Original Cultures ‘The Formula’ – round up and documentation
Share And so another Original Cultures has ended, the fourth main event since the project started officially in 2009 and the last show of our 3rd year! The Formula, our production for 2011, was very special for many reasons: it saw the return of international artists for the event, we held the event in the [...]
Organisers’ blog Bologna ’11 – Day 4
Share As we get closer to the final day – tomorrow – things get more hectic. Yesterday, which day 4, today and tomorrow are only going to get more and more intense. As such there isn’t really a proper blog for yesterday as I only spent a few hours with the guys in the music [...]
Artists blog Bologna ’11 – Day 3
Share We continue our series of video blogs with the artists taking part in Original Cultures’ 2011 production The Formula. On the beginning of day 3 we got a few more impressions and words from the crew, and a quick chat with our special guest Architeq about Bologna, the show and good food. Remember you [...]
Organisers’ blog Bologna ’11 – Day 2
Share And on to day 2 of this year’s edition of Original Cultures. Check the video above for a little additional insight into what happened. With the soundcard fixed the musicians hit the ground running with the rehearsals today, running through the tracks to tighten up arrangements and structures and giving Sam Architeq time to [...]
Artists blog Bologna ’11 – Day 1
Share We’re changing things up a little this year with the artists blog – instead of words we’re going to try and bring you a short video of impressions from the artists every day. And so we start with day 1 and some words from the musicians – namely B.Kun, the producer behind the live [...]
Organisers’ blog Bologna ’11 – Day 1
Share It’s good to be back. Having Sam Architeq with us this year is really good too. Firstly because it brings the project back to its original ideas of cultural and artistic exchange between international artists, but also because – as we can already see after only a few hours together – he’s fitting in [...]
‘The Formula’ promo trailer
Share Here is the promo trailer for Original Cultures’ 2011 show The Formula, lovingly created and put together by our good friends at Opificio Ciclope (who you might remember from our 2010 show). The Formula kicks off next week, and you can find full details of the programme and artists involved at the links below. [...]
MEAT Collective
Share The MEAT Collective was born in 2004 from the union of five young professionals operating in the fields of graphic projection, illustration and photography. Their common interest was graffiti writing. With their strength lying in the various formations they each have, from psychology to fine arts, the members of the collective are able to [...]
Valerio Evangelisti
Share Valerio Evangelisti was born in Bologna in 1952. After having published five volumes and forty or so essays and stories he dedicated himself entirely to writing. In 1994 his first novel was published, Nicolas Eymerich, Inquisitor, which won the Premio Urania prize. This was followed by Le Catene di Eymerich in 1995, Il Corpo [...]
David Loom
Share David Loom is an artist and visual designer who works on artistic productions, research and implementation of technology in the arts. From 1995 he has silently collaborated with various theatre groups, choreography companies, directors and actors looking after the production of operas, theatre shows and performances, and more specifically looking after the visual design, [...]
Pietro Babina
Share Born in Bologna in 1967. In 1989/90 he sets up the theatre company Teatrino Clandestino with Fiorenza Menni, with which he produces 37 shows and 9 films and videos. With these productions he’s received over the years various prizes and accolades both nationally and internationally. He’s co-produced, debuted and toured in Italy’s main theatres [...]
New show for 2011: The Formula – From Words to Sounds
Share Original Cultures 2011 The Formula – From Words to Sounds Programme The Prequel When: Tuesday June 23th from 7pm Where: Bartleby, Via San Petronio Vecchio 30/a, Bologna Bartleby hosts Original Cultures • Intrduction to Original Cultures 2011 • Premiere of the documentary ‘From Inner Space – Original Cultures 2010′ screening. Produced by Undervilla feat. [...]
Organisers’ blog Bologna ’10 – Day 5
Share And so it ends. As always this last blog comes a few days after our show ended due to the work and relaxation needed to end such a productive and busy week. Without sounding full of ourselves I think it’s fair to say that From Inner Space has been a success, the show went [...]
Organiser’s blog Bologna ’10 – Day 4
Share 3.40pm Gelatauro. Granite this time. 4pm Katzuma and Blanda are going over the tricky song from yesterday, covering his entrance points, before Nico and the rest of the band arrives. Luca is showing me the photos from yesterday’s trip to the school, some amazing shots that manage to capture the surreal element of what [...]
Original Cultures ‘From Inner Space’ – the story so far
Share Original Cultures ‘From Inner Space’ is over half way through now, and as day 4 starts here’s a handy round up of everything that’s happened this week in video, photo and text to give you an idea of what to expect Friday night. Today is the last day of rehearsals before we roll out [...]
Organiser’s blog Bologna ’10 – Day 3
Share Today’s blog has timestamps to help facilitate the flow of what I wrote during the day. 5pm Bumped into Katzuma at Gelatauro. We should so get them to be a sponsor one year considering how much business we bring them the week we’re here. I think last year we managed something like 2 or [...]
Editors’ blog Bologna ’10 – Visual arts workshops
Share Original Cultures returns to Bologna this year. And this time the scope of the project is to give shape to a show that creates a synergy between sound and images, uniting the works of musicians and visual artists. In this new edition alongside Katzuma and his Expanding Disco Machine providing the music, Opificio Ciclope [...]
Original Cultures ‘From Inner Space’
Original Cultures comes back to town! It’s been a little more than a year since the successful start of Original Cultures with its Bologna 2009 show and only a few months since the London 2010 show. It’s now time for the third edition of Original Cultures for which we are presenting an exclusive production that explores new artistic avenues, growing from what we have achieved in the first two events.
Opificio Ciclope
Share OPIFICIO CICLOPE is a production company founded in 1995. Techno-artisans pursuing quality, they represent one of the few Italian brands born in the 90s to have survived the millennium. They are talented directors, playing skillfully with docu-drama and the manipulation of plausible outcomes using visual and mixed-media in new ways. Opificio Ciclope will produce [...]
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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‘Original Cultures – The Showcase’ at Corbet Place, March 5 2010
Share Original Cultures London 2010 will close with ‘The Showcase’. As with our first show in Bologna last year, this will feature an exclusive one-hour performance from our seven artists: the musicians Om Unit (UK), Tatsuki (JP), and Tayone (IT) alongside visual artists Ericailcane (IT), DEM (IT), Will Barras (UK) and Hiraki Sawa (JP). The [...]
‘Original Cultures – The Show’ online preview
Share In the run up to the opening of our exhibition, ‘Original Cultures – The Show’, at the Stolen Space gallery on February 11, 2010 we are giving everyone the chance to preview some of the art created exclusively for the exhibition and which will be available on sale. The exhibition forms part of Original [...]
‘Original Cultures – The Show’ at Stolen Space gallery, Feb-March 2010
Share Original Cultures 2010 kicks off with ‘Original Cultures – The Show’ an exhibition of brand new works from Ericailcane, DEM and Will Barras at the Stolen Space Gallery, London. The exhibition will run concurrent to the main event which will take place in the first week of March. Full schedule details are below. From [...]
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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