Paraphrasing Babel

Last night I attended the opening of a brand new exhibition by Viewmaster foundation 'Paraphrasing Babel'.
As you may remember I also reported about the previous exhibitions, Body Talks in 2011 and For Real in 2010. This time the video installations and projections are showcased in public space in Maastricht and in Heerlen.
The evening started with a bus tour from Maastricht to Heerlen, where the official opening took place.
Here you can take a look at some impressions but I recommend you to take a walk in Maastricht and Heerlen and enjoy the full experience of Paraphrasing Babel. The exhibition is open until November 18th ( every evening 6 pm - 23 pm).
http://www.paraphrasing-babel.eu/

Paraphrasing Babel is a multidisciplinary exhibition with video projections, video installations, moving graphic structures and sound artworks in the public space of the cities of Heerlen and Maastricht - two urban centres with a very diverse feel in a border region where different languages and dialects are spoken and different cultures meet. The 35 projections and ‘soundscapes’ have rarely been shown outside the confines of museums or art institutes. Their specific contents make these pieces perfect for showing in the (semi-)public domain. After all, it is on the street where different languages meet or blend and where the media and commerce are directly addressing the public. In these surroundings, the artworks engage in a direct relationship with the onlooker or passer-by and reach the public in an alternative form.

BodyTalks, video art installations in public space

BodyTalks – Video Art & Cinedans in Public Space

19 video works in the city + 4 installations inside cultural institutions
September 30th until October 23rd - 18.00 - 00.00 hrs - Maastricht

In few hours Nederlandse Dansdagen (Dutch Dance Festival) will open with a very promising program.
Before that let’s have a look at BodyTalks, that had it’s opening last week. From September 30th until October 23rd, Viewmaster Maastricht and Cinedans Amsterdam present the exhibition BodyTalks – Video Art & Cinedans in Public Space in the inner city of Maastricht. From shop windows, vacant business premises and residences, 23 videos and Cinedans films are showed every evening on the streets of Maastricht.http://brankopopovic.blogspot.com/2011/09/bodytalks.html 

I am a boy band

The video installations can be found in Brusselse Straat and Grote Gracht in Maastricht and that is very good choice. First of all because it’s the street I have to use while I go home after work and I get to enjoy this experience more often. But also because these street have certain urban atmosphere where various people are coming through. There are coffeeshops, student bars, University, empty shops, snack bars, but also very nice houses. I’ve always liked this part of the city because it has a ‘big city’ vibe. BodyTalks gives it an extra dimension and lights it up.

Street view with flyer image  from Prototype (2007) by Yves Ackermann 

BodyTalks

Next week, BodyTalks - Video Art and Cinedans in Public Space will open in Maastricht.
From September 30th until October 23rd, Viewmaster Maastricht and Cinedans Amsterdam present the exhibition BodyTalks – Video Art & Cinedans in Public Space in the inner city of Maastricht. From shop windows, vacant business premises and residences, 23 video and Cinedans films will be on show every evening on the streets of Maastricht.











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For Real / 28 Utopian projections in public space

For Real
28 Utopian projections in public space
01-31 October 2010
17.00 - 24.00
Maastricht/Hasselt

http://www.for-real.eu



Trailer

FOR REAL 2010 - 28 Utopian Projections in Public Space from Viewmaster Foundation on Vimeo.

Bus trip to Hasselt


From 1 to 31 October, Viewmaster Foundation presents the exhibition For Real in the public spaces of the cities of Maastricht (the Netherlands) and Hasselt (Belgium). From 17:00 hrs till 00:00 hrs, 28 various artistic visions of the shifting boundaries between the ‘real’ and the ‘unreal’ will be projected on large store windows, cultural organisations and offices.

The artists in For Real visualize unknown realities, dream worlds, utopias or conversely apocalyptic stories that both amaze and alienate. The selected works are reflections on contemporary developments in film, media, commercials and games. Areas in which boundaries between reality and virtuality increasingly blur the artificial and the authentic.

The videos, by established national and international artists and new emerging talent, have rarely or never been displayed in public areas. In the urban landscape other layers of meaning are tapped into than when displayed in a ‘white cube’ and ‘black box’ where the ‘real world’ is excluded.

For Real will be presenting new and awarded works of art by:
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács (NL), Thomas Bürke (DE), Brody Condon (US), Chris Cornish (UK), Erwin Driessens & Maria Verstappen (NL), Pieter Geenen (BE), Stephen Honegger (AU), Harald Hund & Paul Horn (AT), Dagmar Keller & Martin Wittwer (DE/CH), Clare Langan (IE), Michael Najjar (DE), Jan van Nuenen (NL), David O'Reilly (IE), Saskia Olde Wolbers (NL), Jacco Olivier (NL), Hans Op de Beeck (BE), Joris Perdieus (BE), Nicolas Provost (BE), Christine Rebet (FR), Hiraki Sawa (JP), Monica Studer & Christoph van den Berg (CH), Mungo Thomson (US) and Markus Vater (DE).

For Real is organised by Viewmaster Foundation, Maastricht, and curated by Bart van den Boom.
Viewmaster Foundation wants to place video art (and related media) in the Euregion, by realising high-profile video art projects in the urban and public space (and other special locations). Artistic, social and cultural topicalities are the main focus. Viewmaster Foundation wants to reach a large and new audience, and set up new partnerships.



Nicolas Provost ' Suspension'


Persijn Broersen & Margrit Lukacs 'Everytime'


Stephen Honegger 'Three hour donut'


Christine Rebet ' Brand band news'


Hans Op de Beeck ' Places (gardening 2)