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

optimistic in paris with wet feet








paris is full of something which is considered to be snow. 
it is grey and definetely not snowlike, therefore not the best start to wander around 104 and get a good first impression on the area.
colourless, well grey and beige could considered to be a colour, but the shapes and colours after stepping out of the hotel are more stew-like than town-like. considering, that a big group of artists are supposed to start being creative RIGHT NOW seems like an aim for very optimistic people. most artists usually need a while to start the day optimisticly. or could at least try 3 more coffee. or: QIGONG!
starting the day with that made it easier (after another coffee) to look out of 104 again and getting interested in this task.

then it became interesting...

the art will start tomorrow. 
discussions started but we agreed, optimistic as we are now, quite quickly what about and how we´re going to work like from now on.

our plan is to meet a number. noone will guess what number that might be, but the art will develop by just working and not by staying inside, desperately finding a sujet to work on. especially when it is that bäh outside.

this was group 9 (etienne, ali, clarence, antonin, valerie)


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