Original Cultures Bologna ’09 – The Documentary
Share Finally it’s here: the Original Cultures Bologna ’09 documentary. 20 minutes giving an insight into what happened during one sunny week in early June ’09 at the first ever Original Cultures event. For one week we brought together six artists from the UK, Italy and Japan and the fields of visual arts and music. [...]
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Ericailcane x DEM x Will Barras – Bartleby video
Share In the run-up to our Original Cultures London 2010 event we’re releasing a brand new video of our visual artists painting a building in Bologna together on the last day of our 2009 event. Footage from this session, which was organised at the last minute, has so far never been released. The only record [...]
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Original Cultures Remixed vol 1 – update and full line-up
Share Following our earlier announcement about the Original Cultures Remixed volume 1 project, we can now give you a full upate on proceeding as well as a confirmed line-up. The remix project is a fairly straight forward activity which takes place following each Original Cultures event, primarily over the internet. Once an event is finished [...]
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Audio documentary 2
Share Following from last week, here is part 2 of the audio documentary detailing the music workshops and live showcase that took place during the first Original Cultures event in Bologna in June 2009. You can read a detailed explanation of this documentary and what it is documenting here. Following this audio documentary we’ll have [...]
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Audio documentary 1
Share In the first week of June 2009, Original Cultures held its first even in Bologna. Over the course of the week 6 artists from the UK, Italy and Japan, and the fields of music and visual arts, were brought together under one roof (well technically many roofs) to create art, exchange and learn via [...]
Press OC ’09
Share On this page you can find scans of and links to all the press coverage the Original Cultures project has received so far. If something’s wrong or missing please contact us to let us know. Many thanks to all those who have given us coverage so far. Click on the individual images to open [...]
Original Cultures x Museo della Musica
Share From July 4th to 31st, Original Cultures will be holding an exhibition at the Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna showcasing all the art created during the Original Cultures pilot, which was held from June 4 to 6, 2009. For full details check our detailed event post. Where: Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca [...]
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Day 4 video
Share And here we are, a video edit of Day 4 the last day of the Original Cultures pilot. Featuring work from all the artists during our live showcase which took place on the evening of Saturday June 6 at Si, in Bologna. Edited by The Slow Breakfast. Available as a direct download in HD [...]
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Original Cultures – The Exhibition
Share From July 4th to 31st, Original Cultures will be holding an exhibition at the Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna showcasing all the art created during the Original Cultures pilot, which was held from June 4 to 6, 2009. The exhibition will be spread over two spaces inside the museum. In one [...]
Artist blog Bologna ’09 – Tatsuki Day 4
Day by day account of the Original Cultures pilot by Tatsuki. Un racconto di cos’e successo durante il Original Cultures pilot da Tatsuki. たつきの毎日ブログ。
Editors’ blog Bologna ’09 – Day 4
Share We are sorry but this post isn’t available yet in English. Da Giorgia Soncin. “Mono no aware (物の哀れ) è un termine giapponese usato per descrivere la consapevolezza della precarietà delle cose ed il lieve senso di rammarico che comporta il loro trascorrere.” E’ cosi che ci si sente una volta accese le luci nel [...]
Organisers’ blog Bologna ’09 – Day 4
Share Whoa. That is the most direct and natural reaction to what happened last night, on the evening on day 4 at the closing of the Original Cultures pilot. Whoa. The live showcase, the crowning of the 4 days of work for the artists and the cherry on top of the pilot if you will, [...]
Artist blog Bologna ’09 – Tatsuki Day 3
Day by day account of the Original Cultures pilot by Tatsuki. Un racconto di cos’e successo durante il Original Cultures pilot da Tatsuki. たつきの毎日ブログ。
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Day 3 video
Share We return for the third time, with a video edit of what happened during day 3 of the Original Cultures pilot featuring footage of the visual arts workshop, soundcheck and the seminar at the Modo Infoshop. Edited by The Slow Breakfast. Available as a direct download in HD quality (quicktime format) optimised for iTunes [...]
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Editors’ blog Bologna ’09 – Workshops day 3
Share We are sorry but this post is not yet available in English. Da Alarico Mantovani. Nuovo ingresso in formazione stamattina: Bruno Briscik, il carismatico violoncellista che fa coppia con Tayone nei Rajasful, è già all’opera con gli altri sul palco del San Leonardo. Quando entro in sala vengo letteralmente assalito da un suono hard [...]
Organisers’ blog Bologna ’09 – Day 3
Share And again, sitting here in the kitchen with coffee on one side and brioches and panini on the other. It’s the morning of day 4, and even though they say all good things come to an end, I really feel like I don’t want this beautiful experiment to end. Looking back on day 3 [...]
Organisers’ blog Bologna ’09 – Day 2
Share And so we continue, day 2 less coffee and cigarettes but just as much adrenaline pumping through my veins and it’s not even midday yet. I’m writing this at the start of day 3, looking back over the second day of the Original Cultures pilot, where the highs were kept and lessons were learnt. [...]
Artist blog Bologna ’09 – 2tall day 2
Share Ok, so take one dangerously introspective bedroom based music producer who debates walking 5 minutes to sainsburys instead of taking the bus for 2 stops and drop him in Bologne and let him loose with other artists to create a selection of live material to be performed 5 days later. We’ve been using our [...]
Editors’ blog Bologna ’09 – Workshops day 2
Share We are sorry but this post is not yet available in English. Da Giorgia Soncin. Da oggi cambio di location, che si sposta dallo studio di Ericailcane agli spazi del Sì in via San Vitale 67 a Bologna, luogo deputato per l’evento conclusivo di sabato sera. E’ da oggi che le idee dei tre [...]
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Day 1 video
Share Here it is, a short video edit of what happened during the first day of the Original Cultures Pilot at the music workshop. Featuring Tayone, 2tall/Om Unit and Tatsuki. Edited by The Slow Breakfast. Available as a HD quality download (115mb) optimised for iTunes and iPod viewing. As usual it should work with all [...]
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Organisers’ blog Bologna ’09 – Day 1
Share Whoa. I barely know where to start. Fourteen hours days combined with an unhealthy amount of coffee, cigarettes and sugar have left me a bit of a shivering wreck, and it’s only the beginning of the second (official) day. I’ve been for 3 days already, preparing everything and to be honest while I am [...]
Editors’ blog Bologna ’09 – Visual arts day 1
Share We are sorry but this post is not available in English yet. Da Giorgia Soncin. Tre poetiche, tre artisti, tre modalità lavorative che si attivano per un progetto comune: questo quello che sta succedendo nella prima giornata di workshop del progetto pilota di Original Cultures. I tre artisti all’opera sono DEM, ERICAILCANE e WILL [...]
Editors’ blog Bologna ’09 – Music day 1
Share We are sorry but this post is not available in English yet. Da Alarico Mantovani. Ai nastri di partenza il più in palla è Tatsuki: durante la conferenza stampa svoltasi al Museo della Musica dichiara di essere lieto ed orgoglioso di esibirsi qui a Bologna perché Hidetoshi Nakata (ve lo ricordate?), il più celebre [...]
Artist blog Bologna ’09 – Tatsuki Day 2.1
Day by day account of the Original Cultures pilot by Tatsuki. Un racconto di cos’e successo durante il Original Cultures pilot da Tatsuki. たつきの毎日ブログ。
