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VIDEO ART

25 January 2012 – Workshop Video Sampling – Kultur digital – Symposium - Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute – Rüschlikon (CH)

Nippon Nightmare has won the One Minute Award for Best Animation Film at the international One Minute Film and Video Festival in Aarau, Switzerland.

Interview with Michael Spahr about his video art on hobbymap.de (in German).

NORIENT

31 January 2012 – SONIC TRACES: FROM THE ARAB WORLD – Südpol – Lucerne (CH)
14-19 May 2012 – SONIC TRACES: FROM SWITZERLAND – Swiss Tour – Zurich, Basel, Bern,… (CH)
28-29 September 2012 – SONIC TRACES – FESTIVAL AND PERFORMANCE – Schlachthaus Theater – Bern (CH)
19 October 2012 – SONIC TRACES: FROM SWITZERLAND – Sound in Media Culture – Turin (I)
10 – 13 January 2013 – 4th NORIENT MUSIKFILM FESTIVAL – Kino in der Reitschule – Bern (CH)

Michael Spahr is part of the independent culture network NORIENT. At the moment he and NORIENT Founder Thomas Burkhalter curate and organize the fourth NORIENT MUSIKFILM FESTIVAL, which will happen in January 2013. Here are the links to the official website and the FACEBOOK page.

With Thomas Burkhalter (music scientist and journalist) and Simon Grab (music producer) he has created the scientific audio-visual performance SONIC TRACES: FROM THE ARAB WORLD, in which he is performing as video turntableist. In 2012 norient will produce a new edition of the performance called SONIC TRACES: FROM SWITZERLAND.

THEATRE VIDEO ART

10 – 16 May 2012 – Die Mannigfalte – Ein algebraisches Varieté – Kaserne – Basel (CH)
 

Michael Spahr produces interactive video back drops for plays. He either plays his video art live on stage or he creates visual installations. Right now he collaborates for the third time with the director Ursina Greuel from Matterhorn Produktionen.

BÜMPLIZ – PIMPOLIS

Bümpliz, a wonderful and notorious neighbourhoood in Switzerland’s capital Bern, is an important source of inspiration for Michael Spahr. At the moment he is working on a video installation called PIMPOLIS for the art project KUNSTACHSE. On 30 July 2010 “Pimpolis, Switzerland” was shown as an audio-visual web performance during the Parallelflux Happening Retrieving Humanity at the Santa Fe Complex in Santa Fe, U.S.A.

This is a short video sketch:




Michael Spahr’s film "Bümpliz – A Day In Urban Switzerland" (2005) ist still a classic and is available on DVD (with English subtitles). Order the movie here.

BLUES HORROR BRIGADE

The Blues Horror Brigade is an alien rock’n'roll performance group. They are attacking the planet Earth with weird artistic and non-violent actions. Michael Spahr has produced and directed several documentaries about that group and is responsible for the extraterrestrial live video art. The whole mockumentary web series CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE BLUES HORROR BRIGADE can be watched on troesenbeck.com.

On 1-11-11 the Blues Horror Brigade has released its new CD-DVD-Album “Live on Titan”:

All videos can be watched on Youtube. More info about the performance group can be found here: blueshorrorbriga.de.

GLOBOCITY

GLOBOCITY is an ongoing art project by Michael Spahr about the globalized urban world. GLOBOCITY consists of videos, pictures, objects and noises. The following video is a short version of the art piece GLOBOCITY – RISE & FALL. Please vote here to get the video on Swiss television.

So far GLOBOCITY has been shown as a solo exhibition at the Atelier Worb gallery in Switzerland. The video GLOBOCITY – RISE AND FALL was part of a video group exhibition at the festival PROGNOSE VOOR DE TOEKOMST in Deventer in the Netherlands, at the exhibition PROYECTO CIRCO in Havanna, Cuba, and at the exhibition of the collection Ertle-Ketterer at the Festival IMAGES in Vevey, Switzerland as well as at Château Mercier in Sierre, and MECA, Almeria, Spain.
More info, videos and images on globocity.com.