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  Jean Michel Bruyère / LFKs  FR
  Dumb Type  JP
  DU Zhenjun  CN/FR
  Ex Machina / Robert Lepage  QC, CA
  Ivana Franke  HR/DE
  Granular-Synthesis Kurt Hentschläger and Ulf Langheinrich  AT
  Kurt Hentschläger  AT/US
  Ryoji Ikeda  JP
  Ulf Langheinrich  DE
  Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani  JP
  Rihoko Sato  JP
  Shiro Takatani  JP
  Saburo Teshigawara and Rihoko Sato / Karas  JP
  Six holograms from L'ENFER by Henri-Georges Clouzot   FR
  3D WATER MATRIX
  EXHIBITIONS
  PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
 
 
 
Jean Michel Bruyère / LFKs  FR
• Since 2010 LA DISPERSION DU FILS by Jean Michel Bruyère
with Matthew McGinity, Delphine Varas and Thierry Arredondo
(for the AVIE by Jeffrey Shaw)
Permanent installation at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) - Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+), Lausanne (CH)
and at the New South Wales University iCinema Centre, Sydney (AU)
• Since 2016 Tour-Reservoir — first generative web-series still online www.tour-reservoir.com
• 2019 - 2021
  2021 - 2022
  2022 - 2023
SUP DE SUB Mark Hubbard is a special program of self-education for school drop-out young adults in the suburb of Paris - Jean-Paul Curnier / Bobigny Seine-Saint-Denis campus - and in the south of France - Issa Samb / Aix-Marseille Provence-, directed by Jean Michel Bruyère and LFKs, in partnership with educational institutions and cultural organisations.

> Presentation and works on: supdesub.com
> Faire sa vie [comme une œuvre] (streaming in replay)

Other cycles of creations linked to SUP DE SUB:

Violence and Institutions: an exploration of the links and the nature of the links between the human violence and institutions.
> Adaptations of Ovid's Metamorphoses, for immersive 3D 360° display and VR or AR screening.

 
 
Dumb Type  JP
• 21 OCT 23 S/N — recording
Symposium and screening with live music operated by Toru Yamanaka, Tama Art University Media Centre, Tokyo (JP)
• 09 MAR - 10 JUN 24 S/N (short edited video version)  Ten Thousand Suns, curated by Cosmin Costinaș, Inti Guerrero with Tony Albert, Vivian Ziherl, (AU)
 
 
DU Zhenjun  CN/FR
• 8 SEP - 21 OCT 23 HOMINESCENCE — solo exhibition Red Zone Arts (RZA) gallery, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
• 10 OCT 23 - 18 FEB 24 A selection of works J'ai une famille, curated by Hou Hanru, Évelyne Jouanno, Isabelle Renard, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris (FR)
 
 
Ex Machina / Robert Lepage   QC, CA
(Europe and Japon)
• Since 2010 FRAGMENTATION - adaptation by Richard Castelli and
Volker Kuchelmeister of three scenes from Lipsynch
directed by Robert Lepage, for the ReACTOR designed by Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw
Permanent installation at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) - Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+), Lausanne (CH)
• 12 SEP - 07 OCT
  + 12 - 15 OCT 23
Courville — with Olivier Normand Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Montreal (QC, CA)
• 07 NOV 23 - 03 MAR 24 The Library at Night (VR exhibition)
by Alberto Manguel / Robert Lepage / Ex Machina
Genoa Capital of the Book 2023, Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino, Genoa (IT)
• 19 OCT - 19 NOV + 23 - 26 NOV 23 The Riopelle Project Le Diamant, Quebec City (QC, CA)
• 14 - 16 DEC 23 The Riopelle Project Centre national des Arts, Ottawa (CA)
• 19 - 21 JAN 24 The Seven Streams of the River Ōta Teatro a Mil festival, Teatro Municipal de Las Condes, Santiago (CL)
• 01 - 06 MAR 24 The Nightingale and Other Short Fables — operas Adelaide Festival, Festival Theatre (AU)
• 05 - 09 MAR 24 SLAM! — theatre, professional wrestling, circus
by FLIP Fabrique and Ex Machina / Robert Lepage
World premiere, Le Diamant, Québec (QC, CA)
• 20 MAR 24 - 16 MAR 25 Wrestling: Québec in the Ring — exhibition Musée de la civilisation, Quebec City (QC, CA)
• 14 - 16 MAR 24 Courville Hong Kong Arts Festival, Lyric Theatre,
HKAPA, Hong Kong
• 19 MAR - 07 APR 24 SLAM! — theatre, professional wrestling, circus
by FLIP Fabrique and Ex Machina / Robert Lepage
La TOHU, Montréal (QC, CA)
• 03 - 07 APR 24 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark — dance adaptation
by Robert Lepage / Ex Machina / Guillaume Côté
World premiere, Show One Productions,
Elgin Theatre, Toronto (CA)
• 04 - 14 APR 24 Needles and Opium  Le Diamant, Quebec City (QC, CA)
• 21 APR 2024
SLAM! — theatre, professional wrestling, circus
by FLIP Fabrique and Ex Machina / Robert Lepage
Centre des arts Juliette-Lassonde,
Saint-Hyacinthe (QC, CA)
• 25 - 26 MAY 24 The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark — dance adaptation
by Robert Lepage / Ex Machina & Guillaume Côté / Côté Danse
International Shakespeare Festival,
"Marin Sorescu" National Theatre, Craiova (RO)
• 30 MAY 2024 SLAM! — theatre, professional wrestling, circus
by FLIP Fabrique and Ex Machina / Robert Lepage
Centre Culturel de l'Université de Sherbrooke (CA)
 
