Tales from the firewall

a workshop and performance in corporate with the contemporary art festival: Fete dela WSK! in Manila, Philippines

We are willing to tell a story from you…

The aim of such workshop is to let the participants to deciding to the workshop direction, to being creative by defining the whole story telling. This is a collaborative workshop with a lot of research, a "self-research" in a way. The artists cited above, are here to provide some help, giving assistance in choosing the instruments-tools to express themselves, coordinate the main working development, open up to ‘other’ directions and of course to participate all together to the public performance. To provide a certain direction and after a meeting-chat, we have focused on the Hanging Coffins from Sagada, Mountain Province as a starting point for the workshop. According to this, we have found a main title that will certainly provide some inputs from the participants because of its openness, Tales From The Firewalls.
Metaphors happen right here at this level. A quick definition: ‘a firewall is a device designed to permit or deny network transmissions’ (i.e. wikipedia). Here we are, in the process and concept of communication. From a traditional point of view, the communication with the spiritual defined by the sound of the Gong, Bell Tones and from a contemporary approach, whereas we belong to the society of communication, the Network as a new belief, a new entity, getting the gates by its little spreading fancy children such as cell-phones, iPad, Android, sound toys app., … our living experience is surrounded by those beeps & signals as part of the soundscape of the e-modernity."

(extract from the original proposal for the workshop by Thierry B-G.)

the complete proposal for the workshop is available here

Fete dela WSK! is dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental sonic art, as well the diverse range of artistic activities in the context of digital culture in South East Asia.

WSK! -- three cryptic letters, which can only provide as much as the sum of the parts. Organized by SABAW Media Art Kitchen – a not-for-profit organization whose primary interests lie in curatorial and research-based production towards the imminent intersections of art and technology.

tales from the firewall by

idea: Thierry Bernard-Gotteland (Fr), Krisztian Kelner (Hu)
curator: Merv Espina (Ph)



Tanks all the participants of the workshop for the great collaborative performance in the Blackbird Cafe

venue: Kanto Art Gallery, TERMINAL GARDEN 566 Int. Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila (Phone: 0920 604 5559)
related links:

official website 2011
official poster 2011
manila bulletin

video is coming soon...

Ốc sên rỗng/Un Escargot Vide?

an improvisation and audiovisual experiment at the IDECAF (French cultural center in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam)

(the text below is from the official website of IDECAF)

« Un Escargot Vide ?

», Rencontre artistique visuelle et sonore A l’occasion de la présence à Ho Chi Minh-Ville de l’artiste plasticien et sonore français Sébastien SZCZYRK, l’IDECAF, le Consulat Général de France et l’Antenne à Ho Chi Minh-Ville de l’Institut Français du Vietnam invitent différents ar

tistes locaux à collaborer en vue de proposer une performance sonore, musicale et visuelle unique le vendredi 25 novembre 2011 à 20h à l’Institut d’échanges culturels avec la France (IDECAF, 28 Le Thanh Ton, District 1).

Sébastien SZCZYRK est diplômé de l’école des Beaux-arts de Paris. Sa pratique artistique couvre plusieurs disciplines : recherche visuelle, dessin, création musicale, expérimentation sonore. Son travail a été présenté dans de nombreux pays comme la France, l’Allemagne, l’Indonésie, le Japon, la Corée, Taiwan. Souvent expérimentales et éphémères, les formes qu’il propose se nourrissent de ses voyages et des rencontres qui naissent sur son parcours. Le temps d’une soirée exceptionnelle le vendredi 25 novembre, il nouera un dialogue créatif et interculturel avec d’autres artiste

s français, vietnamiens, hongrois, ou philippin résidant à Ho Chi Minh-Ville : Thierry Bernard-Gotteland (plasticien et artiste sonore), Freddy Nadolny Poustochkine (illustrateur), Cao Hoang Long (artiste visuel), Nguyen Hong Giang (artiste sonore), Krisztian Kelner (architecte et artiste sonore) et Mervin Joseph Espina (plasticien, musicien et curator).

final list of participants:

Sebastian SZCZYRK - visual art

Thierry Bernard-Gotteland - electric guitar (moet)

