[Nettime-nl] TONY CONRAD in Brussels

["Stoffel Debuysere @ argos" <stoffel@argosarts.org>]

ARGOS, centre for art & media, and BOZAR CINEMA (Brussels) present:

INDETERMINATE CINEMA: TONY CONRAD


One of the pioneers of structural filmmaking, video art, and  
minimalist music is playing, for the first time in Europe, a re- 
worked version of his Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain (1972).  
This "minimalist spectacle" features a projected film loop of black  
and white images, alongside a stellar group of string players. The  
day after he will present and talk about a range of his films and  
videos. Two events not to be missed!!


Tony Conrad & guests: Forty-five Years on the Infinite Plain (1972-2007)
Sa 13.10.2007 // 20:30
Paleis voor Schone Kunsten / Palais des Beaux-Art // entry fee: 9/7 euro

Created in New York in 1972, the performance Ten Years Alive on the  
Infinite Plain seems to be the ideal synthesis of Tony Conrad's  
research: his structural approach to cinema unites with his minimal  
and open approach to music. Four projectors showing a hypnotic and  
flashing film loop are joined by musicians, producing continuous  
sound chords. The result is a suspended audiovisual environment,  
which is reflective and unravels very slowly; "very meditational and  
very terrific", as Conrad put it himself. This event creates a great  
opportunity to live this historic performance, never presented in  
Belgium, in a revised form : Forty-five Years on the Infinite Plain.

Participants: MV Carbon, Julia Eckhardt, Stefaan Quix, Timo van  
Luyck, Stefaan Smagghe, Jürgen De Blonde, Els van Riel, Dominica  
Eyckmans

A Sunday Afternoon with Tony Conrad
Su 14.10.2007 // 18:00
ARGOS // FREE

During the last film festival in Rotterdam, Tony Conrad electrocuted  
a film reel, which produced light flashes and sparks. He then  
developed the images in a bucket and screened them before a baffled  
and highly amused audience. Apart from lecturing at Buffalo  
University, New York, this filmmaker, video maker and musician is  
also a brilliant pedagogue with an inspiring sense of humour. This  
event (performance/lecture/screening) is the perfect introduction to  
Tony Conrad's work, a trajectory through over forty years of radical  
creation.



next week: KEN JACOBS!
in the context of the ARGOS programme OPEN ARCHIVE #1

www.argosarts.org


Stoffel Debuysere
www.argosarts.org
mail: stoffel@argosarts.org




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