The popular Inside Out Party returns with performance art exploring the interaction between you, the audience and them, the artists. Indie musicians and video art complementing experimental electronic sets of 8-bit sounds, funk, beat juggling and scratching by Sidabitball, Ikuma and Thugg help pump up the volume. Get inside out of contemporary music culture at SAM!

Get involved in the TAGTOOL experience and draw up digital interactive works with contemporary provocateurs, Dawn Ng and ANTZ, and see the museum pops to life.

Catch COSA NOSTRA featuring FUNKBASTA*D and THE MIGHTY MIGHTY live as they vibe up the spring feeling at the plaza with their brand of contemporary funk.

Free entry!!

SAM
8 Queen Street
Singapore, Singapore

DISTRITO CULTURA develops a new dimension of the cultural model for the twenty-first century city. This event focuses on the revitalization of cultural life in the neighborhoods of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. It understands cultural activity as a fundamental tool for the transmission of civic values.

On Saturday night at the Alfred Kraus Auditorium OMA international will host a Tagtool performances by Tohyto, maki & iink.

This outstanding building by the architect Oscar Tusquets rises “majestically out of the depths of the Atlantic Ocean totally different architecturally from anything nearby”.

Auditorio Alfredo Kraus
Avenida Del Príncipe De Asturias, S/N
35010 Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, Spain

Free Entry!

The three letter acronym came about as a result of the project’s evolution over the years. It all started in 2002, when Ritsche Koch began to explore the more neglected places of the city through unsolicited trumpet playing and painting in a duo with Thomas Bratzke, aka Zasd.

Thomas, who had been an active part of the Berlin graffiti scene since his teens, had developed a very forceful and authentic visual language when working to music – he realized early on that the signs and “artist logos” that are the stock of much of street art have no place when the medium is a fluid continuum of time and space. But he did translate all the skill and energy that made his tags stand out on the streets into this medium.

As Ritsche & Zasd, they performed in the subway, in derelict buildings, and in their kitchens, sometime to audiences, often only to passers-by. They frequently collaborated with other artists, musicians and dancers. I remember joining them for a performance in Kreuzberg in 2006, where we put up one of the very first versions of the Tagtool at the after-party.

One of the collaborators eventually became a regular of the project – drummer Christian Marien is the M of RZM. A beat alchemist, picking up trash and making it sound golden, he’s also an incredibly alert and aware performer. The first time I worked with him was when he subbed for a children’s theater production. He was the drummer bee, and his costume, made for somebody else, wasn’t exactly a good fit.

When Ritsche asked me to join RZM as a guest for the gig in Chernivtsi, among other things I was up for it because I saw a good opportunity to combine Tagtooling with traditional painting. We already had made some steps into that direction, but this was different. Whereas before we had treated the painting surface more like a canvas for both analogue and digital painting, the work of RZM is focused on the whole space, and the movement within it.

After the rehearsal in the skate park, we had arranged some days at Kunstwerkstatt Tulln in Austria. In several sessions a day we explored the possibilities. Much emphasis was on our spacial relationship during the improvisation. We discovered an interesting aspect of projection painting: On the Tagtool, you can be physically far away from the action, but you can interact at close range with the other performers – you project yourself. To keep things in the flow, we decided that Thomas and me would be free to use both the brushes and the Tagtool at any time.

When we arrived in Chernivtsi, we were presented with a beautiful but very rundown building, right in the town center. The facade, facing the busy pedestrian street, was impeccable – behind it, everything was in shambles. It was a decayed elegance, an old theater filled with dust and rubble – layers of texture wherever you looked.

There were two sessions in the building – the first one, closed to the public but recorded on video, was a walk through the hallways that ended up in a room with arches and a door with wooden stairs. Both the spotlight and the projector were placed so we could rotate them as part of the performance, which made for some pretty dramatic, sometimes even comical, emergent situations.

The main performance on September 24th was in the much larger theater space. We set up the Tagtool to cover two projection areas, one pointing at the imposing concrete wall behind the stage, the other on one of two canvases that had been placed at the wall to the left of the stage. A large and very attentive audience turned out. It was definitely a challenge to play the whole space – the connection between the performers had to be maintained across long distances – but it worked, no doubt also due to the intense rehearsal regiment in the days before.