Cao Hoang Long - visual art

Nguyen Hong Giang - computer sound

Krisztian Kelner - electro acoustic noise

Mervin Joseph Espina - bass g

uitar

Moe Lang - percussion, conga

related links:

official website (french)

official website (vietnamese)

Thierry's website

Sebastian's website

xa ban 3 - red thread

Xa Ban III & V.V from krist k on Vimeo.

an experimental opera improvisation

performance art by:
Ngo Luc, Nguyen Van Tien, Le Thuan, Hue Huu, Quynh Lam, Bach Viet, May, Lyly

sounds by:Krist_k (krisztian kelner)

Venue:
Khoancat Betong, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

related links:

event on FacebookKhoancat Betong group on the Facebook

Khoan cắt bê tông

"performance party"

Sound works: Krisztian Kelner

Other noise: Nguyễn Hồng Giang

Dance performance: Phương Việt group

Organizer: NGÔ LỰC (KCBT)

Place: studio của nhóm Khoan cắt bê tông (46/6A ngách 18, đường Kha Vạn Cân, quận Thủ Đức, TP.HCM)

related links:

SOI (vietnamese only)

Khoat ca be tong on FB

www.vietkieu.biz (vietnamese only with many pics)

SHU WORKSHOP performance in GODOR CLUB

a performance supported by the Drótanya Fesztivál in 2008

sound: Rovar17 vs. Krist_K
performers: Buday Enikő, Th Gergő
place: Gödör Klub Budapest

related link:

video by Valeria Keller

SHU blog

Temps d'Images

Temps d'Images is competition between visual and performing artists. year by year the TRAFÓ is the hungarian partner of the french initiative.

in the year 2008 with my two friend of mine we got the chance to make a short performance. We decided to visualize a slow process of the agonies.

We choose the own writings of the actor who made a recordings in a studio. At the same time we made video recordings in different extreme situation of the actor.

During the performance we installed for big TFT surface in the theatre and four speakers. We mixed the sound and the video in real time during the performance.

In the middle of the stage we installed a mosquito net with a cotton candy maker machine and a projector above. As we projected the video on the surface the candy started to melt and added a grotesque feeling of these agonies.

Thanks to TRAFÓ!

actor and text: Ferenc Köles
video works: Balázs Balogh
sound works: Krisztian Kelner

related links:
www.tempsdimages.eu
TRAFÓ
BaloghBalazs
Köles Ferenc

zajkapu / voice-gate

Re:orient Exhibition at the Hungarian Institute Paris, France

we moved our sound installation from the architectural biennial of Venice to Paris for 10 days. the voice of the Chinese market now is on the main gate

PechaKucha night Amsterdam, NL

I presented the Lánchid19 Hotel facade design work in Amsterdam in this year September.

the philosophy of the series "Pecha Kucha" is taken from their website:

"Pecha Kucha Night is an intimate gathering that offers everybody the chance to present fresh and creative work, ideas or concepts. This can be a newly finished building, a new piece of furniture, an ad campaign, a fashion line, a new event or any idea the world needs to know about.

The Tokyo based architecture firm Klein Dytham Architetcs (KDA) originally started Pecha Kucha Night in their nightclub Supperclub. After it proved to be a perfect recipe for a good night out and a great way of meeting new people, ideas, employees or jobs the evening was picked up all over the world. ICA Club director Iram Quraishi, co-founder of the London edition called it a sort of speed dating. Pecha Kucha brings together the ideas and not the bodies. Pecha Kucha Night in the Netherlands is founded and organised by HUNK-design and Studio Popcorn.

The Japanese term ´Pecha Kucha´ roughly translates as chit-chat or noisy chatter. As a potent crossbreed between an elevator pitch and a slide show Pecha Kucha Night presents 12 participants who show 20 slides for twenty seconds each. No more boring lectures, painful seminars or tiring presentations. Pecha Kucha Night offers the audience the experience of a dazzling range of speakers and images in the course of one evening. Breaks will be filled with drinks, music, images, and off course: chit-chat (so bring your business cards).

Pecha Kucha Night Nederland invites everybody to join, either by visiting one of our upcoming events or by sending in work for presentation. The first 6 min and 40 seconds (20 slides x 20 seconds) of your 15 minutes of fame can start right here and right now. With drinks, dance and the newest ideas in the same room at the same time, who knows what will happen..."


related links:pecha kucha archive
pecha kucha netherlands

media facade conference 2007 London, UK

After we have done the realization of the hotel facade and have introduced to the public, we were kindly welcome to the first media facade conference in London organized by the Mediaarchitecture.

