September, "Etude" on Track festival. We performed two shows at Campo Victoria. Nice venue, except maybe for the fact that whole electricity for the theater, restaurant, gallery and ateliers was under one fuse. This I managed to blow three times with false movement with my mouse on GrandMAonPC. Boom, all is going out on full and the fuse is gone. Not such a big issue as such, but the they were not happy having to turn on the multimedia installation on the second floor all over again. Nine dvd-players and flat screens. Whoops, sorry about that =)
Ghent was very pretty, but maybe bit confusing to navigate at first. I really like the architecture there. See for yourselves:
I had little bit of free time, so I visited the local cathedral. The interior sure is different from what we know in Lutheranian Finland. Quite elaborate.
You can buy happiness in a store, maybe? Only in Ghent. -"Onni" being the word for happiness in Finnish.
Jicin, Czech
In September I also attended to a workshop for light designers. This took place in a very rural village of Jicin, some 100km north from Prag. We spent a week there working on the surroundings of what they call "Loggia". This was built some hundred something years ago by a local noble man, who wanted to make Jicin an important pit stop between Berlin and Vienna. didn't quite happen and the actual purpose of the Loggia is not perfectly clear. Our task was to create " a landscape of lighting" on the premises for the autumn equinox. Equinox is an important time of the year in Jicin, because the original idea of the noble man Waldstein integrated the geographical coordinates and the planetary movements into the positioning of his architecture.
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| Loggia of Jicin. |
It was quite an amazing place, this Jicin. A very little village and the loggia situated somewhat outside the main throughfare. I haven't seen so many stars on the sky in years!! Unbelievable. No light pollution, wow. The urban rat wheel was very far away for a week. So great.
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| Planning |
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| downtown Jicin |
All in all it was a very nice week and I made some new friends. I should try to engage such things more often in the future. Even if my running shoes are still muddy because of this. Some findings and excersises we performed:
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| Shadowplay |
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