Artivistic 2009 - Montreal

Artivistic is an international transdisciplinary three-day gathering on the interPlay between art, information and activism. Artivistic emerges out of the proposition that not only artists talk about art, academics about theory, and activists about activism. Founded in 2004, the event aims to promote transdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue on activist art beyond critique, to create and facilitate a network of diverse peoples, and to inspire, proliferate, activate.

The world to come is so sexy. We are unstoppable for we are fueled with an incredible urge to embrace the pleasure provided by difference, exchange and liberation. Our actions today are charged with an energy that is animated by the rise of change and a movement that is simply irresistible. For its upcoming fourth edition, Artivistic is going sexy. From October 15 to 17, 2009, we invite participants to discuss, question, and imagine the proxemics of sexuality, technology and politics. While keeping issues of power and control in question, we want to turn to the potency of pleasure, curiosity, humor, and desire in order to TURN*ON that which has yet to be thought and experienced differently.

Here you can see a list of all the events during the gathering plus a list of all workshops artists, installations and collectives that participated.


Technesexual Arduino PD installation

Her Noise - 2005

Watch the full documentary HER NOISE at Ubuweb!

Her Noise was an exhibition which took place at South London Gallery in 2005 with satellite events at Tate Modern and Goethe-Institut, London. Her Noise gathered international artists who use sound to investigate social relations, inspire action or uncover hidden soundscapes. The exhibition included newly commissioned works by Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether, Hayley Newman, Kaffe Matthews, Christina Kubisch, Emma Hedditch and Marina Rosenfeld. A parallel ambition of the project was to investigate music and sound histories in relation to gender, and the curators set out to create a lasting resource in this area.

Throughout the development of the project, the curators conducted dozens of interviews, whilst also compiling sound recordings and printed materials which would eventually form the Her Noise Archive. The Her Noise Archive is a collection of over 60 videos, 300 audio recordings, 40 books and catalogues and 250 fanzines (approximately 150 different titles) compiled during the development of this project. The archive remains publicly accessible at the Electra office in central London.

Much of the material available in the archive was shot specifically for this project, and is uniquely available as part of this archive. The documentary 'Her Noise - The Making Of' was commissioned by Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen on the occasion of the 'Sound' festival and 'SoundAsArt' conference at University of Aberdeen.

The video documents the development of Her Noise between 2001 and 2005 and features interviews with artists including Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether, Peaches, Marina Rosenfeld, Kembra Pfhaler, Chicks On Speed, Else Marie Pade, Kaffe Matthews, Emma Hedditch, Christina Kubisch and the show's curators, Lina Dzuverovic and Anne Hilde Neset. The documentary also features excerpts from live performances held during Her Noise by Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether and Jenny Hoyston (Erase Errata), Christina Carter, Heather Leigh Murray, Ana Da Silva (The Raincoats), Spider And The Webs, Partyline, Marina Rosenfeld's 'Emotional Orchestra' at Tate Modern, and footage compiled for the 'Men in Experimental Music' video made during the development of the Her Noise project by the curators and Kim Gordon, featuring Thurston Moore and Jim O'Rourke.

Her Noise Archive:

Women Take Back the Noise

Compilation on experimental sound women from all over the world. To read more about the artists, project, work behind this release go to Women Take Back the Noise. To hear some of the sounds of the compilation click here

A hand-made package for this electronica collection of female artists made out of three CDs, enriched by stylized flyers, stickers, photos and notes on the artists involved, contained in a transparent blue case (there are pink and orange versions, too), with hinges and adorned by a cloth daisy with a 'noise cookie', a small device which emits squeaky noises and lights up a led closing a circuit. Too complicated? Not at all. This package, in limited edition of 1000, is an object to keep away from children, who are immediately attracted to it by its colors and playful appearance. The music, of course, is less 'friendly', often gloomy, glitchy, experimental and dissonant in its many influences that span industrial and leftfield-folk, dark wave and minimal. An array of unconventional experiences and biographies crosses these tracks: from Cosey Fanni Tutti (ex Throbbing Gristle), with a live recording made at the 'Wired Woman Festival' in London, to Bevin Kelley, a digital suffragette with Blectum From Blechdom who articulates field recordings and samples with indisputable skill, or to Insect Deli, a noise-girl, laptop artist and performer dressed like a ninja mosquito, or even to the Kunt group, Australian pseudo-lolitas with a rock attitude. There are as many as 47 artists in this release, a very fragmented summa of a cosmopolitan underground attitude that integrates pop abstractions, lo-fi, improvisation, classical culture and ambient-soundscape.