Welcome to the eleventh edition of TodaysArt.NL, the festival for adventurous visual and performing arts and emerging culture in The Hague. As you probably know by now, this year’s edition takes place on and around a unique main location: The Pier in Scheveningen.
The Pier, the sea, the air and the beach will be the canvas for a group of artists. Many of the works were specifically created for the festival and the location. On Friday the 25th and Saturday the 26th of September, The Pier will be the center of the TodaysArt.NL Festival 2015 and the Bright Collisions symposium program. The program features performances, club programs, installations, interventions and symposium sessions.
The Pier, an architectural and technical highlight from 1959, is not just an icon for the Netherlands; it is also well-known outside the Dutch borders. Millions of people have memories of The Pier. Exactly 50 years ago, The Pier was the location for ‘ZERO on Sea’, a large-scale manifestation of the radical art movement ZERO. Due to financial difficulties, The Pier was closed down several years ago. In October 2014, The Pier was bought by KondorWessels Vastgoed (VolkerWessels) and DanZep. One of their aims is to transform it into a creative and innovative location. This year, TodaysArt will sound in a new era for The Pier and marks the opening event of its cultural program.
From Thursday the 24th until Sunday the 27th of September you can experience 4DSOUND, interactive spatial sound performances in various daytime, evening and overnight programs in the E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek. We invite you to soak it all up, to embrace the adventure, and above all, to engage with an atmosphere of new experiences. For more information and last-minute details please visit our website and socials:
Inspired by this iconic building on the sea, ‘ZERO on Sea’ and current developments in arts and society, TodaysArt will transform The Pier into a unique festival venue above the waves. For one weekend,
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Zero on Sea
Halfway through the fifties, an influential, international art movement was born, called ZERO. The ZERO movement was a radical movement that wanted to separate itself from the heaviness after years of war. ZERO was a group of artists that found each other in their optimistic, utopian and innovative perspective on life. Artists were from all around the globe where part of this ZERO movement, and also in The Hague, ZERO (Nul) had a strong representation.
‘ Zero is silence. Zero is the beginning. Zero is round. Zero spins. Zero is the moon. The sun is Zero. Zero is white. The desert Zero. The sky above Zero. The night.’
ZERO wanted to break with the established principles regarding what art should look like. The movement saw a strong relationship with society and its environment, – earth, wind, fire, water and the cosmos – and used new, common materials that had become available through technological progress. Revolutionary in that time was also that ZERO-artists were as much ‘researchers’, ‘entrepreneurs’, ‘scientists’ and ‘curators’ as they were ‘artists’.
Otto Piene, Heinz Mack, Günther Uecker – 1963
In 1965, exactly 50 years ago on the 25th of September 1965, The Pier was the main site for a large scale, open-air multimedia art manifestation which focused on the relationship between natural 2
elements, technology and humanity: ‘ZERO on Sea’. The plans included installations, performances, soundworks, music, video and theatre. Because of financial difficulties and bad weather conditions, the event was postponed to spring 1966 and eventually even cancelled. Today, TodaysArt presents a festival inspired by ‘ZERO on Sea’ with contemporary artists.
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Opening Performance
Gordon Monohan Speaker Swinging Gordon Monahan’s works for piano, loudspeakers, video, kinetic sculpture, and computer controlled sound environments span from avant garde concert music to multimedia installations and sound art. He juxtaposes the quantitative and qualitative aspects of natural acoustical phenomena with elements of media technology, environment, architecture, popular culture, and live performance.
Grand Hotel Amrâth Kurhaus Friday 25 September Free access
For the opening of TodaysArt 2015, Monahan will perform his famous work from 1982, ‘Speaker Swinging’. This work for electronic tone generators and human speaker swingers is a hybrid of science, music, and performance art, in which minimalistic trance music based on the Doppler effect contrasts with issues central to performance art, such as physical struggle and ‘implied threat’. For this occasion Mariska de Groot, Matteo Marangoni, Dieter Vandoren and Philip Vermeulen of iii will be the speaker swingers.
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Gordon Monohan
Works
Daan Brinkmann + René Bakker + Daniel Berio Chalky
The Pier
25 + 26 September
Friday 25 September Saturday 26 September
‘Chalky’ can be described as an “80s style pen-plotter on wheels”, using sidewalk chalk instead of pens. The machine is an attempt to blend digital and analog imaging techniques, using the street as an infinite canvas. For this edition, its graphical output will take the principles of the ZERO movement as a reference. ‘Chalky’ is initiated by Daan Brinkmann and grew into a full-blown collaboration with René Bakker and Daniel Berio. Find ‘Chalky’ on several spots on the boulevard in front of The Pier on Friday and Saturday. Children of the Light Reflector Suits 25 + 26 September Children of the Light is the collaboration of visual artists Christopher Gabriel and Arnout Hulskamp. As a duo they tend to both entrance and mystify the public, creating abstract and highly spherical 6
scenography’s and installations using decor, light, haze, reflections and animations.
humans failed to do, Demirel tried to capture the beauty of the devastating conditions.
