LIVE! LIVE! LIVE!
As Nemo takes up residence in the CENTQUATRE and continues to pump digital blood through the arteries of the Greater Paris area with its faithful old partners as well as some new ones, this twelfth festival also represents a kind of assessment (of the new perspectives in the coming years).
Nemo was devised with a new form of cinema in mind, made up of computer graphics, music video, animated graphic design, interactive installations and audiovisual performances. As for the famous “new images”, our International Panorama, (the visual creation of the year), bears witness to the incredible technical and creative explosion which has occurred over the last ten years.
At a time when most innovative films are immediately visible on the Internet, and while we may feel that a threshold has been reached (temporarily, let us hope) in the quality and degree of innovation of projects, this ultimate panoramic offering will surely be the opportunity for much debate on what could be called the ‘post-Avatar horizon’.
To put it simply, in the same way that NICT (New Information & Communication Technologies) have become ICT, new images have become simply… images (it was an almost punk concept when Nemo chose to be a multimedia festival rather than a festival of independent cinema).
In terms of multimedia installations, a carefully considered selection will show the extent to which they now invest our urban spaces in large volumes (Lab[au], Valère Terrier), or are vectors of very high-quality cultural programmes – one of the gems of this festival is without a doubt My Secret Heart, produced by Streetwise Opera - a spectacular video installation based on a remix of Allegri’s Miserere by Mira Calix on Flat-E’s graphics, entirely interpreted (songs and choreography) by a hundred or so homeless people from all over the United Kingdom.
Another of the festival’s specificities is living cinema, “Live AV”.
Today, audio-visual performance is the predominant discipline of the experimedia field, and Nemo hopes to be the impressive showcase of this current surge, with no less than twenty AV performances and every possible manifestation, from very high-tech to (faux) low-tech, from the dishevelled to the very clean, from the generative to live dripping with sweat!
Arcadi, as a producer of multimedia works, has the opportunity to present several world premiere AV performances this year – from Yroyto and Transforma (doing all they can so that the simple manipulation of objects filmed on stage looks like the latest thing in motion graphic design), from Benoît Bourreau with texts from Olivier Cadiot (a post- Chant du Styrène in the Large Particle Accelerator), from Cécile Babiole and Jean-Michel Dumas (a jubilant deconstruction of 3D manufactured objects in a 1980s game arcade aesthetic), from Incite/ (and their Berlin-Parisian live sponsoring), from Michaël Sellam and his Black Metal crane, from Abstract Birds (and their post-jazz visual generative), and, the icing on the cake, Kurt Hentschläger (one half of Granular Synthesis) with his Cluster, another world premiere at Nemo.
Nemo will be presenting other performances which have already proved their worth and which now should be seen by as many people as possible - Vox Humana 2.0 from Raphaël Thibault and Hyun-Hwa Cho, (presented in collaboration with the Ircam), In/ject from Herman Kolgen, or the Stereoscopic Show 2.0 from AntiVj and Principles of Geometry.
Nonetheless, although Nemo is one of the main festivals coproducing multimedia works, it couldn’t do so without its guest artists - and what a line-up we’ve got!
As the main guest artist, Kode9, a real star and leader of the dubstep movement, an outstanding musician/producer and theorist on sonic warfare in these stormy times. Also invited to the party are Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolaï/Raster Noton), PurForm (total groove on experimental visuals), Dust by Herman Kolgen (created especially for Nemo, because loyalty is worth it), Filastine and his anti-authority AV concert, live techno-hip-rock visuals from Tim Exile and Jon Hopkins, the vicious romantico-tech-trip from Atom™ as well as Gangpol & Mit and Juicy Panic and their marvellous AV performance for children, Carton Park…
We are convinced that AV performance is one of the major art forms of this new century, but we do not have a clear idea of future counterpoint images and sound, and why would we? As Gertrude Stein wrote, “Artists live in the present well before other people”.
So come and join us at Nemo to see the state of things to come!
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