Dead Plants and Living Objects with Rie Nakajima.
Rie Nakajima is a Japanese artist (sculptor) based in London working with installations and performances that produce sound. We play together since a few years, more intensively since 2016.
Next concerts and activities :
August 21 : Ulm (Germany) + 6 weeks exhibition : Griesbad Gallery
September 25 : Brussels, la chambre de l’art et de la culture
September 26 : Ottignies, bois des rêves, more infos soon
NEW : Something about our new boxes
video documentation about our exhibition at Museo Vostel-Malpartida, Extremadura, Spain, (until febr 2).
Tin cans, whistles, locomotive suspension springs, porcelain bowls, compressor top bells, ping pong balls, agave dry leaves, sponges, steel wires, branches, paper foils, plastic bags, silver papers, pink gloves, piano, balloons, buckets, feathers, water, scraps, peebles, flower pots, guitar, metal tubes, paulownia tree seeds, pearls, bamboo sticks, logs, bones, stones, filter queens...
RN and PB have been creating various ways to vibrate things so that their acoustic shadows dance around : invisible air volumes that reshape constantly, move in the space, enter in the most secret places and inside ourselves. A way to get closer to things inherent spirits is to listen to them. Eventually encouraging them to produce sounds and resonate by various means : to hit, caress, shake, beat, scrape, scratch, claw, boil, clap, rattle, rock, throw, move, magnetize, clamp, cook, pinch, galvanize, motorize, bow, blow, pluck, heath up, let flow, freeze, drop, drip, connect, roll, mix, extend, sing...
BLURBS and REVIEWS :
A text by David Toop where he tells about one of our performance.
Tectonic Glasgow Festival review
Review of our Milano performance
VIDEOS :
short extracts of a concert at Sonic Protest Festival 2017
Atelier Claus, Brussels, sept.2017
Short extract of a concert in Munster (G)
a concert in Udine, april 2016
a concert in Sheffield, november 2016
A concert in Graz, june 21, 2018 :
PHOTOS :
Porto, Garden of Virtues, 2017 photos
Eupen, Meakusma festival 2017 photos
Past concerts and activities :
2019 : August 21 : Ulm (Germany) + 6 weeks exhibition
November 5 : FRAC Besancon
November 6 : Ecole d’art de Belfort
October 24 : La Casa Ensamblá, Seville
October 17-Febr. 2 : Exhibition and performance on the opening, Vostell-Marpartida Museum, Marpartida
October 8 : Phonos, Barcelona
Setptember 26 : Queen’s University, Belfast
Setptember 20 : St Finian’s Church, 23 Adelaide Rd, Dublin
Setptember 18 : , Fuse Art Space, Bradford
Setptember 14 : Iklectik, London + Galileo
April 23 : Vilnius
May 5 : Brussels
May 15 : Den Haag
March 11-27 : residency in Bilbao at Azkuna Centrao
March 27 : concert at Azkuna Centrao
2018 :
Nov.10 : San Sebastian, Tabakalera
Nov.22 : Labège, near Toulouse, Maison Salvan
Nov.23 : Bordeaux
Dec.14 : Porto, Sonoscopia.
Sept.5 : Geneva, Cave 12
Sept.6 : Luzern
Kulture in Graz, 21 June 2018, Graz
Punktum, 19 June 2018, Prague 2018, Prague
Künstlerhaus Ulm, Stiege, 15 June 2018, Ulm
IKON Gallery, 3 June 2018, Birmingham
Journée zen à Boverie, Le parc de la Boverie, 10 May 2018, Liege
Castello di Apricale, 6 May 2018, Apricale
Hybrida, 8 April 2018, Tarcento
March 31 : Napoli
2017 :
Nov.25 : Wiesbaden
Oct.20 : Bratislava
Oct.22 : Brno
Oct.24 : Prag
Oct.25 : Jihlava International documentary film festival, performance.
September 22, Brussels, Atelier Claus
September 28, de Doelen, Rotterdam : DPLO (with RN)+ Tom Johnson’s Galileo
July 18, Linz (Austria), bb15 Gallery (supported by WBI)
September 10, Eupen (Belgium), Meacusma Festival. I don’t find the timing on the website, but we’ll play on the 10th at 14:30
June 1-4 : Seralves festival Porto
May 6-7 : Glasgow, Festival Tectonics
May 10 : London, Oto Project Space
Sonic Protest Festival tour March 11-17 :
March 11 and 12, 17:00 :Montreuil (Paris)
March 13 : Angers
March 14 : Bordeaux
March 16 : Toulouse
then :
March 18 : Saillans (France, Drôme), special guest : Marie Bouchacourt (drawings)
March 19 : Rousset-les-Vignes (France, Drôme, small village a little further south)
March 24 : Munster (Germany) + exhibition until April 28
March 28 : Brussels, zennestraat 84 rue de la senne
2016 :
Sydney Noland Trust, Presteigne, Wales, 19 nov (residency nov. 16->19)
Idle Chater, Manchester, 13 nov.
Algomech festival, sheffield, 12 nov. (residency nov 9->11)
Iklektic, London, 7 nov.
Silver road , London, 5 nov.
Villa Manine (with Renato Renaldi), 20 oct.2016 Udine (residency oct.1->20)
Zonder Stroom curated by Extrapool, Hurtus Botanic, 26 August 2016, Nijmegen
Koffee & Ambacht, 25 August 2016, Rotterdam
Bains Argentiques, 9 July 2016, Nantes
Fuse, 6 July 2016, Bradford
CA2M, 16 June 2016, Madrid
Secret Florence, Sala Ferri, Gabinetto Vieusseux, 11 June 2016, Firenze
Kilowatt, curated by MU, 9 June 2016, Bologna
O’, 8 June 2016, Milano
Atelier de l’étoile, 19 April 2016, Besançon
Cave 12, 17 April 2016, Geneva
Teatro Palamostre, 14 April 2016, Udine
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 12 April 2016, Ljubljana
Galleria Poggiali e Forconi, 8 April 2016, Firenze
OOR, 5, April 2016, Zurich
Flatterschafft, 4 April 2016, Basel
Lots of the tours and concerts of DPLO received the kind help of WBI (Wallonie Bruxelles International)
Lot of the music played during their concerts and installations were created with the help of the "Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles"
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