Opening of the new theatre and 10th Todaysart Festival 2014.
For the composition of the show samples from the world famous Mascletàs are used; deafening rhythmic fireworks shows are an annual tradition in the Spanish city of Valencia. A Mascletà is sometimes described as "an aural spectacle of powerful firecrackers, bombs and piercing arrows shot in the air in a perfectly orchestrated way."
The composition, which was created specifically for Scheveningen, is named 'Mascletà Scheveningen: a salute to the 'Zuiderstrand'. The show consists of the entire original 'retenciones' and closes with the 'terremoto final'.
Date: 25 September 2014 , Former Norfolk Terrain, Scheveningen, The Netherlands
Fireworks, Production and Composition: Onno Dirker & Frits Pen, Dream Fireworks NL / Pirotecnia Europlá Valencia ES and Slagwerk Den Haag
Film - Registration: Onno Dirker and Christian van der Kooy / Rob Gijsbers / Tim van Dijk
Supported by: Todaysart Festival, Gemeente Den Haag, Cultuur aan het Spuiplein
Aggregatzustand / State of Aggregation Solid, liquid, gaseous. Art as charge carrier.
24 October till 23 November 2015, Dortmund
The artists in the exhibition “State of Matter” at Künstlerhaus Dortmund initially appear to adopt disparate positions, whether through their use of apparently unrelated media or distinct pictorial languages, but on closer inspection a number of shared conditions emerge: a state of limbo, fluctuations in temporal registers of consciousness, and a sense of separation between the body and the space surrounding it. What ultimately connects the individual works is that they each tackle the idea of energy, addressing charge, usage and potential in a variety of different contexts. “State of Matter” is a thematic exhibition whose theme is ultimately buried deep within the characteristics and potentialities of the works, rather than at a surface level – the state of matter principle is thus the curatorial objective.
