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Saturday, 06 February 2010 15:26

AV Festival 10International Festival of Electronic Arts (5-14 March 2010) avfestival.co.uk

The North East based biennial AV Festival is one of the UK’s largest international festivals of electronic arts. It returns to Sunderland, NewcastleGateshead and Middlesbrough this year (5-14 March), presenting a diverse programme of work including 24 exhibitions, 20 performances, 10 screenings, 14 talks, 4 club nights and 3 symposia, by over 100 visual artists, musicians and filmmakers, and will include 15 World Premieres of new AV Festival commissions.

The theme of this year’s Festival is ‘energy’ and all the works in the Festival respond to this idea in some way ranging from sound, light and mechanical energy, to the spiritual and human. Carol Bell, Head of Programme Development at Culture10, said “AV Festival 10 is set to be the best yet with a real diverse programme of events, many of which offer a variety of opportunities for engagement. The theme of energy shines through and is sure to leave those involved feeling they have experienced something both unique and special.”

 

Sunderland


* Big Water – Bring your trunks to an electronic music concert, and listen in and out of the water at the Sunderland Aquatic Centre.
* Buddha Machines – Listen to a free installation as ambient music’s answer to the iPod takes root amongst the plant life in Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens.
* Heliocentric – Free moving image exhibition illustrating our relationship with the sun at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art.
* Incandescent – Free interactive installation in the Pilgrim Pub celebrates the electric light bulb invented by Sunderland born Physicist Joseph Swan.
* Work Force – Free exhibition at the National Glass Centre of films exploring the vibrant glassmaking industry and labour from the 1970s to present day.

Middlesbrough


* A certain distance, endless light– A major FREE exhibition, and highlight of the Festival which brings together Cuban-born American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Irish artist William McKeown at mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art).
* ‘Untitled’ (Strange Bird) 1993 by Felix Gonzalez-Torres – The artist’s work is installed on commercial advertising billboards in Middlesbrough, Sunderland and NewcastleGateshead.
* Silent Sound – Part classical concert, part public séance at Middlesbrough Town Hall by artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, and featuring musician Jason Pierce of Spiritualized and TV’s Most Haunted parapsychologist Dr Ciarán O’Keefe.
* Energy Shorts – Two FREE screenings of moving image work on the North East’s only Big Screen, in Centre Square, Middlesbrough.

NewcastleGateshead


* Charlemagne Palestine Trilogy, 3 performances by US composer with the carillon bells at Newcastle Civic Centre, change ringing bells at two Newcastle churches, and a 6-hour work for organ at another.
* Power Game by Liliane Lijn, a late night card game and improvised art performance with cross-dressing croupiers at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.
* English Journey Revisited with Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, filmmaker and writer (Sinclair) and cult graphic novelist (Moore) in a unique evening of words, music and film at The Sage Gateshead.
* Sounds of Science, an evening of fantastical sonic experiments at The Sage Gateshead as artists make music using a Tesla Coil, firework sparklers, levitating gold leaf and a harp on a block of dry ice.
* Rivers, three international sound artists visited Northumberland rivers and have used these underwater recordings as a basis for a concert at The Sage Gateshead.
* artificiel, a free exhibition of dozens of oversized electric light bulbs in the darkened Great Hall at Discovery Museum, Newcastle.
* Recycled Film, are rubbish skips the film archives of our time? A series of talks, screenings, and a one-day symposium at Tyneside Cinema on the art of recycled film and reusing archive footage.
* Kenneth Anger, legendary American filmmaker and writer (Hollywood Babylon) whose fans include Martin Scorsese and Andy Warhol visits Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle.
* all art is, is rhythm, a new free group exhibition at Hatton Gallery: Great North Museum, Newcastle features harps played by wind, 16 model wind turbines, 500 paper wind vanes and a medley of soft toys.
* Will Schrimshaw: Space Against Itself, a free sound installation inside the secret world of the North Tower of the Tyne Bridge, Newcastle.


 
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