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.

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

Thursday, January 8

Head, by Tim

This is a song.

Day ???, pace is rising...




Hello world,
Here are some late news from very full, not clear but determined heads. Time and space perception is changing, quantity of done things is growing, and quantity of things to do even more.
The Number helps for colors The Number helps for dissections The Number helps for books The Number helps for busses The Number helps for routes The Number helps for travels The Number helps for videos The Number helps for sleeping......
Aleigh, Valerie, Clarence, Antonin and Etienne.


































BEAT 104

I was just thinking about catching the rythm of the 104, beating 104 on a metronom.
The beat of jam session in the Marché Riquet, catching energies, the rythm of a place.
Kicking in reality, drift frequency. Scott wants to put a radio outside of the 104.
It's all about links, vibrators,transducers taking temperature of an already boiling situation, performance situation.
A TV monitor, slow motions of dancers.
Headphones. Discovering the true waves, low frequency of one's music (David Zerbib).
Catch the experience.

Sun and cold, not bad, few times in circles turned and words lost - not regained. Therefore it is like it is, and it becomes better.