World Wide Video Festival: 2000

A R C H I V E 2 0 0 1

10 / 11 / 12 / 13 October 2001:

The Light Surgeons
Alexei Shulgin
Matt Hindley
Kurt Ralske
Breda Beban
Walter Verdin

Live Event > The Light Surgeons /
Hexstatic
On Saturday night the World Wide Video Festival Party at the Melkweg will be dominated by The Light Surgeons, a London collective of filmmakers, graphic designers and DJ's. The performance 'Electronic Manoeuvres' will begin at The Max at 10.30 pm. Partly hidden behind a large projection screen, The Light Surgeons will challenge perfection by presenting a breath-taking audiovisual show with their super8 films, slide sequences, 16mm film loops and assorted low-tech equipment. Next, performances by Loop Professor and Scanone with visuals by The Light Surgeons. In de Oude Zaal, starting at midnight, Hextatic will perform, with a guest appearance by Alexei Shulgin.
See programme schedule: Sat Oct 13

Locations
Melkweg - The Max: 13 Oct 10.30 pm
Melkweg - Oude Zaal: 13 Oct midnight

Live Event > Alexei Shulgin
Under the inspiring leadership of Russian artist Alexei Shulgin (RUS) cyberpunk rock band 386DX will perform at the Melkweg. Shulgin's 'band' consists of assorted outdated hardware, a dry ice machine and a keyboard. Ironic mockery or dead serious - whatever it may be, Shulgin's performances are always a surprise.
See programme schedule:

Thu Oct 11, and

Sat Oct 13

Location
Melkweg - Oude Zaal/The Max: 11 Oct 10 pm
and 13 Oct

Live Event > Matt Hindley
Matt Hindley (ZAF) aims to examine the most highly charged moments of the inner lives of a range of subjects. Allow me to observe is a body-worn recording system. It shoots in the first person and is activated only by a high degree of excitement and arousal. The audience is invited to participate in Hindley's research. During the day the images - voyeuristic videos, edited by the subconscious.
See programme schedule:

Thu Oct 11,

Fri Oct 12, and

Sat Oct 13

Location
Melkweg - The Max: 11, 12, 13 Oct

Live Event > Kurt Ralkse
'Ursonate.02' is a performance, a live improvisation in sound and image. The first 'Ursonate' was composed by Kurt Schwitters in 1932, a phonatory score with no linguistic meaning. Ralske (USA) became attuned to the subtle interaction of music and image - the myriad possibilities of ways sound and image can inflect each other's tone and meaning. Ralske works with nato.0+55 - the trailblazing software program - which he rewrites and supplements as the need arises. Ralske describes his current video work as an inversion of his previous role: 'reverse film scoring', creating image to match sound, instead of the other way around.
See programme schedule:

Fri Oct 12

Location
Melkweg - Oude Zaal: 12 Oct 8.30 pm

Live Event > Breda Beban
Ten years after the outbreak of the Balkan war, Breda Beban (YUG/GBR) revisits her birthplace as Slobodan Milosevic's regime collapses in Yugoslavia. titled after a heartbreaking Balkan folk song, Beban's live video performance 'Too Early For Sorrow Too Late For Happiness?' captures the almost unbearable intensity of an event when a moment in personal history and a moment in social history blur.
See programme schedule:

Fri Oct 12, and

Sat Oct 13

Locations
Melkweg - Oude Zaal: 12 Oct 10.30 pm Melkweg - Theaterzaal: 13 Oct 8 pm

Live Event > Walter Verdin
X<Africa was first shown in 1997. This is a new version of this double concerto for sound and image, inspired by the Malinke rhythms of the African Bété tribe from Ivory Coast. This performance combines rhythms, music, dance and video projections against an African background.
See

Echo

Location
De Brakke Grond: 2 Nov 8.30 pm