23.09.05

Todays Art 2005

TodaysArt on TodaysArt:

TodaysArt, International Festival for Art, Music & Technology (the international result of two successful CultuurNacht events) is the annual trend-setting, innovative and adventurous newcomer in the Dutch festival scene […]

Since it was founded in 2002, this festival has aimed to present topical and innovative achievements in multiple disciplines, both in the most advanced and tentative sense […]

The festival aims to offer an international programme with a broad base extending as far as more popular genres such as electronic music and visual art. It also aims to breakthrough the artificial division between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture and wants to provide a conscious contribution to erasing the boundaries between the different arts. In practice, it becomes apparent that many productions presented by TodaysArt cannot easily be labelled. The future is with impure art: the pure concert, the pure show and the pure exhibition are increasingly facing problems. They no longer offer room for artists to present themselves. Festival visitors have to be confronted, in a little sense, with combinations of arts they have not seen before.

During the last CultuurNacht in 2004, more than 20 venues all over the city of The Hague were turned over to artists, musicians and creative forces for a spectacular night of art, music and technology. After the festival in 2004 the question raised: ‘Why staging so many acts and attracting so many talents for only eight hours (one night) a year?’ Therefore, in 2005, the festival will be stretched out into a two days event in combination with an even more explorative musical component. The national name of the event (Cultuurnacht) was not suitable for this expansion and ‘TodaysArt’ was chosen as the new name for the festival. Besides the cooperation with Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival, additional partnerships with Mutek (Montreal) and Transmediale (Berlin) will be explored during the next edition in 2005.

To take part in TodaysArt 1646 invited:

Edd Schouten / Kay Patru / Sanne van Winden / Dit is dit / Piet Linnebank / Carlos Iturralde / Gemma Tro Andreu / Vincent Uilenbroek / Marloes Kroeze / Gabriela Hernandez G. / Hadas Itzcovitch / Dennis Kiem / Markus Rummens / Eveline van den Berg / Battal S. Kurt / Barbara Ceron / Unisex / Amos Elmaliah / Sei Matsumura / Ton of Holland / Susanne Bruynzeel / Clara Palli Monguilod / Kianoosh Motallebi / Brunel Wester / Nico Feragnoli / Liv Kjellman / Bas de Boer / Johan Gustavsson / Kolja Blankenstein