: Greece, Austria, Cyprus, Germany, USA, Italy. Visit his website at http://askstudio.gr
Manolis Fiorakis aka oot was born in Heraklion,Crete and studied Civil Engineering and Interior Design in Athens. He works as an Interior Designer in his recently founded architectural studio. He works and live between Heraklion and Athens.
He started experimenting with tape art one year ago and has stuck ever since. Designs on canvas, murals and freestyle street art is his thing but he’s always Continue reading Welcome Manolis Fiorakis→
Andreas Stavrianoudakis Kampas, name ASK, was born in Heraklion, Crete on 1979. He studied at the Scool of Fine Arts in Athens in the orientation of painting. He already present his work in tree solo exhibition in Germany and in Greece and participate in more then twenty group exhibitions in different countries: Greece, Austria, Cyprus, Germany, USA, Italy.
On Thursday 28th of August at 22:00 ResidenceSEA will present Michaela Schweighofer’s video work “THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU”. Furthermore, the evening encompasses a variety of live music by four young groups from Heraklion: the psychedelic and Blues Rock of TIO TRIO, pieces of sound with words of ABE SADA, followed by NORTE and last but not least the Funk-Experimental band THE KANGOORS will perform.
The Austrian artist Michaela Schweighofer is the new invited artist at ResidenceSEA, Heraklion. She arrived on August 1st and will stay for a month to do research on the boundaries of different media and the connection between sculpture and video.
The Tremula project is a collaboration between vocalist Elsa Grégoire and pianist Lukas Rabe. In their approach to musical creation, you are invited to a musical world where it is impossible to tell where the words end and the music starts.
This Saturday 26th April at 22:00 at residenceSEA in Heraklion Maria Morschitzky present her work “ The Sea I See ” an audio-visual performance and stop-motion video.
Maria Morschitzky is an international artist from Austria who experiments with shadows and drawings. This month Maria is staying at ResidenceSEA in Heraklion. During her stay at ResidenceSEA, inspired by the stormy sea, she has created Continue reading THE SEA I SEE→
Maria Morschitzky will stay for a month in Crete at ResidenceSEA experimenting with shadows of drawings. She researches the possibilities of movement of drawings and shapes, with shadow projections of moveable light sources. She tries to discover and develop some “old-school” techniques of animation (drawings on paper with pastel chalk, and some kind of pre cinematic projection). Her goal at residenceSEA is to Continue reading Welcome Maria Morschitzky→
Performance by Sara De Santis italian dancer and choreographer and Emanuel Andel new media artist from Vienna.
FUNCTION FOLLOWS ::PER::FORM::ER:: at residenceSEA 28. 3. 2014
Sara and Emanuel are collaborating together since 2013 between Italy, Austria and Holland and now they meet at SEA for two intense weeks of research to exploit space and time choreography.
The residenceSEA will present FUNCTION FOLLOWS ::PER::FORM::ER:: a work of Emanuel Andel new media artist from Vienna and Sara de Santis italian dancer and choreographer.
They are collaborating together since 2013 between Italy, Austria and Holland and now they meet at SEA for two intense weeks of research to exploit space and time choreography.
PRESS RELEASE arteorema 07. 02. 2014 Experimental collaborative performance with Live analogue deep techno set at Cinestudio live in Heraklion, Crete.
The event a r t e o r e m a is dedicated to the presentation of international artists who came to Heraklion in Crete at residence SEA to creatively work, study and collaborate on the role of mathematical and formal rules in the creation of Continue reading a r t e o r e m a→
One of the consequences of the current economic crisis, the lack of spending for show opportunities in the usual institutions on the field (galleries, art centres, museums), has driven artists and alternative initiatives to invest in other, and more open, forms of creative expression and work within the space of the community. exploring the variety of the public space, through the collaboration and Continue reading CREATING WITHIN THE PUBLIC SPACE: ‘EXTRA MUROS’ ART RESIDENCIES→
In the framework of its activities for the period 2013-14, residenceSEA presents the artists Rifa from Vienna and the Londoner Curtiss Cobane in their endeavour in the city of Heraklion, which concluded to the video and rap music production under title “QUIRKY VANΔALIΣΜ”. The opening of their show at the premises of residenceSEA is scheduled for Friday, Continue reading FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE→
Curtiss Cobane just arrived at ResidenceSEA to join RIFA in a joint music production.
Curtiss Cobane is a writing, singing and rapping artist from the UK who is a “creative soul who’s always looking for growth…”. He describes his work as ‘The poetry of a rebel’. Curtis lives between London and Vienna.
RIFA artist in residenceSEA from 11 November till 23 December 2013 RIFA is an alternative/indie project that is largely presented by electronic music. From experimental genres as IDM, glitch, trip-hop through danceable rhythms to dub tracks with samples of all kinds such as movie quotes but also rapped numbers (Der Randamplan) with mainly socio-critical statements. Often in mystical, dark apocalyptic Continue reading Welcome RIFA !!!→
Three unique instruments, matching vibrations and oscillations, will take you on an immersive sound and visual journey.
The most well-known of the three, the harp, needs no introduction – the harp is one of the oldest instruments and harps were played by cultures all over the world. The hang, on the contrary, is a very young instrument, developed Continue reading H3 – Visual concert→
December 2012, January 2013, @ResidenceSEA, Heraklion
The collaboration between Artscientists Michela Pelusio and Oded Ben-Horin is based on a multi-disciplinary approach to simultaneous artistic and scientific explorations and understandings. In the winter of 2012/13, music, text, sounds, and the possibilities of the original SpaceTime Helix instruments were explored, working together with traditionalGreek Continue reading Science Opera by Oded Ben-Horin→
Michael Hackl, artist, researcher and curator from Vienna gave some insights about arts and science, the festival Schmiede and his way of having fun! Michael was in Heraklion as an artist in residence, @ ResidenceSEA.
Clepsichor is a site specific installation, where incandescent lightbulbs are turned into water clocks (clepsydra) each ticking it’s own time.
“Clepsydra (literally “water thief”) is the Greek word for water clock. Also, in ancient Greece, a device for drawing liquids from vats too large to pour.” –http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clepsydra
MIke says: “The video Shadows of Silk was made as part of my residency at SEA Artists Residency in Heraklion on the island of Crete in June 2016. It is dedicated to Vilmos Szigmond and Laszlo Kovacs two of my favourite cinematographers in particular for the memory I have of McAbe And Mrs. Miller from Vilmos and Easy Rider from Laszlo.”