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

Si l'esprit est la, deplace le verre

This morning, we spent more time drinking coffee, trying to stay warm, and discussing how to incorporate all our working methods into our collaborations. Where does it fall, on the spectrum between improvisation and conceptually driven work?

We discussed criticality in the place of our artwork concerning 104. It seems that other groups work on projects based on criticism of the institution. Perhaps if we work with the historical specificity of the building, we can talk about something else. So we discussed the morgue, and though perhaps we can contact the spirits of the dead people on video.




No spirits would talk to us, but the video is good, a funny document of the working process of this collaboration, its strengths and shortcomings.

Later in the afternoon, we drank more coffee and experimented with video projects, recording a scene and then projecting the scene onto its contents, while they carry out a different narrative.




Visually, it can be something strong, and we decided to all search for an application within the institution and the neighborhood.

Also, the 104 gave us use of a wall in the building. We are making a plan.
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