EUPHONOPEN : The Voices of Drawing / Les Voix du Dessin : EUPHONOPLUME
INAUGURAL LECTURE Isabella Stefanescu, Visual and Multi-Media Artist With Klaus Engel, Aerospace Scientist, Machine Developer and Interface Designer
Art of Invention Lecture Series
Presented by Inter Arts Matrix
with Felt Lab and Quarry Communications
3pm, Sunday, April 21, 2013
FELT LAB, 1440 King Street North, St. Jacobs
Pay-what-you-can
IAM has launched the Art of Invention Lecture Series to share the research and development taking place within the belly of our artistic creation projects. The inaugural lecture features visual artist Isabella Stefanescu with her close collaborator, scientist Klaus Engel, sharing with us the genesis of the Euphonopen and its development so far. Hear and see the Euphonopen in action. Find out what drove Stefanescu to develop the Euphonopen, how it extends from her body of work and what possible outcomes it might have.
"The performance of a drawing contains information and expression that a finished drawing does not. The Euphonopen is an instrument that captures the complexity of mark-making movement and translates it into sound. Through the Euphonopen, drawing - as a subset of dance - becomes integrated with music and allows us to see and hear the drawing expressed in time as well as space." - Isabella Stefanescu
Isabella Stefanescu is a painter, media artist, writer and producer. She began learning to paint in her native Romania at a school for gifted children. As a teenager she came to Canada and was awarded a Descartes scholarship at the University of Waterloo, where she studied mathematics, fine arts and art history. Her studies were rounded off by two formative years spent drawing and painting in museums in London and Paris. In 2007 Stefanescu received the K.M. Hunter award for interdisciplinary art and in 2008 she completed the interactive arts and entertainment residency at the Canadian Film Centre Media Lab. Stefanescu's work has been exhibited in public and private galleries in Canada, France, and the U.S.A. The films she wrote, produced or designed have been shown at festivals in Canada, Germany, France and Italy.
Klaus Engel is Staff Scientist at COM DEV Ltd. in Cambridge, Ontario. Over the past 35 years he has developed electromechanical systems for spacecraft supporting telecommunications, earth observation, and solar system exploration. His creations are represented on 800 flying spacecraft, several dozen in the Atlantic Ocean, and one inadvertently impaled into the Martian surface. More recently he has brought his craft down to earth to create or enable multimedia and kinetic art. He has collaborated on several interdisciplinary projects exhibited at Lennox Gallery in Toronto, Banff New Media Institute and the Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area.
For more information contact info@interartsmatrix.com, 226-972-3950
The Euphonopen and its projects have been generously supported by:
Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, City of Kitchener, City of Waterloo
My Neruda
a movement & voice workshop inspired by Pablo Neruda's Poetry
APRIL 22–24, 2013 5-9pm
Presented by MT Space + Inter Arts Matrix + Neruda Productions
My Neruda is an intensive voice / movement workshop for dancers, actors, performers and artists who wish to inspire their creations in the work of this great poet. Workshop participants will be guided in the creation of their own solo piece, based on a Pablo Neruda poem and using the methodology created by De Guevara and Mena.
FACILITATED BY director/actor/writer Lina de Guevara and choreographer Sebastian Mena. Lina de Guevara is an actor, theatre director and drama teacher based in Victoria, B.C. She is a specialist in the techniques of Transformational Theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed and Commedia dell'Arte. To create and produce plays about the immigrant experience she founded PUENTE Theatre in 1988 and was its Artistic Director for 23 years. Sebastian Mena, originally from Victoria BC, is now proud to call Toronto home. His career in performance art began at 14 when Puente Theatre swept him up for 5 years. He took his first dance class at the age of 19. Sebastian received formal training at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre and Chile's Contemporary Ballet Company.