Children of the Light premiere their project ‘Reflector Suits’ at TodaysArt, which will also be presented at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in November for the closing event of the ZERO exhibition.
Zoro Feigl Kite Flock 25 + 26 September The installations by Zoro Feigl seem to be alive, bringing to mind single-cell creatures or primitive organisms. Feigl follows the laws of physics, but he tries to balance between what mechanics itself brings and what he can do with a minimal gesture to display the aesthetics of technical mechanisms. As a viewer you become entangled in the movements: his installations embrace and amaze, but sometimes also frighten you.
Ali Demirel + Biosphere The Pier 25 + 26 September In his work, experimental video artist Ali Demirel, focuses on minimal images and structural compositions with a conceptual base. Following his collaboration with Richie Hawtin on music videos, he started to design and perform live shows. Reflecting his background in physics and architecture, he has established a unique visual style in minimal electronic music.
Feigl presents ‘Kite flock’, a cloud of kites that swarm around one another. Entangled to ropes in a branching structure, the kites are constantly in a tug of war creating odd movements.
For TodaysArt he created ‘The Pier’, a film with footage he shot of The Pier just before the renovation started. For the film he collaborated with Biosphere, who created an exclusive soundtrack. Fascinated by the way nature took over what 7
Michelle Lewis-King ( p.38)
Yobkiss ( p.31)
Robert Jan Liethoff ( p.38)
Children of the Light (p.6)
emitting fine-tuned wordclouds of closely related words with ties in etymology and psycho-linguistics.
Lotte Geeven ‘Walter’ 25 + 26 September Lotte Geeven is a multimedia artist who works in the field of immateriality and storytelling, combined with intense research and cooperation with scientists and specialists.
Dmitry Gelfand + Evelina Domnitch Implosion Chamber / Photonic Wind
For TodaysArt, she created the piece ‘Walter’ in collaboration with Thomas Grill (and assisted and advised by Miriam van Eck, Edwin van Gender and Mag. Dr. Brigitte Krenn); an oracle-algorithm that gives the sea a voice. The cube-shaped talking computer ‘Walter’ meticulously observes the sea in motion through its lens and connects all the different sea-states to our language. At daytime, the digital oracle reads the sea as neutral to positive, whereas clouded periods, dawn and night time will darken its’ vocabulary. The voice of ‘Walter’ reacts to the surface of the sea, whispering when the sea is calm, and shouting during a dark and dynamic sea. The sea is perceived as a giant living entity with many moods and faces. These moods narrate words with an ancient connection,
Dmitry Gelfand and Evelina Domnitch create sensory environments that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. Current findings, particularly regarding wave phenomena, are employed to look at questions of perception and perpetuity. As science, which serves as the basis for contemporary thought, cannot fully explain how consciousness works, their installations exist as ever-transforming phenomena that allow the observer to transcend the illusory distinction between scientific discovery and perceptual expansion.
25 + 26 September
‘Implosion Chamber’ consists of high frequency sound waves going through a water-filled cylinder, causing naturally diffused air bubbles to implode. While revealing the motion im10
parted by sound waves, these implosions are accompanied by shock waves, supersonic liquid jet formations, temperatures as high as are found on the Sun, and conjecturably, quantum vacuum radiation. In ‘Photonic Wind’, an Yves Klein blue laser beam levitates and propels diamond micropowder in a vacuum chamber. Forming starry jets and languorous vortical clouds, the diamond dust evokes the flow of light.
fluid waves. By marking a zero level as if making an incision in the sea, the work reveals the dynamic forces of the wind and sea streams beneath The Pier. The green wavefront even appears like (artificially) glowing plankton. HeHe Radiant Beach 25 September HeHe is the artist duo of Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen. By working with light, sound and image they look at the relationship between the individual and its architectural and urban environment.
Vladimir Grafov WAVEFRONT Zero 25 + 26 September Vladimir Grafov combines artistic and scientific approaches to evoke the empowering feeling of touching the hidden natural and social forces through carefully prepared arrangement of objects and actions in space and time.
For TodaysArt, they have created ‘Radiant Beach’, a performative installation in which the beach will be partly transformed into a fluorescent dune landscape. The green sand reminds one of advanced experiments with new technologies, ecology and toxicity, nature being polluted by urban contaminated substances, radioactivity or utopian future technologies: “glow in the dark dunes” generated by genetic modification. ‘Radiant Beach’ has been developed in collaboration with TAAK.
