The interdisciplinary cross-campus collaboration unites musicians, actors and visual artists to experiment with multimedia starting from their own practice and to realize an interdisciplinary performance. The artistic finality expresses the processes, methods, discoveries, new insights, knowledge ,interventions - in actions and words, in complex and simple, conventional and unconventional, robust and fragile ways. Collaboration between students is strongly encouraged. The students agree on the process they follow and what the final output will be.
The master Elective Common Grounds is organized during the first semester in 3 sessions. The first two sessions will be organized in the BAC ART LAB in Leuven, a workplace for contemporary art at KU Leuven. The last session and the premiere will be organized in collaboration with STUK - House for Dance, Image and Sound in Leuven.
PEOPLE
'Intermedia - Common Grounds' is a campus-wide Master Elective at LUCA and is under the guidance of Jürgen De Blonde, Vincent Caers, Peter Jacquemyn, Jan Pillaert and Klaas Verpoest.
Peter Jacquemyn | jacquemyn.com
On the one hand Peter Jacquemyn is a musician, playing the bass, using his voice, experimenting with different ways of playing together, combining music coming from different cultures, etc. He’s fascinated by a lot of non-western, so-called ethnic music traditions. On the other hand Peter also focuses on other disciplines like visual arts, drawing, sculpture, installations, performance. Being in both worlds has led him to develop an artistic oeuvre of music and visuals on an equal level. Music is more than background, visuals are more than decor.
Jan Pillaert
As a tuba-player Jan Pillaert is always pushing the limits of his instrument. He looks for new approaches in creating sound and interaction through the tuba. This research is enriched by collaborating with a wide range of performers, musicians, dancers, live visuals, installations. In these encounters, the focus is on the instant improvisation and live-creation of interactions.
Jürgen De Blonde | allthingssound.be
Jürgen De Blonde is guest lecturer 'sound & editing' and head of the audio workshop at LUCA - School of Arts, Gent. Besides that he has a background in sound, noise and music making for over 25 years both from the artistic and the technical side. It's always been about researching and questioning the forms and formulas of making, producing and playing music, in his practice. Besides being a musical performance artist as a solo act (Köhn) or in his main band (de portables) he has also provided scores for contemporary dance, theatre, short film, installation work, commercials and done mixing work for music and film as well as mastering. Lately his interest is leaning toward spatial sound and what goes beyond stereophonic formats. In general, anything that concerns sound and listening triggers his interest.
Klaas Verpoest | klaasverpoest.com
Klaas Verpoest, is a Lecturer New Media Design at the Graphic Design department of LUCA Faculty of the Arts, campus St.-Lukas Brussels and a research fellow at the Mediated Environments Research Group | LUCA Intermedia Research Unit.
His artistic oeuvre has its finality on intangible, unstable carriers and mainly in the performing arts. Verpoest is active as a video-performer in numerous multi-modal performances. He is not looking for a concrete visual translation, but combines and confronts the different components, sound, image and movement into a singular generative narrative, which may be seen as an idiosyncratic visual response to the performers.
Visitors
Geraldo Si | geraldosi.de
Geraldo Si began his dance career in 1981 with Pantanaliadança, Brazil. In 1990 Si came to Germany to join the Wuppertaler Tanztheater led by Pina Bausch, where he danced as a soloist for four years. In 1996 Si founded x.x.y. theater in Wuppertal and directed several of its productions.
Inspired by the collaboration with Suprapto Suryodarmo, for the past twelve years Geraldo Si has focused most of his work on improvisation and the concept of “growing through movement”. In 2002 he initiated an on going series of events „SichtLaut“. On these performance evening dancers, actors and musicians experiment within the borders of improvisation.
Vincent Caers | vincentcaers.be
Vincent Caers is percussionist and electronic musician. His main interest lies in interdisciplinary projects combining percussion, live electronics and visual arts. As an artistic researcher, he explores new formats for contemporary percussion performance and their impact on the audience’s experience. Vincent obtained master degree’s in percussion, chamber music and contemporary music performance before becoming research assistant at the LUCA School of Arts. He obtained degrees in electronic music at Ircam and Berkley College of Music. He regularly performs as a freelance musician with different ensembles and orchestras.
Contact
For further information, please get in touch with klaas.verpoest@luca-arts.be
The ‘Common Grounds’ course is an experimental practice based research into the transmedia applications of the various modalities of sound and vision. The course offers students a platform for exploring the boundaries and synergy between both their own medium and various forms of presentation. Special attention is given to the common ground between different media and different approaches: analogue, digital, visual, sound, verbal, movement, etc.
This interdisciplinary project resides at BAC ART LAB – Leuven and results in an evening performance in collaboration with STUk – Leuven. The course invites musicians, visual artists and performers to experiment with new presentation formats, originating in their own practice with the aim of realizing an interdisciplinary artwork.