Introduction

Urban public space – understood as open, civic space – is a key
element in the development of European urbanism. It is based on a
well-balanced mix of functions and the idea of the inhabitant as active
citizen.

We currently face a transitional period of restructuring social
networks in a globalised world. This is resulting in various
experiments with new types of relations and exchange processes,
supported by the developing interactive new media tools. In order to
maintain the social sustainability of our cities, it is important to
connect this new virtual space for development of public sphere and
social exchange with the acquisition and reactivation of urban public
space....(from the mediaarchitecture.org) visit the site to read more




related links:

mediarchitecture.org

V45

Traffic Responsive Lighting System on the atrium residential

architect: Wing LLC architectural consultancy
tasks: design and realization of a lighting system, managing the realization as a design manager of Arcus műhely (ARCM), teamwork in the Szövetség'39 design team in corporation with NEXTLAB

"We started to work on this project with Be Light Ltd. in March 2007. The project is about phisically working out the vision of the facade planned by the architects. We developed our own lighting system (in fact lamps) with new solutions in form, aesthetics and technology. The duty of these lighting panels is to uniform visually the two, different wings of the facade. What's more, the program-operated light reacts the noise-level of Váci Road, so, it became an active art work determined by the effects of the environment, similarly to the facade of Lánchíd 19 Design Hotel. This work is also named by the partly same designer and producer teams and companies." (from the site: V45-atriumpark.blogspot.com)

project details on the site: v45-atriumpark.blogspot.com
technical details on the co-developers site: szakal.org

related links:
nait5.wordpress.com

V45 / traffic-responsive facade from tone_if on Vimeo.

in A10

upGRADE 2 Pécs, Hungary

nemzetközi kísérletizenei és kortárstánc műhely

A program során Pécs köz- és elhagyott terein hozunk létre kísérleti zenei ill. tánc/performansz produkciókat. A közreműkődő alkotók Német-, Törökországból, Hollandiából ill. Magyarországról érkeznek.

related links:
upgrade.moire.hu (hungarian)
emscher:reloaded
open system festival

Pecha-Kucha Night - Vol.2.

PechaKucha night Budapest, Hungary
On this event I represented the szövetség '39 and nextlab in 6 minutes
Originated from Tokyo for all around the world Pecha-Kucha Night is an architect-designer presentation evening. On 6 April, 2007 it was held for the second time in the Centre of Contemporary Architecture (KÉK), Budapest.
Authors hold short, brief presentations about completed architectural, design or art works or projects in progress. The presentations have strict international rules: 12 presenters per evening, 20 images per person, 20 seconds per image.

related links:lanchid19.blogspot.com
hungarian contemporary architecture center
kek.org.hu archive
pacha kutcha nights budapest

upGRADE Dortmund, Germany

1. Künstlertreffen der 3 Kulturhauptstädte Europa 2010 Experimental-Workshop zum Thema "Wandel im Emschertal" Drei Uraufführungen am 17. Januar 2007 in Essen | Herne | Dortmund Am 17ten Januar 2007 erlebte das Kulturprojekt UPGRADE seinen vorläufigen Höhepunkt bei einer fünfstündigen kulturellen Reise. Sie begann im Hauptgebäude der Emschergenossenschaft in Essen, machte Station in der Künstlerzeche Unser Fritz in Herne-Wanne und endete in der Pumpstation Evinger Bach in Dortmund. Zu sehen und zu hören war, wozu der Wandel des Emschertals die 12 Künstlerinnen und Künstler inspiriert hat, die sich im August 2006 zu einer Projektwoche im Revier zusammengefunden hatten und nun ihre Kompositionen und Choreografien vorstellten. Das Publikum wurde dabei in Bussen von Station zu Station gefahren und hatte währenddessen Gelegenheit, Klänge aus dem emscherplayer, der das Ausgangsmaterial für die musikalischen Elemente lieferte, kennenzulernen. Mit vielen spannenden Einblicken hat UPGRADE dabei gezeigt, wie geografische, musikalische und choreografische Erneuerungen sicht- und hörbar gemacht werden können und was das europäische Miteinander bei den bevorstehenden Kulturhauptstadtaktivitäten schon jetzt bewirkt. Das Managementzentrum der Kulturhauptstadt 2010 in Pécs war von der Idee so angetan, dass es die beteiligten Künstler zur Fortführung des Workshops im Juni nach Ungarn eingeladen hat. Alles weitere dazu in Kürze hier auf dieser Seite. Fotos und Klänge der drei Performances sind unter downloads zu sehen und zu hören. Video-Ausschnitte können durch Anklicken der Motive links auf dieser Seite betrachtet werden.