 
Ivana Franke  HR/DE
04 APR 23 - 31 DEC 23 Frame of Reference 3 Futures, MSU - Museum of Contemporary Art,
Zagreb (HR)
• 18 MAY - 01 OCT 23  Frame of Reference 10  The Visible Ones, MSU - Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (HR)
16 SEP 23 - 19 NOV 23 New outdoor installation, first stage a house is a house is a Home, Villa Romana,
Florence (IT) 
• 12 OCT - 12 NOV 23 Resonance of the Unforeseen     Artupunktura, Music Pavilion, Zrinjevac Park,
Zagreb (HR)  
• 15 DEC 23 - 14 APR 24 Half a Minute Thought Brain(s), curated by Emily Sargent and Ricard Solé, San Telmo Museum, San Sebastian (EUS)
 
 
Granular-Synthesis Kurt Hentschläger and Ulf Langheinrich  AT
https://granularsynthesis.info
 
 

Kurt Hentschläger  AT/US

• Since 2010 VIEW Permanent installation at Los Angeles airport (CA, US)
 • 03 NOV 23 - 21 JAN 24 UNEASE / OASIS — solo exhibition
including: EXIT OASIS UNEASE, NO EXIT OASIS,
CLUSTER,  SECTOR 2C and a new work sample from his upcoming PARADOX PARK
Telematic Media Arts, San Francisco (CA, US)
• Upcoming PARADOX PARK — installation, VR environment and performance
 
 
Ryoji Ikeda  JP
Contacts:
Performances: EPIDEMIC | mail@epidemic.net
Visual creation and installations: Ryoji Ikeda Studio | admin@ryojiikeda.com
codex | edition
• 11 NOV 22 - 13 OCT 24 micro | macro [pavilion] — with Nuno Brandão Costa, architect Commissioned by Fundação de Serralves,
Fundação de Serralves, Porto (PT)
• 11 MAY - 30 DEC 23 data-verse 1/2/3  Yet, It Moves!, Copenhagen Contemporary (DK)
with the support of Audemars Piguet Contemporary and Almine Rech
• 03 JUN - 29 OCT 23 test pattern [nº4]  Les Figures du Vide, curated by Sylvie Zavatta,
FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon (FR)
• 08 SEP - 19 OCT 23 data.gram 14 [circuit boards] Synesthetic Immersion, 0xCollection, Prague (CZ)
• 27 SEP - 25 FEB 24 Ryoji Ikeda solo exhibition Amos Rex, Helsinki (FI)
• 06 OCT 23 music for percussion by Alexandre Babel and Stéphane Garin + 100 cymbals, by Alexandre Babel, Stéphane Garin 
and Tambor Fantasma
Colón Contemporáneo, Teotro Colón,
Buenos Aires (AR)
• 08 OCT 23 data.gram [n°4] — commissioned by CERN Science Gateway Geneva The Inaugural Exhibition of CERN Science Gateway, Geneva (CH)
• 18 NOV 23 - 12 MAY 24 Ryoji Ikeda solo exhibition 21 Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (JP)
• 28 NOV 23 - 28 JAN 24 data.tecture [nº1] — audiovisual installation SPLENDID, Cinema Splendid, Geneva (CH)
• 13 JAN - 03 MAR 24 data.tecture [nº1] — audiovisual installation Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood, BLUM, Los Angeles (US)
• 08 FEB 24 Ikeda: music for strings — new pieces for Ensemble Modern Muziekgebouw Amsterdam (NL)
• 23 FEB 24 Ikeda: music for strings — new pieces for Ensemble Modern CRESC... Biennale für aktuelle Musik Frankfurt, Kronberg im Taunus (DE)
• 15 MAR 24 Ikeda: music for strings — new pieces for Ensemble Modern Hellerau-Europäisches Zentrum der Künste,
Dresden (DE)
• 07 APR 24 100 cymbals (Ryoji Ikeda) / But what about the noise of crumpling paper (John Cage / interpreted by Ryoji Ikeda)
performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Hellerau-Europäisches Zentrum der Künste,
Dresden (DE)
 
