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<big><big><big><b>Perform!</b></big></big></big><br>
<b>an evening with Chris Salter and TeZ</b><br>
V2_Institute for the Unstable Media<br>
Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam<br>
December 2, 20.00 - 23.00 (Doors open from 19.30)<br>
Admission: free<br>
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href="http://www.v2.nl/events/perform">http://www.v2.nl/events/perform</a><br>
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<b>V2_ invited Chris Salter to become guest curator for a period of
four months starting in December 2010. To kick off his main
project, the Performative Ecologies expert meeting early next
year, Salter will present his book <i>Entangled: Technology and
the Transformation of Performance</i></b>, <b>and introduce the
research topics he will focus on during his curatorship. </b><br>
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Performing arts traditions span thousands of years of human history,
but today, the word "performative" seems to be gaining increasing
traction in all kinds of disciplines that have never before
described their practices that way, including science and technology
studies, the media arts, economics, sociology, anthropology and
architecture, to name just a few. Why are these fields suddenly
turning toward the performative and material and moving away from
the simulated, virtual and disembodied – qualities that
characterized technocultural artistic practices as well as cultural
theory at the end of the last century?<br>
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The Italian performance artist TeZ presents ANHARMONIUM, an
immersive installation and performance investigating spatial
awareness via light reflections of water waves. Ultrasonic sound
will make water in small basins vibrate, and laser beams will
project the wave patterns onto the walls and ceiling of the V2_
space.<br>
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Perform! will be streamed live at <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.v2.nl">www.v2.nl</a>,
December 2, 20:00 CET.<br>
Pictures of this event tagged with the keyword V2_ will
automatically be published at v2.nl.<br>
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Joris van Ballegooijen
PR & Communicatie
V2_Institute for the Unstable Media
+31 (0)10 206 7272
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.v2.nl">www.v2.nl</a>
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