related links:
emscher:reloaded (german)
performance part 1.mp3
performance part 2.mp3
Folkwang Tanzstudio (english)

Homo Lumens MMVII Budapest, Hungary

Environment-responsive kinetic glass facade, we also call it Luminescent Bacteria

Lánchíd 19 hotel
architect: radius b+s

tasks: design and realization of the facade in team work "Szövetség 39" design team, Hungary, managing the production process as the owner of the Arcus műhely company (ARCM)

in corporation with NEXTLAB

"Named after Budapest’s famed “Chain Bridge” which spans the Danube, the first Design Hotel in Hungary is a contemporary highlight in a neighbourhood of predominately 19th century architecture. This contrast is indicative of Budapest’s evolving character, one which celebrates both past and present. The architect and design team created a moveable accordion-like glass façade, further animated by the changing colours of an innovative lighting design concept." (Péter Sugár)

Images of the facade are exhibited at the Gwanju Design Biennale in South Korea

the glass facade won the Hungarian Design Award in the category of Product.
Designboom, 'bright LED' competition 3rd prize

related links:

designhotels.com
lanchid19.blogspot.com
radius b+s architectural consultancy
designboom.com
A10

publications and critics are on the project site: lanchid19.blogspot.com
technical details on the co-developers website: szakal.org

for more details about the co-workers and project details visit the project site:
lanchid19.blogspot.com

Re:orient - migrating architectures

The installation of the Hungarian pavilion of the Venice architectural biennial 2006, Italy

design team: Re:orient
tasks: design the installation from the concept until the detail and realization in team work

Our project, "re:orient - migrating architectures" explores the local aspects of China's global significance and increasing influence. The project seeks to forecast possibilities which are now detectable only in connection with retail, but which will, in all likelihood, determine the built environment, which transforms under the pressure of ever-cheaper products. The project follows up these ideas with the presentation of spaces, architectural devices and materials that create new contents, and indicate ways of turning these constraints of the market to our benefit, show how to infuse the mass products, which are designed to have a short life-span, with lasting cultural values.

related links:
re:orient
designboom

for all the critics, details and comment visit the website www.reorient.hu

1:1

A match between two dancers and a noisician, with unpredictable outcome. Running in circles. Is there another way, with these rails along the tracks? Stop asking questions. Even this circle will appear infinite if you run long enough. And there is no umpire. Or if there is one, he keeps blowing the wrong whistle. The improvised dance performance 1 on 1 premiered in August 2006 in Budapest at the Millenáris Park Action series of events

Directed by: Réka Szabó
Dancers: Réka Szabó/Zsófia Tamara Vadas, Dániel Szász
Music: Krisztián Kelner