 
Ulf Langheinrich  DE/GH
• Since 2010 ALLUVIUM, MOVEMENT Z, MUSIC II
(for the AVIE by Jeffrey Shaw)
Permanent installation at the Hong Kong City University School of Creative Media
• Since 2010 ALLUVIUM (for the AVIE by Jeffrey Shaw) Permanent installation at the New South Wales University iCinema Centre, Sydney (AU)
• 09 NOV 23 NOLAND-D Hellerau-Europäisches Zentrum der Künste,
Dresden (DE)
• From MAY 2025 CONTROL (working title) — new performance combining dance, 3D and strobes, with two female dancers from Ghana
Ulf Langheinrich is also involved in Jean Michel Bruyère / LFKs' educational project SUP DE SUB in France.
       
 
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani  JP
• 06 OCT - 24 DEC 23 async - immersion 2023 — installation Ambient Kyoto 2023, Kyoto Shimbun Building B1 floor, Kyoto (JP)
• 08 - 10 MAR 24 TIME — performance with Min Tanaka (dance), Mayumi Miyata (shō), Rin Ishihara (dance) Arts Nova, National Taichung Theater (TW)
• 28 MAR - 14 APR 24 TIME — performance with Min Tanaka (dance), Mayumi Miyata (shō), Rin Ishihara (dance) PARCO, NNTT - New National Theatre Tokyo, Playhouse, Tokyo (JP) 
• 27 - 28 APR 24 TIME — performance with Min Tanaka (dance), Mayumi Miyata (shō), Rin Ishihara (dance) PARCO, Rohm Theatre Kyoto, Main Hall (JP) 
• 21 DEC 24 - 30 MAR 25 Ryuichi Sakamoto | seeing sound, hearing time — exhibition MOT - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (JP)
 
 
Rihoko Sato  JP
• From JUNE 2024 Light My Fire — new performance, a duet with Javier Ara Sauco
 
 
Shiro Takatani  JP
• 30 JUL - 05 JAN 24 Ryuichi Sakamoto | SOUND AND TIME - Inaugural exhibition of the newly founded M WOODS in Chengdu
Works by Ryuichi Sakamoto with Shiro Takatani / Daito Manabe / Zakkubalan / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Curated by Sachiko Namba, Victor Wan, exhibition Director: Deng Yingying, M. Woods (People's Park), Chengdu (CN)
• 05 OCT 23 Shiro Takatani - Between Nature and Technology
Documentary film directed by Giulio Boato and lecture by Yukiko Shikata about Shiro Takatani and Dumb Type
Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (PL)
• 14 - 15 OCT 23 Shiro Takatani - Between Nature and Technology
Documentary film directed by Giulio Boato and lecture by Yukiko Shikata about Shiro Takatani and Dumb Type
ROHM Theatre - South Hall, Kyoto (JP)
• 09 - 12 FEB 24 Tangent — world premiere ROHM Theatre - South Hall, Kyoto (JP) 
• 04 - 05 JUN 24 Tangent — European premiere European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024,
Teater Vanemuine, (EE)
 
