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Welcome to the eleventh edi-tion of TodaysArt.NL, the festi-val for adventurous visual and performing arts and emerging culture in The Hague. As you probably know by now, this year’s edition takes place on and around a unique main loca-tion: The Pier in Scheveningen.

The Pier, an architectural and technical highlight from 1959, is not just an icon for the Neth-erlands; it is also well-known outside the Dutch borders. Mil-lions of people have memories of The Pier. Exactly 50 years ago, The Pier was the location for ‘ZERO on Sea’, a large-scale manifestation of the radical art movement ZERO. Due to financial difficulties, The Pier was closed down several years ago. In October 2014, The Pier was bought by KondorWessels Vastgoed (VolkerWessels) and DanZep. One of their aims is to transform it into a creative and innovative location. This year, TodaysArt will sound in a new era for The Pier and marks the opening event of its cultural program.

Inspired by this iconic build-ing on the sea, ‘ZERO on Sea’ and current developments in arts and society, TodaysArt will transform The Pier into a unique festival venue above the waves. For one weekend,

The Pier, the sea, the air and the beach will be the canvas for a group of artists. Many of the works were specifically created for the festival and the location.

On Friday the 25th and Sat-urday the 26th of September, The Pier will be the center of the TodaysArt.NL Festival 2015 and the Bright Collisions sym-posium program. The program features performances, club programs, installations, in-terventions and symposium sessions.

From Thursday the 24th until Sunday the 27th of September you can experience 4DSOUND, interactive spatial sound per-formances in various daytime, evening and overnight pro-grams in the E.ON Electrici-teitsfabriek. We invite you to soak it all up, to embrace the adventure, and above all, to engage with an atmosphere of new experi-ences.

For more information and last-minute details please visit our website and socials:

www.todaysart.nlwww.facebook.com/todaysartwww.twitter.com/todaysart

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Zero on Sea

‘ Zero is silence. Zero is the beginning. Zero is round. Zero spins. Zero is the moon. The sun is Zero. Zero is white. The desert Zero. The sky above Zero. The night.’

Otto Piene, Heinz Mack, Günther Uecker – 1963

Halfway through the fifties, an influential, international art movement was born, called ZERO. The ZERO movement was a radical movement that wanted to separate itself from the heaviness after years of war. ZERO was a group of artists that found each other in their optimistic, utopian and innovative perspective on life. Artists were from all around the globe where part of this ZERO movement, and also in The Hague, ZERO (Nul) had a strong representation.

ZERO wanted to break with the established principles regard-ing what art should look like. The movement saw a strong relationship with society and its environment, – earth, wind, fire, water and the cos-mos – and used new, common materials that had become available through technolog-ical progress. Revolutionary in that time was also that ZERO-artists were as much ‘researchers’, ‘entrepreneurs’, ‘scientists’ and ‘curators’ as they were ‘artists’.

In 1965, exactly 50 years ago on the 25th of September 1965, The Pier was the main site for a large scale, open-air multimedia art manifesta-tion which focused on the relationship between natural

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elements, technology and humanity: ‘ZERO on Sea’. The plans included installations, performances, soundworks, music, video and theatre. Be-cause of financial difficulties and bad weather conditions, the event was postponed to spring 1966 and eventually even cancelled.

Today, TodaysArt presents a festival inspired by ‘ZERO on Sea’ with contemporary artists.

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Opening Performance

Grand Hotel Amrâth Kurhaus

Friday 25 SeptemberFree access

Gordon Monohan Speaker Swinging

Gordon Monahan’s works for piano, loudspeakers, video, kinetic sculpture, and comput-er controlled sound environ-ments span from avant garde concert music to multimedia installations and sound art. He juxtaposes the quantita-tive and qualitative aspects of natural acoustical phenomena with elements of media tech-nology, environment, architec-ture, popular culture, and live performance.

For the opening of TodaysArt 2015, Monahan will perform his famous work from 1982, ‘Speaker Swinging’. This work for electronic tone generators and human speaker swingers is a hybrid of science, music, and performance art, in which minimalistic trance music based on the Doppler effect contrasts with issues central to performance art, such as physical struggle and ‘implied threat’. For this occasion Mariska de Groot, Matteo Ma-rangoni, Dieter Vandoren and Philip Vermeulen of iii will be the speaker swingers.

