L.E.V FESTIVAL CELEBRATES ITS 15TH ANNIVERSARY IN GIJÓN WITH FOUR DAYS OF THE BEST CONTEMPORARY SOUND, AUDIOVISUAL AND DIGITAL CREATIONS
- From July 22 to 25, L.E.V. Festival Laboratorio de Electrónica Visual will present a very special lineup, hosting live shows again, plus installations and Virtual and Augmented Reality experiences in the city of Gijón.
- From July 22 to 25, L.E.V. Festival Laboratorio de Electrónica Visual will present a very special lineup, hosting live shows again, plus installations and Virtual and Augmented Reality experiences in the city of Gijón.
- Two wide-format, immersive audiovisual installations will surprise the audience: Fred Penelle and Yannick Jacquet’s Mécaniques Discursives at Laboral Centro de Arte, part of Fundación EDP’s programme Años Luz, and Elías Merino and Sergio Millán’s Heterotopies at Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto.
- In a collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Taiwán and Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Spain, L.E.V. Festival will premiere the first Spanish solo exhibition by new media artist Hsin-Chein Huang, which will include some of his most iconic projects in the field of Virtual Reality, plus some others created with pioneer artist Laurie Anderson.
- Three Augmented Reality experiences will reveal new and fascinating overlays of reality in our smartphones: Acqua Alta – Crossing the mirror by Adrien M & Claire B and Fauna by Adrien M & Claire B x Brest Brest Brest at the Escuela de Comercio; a collaboration with the Arenas Movedizas project; and Uramado AR. Tanukis Awake by Julie Stephen Chheng at Espigón de Fomento.
- Besides, L.E.V. and sound project dot tape dot will host a music workshop for youngsters. The results will be shown as a concert during the Festival, which will also include the generative performance Advienne by Cyril Meroni, developed during a residence at LABoral Centro de Arte.
17/06/2021 – L.E.V. Festival Laboratorio de Electrónica Visual celebrates its 15th anniversary from July 22 to 25 with a series of activities that will take place at different spaces in the city of Gijón. Once more, the audience will be immersed in the most surprising side of contemporary sound, audiovisual and digital creation. Supported by Ayuntamiento de Gijón, L.E.V. will showcase live audiovisual performances, music shows, installations and Virtual and Augmented Reality experiences created by big national and international names. The Festival will also host two artistic residences and a workshop on sound experimentation for youngsters.
Music shows and audiovisual performances: Ryoichi Kurokawa, Tadej Drolic, Lucie Antunes, Alex Augier, Fasenuova + Marta Verde and fuse*
L.E.V. Festival comes back this year with a new lineup of musical and scenic activities that will take place at Teatro de Laboral and Teatro Jovellanos. To open the audiovisual show section, on Thursday 22, Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa will perform Subassemblies, an audiovisual music show about the relationship between nature and human creations from the point of view of architectural scale, with overlays of 3D data captured with laser scanners and images of ruins and buildings overgrown by vegetation, reconstructed in a dynamic way to display the power of nature and art.
On Friday 23, Slovenian Tadej Droljc will showcase the performance Beambreaker, a piece composed by lasers, lights, bent mirrors and sound, where volumetric audiovisual objects are born out of a strict synchronization of light beams and broken sound waves, creating a sort of distorted mirror when the invisible can be observed. Afterwards, young French drummer and percussionist Lucie Antunes will play live her album Sergeï, a true explosion of happiness and a declaration of freedom, which invites us to reconnect with our inner child using magnetic sounds and unconventional instruments such as marimba, vibraphone, celesta, tubular bells, glockenspiel and Martenot waves.
On Saturday 24, another double feature will be composed by the audiovisual performance pr(—) by Alex Augier, a site-specific version of his previous project p(O)st which combines the mapping of generative visuals in space with new ways of performing live, using an interface specifically programmed for the piece. Fasenuova will be the final act of the night, playing a live show with visuals by Marta Verde. After a hiatus of five years, the band will premiere new punchy, sharp tracks such as Arma, the new single by this two-piece from Mieres.
On Sunday 25, Italian art studio fuse* will bring a fabulous close with the Live Media performance Dökk, a journey to the subconscious where dance and digital landscapes combined to play with our perception of space-time, in a continuous pursuit for the balance between light and darkness.
Wide-format audiovisual installations: Mécaniques Discursives by Fred Penelle + Yannick Jacquet and Heterotopies by Elías Merino + Sergio Millán
The program Años Luz, co-produced by L.E.V. Festival and LABoral Centro de Arte with the support of Fundación EDP, presents a specific and large-scale artwork starring light, and premieres, on the occasion of the festival’s 15th anniversary, the immersive installation Mécaniques Discursives by Fred Penelle and Yannick Jacquet, curated by Karin Ohlenschläger and Cristina de Silva and Nacho de la Vega from Datatron collective. The artwork contracts time and proposes a visual and sound journey through centuries of history.
At Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto, Elías Merino and Sergio Millán will show their interactive audiovisual installation Heterotopies, a generative piece that builds an abstract, 3D space of colossal audiovisual structures and endless possible realities created with a process of computer vision.
Virtual Reality: Solo exhibition by Hsin-Chein Huang
L.E.V. Festival’s 15th anniversary in Gijón will also include the first solo exhibition by new media artist Hsin-Chein Huang, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Taiwán and Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Spain. The artist’s endless creativity will be displayed at Capilla del Palacio Revillagigedo with three iconic pieces of Virtual Reality, two of them co-created with Laurie Anderson. True works of audiovisual art which we will be able to experience in first person, to live surreal moments and reflect upon the recent history of Taiwan through the author’s memories.