 
Saburo Teshigawara and Rihoko Sato / Karas  JP
The 2022 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance has been awarded to Saburo Teshigawara at La Biennale Danza di Venezia.
• Since JUN 10 DOUBLE DISTRICT (for the ReACTOR by Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw) Permanent installation at the Hong Kong City University School of Creative Media
• 01 - 10 SEP 23  Update dance #97 - Desert under the Moon Karas Apparatus, Tokyo (JP)
• 22 SEP - 01 OCT 23  Update dance #98 – Les chansons de Bilitis (Claude Debussy) Karas Apparatus, Tokyo (JP)
• 20-23, 26-29 OCT 23 Update dance #99 – Waltz (Teshigawara-Sato-Sauco) Karas Apparatus, Tokyo (JP)
• 03 - 12 NOV 23 Update dance #100 – A Wonderful Sunday
(Teshigawara-Sato-Sauco)
Karas Apparatus, Tokyo (JP)
• 08 - 17 DEC 23 Update dance #101 – Dancing Songs (Teshigawara-Sato) Karas Apparatus, Tokyo (JP)
• 12- 21 JAN 24 Update dance #102 – The Lady Who Reads a Book (Sato) Karas Apparatus, Tokyo (JP)
• 09 - 18 FEB 24 Update dance #103 – Pelléas and Mélisande (Sato) Karas Apparatus, Tokyo (JP)
• 22 MAR - 13 JUN 24 Verwandlung Teshigawara: Like a Human + Metamorphose
for Ballett Theater Basel
Theater Basel (CH) 
• 06 APR 24 Tristan and Isolde ParmaDanza 2024, Teatro Regio di Parma (IT)
• 09 APR 24 The Idiot Teatro Arena del Sole, Bologna (IT)
• 19 APR 24 Ophelia Teatro Ponchielli Opera House, Cremona (IT)
• 26 APR 24 Adagio Teatro Ristori, Verona (IT)
• 30 APR 24 Adagio Teatro del Giglio Opera House, Lucca (IT)
• 04 MAY 24 Tristan and Isolde Migros-Kulturprozent Tanzfestival Steps,
Luzerner Theater, Luzern (CH) 
• 07 MAY 24 Tristan and Isolde Migros-Kulturprozent Tanzfestival Steps,
Dampfzentrale, Bern (CH)
• 12 MAY 24 Tristan and Isolde Migros-Kulturprozent Tanzfestival Steps,
Centre Culturale - Cinema Teatro, Chiasso (CH)
• 16 MAY 24 Tristan and Isolde Migros-Kulturprozent Tanzfestival Steps,
Theater Basel (CH)
• 21 - 22 JUN 24 Verwandlung Teshigawara: Like a Human + Metamorphose
for Ballett Theater Basel
Teatros del Canal, Madrid (ES)
• 22 - 24 JUN 24 Voice of Desert - co-produced by Festival Montpellier Danse Montpellier Danse, Théâtre de l'Agora,
Montpellier (FR)
• 06 - 15 JUL 24 Update dance #104 Karas Apparatus, Tokyo (JP)
 
 
Six holograms of Romy Schneider from L'ENFER  FR

By Henri-Georges Clouzot, with Richard Castelli and Martina Mrongovius
Courtesy of Lobster Films Paris
Thanks to Serge Bromberg

Past exhibitions:

• October 2017: Visions, Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels (BE)
• August - October 2019: Holographic Embodiment, HoloCenter on Governors Island, New York (US)
• March - June 2022: PORTRAITS, Musée de la Ville de Belfort - Tour 46 (FR)
• April - July 2023: DIMENSIONS — Digital Art since 1859, Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V., Pittlerwerke, Leipzig (DE)

 
 
3D WATER MATRIX

Shiro Takatani — ST\LL
Christian Partos — The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Ulf Langheinrich — GHOST


Past exhibitions:

   • April 2014 - January 2015: Robotic Art, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie à Paris (FR)
   • July - September 2016: Digital Water Games, ZKM, Karlsruhe (DE)
   • October - November 2016: Digitalife 7, Romaeuropa Festival , MACRO Testaccio - La Pelanda, Rome (IT)
   • April - July 2017: Body Media II, Power Station of Art, Shanghai (CN)
   • October 2017: Visions, Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels (BE)
   • November 2017: Festival VIA , Manège Maubeuge - Scène Nationale (FR)
   • April - July 2023: DIMENSIONS — Digital Art since 1859, Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V., Pittlerwerke, Leipzig (DE)
 
 
EXHIBITIONS
Since fifteen years, Richard Castelli has curated a wide range of exhibitions in Berlin, Istanbul, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, among others.
http://www.epidemic.net/en/art/exhibitions/index.html

Any sort of exhibitions can be proposed, based on already developed concepts or on demand.
• 10 FEB - 14 APR 24 À LA RECHERCHE DE VERA MOLNAR
Co-organised by Ludwig Museum, Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur and the Vintage Gallery
Curators: Richard Castelli and Zsófia Máté
Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (HU)
• In preparation DIMENSIONS - Digital Art since 1859 — virtual visit of the exhibition presented from April to July 2013 Pittlerwerke, Leipzig (DE), by Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V., chief curator: Richard Castelli, co-curators: Dan Xu, Clara Blume
 
 
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
> École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) - Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+), Lausanne (CH) (visit on appointment):

DOUBLE DISTRICT by Saburo Teshigawara,
FRAGMENTATION after Lipsynch by Robert Lepage,
both for the ReACTOR by Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw

> New South Wales University iCinema Centre, Sydney (AU):

ALLUVIUM by Ulf Langheinrich,
LA DISPERSION DU FILS by Jean Michel Bruyère / LFKs,
both for the AVIE by Jeffrey Shaw

> Los Angeles airport (CA, US):

VIEW by Kurt Hentschläger

> Kunstfonds des Freistaates Sachsen der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden (DE) :

NOLANDX-01-2 d'Ulf Langheinrich

> Musée d'Art contemporain de Lyon (FR):

LAND by Ulf Langheinrich

> Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Kunstfonds des Freistaates Sachsen der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (DE):

NOLANDX-01-2 by Ulf Langheinrich
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