1st workshop / CENTQUATRE, Paris
From 5th to 11th January 2009: first period of training organized at CENTQUATRE

2nd workshop / PACT Zollverein, Essen
From 27th May to 1st June: second period of training organized at PACT Zollverein

3rd workshop / CalArts, Valencia
From 11th to 17th October: third period of training organized at CalArts


Paris / Essen / Los Angeles


Offered jointly by CENTQUATRE (Paris) and PACT Zollverein (Essen), the program Feldstärke International provides the opportunity to arts students from all disciplines (design, dance, cinema, circus arts, landscape art, visual and plastic arts, music, video, theatre, numeric arts), to work in closer collaboration.
The program is hosted for one week at each of the partners’ venues: at CENTQUATRE, at PACT Zollverein and finally at a third partner’s venue, which changes every year. For its first year, Feldstärke International invited the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, Los Angeles to join the program. Thus, Feldstärke International 2009 brought together 49 students: 20 from German schools, 18 from French schools and 10 from CalArts.

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The program Feldstärke International takes place in the Artention France-Nordrhein-Westfalen 2008/2009 season, with the support of Nordrhein-Westfalen's Land. It is supported by the Office Franco-Allemand pour la Jeunesse (Ofaj) and the Holiday Inn Express*** Paris-Canal de la Villette. In Los Angeles, the project was supported by the Goethe Institut-Los Angeles, as well as the Cultural Services of the French and the German Consulates in Los Angeles by means of the French-German Fund.

Monday, January 5

If you talk the talk you've got to walk the walk

5. 01. 09. First ideas. Exploring the city, this part of the city is measuring it. Measuring it with the rythm of the walk, of the snow falling on wood, concrete blocks, cars, the rythm of lights and trains passing on the bridge. Sounds of the street. We discussed in a coffee. Scott is transforming datas in music, using first his H4 recorder, taking sounds from the street, transforming it into rythm. Synchronise, shift, distorsion. The street is a field, a magnetic field in which you can interact with visibility. As a sculptor, I would consider the situation as open as possible and focus on process. Failure is a possibility. Possibility is risk, rythm. We talked about using walky talkies. It's all about a soulfull way of taking measures, walking the lines, waiting for trains. Railroad. A word : urban. As a field of interacting possibilities, interacting people.Define the rules of a game. Shift. A laboratory for rythm. Metronoms and great scaffoldings. Bettina is exploring the possibility of a movement, maybe interacting with people from the neighbourhood, in supermarkets or on passerelles.
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