Grafov presents the newly commissioned piece ‘WAVEFRONT Zero’. It starts off with the sea coast being defined by a perfectly straight line of light being interrupted only by waves, as the wavefront is in constant turbulent motion. Grafov uses laser as an optical method to visualise the flow in 11
Germaine Kruip (p.14)
Maurice Mickers (p.15)
Natalie Jeremijenko Pier-2-Pier
Germaine Kruip Black Circle at Sea
25 September - 4 October
25 + 26 September
Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist who combines engineering, environmentalism and more to create real-life experiments that enable social change. She is director of the Design Environmental Health Clinic at New York University that prescribes creative health solutions for people with environmental problems.
Light, (architectural) spaces and the interaction between the artwork and the audience is crucial to the work of Germaine Kruip. Most of her works deal with perception wherein she approaches the eye as an optical tool. For her newly commissioned piece for TodaysArt, ‘Black Circle at Sea’, she builds on a scene from a filmic theatre play she developed at EMPAC (Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center). A black round shadow is projected just above the horizon. She uses an abstract language to play with the perception of what is being depicted. ‘Black Circle at Sea’ has been developed in collaboration with TAAK.
Jeremijenko created the newly commissioned project ‘Pier2-Pier’. Natalie Jeremijenko: “Since Zero, the Shoreline has become ‘unshore-line’. In the Anthropocene we face our own response-ability to inhabit this new liminal space. It is not sufficient to build a pier that only allows access. ‘Pier-2Pier’ achieves all the functions of a conventional pier, while reaching into the productive aspects of the aquatic ecosystem. It distills and desalinates water, promotes habitat for mussels and algae and the many organisms they support while improving water quality and biodiversity.” ‘Pier-2-Pier’ has been developed in collaboration with TAAK. 14
Maurice Mikkers Imaginarium of Tears
Lisa Park EUNOIA ll
25 + 26 September
25 + 26 September performance only on 26 September
The project ‘Imaginarium of Tears’ of Maurice Mikkers is a series of micrographs that shows the hidden beauty behind tears. Tears are often seen as a weakness and therefore not always accepted in our daily life. Scientifically tears are divided into three different types based on their origin: basal tears, reflex tears or emotional tears. We are all familiar with these tears, but how do they look on a microscopical level? According to scientists every tear has a different viscosity and composition. All tears contain a variety of biological substances including oils, antibodies and enzymes suspended in salt water.
Lisa Park’s work looks at the idea of trans-sensory experiences. She developed a series of performances using biosensors (brainwave and heart-rate devices) as a medium for manifesting her inner states. Park’s performance ‘EUNOIA II’ uses a brainwave (EEG) sensor to obtain real-time feedback of her brainwaves and emotional reactions. Throughout the performance of ‘EUNOIA II’, the intensity of the performer’s feelings at the time are mirrored in the intensity of the sound in terms of volume, pitch, speed, and the panning of the sound output. As a result, plates with water respond in real-time to the sound creating different formations of ripples and droplets in unpredictable patterns. Besides a performance of Park at a set time on Saturday, visitors will be able to experience ‘EUNOIA II’ in the form of an installation during two days.
At TodaysArt you can book an experience where your tears will be imagined in a 1 hr session. Tears will be evoked and dispensed onto a microscopic slide. After the tears are crystallised Mikkers will photograph them. Besides ‘Imaginarium of Tears’, three of Mikkers’ other photo series are exhibited.
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Ali Demirel (p.7)
Chalky (p.6)
Noqturni (p.37)
Acronym (p.34)
Plastique Fantastique LIVEBOAT
Onno Poeisz Fata Morgana
26 September
25 + 26 September
Plastique Fantastique is a platform for temporary architecture that samples the performative possibilities of urban environments. They are influenced by unique circumstances that make the city a laboratory for spaces and are specialised in creating pneumatic installations as alternative, adaptable, low energy spaces for temporary and ephemeral activities. The transparent, lightweight and mobile shell structures relate to the notion of activating, creating and sharing public space and involving citizens in creative processes. They are in many ways the simplest of structures - a skin that separates but also connects.
For TodaysArt, Poiesz created a project intended for the most left handed island on The Pier which is planned to be demolished by the end of 2015. This project is inspired by one of the original ‘ZERO on Sea’ installation plans. Heinz Mack planned to place pillars made out of mirrors into the sea. Poiesz is planning to wrap the island completely in mirroring foil. By doing so, a new dimension arises and the context of the building changes. The building gains body and the exact contours will fade. During the day, light and colors change and reflect in the sea, while the night time also offers different appearances.
At TodaysArt they present ‘LIVEBOAT’, which addresses the ongoing refugee tragedy in front of our borders and offers space for communication and discourses. Inside the boat, multilingual extracts from Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ as well as fragments of refugee experiences are intertwined in a sound carpet.
