DISK Session 09: ANTISTROT & FLORINTINTIN
Audio and visual performances by Florentijn Boddendijk and the Antistrot art collective.   // Date: Sat 24th June // Time: 7 pm // Location: P////AKT // Address: Zeeburgerpad 53, 1019 AB Amsterdam   DISK Session 09 takes place in the framework of "Life Without Weekend" – a 4-week project residency of DISK/CTM members Remco Schuurbiers, Jan Rohlf and Oliver Bauerhenn at the P////AKT project space in Amsterdam.   Antistrot – Behringer Performance Remember the great blue mural at CTM.06? It was one of the fantastic works of visual arts collective Antistrot. For DISK Session 09 they come up with a brand new audio-visual performance never tried out before. Working together since 1997, its members Paul Börchers, Johan Kleinjan, David Elshout, Silas Schletterer, Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva, Charlie Dronkers (video) and Michiel Walraven, started the group as a reaction against the establishment academy and gallery walls. The collaborative is tight, when working together, individuals come second to the collective and the final product is less important than the dynamic process of action and reaction through which Antistrot`s paintings, drawings and performances come about. To Antistrot`s members these sessions form a visual sounding board for reflection on our constantly changing world. Their eclectic, chaotic and seemingly incoherent works mirror the avalanche of images, impressions and temptation to which we are daily exposed. In so doing, the members of Antistrot do not make value judgements. Not only do they react to consumer society, they are also - wholeheartedly - part of it. By completely accepting consumer society Antistrot aims to reveal shades of reality that overabundance and desensitization have rendered invisible.   > www.antistrot.com     Florintintin by Florentijn Boddendijk As a composer, Florentijn Boddendijk studied sonology at the academy of music in the Hague. While developing programmes for computers that generate music independently, Boddendijk also continues to make remixes of existing music. He prefers to recycle older music instead of making his own live sound since the recognition of fragments helps the listener, familiar with the sound of the records and cd"s. On the stage, he looks for ways of making the "electronic performance" more theatrical. For example with his "Laserbass", a two metre high machine enabling the player to cut through a vertical laser beam that activates the samples in the computer. His DISK Session performance is called Florintintin and is made up from some of the pieces of his recent album Lapbop, a record made by laptop and based on old jazz samples.	> June 24, 2006
<- Back to: DISK Sessions