WORKSHOP DATES + TIMES
April 22-24, 2013, 5 – 9pm
LOCATION
The Courtyard at Bonnie Stuart Studio Space 141 Whitney Place, Kitchener
COST $100
INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
MT Space: 519-585-7763 / info@mtspace.ca
WORKSHOP MADE POSSIBLE BY
Canada Council for the Arts | Ontario Arts Council | Ontario Trillium Foundation | The Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation Community Fund, Musagetes Fund | The City of Cambridge | The City of Kitchener | The City of Waterloo
Recent Events
March 2013: "history is what it is"
Music of Peter Hatch performed by the Blue Rider Ensemble & Pamela Reimer, piano
Music of Peter Hatch performed by the Blue Rider Ensemble & Pamela Reimer, pianoJoin us as we celebrate the official CD launch of "history is what it is", a new Centrediscs recording of music by Peter Hatch performed by the cross-Canadian Blue Rider Ensemble, featuring Waterloo's Paul Pulford and Anne-Marie Donovan. "They make history. They are in the place of it." - Gertrude Stein.
November 2012: Hazim Kamaledin
Professional Development Workshop for Professional Theatre/Movement Artists. Presented by MT Space + Inter Arts Matrix.
Hazim Kamaledin is an Iraqi-Belgian playwright, director, actor, percussionist and movement theatre expert based in Antwerp. This workshop focuses on transforming imagination into physical movement. Participants learn to play with impulses of the body without falling into figurative expression, illustration or explanation.
October 2012: Objects on a Table
Workshop performance and audience feedback session
After many months of regular rehearsals, individual work and creative meetings, the Objects on a Table team gathers for an intensive three-day workshop to bring all of the elements together in a first draft performance of the complete work.
September 2012: Signature
Workshop performance and audience feedback session
The focus of this secondary workshop of Signature is developing the choral component of the piece. Conductor Christine Duncan and 12 singers rehearse and perform the first draft of the choral score, which includes a complex set of instructions for structured improvisations using names as the raw material.
June 2012: Mirror
Workshop performance and audience feedback session
This second workshop on Mirror focuses on possible structures for the work. We also continue to explore the relationship between the soprano and the drawings taking shape before her.
June 2012: The Notebook Project
Common Pulse Media Art Festival, Durham Art Gallery
Opening Friday, June 10th, 2012
Exhibition runs until July 15, 2012
See the first collaboration between visual artist Isabella Stefanescu and composer Nick Storring, who are now developing Signature together.
May 2012: Signature
Workshop performance and audience feedback session
Preliminary development workshop: Two very different improvising choir conductors, André Pappathomas (Mtl) and Christine Duncan (TO) join us for a week-long exploration of the basic idea for Signature: the elemental power of your name. We also test the interactivity of the audience signing in with the Euphonopen as they arrive, and the choir and Euphonopen then capturing those names as visual and sound material in the performance.
May 2012: Natsu Nakajima
Professional development Butoh Workshop with Natsu Nakajima
Presented by Inter Arts Matrix & MT Space
For the performing artist to have complete trust in his body is a must. Concentrate and sensitize the body through the medium of words and images, particularly those forgotten in the process of modernization. Butoh workshops provide a progression toward the acquisition of artistic expression through the body by exploring memories and consciousness of each person's internal organs.
December 2011: David Smith
Professional development clown and physical theatre workshop with David Smith
Presented by Inter Arts Matrix & MT Space
Participants will be introduced to the foundational principles of physical training and be given strategies for their continued development. David Smith is an independent educator with over 35 years of experience in the areas of Theatre, Ballet, Opera, Mime, and Clown. He is a Movement Specialist whose special interest is in how memory moves and patterns itself in our bodies.
June 2011: Frankenstein's Ghosts
Workshop Performances, DB Clarke Theatre, Montreal
This month-long advanced workshop culminates in three 80-minute fully staged performances of the first draft of Frankenstein's Ghosts. The large-scale multi-media work was developed by a 20+ member team of artists from many disciplines in collaboration with thinkers from the fields of psychology, ethics and computer science.
August 2010: MyAudia
Premiere, Stratford Summer Music
Commissioned by Stratford Summer Music and developed over a two-year period at IAM, this work of urban sound theatre unfolds over three days as a series of sound interventions. It culminates in a mini-opera on the morning of the third day, as the city wakes. Following three premiere performances in downtown Stratford, MyAudia toured to Festival Escales Improbables where it played at Montreal's Old Port.