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Works

The Pier

Friday 25 SeptemberSaturday 26 September

Daan Brinkmann + René Bakker + Daniel BerioChalky

25 + 26 September

‘Chalky’ can be described as an “80s style pen-plotter on wheels”, using sidewalk chalk instead of pens. The machine is an attempt to blend digital and analog imaging tech-niques, using the street as an infinite canvas. For this edition, its graphical output will take the principles of the ZERO movement as a reference.

‘Chalky’ is initiated by Daan Brinkmann and grew into a full-blown collaboration with René Bakker and Daniel Berio. Find ‘Chalky’ on several spots on the boulevard in front of The Pier on Friday and Saturday.

Children of the Light Reflector Suits

25 + 26 September

Children of the Light is the collaboration of visual artists Christopher Gabriel and Arn-out Hulskamp. As a duo they tend to both entrance and mystify the public, creating abstract and highly spherical

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scenography’s and installa-tions using decor, light, haze, reflections and animations.

Children of the Light premiere their project ‘Reflector Suits’ at TodaysArt, which will also be presented at Stedelijk Muse-um Amsterdam in November for the closing event of the ZERO exhibition.

Ali Demirel + BiosphereThe Pier

25 + 26 September

In his work, experimental video artist Ali Demirel, focuses on minimal images and structural compositions with a concep-tual base. Following his col-laboration with Richie Hawtin on music videos, he started to design and perform live shows. Reflecting his background in physics and architecture, he has established a unique visual style in minimal electronic music.

For TodaysArt he created ‘The Pier’, a film with footage he shot of The Pier just before the renovation started. For the film he collaborated with Bio-sphere, who created an exclu-sive soundtrack. Fascinated by the way nature took over what

humans failed to do, Demirel tried to capture the beauty of the devastating conditions.

Zoro Feigl Kite Flock

25 + 26 September

The installations by Zoro Feigl seem to be alive, bringing to mind single-cell creatures or primitive organisms. Feigl fol-lows the laws of physics, but he tries to balance between what mechanics itself brings and what he can do with a minimal gesture to display the aesthet-ics of technical mechanisms. As a viewer you become entangled in the movements: his installations embrace and amaze, but sometimes also frighten you.

Feigl presents ‘Kite flock’, a cloud of kites that swarm around one another. Entangled to ropes in a branching struc-ture, the kites are constantly in a tug of war creating odd movements.

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Lotte Geeven‘Walter’

25 + 26 September

Lotte Geeven is a multimedia artist who works in the field of immateriality and storytell-ing, combined with intense research and cooperation with scientists and specialists.

For TodaysArt, she created the piece ‘Walter’ in collaboration with Thomas Grill (and assist-ed and advised by Miriam van Eck, Edwin van Gender and Mag. Dr. Brigitte Krenn); an oracle-algorithm that gives the sea a voice. The cube-shaped talking computer ‘Walter’ meticulously observes the sea in motion through its lens and connects all the different sea-states to our language. At daytime, the digital oracle reads the sea as neutral to positive, whereas clouded periods, dawn and night time will darken its’ vocabulary. The voice of ‘Walter’ reacts to the surface of the sea, whisper-ing when the sea is calm, and shouting during a dark and dynamic sea. The sea is per-ceived as a giant living entity with many moods and faces. These moods narrate words with an ancient connection,

emitting fine-tuned word-clouds of closely related words with ties in etymology and psycho-linguistics.

Dmitry Gelfand + Evelina DomnitchImplosion Chamber / Photonic Wind

25 + 26 September

Dmitry Gelfand and Evelina Domnitch create sensory environments that merge physics, chemistry and com-puter science with uncanny philosophical practices. Current findings, particularly regarding wave phenomena, are employed to look at ques-tions of perception and perpe-tuity. As science, which serves as the basis for contemporary thought, cannot fully explain how consciousness works, their installations exist as ev-er-transforming phenomena that allow the observer to tran-scend the illusory distinction between scientific discovery and perceptual expansion.