For me, the start of a performance with RZM is like flipping a switch. It’s entering a state of pure nonverbal being. There is no purpose other than to react to the other’s actions, to contribute something to the flow of things, or to instigate change.

And the Tagtool felt very much at home in the middle of the rubble, dust and paint. It’s for projects like this that we came up with the thing.

There’s an exhibition by RZM titled “Boombox M” running at Galerie M in Marzahn, Berlin until March 18th 2010. Definitely worth checking out. More information here.

More pictures:
Photos from the performance in Chernivtsi
Photos from the rehearsal sessions.

The event was organized by Robert Bosch Stiftung. Many thanks to Judith Stumptner for her support.

Regular intermedial tagtool-session in Café Wendel with vocal artists, poetry slammers, writers, poets, instrumentalists, electronic artists, sound developers, street artists, actors, painters, illustrators, comic artists, visual-jockeys, …

1 ENSEMBLE @ 12.04.10

Die.Puntigam (tagtool)
Roman Hagenbrock (voice, words)
Matthias Müller (tb)
Florian Bergmann (sax)
Andreas Dzialocha (eb)
Moritz Baumgärtner (dr)

Cafe Wendel
Schlesische Straße 42
10997 Berlin

opening times:
monday – sunday from 2pm

!!entrance free!!

Contact:
Andreas Dzialocha
www.marmorkuchen.net

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Christian Reiner – voice
Philip Zoubek – keys
iink & Maki – Tagtool

Tickets: 12€ / 5€ (concessions)

Starts at 9pm

Garage X – Theater am Petersplatz
Petersplatz 1
A-1010 Wien

We met Portia and Dom during the Illuminating York 2009 festival, where they supported our project in many ways. We were happy to hear that they are continuing to work with the Tagtool in York – Portia writes:

After supporting the great work of OMA International and GaiaNova at the Illuminating York festival 2009, we were inspired to see how we could use Tagtool. A colleague was creating a new piece of music with some schools based on ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ and he asked us to provide some Tagtool action as part of their final performance in the York Late Music series. We had no time and lots of fun. The audience were really delighted to see this new element and we think this is an exciting start to lots more Tagtool adventures.

Here are some screenshots of the Tagtool drawings:

The famous Karlskirche of Vienna will be the backdrop of the opening Tagtool performance by Keramik, die.Puntigam, iink and Momo1030.

dimensions occupies different premises in Vienna and fathoms their structural and atmospheric structures by using them as a canvas for audio:visual art. This time, the festival focuses on the interaction of visual art with different spatial qualities and three-dimensional structures. The term dimensions represents three main layers of sound:frame:

* The screen functions as a two-dimensional projection surface and is virtually extended to the third dimension through visual art.

* Three-dimensional space per se, acts as home ground and container for artistic action, actors, audience and resulting atmosphere, as well as sculptural object in space that acts as three-dimensional canvas.

* Finally, time, in which music and film move about.

!!!Free Entry!!!

sound:frame dimensions @ Karlskirche
Kreuzherrengasse 1
1040 Vienna

He gathered many of his partners in crime that have accumulated over his long career – Franz Hautzinger, Otto Lechner, Willi Resetarits, … just to mention some. He was on stage for nearly five hours in various formations.

The last part of the evening was a slightly delirious performance by “Weisse Waende” with Christian Reiner (voice) and Herbert Pirker (drums), featuring iink and Maki on the Tagtool.

Here are some photos – for more, have a look at the Flickr Gallery.

Departure in cooperation with sound:frame presents a Tagtool performance by Stefanie “Fanijo ” Jörgler accompanied by soundscapes of Gregor Ladenhauf (Ogris debris, Depart) at the Literature Lab during the festival.

!!!FREE ENTRY!!!

QUER: Symposium+Lab for Intercreativity
Odeon Theater
Taborstraße 10
1020 Vienna

In early winter 2009 she was invited by Neografik to paint at the Mutek Festival 2009 in Montreal.

In her email she wrote -

It was minus 40, and the projector was frozen and it was downtown (lot of lights!) But still it was a cool 25 mins performance

She also gave us the link to a video showing some nice details of her self-build instrument and artwork.