AV Festival 06: LifeLike
The second AV Festival - LifeLike took place in over 25 venues from 2-12 March 2006. Over 10 days, AV delivered over 90 events in 3 urban centres. Curatorially, AV Festival 06 investigated life sciences. It featured challenging new work by Michael Nyman, D-Fuse, Carsten Nicolai, and many others. It included 15 ambitious new commissions from artists, filmmakers and musicians such as Ryoji Ikeda, Ken Rinaldo, Andy Gracie, Anthony McCall, Gina Czarnecki, Time?s Up, :zoviet*france:, Suguru Goto and others.
The 2006 festival attracted 34,142 attendees to events, an increase of the 2003 figures. It reached an estimated 101,724 additional people through footfall from the outdoor projection programme, through the radio broadcast and through the website. 213 artists, filmmakers and musicians participated in the festival, including 110 from the region, 57 from rest of UK and 45 from around the world.
Commissions and Premieres
- Who Am I - UMAMi (Commission)
- Wonderland - Claire Davies (Co-Commission)
- Spine - Gina Czarnecki (Commission)
- Swell - Anthony McCall (Co-commission)
- What I Know About Stem Cells - Richard Fenwick (commission)
- Autoinducer PH-1 - Andy Gracie & Brian Lee Yung Rowe (Commission)
- Autotelematic Spider Bots - Kenneth Rinaldo & Matt Howard (Commission)
- data.matrix - Ryoji Ikeda (Co-commission)
- Orchestrating the Genome - Michael Nyman (Commission)
- Artificial Worlds - Richard Fenwick (World Premiere)
- Planesong - James Hutchinson (World Premiere)
- RoboticMusic - Suguru Goto (UK Premiere)
- Sensory Circus - Times Up (UK Premiere)
- State - Helena Swatton (World Premiere)
- System C (part of Animated Drawings) - Marius Watz (UK Premiere)
- The Marching Plague - Critical Art Ensemble (World Premiere)
- Undercurrent - D-Fuse (World Premiere)
- The Remains of Disembodied Cuisine - Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr (UK Premiere)