Syndicate: Impakt Festival 1998, May 1998, Utrecht/NL

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

Arjon Dunnewind writes:
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Impakt Festival for audiovisual arts, Utrecht.
film / video / music / installations / new media

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The 9th Impakt Festival will be organized from May 13 to 17, 1998 in
Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Impakt is an international festival for audiovisual arts. The festival is a
showcase for innovative film, video art, music, installations, new media
and performances. Lectures and exhibitions complete the programme.

With its unique approach to the audiovisual arts Impakt clearly
distinguishes itself from other festivals. We believe that the similarities
between art forms are more important than their differences and we try to
stimulate the interaction between different audiovisual arts as much as
possible. Also we put great effort into presenting contemporary art in a
historic perspective or theoretic context.

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The film and video section of the festival consists of thematical
programmes, retrospectives and the Panorama programme.

In the Panorama programme we show a high quality selection of recent film
and video productions. The programme gives an impression of the current
state of the audiovisual arts world wide.
Send in your film or video and follow in the footsteps of Jacky Farkas,
Merel Mirage, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Jennifer Reeder, Edgar PÂ?ra, Bea de
Visser, Karola Schlegelmilch, Barbara Meter, Sluik/Kurpershoek, Dominic
Angerame, Tony Hill, Martin Arnold, Nelson Henricks, Cordelia Swann, Mike
Hoolboom, JŸrgen Reble, Jo Pearson, Alison Murray, Joe Gibbons and many
more.

The thematic programmes in the Impakt Festival deal with important issues
and trends in art or society or with issues we feel should be brought to
the attention of a wide audience. In previous festivals we have presented
such programmes as: the influence of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze
on contemporary art; artists integrating destruction into their work; the
Pixel Vision Camera; the concept of authorship in digital culture.

In the retrospectives we present artists or movements we consider relevant
for present developments in contemporary art. We have devoted special
programmes to the works of such artists as Jay Rosenblatt, Bruce Conner,
Derek Jarman, Gary Hill, Matthias MŸller, Marcel Broodthaers, William
Wegman as well as to the American Avantgarde film from 1921 to 1944.

An exhibition of installation pieces is also part of the Impakt Festival.
The installations will be exhibited in various gallery spaces in the centre
of Utrecht. In the past David Rokeby, Christina Kubisch, Michael Curran,
Bill Spinhoven, Liza May Post, Federico D'Orazio, Chris Hales, Horst
Rickels and others have presented their work.


In the music section of the Impakt Festival, young talented musicians are
presented alongside pioneers of the avantgarde. The scope of the musical
programme is varied and ranges from electro-acoustic music to experiments
in popmusic and from multi-media performances to contemporary carillon
music. Sometimes musical events refer to each other within the framework of
a theme. 'Radio Waves', a programme curated by Robin Rimbaud, for example
dealt with the use of radio as source material for music. In the past, our
music programme has featured David Toop, Scanner, Bruce Gilbert,
Charlemagne Palestine, Max Eastley, Michel Waisvisz, Tony Conrad and
Ensemble, Lee Ranaldo and Frances-Marie Uitti.

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Call for entries to the Impakt Festival

If you wish to participate in the Impakt Festival please ask for an entry form.
Our deadline for contributions is January 1st, 1998, but we would
appreciate it if you could send us your work as soon as possible.



Impakt Festival
P.O. Box 735
3500 AS Utrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: + 31 30  2944 493
Fax: + 31 30  2944 163
E-mail: impakt@xs4all.nl
URL: www.xs4all.nl/~impakt