The Order of Noise: an Art/Music Symposium
The Order of Noise
An Art/Music Symposium
With contributions by Stuart Bailey, Mathieu Copeland, Beatrice Gibson, Yann Chateigné, FM Einheit, Pauline Julier, Mattin, Doreen Mende, microsillons, Muscha, Nils Röller, Laurent Schmid, Paolo Thorsten-Nagel, Franz Treichler, Tris Vonna-Michell, UN Unruh
Devised by the Master in Visual Arts Programs at HEAD – Genève CCC / Trans / Work.Master
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“The static comes at him again: a second burst, heading the other way, like an enormous echo or the backrush from the first explosion, air propelled out by its breath being sucked in again. This time it carries him along with it: he feels himself rushing backwards, through a black and endless void. He’s merging with the void: seared, shot through, carbonisé, he’s become the sea of ink, the distance between planets, the space across which signals travel. Like time itself, he’s flattening, turning into carbon paper: the black smear between the sheets, the surface through which things repeat, CC themselves, but that will itself always remain black, and blank. Looking backwards as the soundwave draws away from him, accelerating onwards, he sees things being duplicated in the expanse created by its passage: cats and phone-wires, cars and dancers, rivers. The orchard’s been duplicated too: the siblings have stopped running through it and are sitting at a game-board. All these scenes and objects have been reproduced inwardly, as though injected through some kind of time-syringe into his stomach, in whose blackness they’re suspended like small, lit-up screens, contained by the walls of a new syringe that frames them and injects them further inwards, again and again, the scenes and objects miniaturising more and more as they regress. Eventually, they become so small and distant that they dwindle. From where he is now, he can see the children in the orchard and their game-board shrinking, and the orchard itself shrinking, and the wires around it too: their edges all contracting to form a compound that itself shrinks until it’s so small that it’s no longer perceptible. Then the whole image fades away. The noise has faded too: only fragments of it are left, small residues, vague sonic smudges…”
Tom McCarthy, C, 2010
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Sites
HEAD – Genève (BH)
Boulevard Helvétique 9
1205 Genève
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HEAD – Genève (GD)
Rue du Général-Dufour 2
1204 Genève
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Cave12
Rue de la Prairie 4
1202 Genève
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OraibiBeckBooks
c/o Le Rameau d’Or
Boulevard Georges-Favon 17
1204 Genève
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Program
Wednesday, March 16
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6 PM: Inaugural evening
Introduction by Yann Chateigné, Laurent Schmid, Mathieu Copeland, microsillons and Doreen Mende
Screening: « Decoder » by Muscha (1984), 87min
Reception with Drinks
BH, Room 25
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Thursday, March 17
10 – 12 AM: lectures, screenings and talks
Lecture by Mattin
BH, room 25
Lecture by Stuart Bailey
BH, room 11
Lecture by Tris Vonna Michell
BH, room S01
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2 – 5 PM: workshops
Workshop 01 with Mattin
BH, room 25 (CCC)
Workshop 02 with Tris Vonna Michell
Room S01 (Work.Master)
Workshop 03 with Paolo Thorsten Nagel
BH, room R07 (Work.Master)
Workshop 04 with Stuart Bailey
BH, room 11 (Work.Master)
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6 PM
Event
Tris Vonna Michell presents Mount Analogue
OraibiBeckBooks
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9 PM
Concert
FM Einheit & UN Unruh
Cave 12
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Friday, March 18
10 – 12 AM: lectures, screenings and talks
FM Einheit + Nils Röller, moderated by Mathieu Copeland (starts at 11AM)
BH, room 25
Screening: “La Disparition des Aïtus”, by Pauline Julier (2014), 35 min
Followed by a conversation with the artist
BH, Trans rooms (Trans)
Lecture by Paolo Thorsten Nagel
Room TBC
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2 – 5 PM: workshops
Workshop 05 with Mattin
GD, Ri1
Workshop 06 with FM Einheit (up to 15 participants)
11 / 11B (Work.Master)
Workshop 07 with Laurent Schmid, Listening Session for Discussion
Room TBC (Work.Master)
Workshop 08 with Pauline Julier
TRANS rooms (Trans)
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6 PM: closing evening
Prologue
Screening: “Solo for Rich Man” by Beatrice Gibson (2015), 15 min
Introduced by Yann Chateigné
GD, screening room
Talk
FM Einheit with UN Unruh & Franz Treichler, moderated by Mathieu Copeland and Laurent Schmid
GD, screening room
Performance
Mattin with participants to the workshop
“A Social Realist Score” (working title), 30 – 60 min
GD, Ri1
Bar and Drinks