sonADA in Transit presents
PAPAY
GYRO NIGHTS IN ABERDEEN |
12. 12. 2014 / 7-10PM
@ PEACOCK VISUAL ARTS |
| |
The Night of Gyros is an ancient festival of the island Papa Westray (Papay) in Orkney, which celebrated on the first full moon of February. About 100 years ago the tradition was abandoned. Gyro is a mythical child eating giantess also known as Gygr, Gryla, Grylur, Grøleks, or Skeklers in other Nordic countries' folklore
Since 2011 The Night of Gyros is back as an eight days long celebration of video and sound art, experimental film and music and architecture - taking over fields, rocks, old farm buildings, workshops and ruins of the island. The weather in February is stormy and not many people can travel for the festival, but if arrived - unable to escape
After PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS programme is "farmed" on the small island (where only 70 inhabitants and brave participants and visitors can see it) - it's travelling
At our first PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS event
in Aberdeen we'll be sharing the experience of work in remote places, presenting a selection of works from 2014, launching 2015 programme and meeting new collegues and audience to discuss the future collborations
IVANOV + CHAN
|
| |
|
CURATORS TALK /
SELECTED WORKS PRESENTATION /
PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS 2015 PROGRAMME LAUNCH |
| |
INCOHERENT CINEMA
experimental short films by Bertrand Mandico and Katrin Olafsdottir celebrating the International Incoherence Manifest |
| |
 |
BERTRAND MANDICO : PREHISTORIC CABARET
Super 16mm colour / 11mn / 2014
A Cabaret show in Iceland. In front of a tired audience, the lead actress proposes a trip to the center of her organs, with the help of a colonoscopy camera. This organic trip causes impulsive reactions among the public…
|
|
| |
 |
KATRIN OLAFSDOTTIR :
IN DEATH I SOFTLY SING
Super 16mm /__' __" / 2014
The new inconherent film has been specially made for Papay Gyro Nights 2014
An earth goddess and her malformed uterus, follow candykid to a teaparty with the bearded housewives. |
|
| |
| a selection of works by Papay Gyro Nights artists: |
| |
 |
CEDRIC DUPIRE :
SILENT BLOCK
2013
Silent Block is the primitive meeting and the fight between a man made of flesh and a shopping cart made of metal.
The time is suspended, it is the meditation of the fight. |
|
| |
 |
RAMMATIK :
AMOHR
2011 / 2.46 min / Location: Faroe Islands
Amohr is the second film in a greater series of experimental short films that embrace and discover movement through camera.
Still photographer: Katrin Svabo Bech
Composer: Jens L. Thomesn |
|
| |
 |
RIKKE BENBORG :
OH SWEET DARKNESS
2013
All at once aesthetic and existential touches Rikke Benborg's film at some fundamental emotions. The film takes us into an unreal, blue-green room, a dream universe in which the boundary between sleep and waking are blurred - and where you can not escape. |
|
| |
 |
RYO IKESHIRO :
COMPOSITION: WHITE SQUARE, WHITE CIRCLE
2013
an audiovisualisation, where the same data and process generate both the sound and the moving image without either one following the other as seen in most VJ practice and visualisations. Movements and patterns that are seen can also be heard and vice versa, with visual shape, screen location and speed corresponding to audio timbre, panning and pitch. |
|
| |
| |
| |
 |
| |
