LAbO # February 2013 Champ d’Action deSingel Royal Conservatory of Antwerp Sint Lucas Antwerp

LAbo #4 • Interplay between music, dance and plastic arts • Focus on new media and electronics • National/international coaches • Practical experience and experimental context • INTERDISCIPLINARITY!!!

Intent • For students from home and abroad • Week of workshops, studios, individual sessions, group sessions, cross-over sessions, (theoretical) reflections,… • Communication every day: creations, progress, reflections • Output: closing event for general public • LAbO awards for best interdisciplinary project

Coaches/Projects • Dialogues between all the disciplines: collaboration between dance and fine arts, or a cross-over between jazz, improvisation and contemporary dance, or a project with audiovisual art and classical music,…  possibilities! • Coaches

EVAN PARKER

MATT WRIGHT

VOLKER STAUB

WIM HENDRICKX

DANIEL LINEHAN

MARC VANRUNXT

JOHANNES KREIDLER

HANS BECKERS

ANN EYSERMANS

WERNER VAN DERMEERSCH

KOEN THEYS

FEDOR TEUNISSE

SERGE VERSTOCKT

KATHLEEN COESSENS

JORRIT TAMMINGA

ROEL DAS

MATRIX

A situation (music) • 2012 • The world • Art • Contemporary music • Composer

Possibilities • Pencil and white paper, ideas for a composition (ensemble, chamber-music, graphic score, symphony, piano solo,…) • But it’s only 1 world • Example: Internet: all styles of music, digital developments, other worlds •  connections with other worlds •  media, multimedia, transmedia, intermedia

• Not only art-worlds (dance, music, visual)! Also connections with science, ICT, social media,… • Education has an important role • Communication? • Responsibilities for the artist? You’re 23 and… • It’s a way of thinking and acting corresponding to the world today • LAbO is an example

PREPARATORY SESSIONS • Introductory session in deSingel: 29/11/2012, 10:30 – 12:30h.  projects coaches, possible collaborations and workshop (Ann Eysermans) • Follow-up session: 31/01/2013, 16:00 – 19:00h + Champ d’Action studio-concert at 20:30h (Studio 3 – CDA – deSingel)

LAbO #4 week shedule

Information

• Planning – participation – introductory sessions – applications – location - … •

LAbO III – Stay Low (Verstockt, Van dermeersch)

LAbO III – Karaoke (Kyriakides)

LAbO III – Klank in beweging (Stroobant, Vermeiren, Mai)

LAbO III – In Freundshaft (Vermeiren, Sikelianou)

LAbO III: Stay Low (Serge Verstockt & Werner Van dermeersch)