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13/10/2009

Impakt Festival

Theater Kikker, Utrecht

The 20th edition of the Impakt Festival will take place from October 14 through to October 18. And it is not entirely coincidental that this anniversary edition of the festival focuses on the experience of time.

The Accelerated Living programme of the festival explores the ways in which we experience time and speed, and the ways in which our experience changes under the infuence of social and technological developments. For the Accelerated Living programme, Impakt invited two guest curators: Stoffel Debuysere (Belgium) and María Palacios Cruz (Spain). As guest curators, they have compiled an exciting programme which throws light on the festival theme from a wide variety of angles.

The programme features concerts, performances, screenings, new media, a conference and an exhibition comprising a broad range of styles, genres and approaches to time, from dubstep to documentary, from time dimensions turned inside out to 24 hour performances and double-quick film editing, from a brand new digital opera produced especially for the festival and Internet projects to gems from avantgarde history.

Next to the thematic programme of Accelerated Living, the Festival features the annual Panorama programme which provides an overview of cutting edge film and video productions from the international exhibition and festival circuit. For a period of five days, the city of Utrecht will be the centre stage for important trends and new visions within our contemporary media
culture.

One century ago Filippo Marinetti published his controversial “Futurist Manifesto”, in which he described the enthusiasm brought about by the arrival of industrial modern times, driven by a total belief in speed and progress. In his recent “upgrade” of the Manifest, media philosopher Franco Berardi rejects unilateral interpretations of modern speed culture, making a plea for more refection and autonomy. “The omnipresent and eternal speed”, he writes, “is already behind us, in the Internet, so we can forget its syncopated rhymes and fnd our own singular rhythm”.

Our society is still driven by an insatiable hunger for speed, but during the past decades, the spread of globalisation and the revolution of information and communication technologies have unmistakably led to a new temporal dynamics, emphasizing the increasing importance of connectivity and fexibility. The tyranny of clock time has given way to a complex web of diverging rhythms, cycles and tempos, which stimulate the temporal imagination as never before.

Under the title “Accelerated Living”, the Impakt Festival 2009 focuses on changing notions of time and speed today. During a period of five days, a number of artists, filmmakers, musicians and thinkers will share their views on the construction and intensifcation of time, and its infuence on our perception of reality, and by extension thereof, of ourselves. The resulting search for a new engagement with time will be explored in a range of screenings, talks, performances and an exhibition.

Stoffel Debuysere (Belgium, 1975) is active in the feld of media culture and arts, as researcher, producer and writer. He's interested in the relationships between media and memory, analog and digital, sound and image, seeing and being. Over the years he has (co-)organised numerous conferences, lectures, performances and film programs. He is one of the members of the Courtisane Collective and teaches 'Critical Film Studies' at the art academies KASK and Sint-Lucas in Ghent.

María Palacios Cruz (Spain, 1981) is an independent curator of artists' film and video. She teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and is a PhD candidate at Université Libre de Bruxelles, where her research concerns the relationship between flm theory and avant-garde film. She's also the production coordinator of Atelier Graphoui, a filmmakers' collective specialized in animation and documentary film. As a member of the Courtisane collective, she regularly organizes screenings and events in Belgium and abroad.


We Are Time: Introduction to the Exhibition

The passing of time is something we feel intimately familiar with, and yet it continuously slips away from us. Centuries ago, St. Augustine already caught this tension in words: “What is Time? If nobody asks me, I know; but if I were desirous to explain it to one that should ask me, plainly I know not.” The invention of clock time provided a partial solution: time was rationalised, adjusted to the rhythms of growing industrialisation. This transformation – symbolically completed with the introduction of standard time and the division of the world into time zones – resonated deeply in our social and cultural lives.

The experience-based understanding of time was replaced by a rigid, linear and numerical logic which has gradually become embedded in our subconscious. The arrival of ICT and globalisation has pierced this unilateral and troublesome relationship. Ironically enough, the dawning of the computer age –the main source of today’s acceleration – has allowed for new perspectives on the role and potential of time. This exhibition takes that openness as a starting point and presents a series of works which each in their own way strive for a particular time awareness. Different dimensions of time, both social and natural, objective and subjective, are unfolded, deformed and combined, in search for new forms of perception and imagination of time.

AAMU/Academiegalerie/Flatland Gallery
hours: we: 17:00 - 19:00, th: 10:00 - 21:00
fr: 10:00 - 21:00, sa: 10:00 - 21:00, su: 10:00 - 21:00
NB: On Saturday 17 October the AAMU will be closed from 17:00 till 19:00.

Programme on http://www.impakt.nl

Opening Wednesday, October 14 2009 / 19

Theater Kikker, Main Hall
Ticket prices: Conference, Workshop, 9 Beet Stretch, Impakt Online: Free
Film programmes, Impakt Invites and Things to Come: 7,- (6,-)
Concerts by Köner and Radigue: 7,- (6,-)
Concerts on Thursday and Saturday in Theater Kikker: 10,- (9,-)
Speed Tribes on Friday in Tivoli: 15,- (12,-)

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