Augmented Reality experiences: Adrien M & Claire B, Brest Brest Brest, Julie Stephen Chheng
Augmented Reality comes back to LEV. with three activities which invite us to explore new overlays of reality in our smartphones. In a joint effort with the Circuit of Artistic Activities Arenas Movedizas, which will take place on the same dates as the Festival, the Escuela de Comercio will host two activities by digital artists Adrien M & Claire B. at Espacio Joven, we will be able to open the Augmented Reality pop-up book Acqua Alta – Crossing the mirror, a stage for a dance between a woman, a man, a house and their absurd routine. Through Fauna, a collaboration between Adrien M & Claire B and Brest Brest Brest, a collection of wide-format posters shown at the Escuela de Comercio and a street tour reveal the wild life hidden in the city streets.
Besides, at Espigón de Fomento, Julie Stephen Chheng‘s permanent exhibition Uramado AR. Tanukis Awake will take us to a magic trip, forcing us to rethink our vision of the world and nature, guided by some fascinating spirits of the forest.
A workshop on sound experimentation for youngsters, artistic residences and co- productions
In collaboration with Oficina de Juventud and Conseyu de la Mocedá del Principáu d’Asturies, L.E.V. will also include a workshop on group vocals for young people aged between 13 and 16, using electronic and expanded techniques. The goal of the workshop is to serve as a starting point to create The Expanded Vocal Group of Gijón, whose first task will be to sing backing vocals with Asturian sound project dot tape dot in a live show which will also be part of L.E.V.’s line-up, at Museu del Pueblu d`Asturies on Sunday July 25.
Lastly, L.E.V. will host two artistic residences this year. At Laboral Centro de Arte, Cyril Meroni will perform the final stage of his generative performance Advienne, a co- production with Chroniques (France), Le Hublot (France), Fondation Vasarely (France), Hexalab (France), 6MIC (France), Montevideo (France), and CNCDicream (France). The show will be performed at the Centro during the Festival’s Friday and Saturday. Besides, at Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura, SPIME.IM has spent the whole May working in his project The End of the World, a composition by Lubomyr Melnyk and Julia Kent with the Italian art collective, co-produced by Superbudda, L.E.V. Festival (Spain), Nextones (Italy), Snaporazverein (Switzerland), and Fondazione I Teatri Reggio Emilia / Festival Aperto (Italy) in collaboration with TOurDays and Basemental, which will be premiered at L.E.V. Festival 2022.
L.E.V. (Laboratorio de Electrónica Visual) is a platform of production, promotion and experimentation related to electronic sound creations, audiovisual creations and digital art. An open area of research which uses the latest technological tools to explore contemporary creation with national and international avant-garde artists and new and trailblazing creators, performing several activities and shows in public spaces, with two main big annual events: L.E.V. Festival in Gijón, and L.E.V. Matadero in Madrid.
L.E.V. Festival / 15º Anniversary From July 22 to 25, 2021. Gijón.
Spaces: Teatro Jovellanos, Teatro de la Laboral, Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto, Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Muséu del Pueblu d`Asturies, Capilla del Revillagigedo, Escuela de Comercio, Espigón de Fomento.
Supported by: Ayuntamiento de Gijón, Fundación EDP, Ministry of Culture of Taiwan and Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Spain.
In collaboration with: Principado de Asturias, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Conseyu de la Mocedá del Principáu d’Asturies, Institut Français, Japan Foundation, Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Radio 3, Neo2, Metal, Kino Šiška, MadMapper, Roland, Arturia, Tascam and Electro Harmonix.
Graphic Design: Pasajero37
SCHEDULE OF ACTITIVIES
· Music shows and audiovisual performances ·
Thursday 22 July, 9 PM, Teatro de la Laboral
Ryoichi Kurokawa: Subassemblies
Thursday 22 July, 9 PM, Teatro de la Laboral
Tadej Droljc: Beambreaker
Lucie Antunes: Sergeï Live
Friday 23 and Saturday 24 July, 6.30PM, LABoral Centro de Arte
Cyril Meroni: Advienne
Saturday 24 July, 9 PM, Teatro Jovellanos
Alex Augier: pr(—)
Fasenuova + Marta Verde
Sunday 25 July, 1:30 PM and 2.30 PM, Muséu del Pueblu d’Asturies
dot tape dot + Agrupación Coral Expandida de Gijón
Sunday 25 July, 9 PM, Teatro de la Laboral
fuse*: Dökk
· Audiovisual installations ·
From July 22. LABoral Centro de Arte
Fred Penelle & Yannick Jacquet: Mécaniques Discursives
Project Años Luz, a collaboration with Fundación EDP and LABoral Centro de Arte
From July 8 to 25. Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto
Elias Merino & Sergio Millán: Heterotopies
PROGRAMA DE ACTIVIDADES
· Virtual Reality ·
From July 22 to 25. Capilla del Palacio Revillagigedo
Solo exhibition by Hsin-Chien Huang
Bodyless / 2019
La Camera Insabbiata / 2017 – Co-created with Laurie Anderson
To the Moon / 2018 – Co-created with Laurie Anderson
· Augmented Reality ·
From July 22 to 25. Escuela de Comercio / Sala Joven
Adrien M & Claire B: Acqua Alta – Crossing the mirror
From July 22 to October 22. Escuela de Comercio / Street tour
Adrien M & Claire B x Brest Brest Brest: Fauna
Permanent exhibition. Espigón de Fomento
Julie Stephen Chheng: Uramado AR. Tanukis Awake
· Workshop ·
From July 22 to 25. Escuela de Comercio and Muséu del Pueblu d’Asturies
Expanded techniques applied to choral music. By dot tape dot
> Tickets for concerts and audiovisual performances at Teatro Jovellanos and Teatro de la Laboral, and registration for free activities, will be available from WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23 11:30 AM on the festival website.
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