Abner Preis Hacking The Pier 25 + 26 September ‘Hacking The Pier’ is an interactive tour through the interior and exterior spaces of The Pier. The purpose is to discuss, evoke creativity, expression 18
and emotion through the art of play. The journey will take you through a series of games, partially fun and rebellious, through which a collaborative exhibition is created. It offers perspective into hacking the space in which we live. The group leaves their traces in the landscape and explores some ideas of The Situationists International and ZERO.
resulting video renders a cold kaleidoscopic tartan pattern in shadow gradients. It evokes avant-garde cinema in its visual aspects, but also questions utopia and more generally progressivism, and the fact that the geometrical shapes in the video come from shadow projections which attempt to drive modernism into the dark. Zeger Reyers Springûh…!
Florian + Michael Quistrebert Untitled (tartans)
25 + 26 September
25 + 26 September
Zeger Reyers is known for his installations in which he confronts the artificial, man-made world with nature.
The films and paintings by the Quistrebert brothers are rooted in the tradition of geometrical-abstract art and op-art from the 60s and 70s, translated to the post-everythingera of 2013. The hallucinatory works are based on mathematical principles, where sculptural considerations explicitly claim a role within the flat surface of the painting or video screen. Symmetry and duplication are important aspects for the Quistrebert’s, who are able within their rigorous structured compositions to achieve a remarkable softness. The video ‘Untitled (tartans)’ is based on captures of moving shadows on a wall. The
The bungee jump tower on The Pier is famous in The Hague and Scheveningen, along with its local dialect. This small language area is famous all around. In Zeger Reyers’ project ‘Springûh...!’ (meaning ‘jump!’), every bungee jumper gets his or her name shouted over The Pier in local slang.
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Berndnaut Smilde (p.23)
4DSOUND (p.37)
HeHe (p.11) Lotic (p.34)
Lotte Geeven (p.10)
Mike Rijnierse Klok
Mike Rijnierse + Floris van Bergeijk + Thomas Koopmans + Arjan van Drunen+ Ludmila Rodrigues 5,4,3,2,1,…. lift-off
25 + 26 September Mike Rijnierse is known for his large scale works, in which the audience gets incorporated into the context of the work. His installations and performances are instruments in which dialogue and interaction are developed for sensory investigation. The relation of space and time or the geography and the perception of the observer are used as parameters for musical development. Rijnierse has developed a site specific work for the bungee jump tower. During the festival, a 100kg church bell will bungee jump from The Pier. The sixty meter fall of the bell will result in a unique sound experience. The effect is commonly heard when a sounding object approaches, passes, and recedes from an observer. Compared to the emitted frequency, the received frequency is higher during the approach, identical at the instant of passing by, and lower during the recession. The fall of the sounding bell will cause a Doppler effect.
25 September The ZERO artists of the 60s had an unconditional desire for what was yet to come. They wanted to aim high with their minimalist art work. They no longer felt anchored to the earth; on the final page of one of the magazines published by ZERO there is a photograph of a rocket that lifts off into the sky. On the ten pages leading up to that photo, there is a countdown to the lift-off. Now, on the opening night of TodaysArt 2015, we will pay homage to ZERO’s fascination with space with a symbolic rocket launch on the East platform of The Pier. TodaysArt, Mike Rijnierse, Floris van Bergeijk, Thomas Koopmans and Arjan van Drunen joined forces to create this spectacular son et lumière, which will not pass by unnoticed in Scheveningen.
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rarily changes the function of a lighthouse of just being a beacon. ‘Breaking Light#2’ was curated by Satellietgroep for Vuurtoren Scheveningen.
Berndnaut Smilde CONCEPT: Breaking Light#2 26 September Berndnaut Smilde uses his daily surroundings and spaces as motives. He analyses spaces and their appearance and takes them apart to investigate their unique details and features. During his Zandmotor residency with Satellietgroep Smilde looked into ways of imposing a natural phenomenon onto the surroundings. He is interested in the artificial aspect, the interference on the location, the meaning we project onto weather phenomena and the images created after them.
Helmut Smits Waterfall 26 September Helmut Smits is a ceaseless producer of ideas that comment on situations and objects in a frank and often humorous way. By observing in a straightforward, critical and witty way, he often sheds a new light on things. The newly commissioned performative work ‘Waterfall’ consists of a choreography of power shovels unloading water they take out of the sea.
During his residency Smilde continued to work on the idea of refracting the light of a lighthouse in order to project a rainbow onto the landscape. During TodaysArt, Smilde aims to open the curtains on the city side of the lighthouse for a short moment so he can compose ‘Breaking Light#2’ on Scheveningen. The lighting rhythm that the light house produces belongs to Scheveningen as an historic and temporal icon. By making use of a prism the artist tempo-
Tiago de Sousa + Grant Cieciura Zero movement 25 + 26 September Referring to the original ‘ZERO on Sea’ event, Cieciura and De Sousa will use the utilitarian white form of the reinforced ring binder as a means to represent 0. Cieciura and De 23
Lisa Park (p.15)
Abner Preis (p.18)
Evelina Domnitch + Dmitry Gelfand (p.10)
Plastic Fantastique (p.18)
Ellen Alien (p.31)
Sousa, being part of the live art work, will distribute strips of 0’s to the public. As the work progresses the 0’s will multiply and converge. The hidden form and structure underneath The Pier will be transformed by the public at night. Each 0, infinitesimal (indefinitely or exceedingly small) on its own in relation to The Pier, when placed on mass at night upon the underneath structure and lit by ultra violet light, will converge in a spectacle of shimmering fluorescence and seeming movement amongst the darkened spaces and recesses, informing and highlighting unknown and unseen aspects.
