Affective Particles at Simultan Festival 2021

September 11, 2021 by Sabina Suru Ehibitions, Festivals Comments Off on Affective Particles at Simultan Festival 2021

 

September 11-19, 2021
MultipleXity, Timişoara [RO]

 

holography, video installation, performance

 

Affective Particles has been evolving steadily and is now (almost) ready for a proper public appearance at Simultan Festival!

It presents a performative installation that gathers modular silver-based holograms, video works and performance into one collective work, combining contemporary art and science. The project questions the role of technology in cognitive processes and explores notions of movement and presence.

 

Starting from the research carried out together with Dr. Marian Zamfirescu (Head of the Center for Advanced Laser Technologies, within the National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics – INFLPR) and drd. Vlad Toma (research assistant at INFLPR), the performance installation is inspired by scientific concepts: superposition, entanglement and spin, the uncertainty principle and the anthropic principle or Hilbert spaces.

In the first stage, we researched, experimented, and created a performance presented in a work in progress format at The National Center for Dance Bucharest, earlier this year. The performative installation now travels to Simultan Festival, in Timișoara, adding a video component and a net of lasers, bringing fragments of holography processes onto the playground open to the public.

 

The project is developed with support from Qolony – the Art & Science Colony and Administration of the National Cultural Fund (AFCN), in partnership with the National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR), The National Center for Dance Bucharest – CNDB, VAGon – in(ter)disciplined space, Simultan Association.

 

More info about the project here and here.

Affective Particles @SIMULTAN Festival
Affective Particles @SIMULTAN Festival
Affective Particles @SIMULTAN Festival
Affective Particles @SIMULTAN Festival
Affective Particles @SIMULTAN Festival
Affective Particles @SIMULTAN Festival
Affective Particles @SIMULTAN Festival
Affective Particles @SIMULTAN Festival
Affective Particles WIP @CNDB

About

Qolony – the Art & Science Colony is a cultural organization from Bucharest, which functions as a generator of links between art, science, and technology, through events and projects such as artistic residencies, exhibitions, conferences, artist / scientist talks, research and artistic creation.

The National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR) conducts fundamental and applied research in the field of lasers, the interaction of light with matter, plasma and electron accelerators.

Simultan is an annual festival dedicated to interdisciplinary arts – emerging media projects, experimental music and audio-visual and sound projects, in order to support new forms of artistic expression. The  program includes live audio-visual performances, video art screenings, exhibitions, conferences and workshops.
More info: https://www.simultan.org/2021/affective-particles/

Line-up:

Sabina Suru – concept, artistic co-director & holography
Andrei Tudose – artistic co-director / curator
Irina Marinescu – choreography & performance
Alexandros Raptis – music
Drd. Vlad Toma – scientific co-direction / quantum mechanics
Dr. Marian Zamfirescu – scientific co-direction / holo research
Theodor Moise Studio – graphic design

Thank you’s:
Simultan Festival team
Andreea Sasaran (photo credits)
Alina Doros
VAGon – in(ter)disciplined space
Paul Farca
Linotip –Independent Choreographic Center
Integraf