2010
Piano & Video Concert with Ueli Wiget
Concert with Ueli Wiget [ensemble modern] at Mozart Saal, Alte Oper Frankfurt
Playing “Roundabouts” by Anthony Cheung
More info about Ueli Wiget & Ensemble Modern here
Piano & Video Concert with Ueli Wiget
Concert with Ueli Wiget [ensemble modern] at Eclats Concert –
Concerts et musiques contemporains à Fribourg, Switzerland
Playing Messiaen, Benjamin, Debussy, Cheung and Kyburz
More info about Ueli Wiget & Ensemble Modern here
More info about Eclat Concerts here
'Screen Tests' at Bunker, New York
Lillevan presents his homage to Warhol’s screen tests at Bunker, New York
(70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
DJs: Barbara Preisinger, Eric Cloutier, DJ Qu, Mike Huckaby, Petre Inspirescu,
Shake
More info about Unsound Festival here
Unsound Festival, Lincoln Centre, New York
Read New York Times report here
Lillevan performs on the opening night of Unsound Festival at David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center Broadway [with Vladislav Delay]
More info about Unsound Festival here
'Kloing!' @ Philharmonic, Köln
Collaboration with Olga Neuwirth: a computer-controlled grand piano is the central element of ‘Kloing!’, for self-playing piano, live-video and pianist
with Olga Neuwirth, Marino Formenti, Peter Plessas
More info about ‘Kloing’ here
Lecture for Goethe Institute
The Goethe Institute invites Lillevan to give a lecture on developments in the field of visual music
Invited are the heads of Institutes from around the world, visiting Berlin for the Film Festival and Transmediale10
Berlin Goethe Inst Convention, 27-Jan-2010
2009
Russian Christmas @ Volksbühne
Olga & Wladimir Kaminer read stories by Gogol, Nabokov and some of their own writings, while Lillevan creates a surreal live video-collage, a mélange of revolutionary, christmas and pop imagery! Special Berlin Christmas night!
More info about this event here
More info about Russendisko here
DEFA Film Remix
Lillevan is invited by Ensemble Courage to visit Hellerau near Dresden and present a remix of former-communist, East-German films, especially focusing on Christmas & family traditions as presented in the communist era. The ensemble will perform their original remixed versions of the film scores.
GAM - Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Gallarate
Lillevan performs at the GAM – Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Gallarate, near Milano.
Final Lillevan+Fennesz performance of 2009!
Performance @ Brussels Planetarium (Cimatics'09)
Special show with Vladislav Delay at the Brussels Planetarium. This performance is part of the prestigious Cimatics Festival in Brussels.
More info about the Cimatics Festival here
KinoVida @ LUX Festival 2009
Lillevan and Sasu Ripatti present the live cinema work “KinoVida’ @ LUX Festival 2009 in Sevilla, Spain.
More Kinovida info here
Collaboration with Bernhard Guenther in Italy
Lillevan and Bernhard Guenther have been invited to collaborate at this year’s Timezones Festival in Bari, Italy.
Also performing on this night: Arnold Dreyblatt.
more info about Timezones Festival here
Performance in Poland
Performance with Fennesz in Torun, Poland
Xenakis performance in Slovakia
Lillevan teams up with the Zeitkratzer Ensemble again for a live performance of the award-winning DVD ‘Xenakis[a]live’
venue tba
More info about the Xenakis[a]live video work here
More info about Zeitkratzer Ensemble here
KinoVida @ Dis-patch Festival
The filmic collaboration between Lillevan and Sasu Ripatti will be performed at this years Dis-Patch Festival in Belgrade, Serbia. Fragments from a selection of European films, are processed, collaged & condensed in real-time into a new possible film.
More info here
Festival info here
Performance with Vladislav Delay @ Dis-Patch
As part of the residency @ Dis-Patch Festival, Lillevan and Vladislav Delay team up once again for one their rare live collaborations
“CINEMA FOR THE EAR”
Also appearing on this night: AM/PM & Laurent Benner (CH)
Begin: 8pm at REX Cultural Centre
Victor Vasarely Revisited
As part of reisdency at Dis-Patch Festival 2009
The main project of Lillevan’s at the festival will be a special commission and a collaboration with the local hero of twisted video Incredible Bob (aka Bob Milosevic).
