Gangplank | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

Gangplank

→ www.skc.uniri.hr/radionica-gangplank/

Bruno Pocheron (born 1968) studied visual arts in France and is currently living in Berlin. He works internationally mostly as light designer, but also as technical director, set designer and sound designer. Together with Isabelle Schad and Ben Anderson, he initiated the collaborative framework Good Work, concerned with the representation and perception of the body onstage and in society. He's currently involved in stage projects with Nancy Banfi (Berlin), Annie Dorsen (New York), Mette Edvardsen (Brussels), Alix Eynaudi (Wien), Anne Juren (Wien), Aline Landreau (Berlin), Martin Nachbar (Berlin), and Doris Uhlich (Wien). He's co­organizing Wiesenburghalle (Wiesen55 e.V.), a collective working space in Berlin­Wedding, and Gangplank, an open network of artists and designers focusing on inter­media communication, relations between technology and art, and cross­overs between the fields at play in contemporary performance­making. He develops software interfaces in PureData and vvvv, allowing for a fluid communication between lights, sound and video and researches the dramaturgical impact of these elements.

Emese Csornai, from Budapest, is a Berlin-based theater professional with a visual art background, specialized in installation, performance and light design. She has studied architecture in Budapest and got a BA at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2009. She started learning theater light design in 2007, later guided by Ellen Knops. She has been a dramaturg and light designer of Mono dance collective 2010-12. Her ongoing collaboration with Silvia Bennett has continued as TriCo. performance trio. 2008-14 she has been working years for the Monday Match improvisation series in Bimhuis Amsterdam, and with independent productions at Overtoom 301. She has directed the performances On being ill (2013) and Doos (2014), and has exhibited several of her installations. She has held workshops on improvisation techniques: The Pool (2012-14) Images in motion (2014) My body of words in space (2014) and Performing: Space(2015). She has worked internationally for contemporary operas, dance performances, illusionist shows, spoken word and experimental theater and community projects. Among others she has worked with Alexandra Bachzetsis, Julyen Hamilton, Maya M. Carroll, Katie Duck, Sabine Molenaar, Kenzo Kusuda, Michael Schumacher, Makiko Ito, Miri Lee, Khouloud Yassine, Lily Kiara, Marek Jason Isleib, Alfredo Genovesi, Georgi Sztojanov, Gabor Csongradi. Currently she works as a freelance light designer and as a technician.

Gangplank

26.06.-10.07.2016.

Gangplank is an international collaborative art platform that deals with research of an interdisciplinary creative process in the performing arts, with a special emphasis on technology as a dramatic tool. Gangplank is a fluid gathering of artists, technicians and theoreticians working in the field of performance arts that concentrates more specifically on stage work. Gangplank is realized through workshop and residency programmes across Europe. It is oriented along several axis: interactivity and collaboration, programming free software tools for live performance, allowing for knowledge transmission in a non-hierarchical and trans-disciplinary way, discussing both our practices and the related theoretical backgrounds, documenting and publicizing the outcome of the meetings.

Under the guidance of artists and lighting designers Emese Csornai and  Bruno Pocheron the group of motivated technicians and artists will be established that will direct their interests , abilities and personal skills to the common conceptualization and implementation of free software tools for stage performance. To particular idea / problem / project of each participant approach will be from different angles in order to establish the best solution for it . During this Gangplank meeting participants will also meet with a variety of programs through which technology can be used as a dramatic mean, and methods of using, and methods of using digital media, such as drawing with light or collecting sound.

SKC Gallery

→ www.skc.uniri.hr/projekti/galerija-skc/

SKC (Student cultural centre) Gallery is located in OKC Palach and led by students from the University of Rijeka. Gallery’s programme covers topics during a three-month period in which a certain problem is discussed and mapped. Except exhibitions, the gallery has a goal to experiment with other forms (lectures, workshops, public debates, screenings, etc.). For every three-month period a hybrid catalogue – magazine is published. By its nature, it’s opened for various collaborations with production partners, civil associations and institutions. Part of the programme is left for other student projects and guest exhibitions. The primary goal of the gallery is to offer a cultural programme in which the users will actively take part in its creation, to open space for critical dialogue and develop a quality cultural platform.