related links:
The Symptoms

upGRADE Dortmund, Germany

Sometimes Pumpstation

1. Künstlertreffen der 3 Kulturhauptstädte Europa 2010 Experimental-Workshop zum Thema "Wandel im Emschertal" Öffentliche Proben am 11.08.2006 zum Abschluss der ersten Workshop-Phase Während einer Workshop-Phase vom 6. bis 12. August erkundeten die teilnehmenden Künstler zum einen gemeinsam die Region, zum anderen erarbeiteten sie in drei Teams an drei verschiedenen Orten Klang- und Tanzprojekte, die nach einer zweiten Arbeitsphase am 17. Januar 2007 in einer Abschlussaufführung präsentiert wurden. Arbeits- und Schauplätze waren Orte entlang der Emscher: die Künstlerzeche Unser Fritz in Herne-Wanne, das Hauptgebäude der Emschergenossenschaft in Essen, das Pumpwerk Evinger Bach in Dortmund., das Kulturzentrum Grend in Essen, das Kulturhaus Neuasseln in Dortmund. Bei einer öffentlichen Probe am 11. August 2006 bestand für Presse und interessierte Zuschauer die Möglichkeit, den Künstlern in ihrem Schaffensprozess über die Schulter zu schauen: Um 14.00 Uhr Kulturzentrum Grend in Essen Steele Um 15.30 Uhr Zeche "Unser Fritz" in Herne Um 17.00 Uhr Kulturhaus Neuasseln in Dortmund Teilnehmende Künstler: Tänzer des Folkwang Tanzstudio, Deutschland Zlatko Baracskai | Klangkünstler/Ungarn Peter E. Eisold | Schlagzeug/Deutschland Mete Erker | Klarinette/ Türkei/Niederlande Kirstian Kelner | Klangkünstler/Ungarn Balazs Kovacs | Klangkünstler/Ungarn Richard Ortmann | Komponist und Saxophonist/Deutschland Ayse Sezer | Oboe/Türkei Karl-Heinz Blomann | Künstl. Leitung Ulrike Kaßler | Koordination


related links:
emscher:reloaded (only german)
rehearsal (video)
detail from the performance 1. mp3
detail from the performance 2. mp3

Integrated glass blocks

Main Facade wall of City Sport Hall Szombathely, Hungary

architect: Építész Stúdió KFT

glass designer: Anna Baróthy

tasks: managing the realization and detail design as a design manager of the Arcus műhely (ARCM)

related links:
építész stúdió
epiteszforum.hu

You are being so strange today

A hard-hitting visual team, a twisted noisemaker-musician, and a dancer with a weight problem ponder the question of: How to be one’s own shadow? „The quasi-solo piece entitled You Are Being So Strange Today is a worthy sequel to Szabó’s recent work that has been persistently self-ironic and keen on holding up a distorting mirror to the world.” (szinhaz.hu) An improvising duet composed for a dancer and a noisist, You Are Being So Strange Today has been invited for performances at such distinguished venues as the Nu Dance Festival in Bratislava, the Vasarely Museum in Budapest, and the Museum of Fine Arts, also in Budapest.

Directed by: Réka Szabó
Dancer: Zsófia Tamara Vadas/Réka Szabó
Music: Krisztián Kelner
Visual design: Kiégő Izzók
Special thanks: Michaela Pein
Sponsors: L1 Independent Dancers’ Partnership, Marland KFT, tancelet.hu, szinhaz.hu
Media sponsor: Fidelio Súgó

related links:
The Symptoms

Chilia Chandelier

An unique suspended ceiling and lighting design in the Hungarian Palace of Art V.I.P room Budapest, Hungary


architect and interior design: Zoboki + Demeter architectural consultancy co-designer: Anna Baróthy

task: managing the realization process and the design from the concept until the final stage as the owner of the Arcus műhely (ARCM) desing studio

in the year 2005 this work won the special prize of the Hungarian Design Council

(left) work in progress

"A lámpatest hatásában puha üvegszőnyeg. a finom, kb. 1cm átmérőjű csövekből kialakított szálak sűrűn egymás mellett, helyezkednek el. ötösével egy vastagabb csőből kialakított tönkhöz kapcsolódnak az üvegszőrök. a raszteresen 4cm-ként kiosztott lyukakat egy-egy plexi cső béleli ki. ezeken keresztül lóg a közel kétezer darab üvegtönk. a fényes bőrszerű átlátszó fólia, plasztikusan tölti ki a lyukak közötti üres tereket. az erősen tagolt felületen minden fényhatás és színtevékenység aktív vizuális élményként jelentkezik. a tömött szövetet néha egy-egy habos gömb formájú nagyobb test-tartozék lazítja fel. a csápmező megvilágítását dupla sorokban a mennyezetre erősített fénycsövekkel oldották meg. a vegyesen fehér és kék színű világítótestek egyenletes fényt biztosítanak az egész mező számára. kérésünkre elkészült egy idozítő kapcsoló is, ami szabályozza a fénycsövek összeadódó színértékének fehérből kékbe tolódását és ennek ciklikusságát. ezzel is igyekeztünk a legközelebb kerülni ahhoz a hatáshoz, amit egy élő anyag klikk ide!érzete kelthet bennünk."