Scatter!
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Saturday 8 March
18:00 - 21:00 FREE
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
The extraordinary closing event of AV Festival 08 will feature Marko Peljhan, Nullo (Aljosa Abrahamsberg), Delray (Matthew Biederman), Brian Springer, and friends, who will conduct an audiovisual `mapping' of the radio landscape in the performance, SCATTER! As solar radio interference recedes, they will scan the night sky at different frequencies, picking up chatter from passing planes, amateur radio conversations, satellites, digital data streams and natural radio sources. These will be used to create soundscapes and large video projections.
SCATTER! is the latest in a series of outdoor events Marko Peljhan and his collaborators have created which begin at dusk as the Sun sets, and often end as late as dawn as the Sun remerges as the ascendant in the radio sky. An artist of unparalleled ambition, Marko Peljhan has worked in the Yuri Gagarin Center for Cosmonaut Training in Star City, Russia and has plans to design and launch a micro-satellite constellation. He received the Prix Ars Electronica for the work Polar, which he co-authored with Carsten Nicolai and is perhaps best known for Makrolab. His practice is deeply collaborative.
Peljhan's latest collaborative performance, SCATTER! can be experienced inside at Level 1 of BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and in the BALTIC's Riverside Café, and outside on Baltic Square, where the sound and visuals from the performance will be visible, along with the antenna array used for the performance.
Commissioned by AV Festival 08. Co-produced by PROJEKT ATOL. Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. In collaboration with BALTIC.