Festival in Opposition - art and politics of improvisation, from 26th to 29th October in CK13, organized by kuda.org
Festival in Opposition - art and politics of improvisation
OUR 'Accompanyings'
October 26 - 29, 2016
Place: Youth Center CK13
Vojvode Bojovića 13, Novi Sad
Organization: kuda.org
The Festival in Opposition is a platform for establishing the relationship between art, education, and the policy of improvisation, as well as temporary zones of groupness and joint creation, through participatory music and poetry production. OUR ‘Accompanyings’ initiates a joint art production within the festival format, with the intention of conceptualizing and raising the issue of art and improvisation policy. This anti-festival is based on the idea of Derek Bailey, who organized the one-week annual festival of free improvisation Company Weeks (1977-1994). It was also the name of a series of releases of different ensembles with constant changes of members.
By the very title of the event, we mean Rock in Opposition, a movement of music bands that opposed the monopoly of the music industry during the 1970s.
This meeting is realized in the context of the atrophy of contemporary art production, which in today's Serbian society is taking place in the directions of commercialization, festivalization, and reduction of art to social utility. We will look at history, but also at the development of new forms and relations of art production, as well as at the research of new forms of education in art.
Participants: Chris Cutler, London; Neven Korda, Ljubljana; Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer, Orléans; Howard Slater, London; Paul Abbott, London; Cara Tolmie, London; Nenad Vujic, Belgrade; Milan Nenin, Novi Sad; Danny Hayward, London; Ozren Lazic, Novi Sad; Mira Mattar, London; Anthony Iles, London; Vladimir Oreskovic, Novi Sad; Zsadányi Ernö, Novi Sad; Zsolt Polgar, Novi Sad; Vladimir Sekulic, Novi Sad; Igor Lecic, Novi Sad ...
Organizer & producer: New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad, www.kuda.org
Contact: Zoran Pantelić and Borka Stojić, office [at] kuda.org
In cooperation with the Youth Center CK13, Novi Sad, www.ck13.org
The Festival in Opposition is realized within the broader project "Aesthetic Education Extended", in which the Multimedia Institute (HR), Kontrapunkt (MK), Kulturtreger / Books (HR), Berliner Gazette (DE) and kuda.org (RS) cooperate.
The project is supported through the Creative Europe program of the European Commission with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia, the European Cultural Foundation Amsterdam - BAC program, the Provincial Secretariat for Culture and Public Information and the City of Novi Sad.
THE PROGRAM
> 4 permanent festival facilities:
OUR ‘Accompanyings’> Improvisations >> Performances
OUR ‘Accompanyings’ is a key element of the event. It is a reactivated zone of togetherness through
experimental and participatory music and poetry production. As during Company Weeks, these will be “open sound sessions” in which different lineups and musicians will mix.
JuBox (music exchange)
Playlist in the process of creation by all participants and visitors of the anti-festival. It will be activated as well
use via wi-fi network and directly on the Jukebox computer in space CK13.
Sound installation
Recordings collected at various locations in Novi Sad will be presented as permanent audio
installation in the yard of CK13 during the anti-festival.
Reading desk
Brochures, leaflets, comics and texts that are part of independent production and do-it-yourself principles created in
former Yugoslavia, Great Britain, etc.
Wednesday / October 26
17: 00–23: 00
JuBox (music exchange)
Sound installation
Reading desk
19:00
Re: Memberance> Audio-visual performance, Milan Nenin and Zsolt Polgar, Novi Sad
20:00
OUR Accompanyings> Open Music Sessions
Improvisations >> Performances
Thursday / October 27
17: 00–23: 00
JuBox (music exchange)
Sound installation
Reading desk
18:00 OUR Accompanyings> Open Music Sessions
20:00
Studio as an instrument - Art Bears Winter Song> lecture, Chris Cutler, London
Music listening session: Faust, Musique Concrete, Rock in Opposition, etc.
21:00
Anguish Language: public processing> Poetic performance
Participants: Paul Abbott, Cara Tolmie, Danny Hayward, Mira Mattar, Anthony Iles, London
Anguish Language is a project that approaches language as a fundamental aspect of today’s social crisis. The project explores and develops new forms of publishing, poetry and political speech that have emerged during the financial crisis since 2008 and social struggles that call into question the consequences of that crisis. In CK13, the new group will vocalize texts, sounds and noises that resonate with the term ‘anguish language’. http://anguishlanguage.tumblr.com
21:45
Operating with the memory of YU cassette experimentalism of the 80s
> Presentation and session of listening to music, Nenad Vujić, Belgrade
Nenad Vujić, a fan of experimental music from Belgrade, wells, and digs in the niches of the eighties Yugoslav cassette production of alternative music, and processes the map on his A hogon’s industrial guide web platform. The primary goal of A hogon’s industrial guide is to collect cassette material and its accompanying materials, as well as to create a map for art historians, popular culture archaeologists, and musicologists, which sets out the basic topologies of cassette experimentalism in the former Yugoslavia in the 1980s. Recently, the research and platform has been extended to other Eastern European productions, including a retrospective of these practices in Hungary. http://ahogonsindustrialguide.blogspot.rs/
22:30
Sphuzo ti-FRX 98 (The Pocket)> Paul Abbott, London
Solo performance for drums and electronics.
