Artist:
Karl Ingar Roys
When:
on Friday 28 November at 18:30 p.m.
Where:
Adiacenze
Karl Ingar Roys is a Norwegian filmmaker/artist selected for our artist residency in collaboration with VISP in Bergen. Since November 1st, Ingar has been working on his artistic research within the Adiacenze space and all around the city of Bologna.
Ingars latest project is based in an interest and research on “Cultural Activism” - how visual or audio based activism are utilising cultural or historical references. In this local context he is especially focused on how contemporary culture are influenced by the political past of the “Years of Lead”.
Through an open screening in the spaces of Adiacenze on Friday 28 November, Ingar will present to the public two of his earlier works who both are about the protest-body and the protest-voice. RIANXEIRA (Spain) and THE PEACOCK GENERATION (Myanmar).
Duringthe evening Ingar will be open to dialogue and exchange with the public interested in his practice and artistic research.
Rianxeira. 15.30 min.
La Solfónica is a choir based in Madrid, which grew out of the protests at Puerta del Sol on May 15, 2011, the day after which the “15-M” movement is named. Formed in the run-up to regional elections, its members, inspired by the Arab Spring, demanded change.
Performing classical music at demonstrations, the choir follows the tradition of composerslike Giuseppe Verdi, who in the opera Nabucco propagated the liberation of northern Italy from Austria. The opera Nabucco was written in 1841 and became closely linked with the Italian unification movement. David Alegre, conductor of La Solfónica, says the same message still resonates today in Spain, more than 170 years later. At that time he says, “it was a political military occupation, today the occupations are economic and ideological.”
Rianxeira is a film about collective resonance and dissonance as dissidence.
The Peacock Generation 5.17 min.
Thangyat is one of the oldest examples of Myanmar song culture. It is performed with a lead singer who has a dancing chorus behind him which responds to the main singer. Thangyat can be funny and satirical combining politics, poetry, dance and music. Traditionally, troupes of Thangyat singers celebrate the yearly water-festival with songs, chants, dances and plays. The performances were banned for decades because they often have an anti-authoritarian slant. Thangyat groups are required to send their chants to the regional government’s Information and Public Relation Department for approval.
According to government rules, chants cannot feature “one-sided accusations and criticisms that could affect the dignity of the Republic of Myanmar and its government” and must not “lead to the disintegration of national solidarity”.
The student movement in Myanmar has been a very important political force in the most pivotal events in the country's brutal history and young people are again at the forefront today during the current uprising against the illegal Junta takeover. Many of the members of The Peacock Generation have been arrested for their performances, some are today fighting in the armed resistance forces and some has been forced to leave the country and go into political exile. “The Peacock Generation” was one of the winners of State of the ART(ist) at ARS ELECTRONICA 2022.
Ingars latest project is based in an interest and research on “Cultural Activism” - how visual or audio based activism are utilising cultural or historical references. In this local context he is especially focused on how contemporary culture are influenced by the political past of the “Years of Lead”.
Through an open screening in the spaces of Adiacenze on Friday 28 November, Ingar will present to the public two of his earlier works who both are about the protest-body and the protest-voice. RIANXEIRA (Spain) and THE PEACOCK GENERATION (Myanmar).
Duringthe evening Ingar will be open to dialogue and exchange with the public interested in his practice and artistic research.
Rianxeira. 15.30 min.
La Solfónica is a choir based in Madrid, which grew out of the protests at Puerta del Sol on May 15, 2011, the day after which the “15-M” movement is named. Formed in the run-up to regional elections, its members, inspired by the Arab Spring, demanded change.
Performing classical music at demonstrations, the choir follows the tradition of composerslike Giuseppe Verdi, who in the opera Nabucco propagated the liberation of northern Italy from Austria. The opera Nabucco was written in 1841 and became closely linked with the Italian unification movement. David Alegre, conductor of La Solfónica, says the same message still resonates today in Spain, more than 170 years later. At that time he says, “it was a political military occupation, today the occupations are economic and ideological.”
Rianxeira is a film about collective resonance and dissonance as dissidence.
The Peacock Generation 5.17 min.
Thangyat is one of the oldest examples of Myanmar song culture. It is performed with a lead singer who has a dancing chorus behind him which responds to the main singer. Thangyat can be funny and satirical combining politics, poetry, dance and music. Traditionally, troupes of Thangyat singers celebrate the yearly water-festival with songs, chants, dances and plays. The performances were banned for decades because they often have an anti-authoritarian slant. Thangyat groups are required to send their chants to the regional government’s Information and Public Relation Department for approval.
According to government rules, chants cannot feature “one-sided accusations and criticisms that could affect the dignity of the Republic of Myanmar and its government” and must not “lead to the disintegration of national solidarity”.
The student movement in Myanmar has been a very important political force in the most pivotal events in the country's brutal history and young people are again at the forefront today during the current uprising against the illegal Junta takeover. Many of the members of The Peacock Generation have been arrested for their performances, some are today fighting in the armed resistance forces and some has been forced to leave the country and go into political exile. “The Peacock Generation” was one of the winners of State of the ART(ist) at ARS ELECTRONICA 2022.