MAGIK is a new Vancouver-based project that brings together Giorgio Magnanensi’s resonant woods with two of Vancouver’s most respected musicians, Marina Hasselberg, cello, Kenton Loewen, drums and Ucluelet based video artists Nicolas Teichrob. MAGIK plays within a multi-layered, live electro acoustic surround sound-space among flat audio panels of hand cut West Coast Red Cedar, Sitka Spruce and Pacific Maple. The panels serve both as...
Sunday March 18, 2012 • 8PM at CIRS http://gcc.sites.olt.ubc.ca/2012/03/13/art-sustainability-cirs-4/ listen HERE Paraphrasing a great essay by Rudolf Frieling on Medien Kunst Netz, this project shares ideas and reflections about contemporary art, and a possible vision where contemporary art and creativity itself must occupy the commensurate fields and forms of action, and seek production processes that do not isolate art from life but instead influence life. In that tension, express and...