[spectre] V2_Event: TANGENT_FEAR stream + IRC March 03 ++19.00 CET++

[stephen kovats]

We invite all of you who aren't able to join us in the vicinity of
V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam
to join online at ...

TANGENT_FEAR: INVITING HORROR

featuring Karen Lancel, Hermen Maat, Dennis de Favero,
Jill Magid, Jordan Crandall and Marc de Kesel

ROTTERDAM + NEW YORK + HELSINKI + MELBOURNE

LIVE STREAM: http://www.v2.nl/live
MODERATED IRC CHAT SPACE: irc.v2.nl (#V2_FEAR)

Friday 3 March 2006 : CET 19:00-22:00 Rotterdam local

GMT  18.00 - 21.00 
NORTHERN/EASTERN EUROPE (HELSINKI) 20.00 - 23.00
EASTERN STANDARD TIME (NEW YORK) 13.00 - 16.00
PACIFIC STANDARD TIME (LOS ANGELES) 10.00 - 13.00
AUSTRALIA STANDARD TIME (MELBOURNE) 05.00 - 08.00 (next day Sat Mar 04)

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'What is rejected and refused in the symbolic order, reappears in reality.
Specters, ghosts and phantoms haunt the world.'
(Peter Weibel on Jacques Lacan)

TANGENT_FEAR presents Inviting Horror, an artistic research project by
Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat which investigates the experience of fear in
public space. In a world in which daily activity is monitored through
electronic technologies marked by networked surveillance systems,
biometric scanning and profiling mechanisms, people are required to
surrender access to their personal spheres of privacy and movement. Under
the guise of community safety and anti-terror security a demand for
ultimate transparency is made. Suspense is created and the urban space
becomes a phobic zone, a horror-scape, in which an explosive mix of
aggression and desire results in an irrational need to remove one’s self
from the public sphere, a desire for the incognito.

To invite horror, and offer it a safe haven within our personal realms of
well being and spheres of desire, implies both an obvious impossibility
and a potential to counter the loss of control of our public domain. Using
the movie related notion of horror, we search artistic strategies and
scenarios in which the transition from desire and fear to a social phobia
can be (re)constructed as a real-time and real-space action occurring live
in the public sphere. Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat have invited a group of
artists and researchers whose work centers on notions of fear, the body
and perception to engage a broader public audience to discuss and explore
these issues to bring horror ‘inside’ from within the public sphere.


Participants

Jordan Crandall <online Helsinki>, media artist and theorist, UC San Diego,
recently completed Homefront, a video installation exploring the
psychological dimensions of the new security culture.
http://jordancrandall.com/homefront

Dennis Del Favero <online Melbourne>, artist and researcher, presents his
video piece Pentimento, and will discuss the aesthetics of trauma through
Nachtraglichkeit, a work in which he introduces the work of Pierre Janet.
http://www.icinema.unsw.edu.au

Jill Magid <online New York>, both performer and director, she engages the
systems of discipline in society, such as police, CCTV, and forensic artists
by exploiting the dormant possibilities of their services. She employs the
system, via its latent qualities, to establish an intimate and poetic
experience. http://www.jillmagid.net

Marc de Kesel <online Rotterdam>, Lacanian philosopher and researcher, Jan
Van Eyck Academie Maastricht, will talk about the violence which is inherent
to people, and the incapacity to deal with violence lucidly. An
impossibility that makes violence only more malicious.

Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat <online Rotterdam>, experiment with new art
forms for social cohension using electronic communication devices. In their
performances and installations Lancel and Maat use a combination of online
and offline media in which they invite the audience to participate. They
design projects for urban public space such as those found at train
stations, airports, museum lobbies, theaters, universities, construction
sites, and city squares. Much of their work is developed in collaboration
with V2_Lab (Rotterdam) and Montevideo / TBA Netherlands Institute for Media
Art (Amsterdam). http://www.lancelmaat.nl

New York stream in collaboration with EYEBEAM <www.eyebeam.org>
Helsinki stream in collaboration with M_CULT <www.m-cult.org>

Embedded stream and IRC chat: http://www.v2.nl/live

or using external clients:

REAL MEDIA stream: rtsp://helix.v2.nl/encoder/fear.rm
IRC server: irc.v2.nl
Channel: #V2_FEAR

For technical issues, please use IRC channel: #tech

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