“PATHERNS: Victor Vasarely revisited” is an exhibition developed on the invitation of the Hungarian Embassy in Belgrade, and will offer a new reading of approaches and aesthetics of Vasarely’s enormous artistic output. Lillevan and Bob will be assembling an ambience on the ground floor of Progres Gallery, utilizing different mediums – video projections, light design, light sculptures, lenticulars and objects – both in the gallery and on the pavement of Knez Mihailova Street.
Dis-Patch Festival - Artist in Residence
Lillevan has been invited as Artist in Residence for this year’s edition of the Dis-Patch Festival. The residence will include collaborations with local artists, presentations and performances with guests. Special event with local hero Incredible Bob, exploring the art of Victor Vasarely, shows with Sasu Ripatti, lectures and new project Kinovida.
Festival info here
Residency dates: 23 Oct – 9 Nov
Fixation Fields
World Premiere of Lillevan’s new Solo Audio-video performance.
Parma, Italy 19 Oct 2009
Details and a dedicated site coming soon!
Special Show @ ARS ELECTRONICA
Special show for Ars Electronica 2009 in Linz
Ars Electronica info
more info here
Performance with Fennesz @ NODE Fest, Modena, IT
Here’s a short quote from Resident Advisor’s description of the show at Mutek2008 in Montreal: ‘…performance was amazing, and featured the best visuals of the festival, provided by Lillevan…”
Venue: NODE Festival
more info here
Rova Ensemble / Buckminster Fuller
Rova Ensemble invite Lillevan to San Francisco to collaborate for a special performance.
The piece is inspired by the thoughts and works of futurist and visionary Buckminster Fuller. A DVD and further performances are planned
KinoVida @ Skanu Mezs, Riga
Lillevan and Vladislav Delay present a new work, a new, full-length, live-film called ‘KinoVida’ at the prestigious Media-Festival Skanu Mezs in Riga Latvia
Project info here
Festival info here
More info on Goethe Inst Homepage here
Performance with Fennesz
Lillevan and Fennesz invited to Florence for their first show together in Italy
Venue: Teatro della Pergola
Screening in New York
Screen Compositions 5
Curator: Katherine Liberovskaya
Lillevan has been invited to screen 2 new works at this years ‘Screen Compositions’ in New York. The two works feature music by Vladislav Delay and Fennesz.
This year marks the 5th anniversary of Screen Compositions, the yearly evening dedicated to intersections of moving image with sonic art; a program of screen works representing dynamic two-way collaborations between video/ film artists and sound/ music artists specifically intended for single-channel projection with no live or performance component.
Featuring collaborations by:
Lillevan & Vladislav Delay – Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo – Tali Hinkis & Kyle Lapidus – Katherine Liberovskaya & Al Margolis – Lillevan & Fennesz – Van McElwee & Tom Hamilton – Marie-Helene Parant & Jim Bell – Fred Barney Taylor & Bradley Eros – Els Van Riel & Julia Eckhardt
more info here
Lecture for Goethe Institute
The Goethe Institute invites Lillevan to give a lecture on developments in the field of visual music.
Invited are the heads of Institutes from around the world, visiting Berlin for the Film Festival and Transmediale09.
Berlin Goethe Inst Convention, 30th jan 2009
Embedded Art
Opening of the exhibition:
‘EMBEDDED ART – ART IN THE NAME OF SECURITY’
Venue: Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Time: 8pm
Commissioned by the Akademie der Künste & BBM,
Lillevan creates an original piece for the exhibition in collaboration with media-artist Zaji Chalem.
