April 18 , 2009
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Welcome to the site of Gill Arno, home of the mpld and Fotofono projects.

After three weeks in Portugal, Lisbon seems already pretty far away.. indeed, works about memory become themselves memories in due time. Fortunately a journal of the days spent at the residency has been dutifully kept by Elsa Vieira of RogueWaves - you can see the photos and read it at the On the farm blog.

Right now I am in Heerlen (NL). The (h)ear XL exhibition on sound art at Kunstcentrum Signe has begun yesterday.
Curated by Mike Kramer, (h)ear XL features several installations with sound and video, lectures, workshops.... yesterday's kickstart had a great performance by Pierre Berthet.

I will be in residence here for the duration of the exhibition, and will give a workshop about sound art and intermedia with a focus on participatory strategies. Starting the 21 of April we will meet every Tuesday evening in the studio installed on the occasion at the kuS. Like in a sort of Fotofono on the move, we will explore forms of collaborative work through found sound and image, light, space, repurposed equipment and an adventurous, hands-on approach. The results of the workshop will be made public in a group show sometimes in the last week of (h)ear XL.

In addition to the workshop I will play a short mpld set and then talk about the project during (h)ear XL's day of lectures, featuring also talks by Daviv Toop and Raviv Ganchrow.

On show at the exhibition are pieces by Stephen Vitiello, Steve Roden, Paul Devens, Raviv Ganchrow, chacha, Ronald van der Meijs, Erwin Stache, William Engelen, Slavek Kwi and Pierre Berthet. On the 24 of May there will be a performance by Pierre Bastien. Lectures on 10 May. fotofono workshop: 21, 28 April, 5, 12, 19 May.

(h)ear XL
from April 17 to May 24
kuS - Kunstcentrum Signe
Willemstraat 91a Heerlen (NL)
www.kunstencentrumsigne.nl



Also - while based in the Netherlands I will play some shows in the vicinity:

April 23
Courtisane Festival (Gent)
One evening on Memory with: Home Movies (Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Xavier Garcia Bardon & Benjamin Franklin), Aki Onda, Jasper Rigole, Thomas Smetryns, Heleen Van Haegenborgh, Kristof Roseeuw Michael Weilacher,… see the festival's page here.

30 April
Staalplaat (Berlin)
Flughafenstrasse 38
Berlin Neukölln
nearest U-bahn Boddinstrasse
door 20.00 start 21.00
more details and links at
staalplaat.wordpress.com

3 May
Loophole (Berlin)
Boddinstr. 60, 12053 Berlin
www.loophole-berlin.com

8 May
Rondeel - Maastricht

13 May
WORM - Rotterdam

Keep an eye on this page for more information about these shows and a few more that are being planned..