ChampdAction.LAbO

A sensory awareness of the body’s motions. We leverage an active analysis of everyday motions and kinesthetic memory into a meta-reflective performance combining choreography, soundscape and visual feedback. Summer, Vigdis, Mayank and Aline

We have changed rooms, due to some miscommunication from my side, but we are now sharing the 'Muziekstudio' with a few other sweet people. Set up will be tomorrow afternoon!! All musicians are still welcome to forget everything they ever learned and join our lovely, crazy crew!! ARrr!!

ChampdAction.LAbO - Tuesday 27/08/2019

Better late than never, I will finally contribute to this blog! Today was a nice day in the process of the iPhone Ensemble. Stefano put a lot of effort in creating a Max/MSP-Patch in order for the iPhones to correspond with an audio & video-database that we are creating! Tomorrow, Frederik will coac

Gloom is an interactive transformative space that invites the audience to explore and experience a room that is constantly shifting. Sound and vision play key part in creating the playful interchangeability of the space. Sound is present in three separate layers: as the ambient background, sporadi

Sarah Alves, PeiYun Chua and I would like to explore the idea of transformation through illustrations and movement. How do an actor, a dancer and an illustrator collaborate on a project about movement? The obvious answer would be the illustrator draws the actions of the actor and the dancer and

Dear all, Here is some general information about the Unity workshop that I will be giving on Tuesday. What is Unity? It's a game engine (used to develop videogames), that you can download and use for free. It can do real-time graphics, interaction, VR/AR and so on, and it can be appropriated in ma

Forget what you know about musical theory and composition. Throw that world away! Let the words of the wise Zac De La Rocca: "F*CK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME TO!!", be our motto. Be in the moment and do what you FEEL. Let's make some (beautiful?) noise together!! This group is open to all, b

Below are some links to pieces who make use of (the deconstruction of) speech which we discussed in our group today. Stripsody by Cathy Berbérien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmPbyyZwh4s Aria by John Cage (Angelica Luz): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l5MtB33tLI Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters: ht

Dear Humans (who are interested in my workshop [Wednesday’s]), i uploaded some materials that we'll use to play around and experiment, please download them ahead! (https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/cloud/index.php/s/NgifmDnx3culqwR ) Please download also MAX8 (https://cycling74.com/downloads ) once downlo

Myself and Smila Zinecker are devising a project based on the political relationship between technology and disobedience, and whether technology can actually be viewed as neutral with regards to disobedience. Can technology be a neutral device for both obedience and disobedience? Or does technology

Lieven De Cauter (philosopher, activist) will give an interactive lecture on disobedience on Monday 26/08. What roles can art and activism play in a post-Fordist "society of the spectacle"? Can activist art effect real change? ART & ACTIVISM IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION (a book by Lieven De Cauter,

Emilie Morin (Concordia University Canada) mieliemorin@hotmail.com Dancer Emilie Morin was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She obtained her BA in dance in 2006 (UQÀM), and since then, works as a freelance dance performer for live performance and dance on screen. She has collaborated with many i

The best form of government... Fragment from "Upon J. Cage's Songbook" (video&performance) Dmitry Cheglakov - interpretation of Cage's ideas, phonogram, performance. Lyrics from H. D. Thoreau! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gacaahK-lWQ Dmitry Tcheglakov (1970) graduated from Moscow State as a cel

http://www.seismopolite.com/art-as-civil-disobedience

Joud and Aline. Researching ways to expand beyond current boundaries of methodology, rules and aesthetics of type design. We made the decision to make a disobedient type installation where the audience and play a role in manipulating and transforming the shape of the word. We are going to screen the

After speaking with coaches and people, our imagined castle became a tower. We had to deconstruct and formulate a more stable essence which we could realize by the end of the week. Here it goes: How can we, using surrealism and absurdity, let the audience acknowledge the repressed, heavy, undefine

Intertwining is based on an earlier sound installation of Mathias Geerkens. With this installation, sound was created by the motion rubber bands spread around the room. The first seed of our soundsculpture was planted. By adding music and dance to its environment, it will be encouraged to grow. On

Hello everyone! So, as I said, I am about to make some decisions today, and the first happened to be the name. I named it Lone Gorilla(s) because it is an oxymoron, you can't be alone when you're with other people (literally speaking). The lone is about the fact that I was the one who mentioned it,

New project on its way by me and Sadrie. Duo in which the human voice (searching for its limits) interacts with video (animation). The concept is inspired by "the stomach dance", a painting by Aubrey Beardsley (which is again based on a story written by many writers; Oscar Wilde among others) about

We are working on a gamified, performative experience which connects a digital game structure to a physical space. Audience members will be turned into players, making choices and solving riddles to reach new levels. Inspirations are Black Mirror's San Junipero, masks, adventure games and fiction.

Me and Joud Toamah are researching ways to expand beyond current boundaries of methodology, rules and aesthetics of type design. For the curious among you; follow our research on this blog . #typography #designsystems #disobedience #typedesign #graphicdesign

Roberta and I are obsessed with yellow, particularly this thing called lemons, within this color. So far we've only sporadically researched movement, photography and videography based on this blissful citrus kiss. This week we want to pull it out of research and push it into a try-out of an install

I'm still open for collaborations and other projects, but I am also bringing a lecture-performance/guide which I am working at the moment and therefor I am looking for musicians to explore it further! It's about acknowledging certain stereotypes/cliché's in contemporary music. So if you have a back

GROUP 1 Ewoud Van Eetvelde ewoud.van.eetvelde@hotmail.com Carmine Santavenere: carminejsanta@gmail.com Lucas Lebrun lucas.lebrun@sciencespo.fr Joud Toamah joud.toamah@yahoo.com Louisa Teichman louisateichmann@outlook.com GROUP 2

Together with Myrte Vandeweerd we would like to open up taboos about panic disorders through a mixed performance of dance and music (...). What you see outside of a person is often not what’s happening inside. Strong expectations of success in our present-day society repress any form of failure, lea

Tim Courtyn (KCA) courtyntim@gmail.com Classical guitar player Tim Courtyn (1996) is a Belgian guitarist based in Ghent/Antwerp. Currently studying at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp with Nico Couck, he focuses mainly on modern and contemporary music. He is fascinated by the written and spoken word,