sion consisting of Geert-Jan Hobijn, Radboud Mens and Bastiaan Maris) will create ‘Zeero’, a very large organ made of steel pipes (normally used for sand suppletion) with a length of 24 meters and a diameter of 1.2 meters. Staalplaat will use gas burners used for hot air balloon to make hot air move through the pipes, which will generate a very low tone. Surf Lab Scheveningen LED Surfing 25 + 26 September Surf Lab Scheveningen is an initiative by Julian van Vliet and Henk Selier. The lab initiates Do It Yourself clinics, the production of surfboards using sustainable technologies and open source building and research of surfboard production using CNC machines. The lab offers housing, facilities and guidance for start-ups in this field.
Staalplaat Soundsystem Zeero 25 + 26 September Staalplaat Soundsystem are known for their large-scale sound artworks and performances. Ephemeral yet very present and physical they often work context-specific outside of the white cube in urban environments, industrial areas or in nature.
Surf Lab Scheveningen’s Julian Yoshi van Vliet presents ‘LED Surfing’, a visual spectacle taking place on the sea that involves, you guessed it, surfers and LEDs. LED Surfing is an existing phenomenon that Julian
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van Vliet is now transforming into a new format together with students of the Technical University Delft, especially for the occasion of TodaysArt at The Pier. When it becomes dark, make sure to gaze towards the sea around The Pier on Friday and Saturday, and you might see a magnificent display of lights shifting alongside and underneath The Pier.
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Sensory Experience and Enhanced Realities
At The Pier, you will be able to experience ‘Sensory Experience and Enhanced Realities’ on Friday and Saturday. Artists, designers, scientists and other practitioners are designing new ways of interaction that were practically impossible in the past. We as humans are using, understanding and even extending our senses in ways never done before. In the Lounge, a living lab of sorts, a variety of makers present existing projects, new works as well as experiments that deal with immersive audiovisual environments, augmented and virtual reality devices and applications, and the processing of bodily feedback. In addition to the projects in the lounge, make sure to also attend the ‘Sensory Experience and Enhanced Realities’ session as part of the Bright Collisions symposium program.
The Pier Friday 25 September Saturday 26 September
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Some of the presented projects (please note: not all projects are presented in the same space):
Squarepusher - Stor Eiglass (Marshmallow Laser Feast + Blue Zoo + Rob Pybus, presented by Warp Records)
Projects:
In addition to the projects in the lounge, make sure to also attend the related symposium session as part of Bright Collisions.
Arjan van Meerten Surge / The Last Mountain / Colosse Clement Georgescu Space invaders / Cloudprinting Julius Horsthuis Fractals Kite & Lightning Senza Penso Leslie Garc铆a + Paloma L贸pez (Interspecifics) Dimensions - in collaboration with Masha Ru, David Goedicke and Thomas Beelen De Naakte Ontwerpers Resonate Sander Bos
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Club Program
The night program has always been an essential ingredient of TodaysArt. To create an unforgettable event above the North Sea, we needed seriously skilled artists willing to compete with the sound of the sea and the shore breeze. These artists relate to the waves using their own waves, made of sound. The festival offers a varied line-up with all sorts of contemporary musical genres by upcoming talent and established names. Sometimes hard, sometimes eclectic, sometimes downtempo, you can find it all in the two intimate club spaces on The Pier on Friday and Saturday: Zuid -1 (a former restaurant) and Zuid +1 (a former casino), thumping away until early in the morning.
The Pier Friday 25 September Saturday 26 September
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25 September Zuid -1
25 September Zuid +1
Electric Indigo + Thomas Wagensommerer, Ellen Allien, Group A, Rrose, Yobkiss, Zamilska
Zebra Katz + Torus, 22tracks The program on Friday for Zuid +1 features a unique back 2 back appearance by Zebra Katz and Torus. New York rapper Zebra Katz’ explosive yet unpredictable live shows will match-up with Torus’ slow, bass heavy, warm and atmospheric sounds. The rest of the program is compiled by 22tracks, who have selected a range of upcoming producers and dj’s in the realm of beats, funk and tropical.
