Sunday, March 27, 2011

Shifting Gaze is closing the Video-Art Festival Region Zero, 2011

Installation Performance Shifting Gaze at the King Juan Carlos Center. Closing the Festival Region Ø
A Video-Art-Music Installation by Laia Cabrera in collaboration with Erica Glyn and Isabelle Duverger

"SHIFTING GAZE" IS A FILM AND INSTALLATION CREATED FOR LARGE
SCALE OUTDOOR OR INDOOR SPACES THAT SITS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN FILMMAKING, THEATER-DANCE, DIGITAL ART, MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Shifting Gaze is a film and video-art-music installation about CHOICE, DESIRE and MEMORY. Conceived and directed by Laia Cabrera (filmmaker and video-artist) and created in collaboration with Erica Glyn (music production, composer and singer) and Isabelle Duverger (photography and graphic animations). The project nature is based on creative collaboration between different disciplines. Shifting Gaze looks at our feeling of place and time in its most stripped down state: simply ‘being’. Hovering on the borders of consciousness, the film is an exploration of both event and human presence. The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. Drawing on the fragments-presence of the body, faces, urban construction, nature, textures and remains of activity, this quadriptych takes you to the submerged, the transformed, the no longer visible.

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Friday, March 18, 2011

March 16-18, 2011: The Road to Happiness

US Premiere of of award winning playwright Ursula Knoll



The Road To Happiness
A play written by Ursula Knoll
Directed by Markus Hirnigel
Projection designed by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Stage Manager: Samantha Davis
Light Designer: Federico Restrepo
Actors: Ragini Bhaumik, Margi Douglas, Brady Kirchberg, Markus Hirnigel & Stephanie Schmiderer

Presented March 16-18 at the Austrian Cultural Forum

Synopsis:
THE ROAD TO HAPPINESS is a dark comedy or to quote the playwright a "hypercomedy" about 4 individuals caught up in "Reigen-like" relationships on their very own roads to happiness – in search of success, beauty, meaning, purpose and fulfillment.
Erna (Ragini Bhaumik), the career driven Master of Business graduate turned housewife and mother; her friend Brigitte (Margi Douglas), proud owner of a designer store; Andreas (Brady Kirchberg), Erna's boyfriend who loves the outdoors and Reinhardt (Markus Hirnigel) the neoconservative businessman.
These four protagonists are accompanied by a narrator (Stephanie Schmiderer) who in the course of the play reveals herself as Magda Quandt unveiling dormant fascist traits in the characters and drawing frightening parallels to ideology of the Third Reich.