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.

Tuesday, January 6

Searching for Danger. . .




What is dangerous?

- the neighborhood?
- explosives?
- guns?
- drugs?
- terrorism?
- scientific testing?
- speaking another language?
- fear?
- cold?
- 104?

Today we decided to work more with our hands. . .
An army of matches, on their way to combustion;
A woman with a gun;
A knife covered in sugar;
A person avoiding the camera;
An improvised song & dance (Tarantino as an inspiration).

It is cold. Even inside the 104. We are having trouble holding the match sticks and the sugar.

We met boys from the neighborhood. They asked us about our burnt bike and plastic gun. And they asked what we were doing. One boy said his gun at home was bigger than ours. We asked them if they passed through the 104 often, and one boy said it was the quickest way between his house and where he was going.
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