http://www.paulabbott.net/paul/index-content.html#work
Friday / October 28
17: 00–23: 00
JuBox (music exchange)
Sound installation
Reading desk
18:00 OUR Accompanyings> Open Music Sessions
20:00
File Under Popular> Conversation and discussion
Participants: Chris Cutler, Ozren Lazic, Howard Slater, Paul Abbott, Zoran Pantelic, Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer
Discussion and presentation of a book on the political theory of popular music by British musician, composer and theorist Chris Culter. Translation into Serbo-Croatian: Ozren Lazić; publisher: kuda.org
21:00
Borghesia - historicization> presentation, Neven Korda, Ljubljana
The do-it-yourself concept could mean a different way of production, which is the opposite of a hegemon. Or at least who, along with the ruling one, realizes and materializes other and different ways of production. Borghesia today is indisputably what it is today, not what it was until May 1989. This fact cannot be bypassed. The DIY principle lies outside Borghesia. That is, if it was at all possible to connect Borghesia with the ideologies and practices of otherness, it was necessary to cover up and suppress the facts of the mode of production, which, among other things, produced Borghesia.
https://issuu.com/kiblapress/docs/folio_pikapolonica_web/82
21:45
The Scratch Orchestra> Archive, presentation, Howard Slater, London
Through a presentation, Howard Slater will take us on a journey with the Scratch Orchestra through a brief history of their origins, as well as the continuation of their influence and inspiration to this day. The Scratch Orchestra originated from a series of music composition classes at London’s Morley College. These classes were initiated by Cornelius Cardew, Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton and were attended by avant-garde musicians and artists interested in sound research, performance and interventions outside concert halls. From this, the Scratch Orchestra was formed in 1969 and is described in the sketch of the statute as “a large number of enthusiasts who bring their experience and come together for action (making music, playing, performing). https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/nature-study-notes/
22:30
Terebinth Mo’an> performance, Cara Tolmie & Paul Abbott, London
ULAPAARC is an ongoing collaboration between Paul Abbott and Care Tolmie. Their joint work balances the physical, writing, and research practices as interrogation methods to explore the poetics and politics of language, rhythm, and voice.
Saturday / October 29
17: 00–23: 00
JuBox (music exchange)
Sound installation
Reading desk
18:00 OUR Accompanyings> Open Music Sessions
20:00
Cesura // Acceso Magazine> discussion, Paul Abbott, Anthony Iles, Howard Slater and others
Listening session as an introduction to the Cesura project // Acceso and conversation with members of the editorial board. Cesura // Acceso is a printed and online journal for music, politics and poetics. The editorial staff consists of: Paul Abbott, Gabriel Humberstone, Cara Tolmie, Chritstina Chalmers, Anthony Iles and Larne Abse Gogarty. Number 1 can be read online: http://cesura-acceso.org
21:00
The relationship between composition and improvisation in Ernö Király's music - between tradition and the avant-garde
> presentation, Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer, Orleans
21:45
Notes on Random Organizations> interview, Anthony Iles, London
A short talk and discussion during which we will consider the forms of small organizations and historical experience, and ask questions about spontaneity, institutions, communes, and the state in the context of anti-festivals.
22:30
Conspiracies> score by Chris Cutler, London
musical performance >> participants and conspirators, the mix of performers
Conspiracies use a structure strictly based on time, which for the most part is intentionally emptied of specific content: when it is played it is given, but what is played is not. Musicians/participants are invited to get involved, to resist or to ignore each other, in strictly or randomly determined durations. To make the matter more interesting, each participant is also invited to prepare material that includes at least one or more other musicians, who can present whenever they want. No one else knows what that material is and when it can appear. Due to the disturbed continuity and consensus, the result that appears is - "what no one wants" (F. Engels). Despite this, the score gave each participant strong guidelines to act and work for the good, whatever he thought it would be.
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The festival in opposition is part of the project "Extended Aesthetic Education" which was supported by: