SHAUN GLADWELL - FLUX-S
10 Sep 2009
FLUX-S
10 – 13 September 2009
Strijp-S, Eindhoven
The transformation of the former Philips industrial site Strijp-S to a new cultural city heart of Eindhoven forms the starting point and inspiration for flux-s, an annual crossdisciplinary art manifestation in the second weekend of September. With visual arts, performance, new media, design, music, architecture, dance, poetry and literature and experimental theatre, flux-s will react, anticipate and reflect on the developments that will change Strijp-S – known locally as ʻforbidden cityʼ for the past hundred years – over the course of the next ten to fifteen years into the ʻcreative cityʼ.
In this first year, flux-s will focus particularly on exploration, experience and imagination of the newly created public space and the stripped, concrete industrial architecture that will be transformed into new housing and working spaces. The sculptural interventions, installations and performance will allow for a new perception of the spaces outside as well as inside the buildings. Music performances and poetry recitations, ʻone-minute sculptures' and challenging new media works will transform the site and open up new readings of the industrial heritage, challenging visitors to make the space their own and evoking their own projections on the potential of this new city heart.
In collaboration with major art institutions in Eindhoven such as the Van Abbemuseum, Muziek Centrum Frits Philips, Het Zuidelijk Toneel, MU, BALTAN Laboratories, Onomatopee and Axes/Jazzpower, the curated program will offer a first impression of what Strijp-S can be, and what flux-s is. In particular with this very first edition in 2009, flux-s will focus on co-productions and commissioned works by artists from different disciplines working together on site-specific projects: especially now, with the striking industrial architecture standing grand in the midst of wasteland that is awaiting new highrise, we find the right setting with unprecedented opportunities and challenges.
Program committee
Chief curator: Jan Schuijren
Program committee: Charles Esche, Annie Fletcher (Van Abbemuseum), Frank Veenstra (Muziekcentrum Frits Philips), Angelique Spaninks (MU), Arthur Kneepkens (Het Zuidelijk Toneel), Angela Plohman (BALTAN Laboratories), Frank Tazelaar, Monique Warnier (Wintertuin), John Thomas (Axes/Jazzpower)
Cooperation partners
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Muziekcentrum Frits Philips, MU, Het Zuidelijk Toneel,
BALTAN Laboratories, Wintertuin, Axes/Jazzpower
www.flux-s.nl
10 – 13 September 2009
Strijp-S, Eindhoven
The transformation of the former Philips industrial site Strijp-S to a new cultural city heart of Eindhoven forms the starting point and inspiration for flux-s, an annual crossdisciplinary art manifestation in the second weekend of September. With visual arts, performance, new media, design, music, architecture, dance, poetry and literature and experimental theatre, flux-s will react, anticipate and reflect on the developments that will change Strijp-S – known locally as ʻforbidden cityʼ for the past hundred years – over the course of the next ten to fifteen years into the ʻcreative cityʼ.
In this first year, flux-s will focus particularly on exploration, experience and imagination of the newly created public space and the stripped, concrete industrial architecture that will be transformed into new housing and working spaces. The sculptural interventions, installations and performance will allow for a new perception of the spaces outside as well as inside the buildings. Music performances and poetry recitations, ʻone-minute sculptures' and challenging new media works will transform the site and open up new readings of the industrial heritage, challenging visitors to make the space their own and evoking their own projections on the potential of this new city heart.
In collaboration with major art institutions in Eindhoven such as the Van Abbemuseum, Muziek Centrum Frits Philips, Het Zuidelijk Toneel, MU, BALTAN Laboratories, Onomatopee and Axes/Jazzpower, the curated program will offer a first impression of what Strijp-S can be, and what flux-s is. In particular with this very first edition in 2009, flux-s will focus on co-productions and commissioned works by artists from different disciplines working together on site-specific projects: especially now, with the striking industrial architecture standing grand in the midst of wasteland that is awaiting new highrise, we find the right setting with unprecedented opportunities and challenges.
Program committee
Chief curator: Jan Schuijren
Program committee: Charles Esche, Annie Fletcher (Van Abbemuseum), Frank Veenstra (Muziekcentrum Frits Philips), Angelique Spaninks (MU), Arthur Kneepkens (Het Zuidelijk Toneel), Angela Plohman (BALTAN Laboratories), Frank Tazelaar, Monique Warnier (Wintertuin), John Thomas (Axes/Jazzpower)
Cooperation partners
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Muziekcentrum Frits Philips, MU, Het Zuidelijk Toneel,
BALTAN Laboratories, Wintertuin, Axes/Jazzpower
www.flux-s.nl
