On 22 Mar 2010, at 05:04, su b wrote: > There was a definite sense that everything was feeding in and out of > Amsterdam, not only because of de balie being the organisers, but I think > because their architecture demanded it. > A lot of really good conversations seemed to be happening around their cosy > tables... the screens were onlookers, wallflowers at the party...
to pick up on this point, from the other side of the globe: to my untrained, opinianated (and possibly likely to invoke the Wrath of Bagnall ;-) ) eyes, the biggest artistic gain that emerges from the 'Festival' format, at least within the contemporary European context in which Amsterdam and De Balie are reasonably squarely situated, is this: a lot of people who know each other but normally travel a lot end up in the same city at the same time and so they eat dinner together and drink beers and swap ideas and inspiration, all after the 'real' festival content has finished. this is in a way the biggest problem with the format as it instantiates itself here, and i think reflects why some of the audienc in Amsterdam may have paid less heed to the screens on the wall: there are so many of the bloody things, festivals i mean, that many people who have been in the business for more than a couple of years no longer have much respect for the content of the festival itself. > The time frame issues were seriously unresolved and unthought. ... And that > many of us were presenting 'to' amsterdam from private nighttime spaces. conversely: an NZ-streamed talk at 10am on Saturday in our apartment in Vienna was interrupted by the morning necessities of coffee, breakfast, and getting to the vege market before it closed. -- damian stewart . @damiannz . [email protected] frey . contemporary art . http://www.frey.co.nz _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