EMBEDDED ART looks at the threats to unrestricted public life following the 9/11 attacks and the attacks in Madrid, Moscow and London
Exhibition runs: 24-Jan to 22-Mar 2009
2008
The Go! Team
Special Show with ‘The Go! Team’ at Stadtgarten, Köln
Plateaux Festival
The Plateaux Festival in Torun, Poland invited Lillevan to participate in a public discussion with video artists Jeffers Egan (US) & Ran Slavin (IL)
Our topic: ‘Facing The Image – Painting in Light and Visual Realism’.
On 7th Nov Lillevan performed with Vladislav Delay, 8th Nov saw the final show by Rechenzentrum.
Toronto Digital Media Artist in Residence Program
Lillevan Returns to Toronto and will give a series of lectures and workshop at the OACD.
Press release:
‘Established in collaboration between Goethe-Institute, Toronto and the new Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media & Design program at OCAD, Digital Media Artist in Residence Program brings leading international digital media artists to Toronto and OCAD’s graduate students and faculty.’
ocad.ca here
Presentation of 'Warhol: Screen Tests Revisted'
Krakow’s Unsound festival has invited Lillevan to create and present some new works inspired by Andy Warhol’s filming and screening techniques.
Music by Jacek Sienkiewicz, Melchior Productions, Ben Frost, Pan•American
Lillevan performs with Fennesz at Shift Festival
After the very well received collaboration between Christian Fennesz & Lillevan at the Mutek 2008 Festival in Montreal, the SHIFT Festival in Basel have invited us to team up again
Performance with Jose Gonzalez
Special show with Jose Gonzalez at Muffathalle, Munich
Performance at the Long Arms Festival, Moscow
Lillevan is invited to collaborate with Sirens at the wonderful Long Arms Festival in Moscow
Original reworking of JS Bach in Russia
Goethe Inst Moscow & the International Bach Festival Nizhnij Novgorod invite Lillevan to collaborate with Russian electro-acoustic group ‘Sirens’
Olga Shaidullina, Anton Cherkassov, & the Nizhny Novgorod Soloists String Quartet.
In addition Lillevan performs his video reworking of J. S. Bach’s ‘Art of the Fugue’
Kloing! with Olga Neuwirth
World premiere of Kloing! – a composition by Olga Neuwirth, in collaboration with Lillevan, Marino Formenti & Peter Plessas
More info here
Artist talk at Ryerson University
Vladimir Spicanovic invites Lillevan to speak about his work
and present some new projects
Ryerson University here
Concert with Interzone
Interzone invite Lillevan for an improvised concert
at Berlin’s Romanian Cultural Institute
Maurice de Martin (percussion, DE)
Mircea Tiberian (piano, RO)
more info soon
interzone/myspace here
Oberhausen Film Festival
The renowned Oberhausen Festival
nominates a video from the DVD ‘Silence’
Oberhausen Film Festival here
MARQ Archeological Museum
Live audio-visual performance at the opening of the exhibition ‘Escitas: Tesoros de Tuva’ at Alicante’s MARQ Archeological Museum by Lillevan & Zaji Chalem.
The exhibition explores the history of the Scythians (700BC), nomads of Iranian decent who are known for their famous gold adornments that feature amongst the most glamorous artifacts of world museums.
The performance will feature quite a few of these golden objects, and will incorporate reworkings of original sound recordings
MARQ Alicante here
Emperor Remixed @ Danish Film Festival
Art Freq & The Danish National Film Festival invites Rechenzentrum and Ueli Wiget of Ensemble Modern to perform at the historical Copenhagen Radio Concert Hall
Emperor-Remixed info here
Art Freq here
Danish National Film Festival here
Hommage a Klaus Nomi
März Musik 2008 (Berlin) & WDR Funkhaus (Köln)
Music: Olga Neuwirth
Ensemble: Musik Fabrik Köln
Aesthetics of Technical Imagery
Audio-Visual solo-performance: ‘Extended Symptoms of the World’
Specially commissioned by the ‘Aesthetics of Technical Imagery’ Dept of Berlin’s Humboldt University, celebrating 5 years of “Bildwelten des Wissens”
Lectures by Prof Dr Jürgen Renn, Dr Peter Geimer, Prof Dr Horst Bredekamp