Electric Indigo emphasizes the spatialtemporal placement of subtly elaborated sounds and structures in her new live audiovisual performance ‘Morpheme’ together with Thomas Wagensommerer. Yobkiss (Paul Borchers + Yuko Hazama) returns to TodaysArt for their combination of electro, synth rock, acid house, groove, kraut and whispery vocals. Group A (Tommi Tokyo and Sayaka Botanic) is a Japanese industrial electronic punk duo. Moving and breathing like a living entity, the music of Rrose channels the spirit of techno’s roots while injecting influences from pre-techno electronic music and the avant-garde. Zamilska delivers solid portions of raw and heavy techno in her live shows which burst with vibrant energy, monstrous bass and powerful fat beats that works audiences into a frenzy. Veteran Ellen Allien will be essential in the transformation of the former restaurant into a fully fledged “club on sea”. 31
Zebra Katz (p.31)
Zamilska (p.31)
Prefuse 73 (p.34)
Young Marco (p.35)
screen emotional landscapes of abstraction, underscored by sonorous concave bass, trap beats and starry hi-hat showers.
26 September Zuid -1 Lorenzo Senni, Lotic, DJ Nigga Fox, Prefuse 73, Suicideyear Lorenzo Senni is known for deconstructing and then reconstructing dance music by carefully analyzing its constituent parts for reuse in a very different context, with repetition and isolation as key concepts. His work explores the idea of “buildup” found in euphoric dance music as a starting point to make a non-uplifting, more introspective piece that implicitly preserves its emotional tension and drama. Lotic brings an apocalyptic mix of haunting synth melodies, destructive beats, and skewed experimental electronica. Prefuse 73 will present his sounds, rhythms and formations in an exclusive set featuring material from his new album, a worldwide premiere before the start of his European tour in November. Rogério Brandão, aka DJ Nigga Fox, uses what he learned from local producers in Portugal and Angola to create a new hybrid, informed by kuduro, afro-house, Angolan deep, tarraxinha and batida. Suicideyear closes the night, with a set ranging from wide-
26 September Zuid +1 Loscil, Regis, Cassegrain + Tin Man, Low Jack, Acronym, Ketev, Sebastien Robert Loscil will perform work from the appropriately titled album ‘Sea Island’, an enchanting collection of electronic ambient compositions and visuals. Sébastien Robert will debut a new set. Low Jack will come at you with grinding, psychedelic electronics. Ketev will present his post techno-project made by phasing patterns from reel-to-reel tape loops that are manipulated by 4-track cassette decks, resulting in dark and heavy sounds. Cassegrain + Tin Man will present their unique brand of deep techno and acid. Acronym is on board for a deep techno live set, followed by heavyweight Regis, who will conclude the Saturday night program.
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TodaysArt x PIP
There will be an outdoor program on the upper deck of The Pier on Saturday afternoon presented in collaboration with PIP Den Haag. Expect a genre-defying and highly danceable line-up, an intimate atmosphere, a careful selection of quality live- and dj-sets and a wonderful crowd.
The Pier Saturday afternoon Outdoor Stage Auntie Flo I-F Session Victim Young Marco
Auntie Flo will present his Afro-futurist sounds. The two-man band Session Victim are expected to unleash unparalleled energy in their performance, demonstrating a charming disregard for the boundaries of house music. Dj, producer and digger Young Marco will bring his collection of strange gems and unclassics. I-F returns to TodaysArt to represent the Dutch West Coast sound and to close the stage with a notorious set packed with old, new, rare, and obscure italo, disco, techno and house sounds. In case of bad weather, this event will take place inside one of the spaces of The Pier.
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DJ Nigga Fox (p.34)
Rrose (p.31) Surf Lab Scheveningen (p.26) 36
4DSOUND: Circadian / Techno Is Space
TodaysArt hosts the world premier of 4DSOUND: ‘Circadian’. From 24 to 27 September you can experience interactive spatial sound performances in various daytime, evening and overnight programs in the impressive E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek, a former turbine of E.ON’s power plant, measuring 40x40x60 meters. In addition to the 24-hour ‘Circadian’ programs - interdisciplinary works from a diverse set of artists all created exclusively with and for 4DSOUND - the presentation will also include performances that are part of the 4DSOUND: ‘Techno Is Space’ program.
E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek 24-27 September
4DSOUND is a laboratory and cultural collective exploring Spatial Sound as a medium. Since 2008, it has developed an innovative Spatial Sound technology that has significantly improved and expanded the possibilities to create, perform and experience sound spatially. 4DSOUND is a fully omnidirectional sound environment, where the listener can appreciate Spatial Sound images in a virtually unlimited spatial continuum. Sound can move infinitely distant or intimately close to the listener: it moves around, as well as above, beneath, in between 37
or right through them. A 4DSOUND environment allows for a natural reproduction of sound sources in a spatial environment. The loudspeakers are completely transparent: instead of listening to speakers, one is listening to space.
techno through spatial sound composed for 4DSOUND’s omni-directional soundsystem. To supplement the soundsystem for these performances, 4DSOUND is teaming up with SubPac to outfit participants in the performances with wearable, wireless bass units.
