Aire: Visual Concert for Nomads at Art All Night - Nuit Blanche DC 2015

“Aire – Visual Concert for Nomads” is a cinematic, musical and poetic piece created and directed Laia Cabrera (filmmaker and video artist) and Javier Moreno (composition, double bass) in collaboration with Isabelle Duverger (animation and projection mapping) that travels through time and space, for those seeking permanently, never having the feeling of forever.

The piece is designed as a site-specific visual concert, conceived from an original musical suite and developed as collaboration into an allegory of images and immersive video mapped projection design on an architectural space.

Exploring the nomadic nature of our lives in a geographical and emotional level, we invite the viewer on an adventure through the senses, where love and traveling are intertwined in an inseparable way, telling the story of the ephemeral and the eternal.

Laia Cabrera: film director, filmmaker and video artist
Javier Moreno: Musical Director, Composer and double bass
Isabelle Duverger: projection mapping, visuals and animation
Musicians: Amy Kang, cello; Amanda Lo, violin; Roman Filiú, alto sax; George Dulin, keys; Jeff Davis, drums

Art All Night: Nuit Blanche DC is an all-night exploration and celebration of contemporary art, encompassing five of DC’s most vibrant neighborhoods. With this festival Washington, D.C. joins a global network of Nuit Blanche all night arts events that started in Paris in 2002 and has captivated audiences from Toronto to Tel Aviv.

Organized by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in collaboration with H Street NE Organized by the Ibero-American Cultural Attaches Association (AACIA). With the support of SPAIN arts & culture, NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and Spain Culture New York.

We also presented in 2013 "Untitled Mind" in Art All Night DC as an indoor/outdoor video mapping installation.












pictures by Isabelle Duverger

We Won! New York Innovative Theater Award 2015 for Outstanding Performance Art Production!

"Night", our latest theater production with the New Stage Theatre Company received 1 award for Outstanding Performance Art Production

and Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger received one nomination: Outstanding Innovative Design for Projection Design
Other nominations for this play were:
Outstanding Director (Ildiko Nemeth), Outstanding Choreography/Movement (Ildiko Nemeth), Outstanding Lighting Design (Federico Restrepo), Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role (Chris Tanner)




Pictures by Jillian Hmieleski and Isabelle Duverger

September 26, 2015: Aire at Art All Night: Nuit Blanche DC

Aire: Visual Concert for Nomads is a cinematic, musical and poetic proposal that travels through cities, memories and time, exploring the nomadic nature of our lives.



Laia Cabrera: film director, filmmaker and video artist
Javier Moreno: Musical Director, Composer and double bass
Isabelle Duverger: projection mapping, visuals and animation
Musicians: Amy Kang, cello; Amanda Lo, violin; Roman Filiú, alto sax; George Dulin, keys; Jeff Davis, drums

Aire is a cinematic, musical and poetic piece designed as a site-specific visual concert created and directed by Laia Cabrera (filmmaker and video artist) and Javier Moreno (composition, double bass) in collaboration with Isabelle Duverger (animation and projection mapping), into an allegory of images traveling thought time and space and powerfully scored by an original musical suite for those seeking permanently, never having the feeling of forever.
The multimedia show merges immersive video mapped projection design with performing arts by featuring video art and live visuals with an international concert ensemble.
Aire starts with a tune whistled as an evocative element that once playing, recalls the memories, drawing the listener into images of other lives, to the cities we inhabit and live, where we fell in love and built ourselves to then leave them behind.
Exploring the nomadic nature of our lives in a geographical and emotional level, the viewer is taken on an adventure through the senses, where love and traveling are intertwined in an inseparable way, telling the story of the ephemeral and the eternal. How do you leave a country? How do you stay? How do you create ties and embrace or abandon relationships?
This visual musical score explores new ways of using the space and the visual imaginary as a tool for narrative storytelling and audience connection. This international collaborative project was born from research and this expansive spirit.

"We use cinema, music and performing arts to challenge all preconceptions, including narrative structure, logical thinking, or boundaries with the audience. It seemed clear that the natural step for us was to join forces with artists from different disciplines to create a new language. We wanted to explore very concrete and recognizable situations in all its artistic possibilities with the ultimate goal to expand our realities and perspectives.
We approach the design as a combination of content and imagery and the way that imagery is displayed. We use different video streams to map the architectural surface, searching for new ways of staging the public space; driven by both the scenographic and dramaturgical aspects."

This project, forged in New York, searches for new forms of expression within the creative frame of contemporary art. The creation of suggestive atmospheres, sustains a collective pulse accentuated by the international diversity of its artists.

Art All Night: Nuit Blanche DC is an all-night exploration and celebration of contemporary art, encompassing five of DC’s most vibrant neighborhoods. With this festival Washington, D.C. joins a global network of Nuit Blanche all night arts events that started in Paris in 2002 and has captivated audiences from Toronto to Tel Aviv.

Aire at Art All Night DC: September 26, 2015 - 9pm
Bank of America Building, 722 H St NE, Washington, DC 20002 (corner of 8th St NE)

Showcase Concert: September 18, 2015 - 6pm King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012