
Gilles Aubry will perform his piece Grrounding at Sonic Acts on february 27 2010.
Other artists will include Jacob Kirkegaard, Annea Lockwood, BJ Nilsen, Bary Truax, Louis Dufort, Hildegard Westerkamp, Yolande Harris, Eric laCasa.
Sonic Acts XIII – The Poetics of Space
Spatial explorations in art, science, music and technology
Since its inception in 1994, the annual Sonic Acts festival has questioned, examined, assembled and exhibited contemporary and historical developments at the cutting edge of art, technology, music and science. The thirteenth edition of Sonic Acts will take place in Amsterdam from 25 February to 25 March 2010 in Paradiso, De Balie, Netherlands Media Art Institute/Montevideo (NIMk) and Steim.
The title of this edition of Sonic Acts, The Poetics of Space, is a translation of La poétique de l’espace, a book by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, published in 1958. In it, Bachelard meticulously explains the influence of space and architecture on the individual, making an implicit plea for a new form of architecture founded on experience and imagination, rather than science and functionality.
Sonic Acts XIII The Poetics of Space is devoted entirely to the experience of space in the visual and audiovisual arts, film, music and architecture. The Poetics of Space is about the importance of physical spatial experience in times of far-reaching technification, and of the physical and psychological impact of spatial design. We will investigate relevant historical examples and utopian ideas and dreams of the 19th and 20th centuries, and speculate on future developments.
www.sonicacts.com