4DSOUND: ‘Circadian’ investigates how spatial listening influences conscious states throughout the day and night. Performances explore how to physically connect the listener with the surrounding space through movement, bio-physical media and psycho-acoustic stimulation. The program features sound and movement workshops, immersive sonic meditation, participative spatial performances, overnight collective dreamstate and talks. The ‘Circadian’ program features Lisa Park, Marco Donnarumma, Michelle Lewis-King, Kazuya Nagaya, Robert Jan Liethoff and the overnight a/v meditation project ‘Noqturnl’ by John Connell and Florence To.
The 4DSOUND program is included in the TodaysArt Festival and Day passes, although reservation will be required for some of the performances. More information and reservations via www.todaysart. nl/2015/info.
The ‘Techno Is Space’ program features performances by Oscar Mulero and Cassegrain. The series explores the nature of spatial forms and energetic movements within techno, with artists reinterpreting 38
4DSOUND: Program
Thursday 24 September (from 20:00 to 06:00) Circadian: Lisa Park – NUE / John Connell + Florence To – Noqturnl / Kazuya Nagaya
E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek 24-27 September
Friday 25 September (from 09:00 – 06:00) Circadian: John Connell + Florence To – Noqturnl / Kazuya Nagaya / Marco Donnarumma / Michelle Lewis-King / Robert Jan Liethoff Saturday 26 September (from 09:00 to 06:00) Circadian: John Connell + Florence To – Noqturnl / Kazuya Nagaya / Marco Donnarumma / Michelle Lewis-King Sunday 27 September (from 09:00 to 12:00) Circadian: Kazuya Nagaya / Robert Jan Liethoff Sunday 27 September (from 20:00 to 00:00) Techno Is Space: Cassegrain / Oscar Mulero 39
Bright Collisions Symposium program
The fourth edition of the Bright Collisions symposium program takes place on the 25th and 26th of September on The Pier. Bright Collisions aims to form a meeting point with a cross-sector focus aiming to promote transdisciplinary and creative explorations. Bright Collisions refers to a specific moment in time in which people from usually disconnected backgrounds gather out of either necessity or curiosity. Through these collisions, either directed for this occasion or displayed, the event aims to contribute to developing a greater understanding of, or initiating alternate perspectives on, contemporary and urgent topics.
The Pier Friday 25 September Saturday 26 September
Bright Collisions 2015 is focused on creative explorations on the border of natural elements, technology and humanity. The program is composed of several themed sessions staged in collaboration with many partners, networks, participants and audiences. Leading thinkers and practitioners meet, discuss current developments and urgent issues, present challenging ideas and foster holistic approaches. 40
Sessions:
For updates and further information find the Bright Collisions booklet at the festival or visit our website: www.todaysart.nl
ZEROnow: Beyond the White Cube 24 + 25 September Sensory Experience and Enhanced Realities 25 September Hack the Body 25 September Sound, Heterogenous Art and Performance in Europe (SHAPE) 25 + 26 September Thinking with the Sea 26 September Space Science in the Arts 26 September Failed Architecture: Excavating the North Sea 26 September
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Tickets
Venues
Get your tickets or exchange your pre-sale tickets in the ticket shop at The Pier or at the E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek during the festival.
The Pier The Pier, an architectural and technical highlight from 1959, is not just an icon for the Netherlands; it is also well-known outside the Dutch borders. Due to financial difficulties, The Pier was closed down several years ago. In October 2014, The Pier was bought by KondorWessels Vastgoed (VolkerWessels) and DanZep. The Pier is the main venue of TodaysArt.NL Festival 2015. A map with the different spaces on and around The Pier that will be used can be found in the printed timetable and on our website.
The Pier ticket shop opening times Friday 25 September: 10:00 - 03:00 Saturday 26 September: 10:00 - 03:00 E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek ticket shop opening times Thursday 24 September: 19:00 - 00:00
Address: Strandweg (on the pier) 2586 JK Scheveningen
Friday 25 September: 08:30 - 00:00 Saturday 26 September: 08:30 - 00:00 Sunday 27 September: 08:30 - 11:00 + 19:00 - 22:00
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How to get there and back?
E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek In 2013 E.ON and Stichting Electriciteitsfabriek turned this industrial hall into an artistic hub. A large part of the factory is still active, but the former turbine hall (40x40x60 meters) has not been in use for 30 years. During TodaysArt the Electriciteitsfabriek provides the ideal backdrop for the 4DSOUND program.
All venues are easily accessible by public transport, bicycle and car. Please check www.9292. nl for actual public transport details and routes.
Address: De Constant Rebecqueplein 20 2518 RA The Hague
The Pier / Kurhaus by Public Transport
Grand Hotel Amr창th Kurhaus The Kurhaus was built in 1818. This monumental hotel was always known for its allure and high-end guests. Today, it is part of the Amrath Hotel Group and still provides one of the best sea views in Scheveningen. The Kurhaus will be the location for the official opening performance of TodaysArt 2015 and access free. Address: Gevers Deynootplein 30 2586 CK Scheveningen
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The Pier is easily accessible from Den Haag Centraal Station and Den Haag Hollands Spoor with tram 1 (stop: Kurhaus). You can also take bus 22 from Den Haag Centraal Station, to bus and tram stop Kurhaus. Important: Tram 9 is out of service and is replaced by bus 69 from Den Haag centraal station! From 01.00 until 05.00 you can take the nightbus from Kurhaus to Den Haag Hollands Spoor. This bus leaves 13 minutes past each hour.
(direction Loosduinen) to tram stop ‘Elandstraat’.
The Pier / Kurhaus by Car The Pier is easily accessible by taking the highway A4, A12, A13 or A44/N44 in the direction The Hague (Den Haag), following the direction Scheveningen-Strand or Scheveningen / Scheveningen Haven. Upon arrival, follow the directions to one of the many car parks: Zwarte Pad, Kurhaus, Nieuwe Parklaan or Scheveningen Bad. Find more information about parking options on our website (www. todaysart.nl/2015/info) or use the route and parking tool on www.denhaag.com/en/scheveningen/route.
E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek by Public Transport The Electriciteitsfabriek is easily accessible from Den Haag Centraal and Den Haag Holland Spoor. When travelling from Den Haag Centraal, tram 3 (Randstadrail, direction Loosduinen) will bring you to tram stop ‘Elandstraat’ from there on it’s only a 5 min walk away. When arriving on Den Haag Holland Spoor, take tram 11 to tram stop ‘Weimarstraat’, 3 min walking distance from the Electriciteitsfabriek. E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek by Car
E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek: how to get there from The Pier
The Electriciteitsfabriek is situated in a residential area. Parking is free until 18:00. You could also use to use the Park + Ride facility. To get there, follow P+R Hoornwijck from the A4 or A13. Find more information on our website: www.todaysart.nl/2015/info.
Travelling from The Pier to the E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek: take bus 22 in the direction of Duindorp from bus stop Kurhaus. Get off at bus stop Statenlaan (6 stops), change to tram 11 in the direction of Den Haag Hollands Spoor. Get off at tram stop: Weimarstraat. From Monday to Saturday Tram 15 will take you from The Pier to Den Haag Central Station, from there on take tram 3 44
TodaysArt
globe and bringing international pioneering and/or talented artists to local audiences.
TodaysArt is an organization that revolves around the presentation and development of adventurous and contemporary visual arts and performing arts in the urban environment.
TodaysArt is a hub member of several international networks of independent festivals, including International Cities of Advanced Sound and related arts (ICAS), We Are Europe and Sound, Heterogenous Art and Performance in Europe (SHAPE).
Since 2005, TodaysArt has brought local and international artists, thinkers and audiences together worldwide. TodaysArt is a platform for talent and pioneers who explore the possibilities of new and often controversial forms of expression. Main activities include: TodaysArt.NL – The Hague TodaysArt.JP – Tokyo/Kobe/ Kawasaki TodaysArt.RU – Moscow TodaysArt has built up an impressive international profile over the past seven years by presenting and producing works that are developed through direct and intensive relationships with some of today’s leading makers. TodaysArt is consistently involved in international collaborations, by sending Dutch artists to creative centres across the 45
Presenting Partners
Media Partners
TodaysArt De Pier ICAS SHAPE Governmental + Institutional Partners
Facillitating partners + Preferred Suppliers
Creative Partners
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TodaysArt Supervisory Board
Production
Piet Barendse Robert Koetsier Alex Adriaansens Nicole van Vessum
Board of Directors Olof van Winden Gwyneth Wentink TodaysArt The Hague
Tim Terpstra Galina Bartelds Brecht Hoffman Björn Remmerswaal Felipe Luiz dos Santos Irvin van der Houdt Tena Lazarevic Ivan Antonov
Artistic Team
Remco Schuurbiers Petra Heck Tim Terpstra Peter Zuiderwijk Olof van Winden
Marketing & Communication
Galina Bartelds Felipe Luiz dos Santos Björn Remmerswaal Jelle Verhoef Irvin van der Houdt
Kwinten Vissers Marjolein Veerman Ramses Nieuwenhuizen Sanne Kruithof Laura Stolk
Volunteer Coordination Joya de Bock Moniek van der Kwaak Isabel Sánchez Cecilia Design & Campaign Collective Works (Peter Zuiderwijk + Karin Mientjes) Web Development buurmen (David Veneman + Tom Laan) Photography Christian van der Kooy Videography Tanja Busking Other crew and Volunteers The festival wouldn’t be what it is today without the great efforts by many other crew members and all volunteers who are not listed here!
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