Festival Focus

Today’s Art

A vacant tower in The Hague, formerly the setting for our Ministry of Interior Relations, will be transformed into a playground for adventurous contemporary visual and performing arts. The multidisciplinary festival TodaysArt doesn’t ask questions or pretends to have answers, but instead simply presents over 100 artists and music acts in a 124,000m2 complex that is now accessible to the public for the first time. Pretty great, right?

 

Ryoji Ikeda

The audiovisual performance piece Test Pattern is set around a computer that is synchronised to convert audio signals into a black-and-white mess of barcode patterns. The speed of the images can be hundreds of frames per second, not just a test for the audiovisual devices, but also for the audience’s perceptions. Not for the epileptic.

 

Sphæræ: Cocky Eek

Sphæræ is an inflatable structure of domes in which light, sound and movement form an encompassing experience. Upon entering, visitors are immediately immersed in a womb filled with psychedelic visuals.

 

Oneohtrix Point Never

Electronic experimentalist Oneohtrix Point Never will be performing his psychedelic synth show. Floating between abstract ambient soundscapes and flowing, danceable melodies, his works almost resemble traditional song structures, but not really.

 

Gangpol und Mit

Artists/musicians Gangpol und Mit are performing one of their crazy live shows where their colourful geometric creatures come alive to a wonderfully confusing soundtrack.

 

Teun Verkerk & Joris Hoogeboom

With BUQS, Verkerk & Hoogeboom introduce small electronic lifeforms through which space can be explored in an auditory experience. The moveable BUQS allow for the audience to intermediate and turn their environment into a giant musical instrument.

 

TodaysArt calls the old Ministry of Interior Relations in The Hague home on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 September.