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, November 23

Feldstärke International 09 Group Show at CalArts

24700 interviewed Martin Kersels, co-director of the Program of Art at CalArts.



New set of photos

© Scott Groller and Steve Gunther

Friday, October 30

Chichinette in Hollywood



The incredible hand-made Greilhünd bus tour on Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, followed by the Chichinette playing the bassoon, with special guests Elvis Presley, Wonder Woman and Jack Sparrow.


This is what did Ariel Boroff, Clarence Boulay, Semiramis Ceylan, Dylan Corlay and Antonin Crenn during Feldstärke number 3, in CalArts. We had a great time !

The Vault



The Vault project is born after several discussions about visas, travel, and the difficulties to cross frontiers. We create sort of a box, that would carry a camera, and a sound recorder. This box is made to be sent to someone that will use the stuffs inside before he send it, in another location, in another country. The inner clock of this box is the 24 pictures that could be taken. After this, the last person will send it back in the 104, Paris. This box, The Vault, is a way of carrying some political, cultural and human materials. Utopic idea of creating a device that could cross any border and help the transmission of any message.

The vidéo has been made with TV footage. It's kind of flash forward. A way of imagine this Vault many years laters. After it evolved, and transformed itself into a autonomous machine.
Where is it ? What does it look like ? What's inside ? Which informations ?
The idea was to make this artefact, or "pandora box", something scary, that is now out of control.

Project by Lily Whitsitt, Daniel Hofer & Jean Baptiste Saurel
Video : JB saurel
Music : Bijan Tavili ©

Friday, July 10

Monday, July 6

glück auf: the tunnel





from the outside of the tunnel

Friday, June 5

Wednesday, June 3

Lapin! (Group 2)

 There are two worlds, one above and the other hidden below.  The verticality and opposition that connects these worlds is linked by the earth in between. 

thoughts: 
- industry
- nature
- coal
- suicide rabbit.


The things we found today



Walking around the PACT and just being curious, and finding things : rusty abandonned objects, parts of machines which don't work anymore. Things remaining from the past, from the Antic Times, when the chocolate factory which recently turned into PACT was still running ; when the whole area was surrounded by water ; when people were still speaking ancient greek, and had to make their daily chocolate-working lives into sea-side fishing lives.
We learnt a lot about History today.

the things we said and did today

words

11:16 am clarence: maybe we will have very long hats

12:33 pm semi: isn't this beautiful?

1:38 pm julia: which gold pen is the most brilliant?

2:58 pm judith: clarence, do you want to start with the hats?

3:00 pm antonin: tu viens juste de l'acheter

3:01 pm clarence: i think it's 56, but you have to check

3:24 pm vincent: this afternoon? outside?

4:58 pm semi: we'll do this in english. (a few moments later) a very soft stone that you can treat with normal tools

6:03 pm antonin: twenty hats!

6:04 pm semi: there's of course this one


actions

clarence: sewed orange cloth

judith: measured our heads

julia: recorded clarence sewing

semi: collected projectors

vincent: collected cardboard boxes

antonin: wrote out an imaginary language

Thursday, March 26

"Essayer de trouver la guerre

I created this Footage / Work within the Framework of the Idea to our (Group 8) "Café de la Guerre". After the term "war" ws so present during our process setting up the Café, I decided to leave the 104 on my own to find any kind of "war".
Since the war, for most of us namely has become so present, but luckily still an abstract term, I found myself in a situation where I wanted to comprehend the term in any way, by giving the term a face. The limitation of time while "Feldstärke" gave this approach a rather sketchy character.


My View on our "Café de la Guere"

This is my view on our "CafÉ de la Guerre" Instalation includeing the presentation of my "Café's" Videoprojection.


Wednesday, January 21

Saturday, January 10

MA, MA, MA, MA

TIM CIERPISZEWSKI – MUENSTER

BENJAMIN GREBER - MUENSTER

NIKO IKONOMEAS – MUENSTER

SARAH MUELLER – DUESSELDORF

JULIEN PONTVIANNE – PARIS

FANG- YU SHEN – ESSEN

CHRISTIE NELSON SALA – LOS ANGELES

CHRIS SUCCO - DUESSELDORF