The Summer Sessions pop-up exhibition at Ars Electronica Festival 2024 displays a selection of outcomes realized through the international exchange of emerging talents within the Summer Sessions network.
Summer Sessions are short-term residencies for young, emerging artists, organized by an international network of cultural organizations. Each summer, the partners that participate in this network for talent development collaborate to offer professional production support and expert feedback to artists for a new artwork or design. Local talents from each partner’s geographic region are scouted and selected for a residency abroad, where they are offered highly productive atmospheres and specific kinds of expertise by one of the international partners in the network.
While the pop-up exhibition showcases the kind of results that this pressure cooker residency format produces, a live event will highlight the experiences that participants have had abroad, and the effects these experiences had on their early careers. The event will serve as a meeting point to discuss how to strategically further develop international opportunities for emerging and young professionals among past, present and future partners of the network.
Find out more about the Summer Sessions on www.summersessions.net!
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Acrobotics
Daniel Simu (NL)
The Acrobot is a groundbreaking circus performance that introduces a custom-built robotic acrobat flyer, redefining our understanding of human and machine collaboration through an exciting mix of juggling, acrobatics and storytelling.
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Forceful Catering
Kexin Hao (CN)
Forceful Catering is a choreographic and musical performance inspired by the East/Southeast Asian tradition of preparing sticky rice cakes (mochi). The rice-pounding utensils become experimental percussion instruments, producing bass beats to the electronic music.
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I M U
Juul van der Laan (NL)
I M U is an essay film installation which turns the viewer into one of its main characters through deepfake technology. It is a personal confrontation with this form of technology and a meditative intervention on what the self and your self-image really are.
V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media (NL)
V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). V2_ presents, produces, archives and publishes research at the interface of art, technology and society. Founded in 1981, the lab offers a platform for artists, designers, scientists, researchers, theorists and developers of software and hardware from various disciplines to discuss their work and share their findings.