‘Implosion Chamber’ consists of high frequency sound waves going through a water-filled cylinder, causing naturally dif-fused air bubbles to implode. While revealing the motion im-

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parted by sound waves, these implosions are accompanied by shock waves, supersonic liquid jet formations, temper-atures as high as are found on the Sun, and conjecturably, quantum vacuum radiation. In ‘Photonic Wind’, an Yves Klein blue laser beam levitates and propels diamond micropowder in a vacuum chamber. Forming starry jets and languorous vor-tical clouds, the diamond dust evokes the flow of light.

Vladimir GrafovWAVEFRONT Zero

25 + 26 September

Vladimir Grafov combines ar-tistic and scientific approach-es to evoke the empowering feeling of touching the hid-den natural and social forces through carefully prepared arrangement of objects and actions in space and time.

Grafov presents the newly commissioned piece ‘WAVE-FRONT Zero’. It starts off with the sea coast being defined by a perfectly straight line of light being interrupted only by waves, as the wavefront is in constant turbulent motion. Grafov uses laser as an optical method to visualise the flow in

fluid waves. By marking a zero level as if making an incision in the sea, the work reveals the dynamic forces of the wind and sea streams beneath The Pier. The green wavefront even appears like (artificially) glow-ing plankton.

HeHeRadiant Beach

25 September

HeHe is the artist duo of Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen. By working with light, sound and image they look at the relation-ship between the individual and its architectural and urban environment.

For TodaysArt, they have created ‘Radiant Beach’, a performative installation in which the beach will be partly transformed into a fluorescent dune landscape. The green sand reminds one of advanced experiments with new tech-nologies, ecology and toxicity, nature being polluted by urban contaminated substances, radioactivity or utopian future technologies: “glow in the dark dunes” generated by genetic modification. ‘Radiant Beach’ has been developed in collabo-ration with TAAK.

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Natalie JeremijenkoPier-2-Pier

25 September - 4 October

Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist who combines engineering, environmentalism and more to create real-life experiments that enable social change. She is director of the Design Envi-ronmental Health Clinic at New York University that prescribes creative health solutions for people with environmental problems.

Jeremijenko created the newly commissioned project ‘Pier-2-Pier’. Natalie Jeremijenko: “Since Zero, the Shoreline has become ‘unshore-line’. In the Anthropocene we face our own response-ability to inhabit this new liminal space. It is not sufficient to build a pier that only allows access. ‘Pier-2-Pier’ achieves all the functions of a conventional pier, while reaching into the productive aspects of the aquatic ecosys-tem. It distills and desalinates water, promotes habitat for mussels and algae and the many organisms they support while improving water quality and biodiversity.” ‘Pier-2-Pier’ has been developed in collabo-ration with TAAK.

Germaine KruipBlack Circle at Sea

25 + 26 September

Light, (architectural) spaces and the interaction between the artwork and the audience is crucial to the work of Ger-maine Kruip. Most of her works deal with perception wherein she approaches the eye as an optical tool.

For her newly commissioned piece for TodaysArt, ‘Black Circle at Sea’, she builds on a scene from a filmic theatre play she developed at EMPAC (Experimental Media & Per-forming Arts Center). A black round shadow is projected just above the horizon. She uses an abstract language to play with the perception of what is being depicted. ‘Black Circle at Sea’ has been developed in collabo-ration with TAAK.

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Maurice Mikkers Imaginarium of Tears

25 + 26 September

The project ‘Imaginarium of Tears’ of Maurice Mikkers is a series of micrographs that shows the hidden beauty behind tears. Tears are often seen as a weakness and there-fore not always accepted in our daily life. Scientifically tears are divided into three different types based on their origin: ba-sal tears, reflex tears or emo-tional tears. We are all familiar with these tears, but how do they look on a microscopical level? According to scien-tists every tear has a different viscosity and composition. All tears contain a variety of bio-logical substances including oils, antibodies and enzymes suspended in salt water.

At TodaysArt you can book an experience where your tears will be imagined in a 1 hr session. Tears will be evoked and dispensed onto a micro-scopic slide. After the tears are crystallised Mikkers will photograph them. Besides ‘Imaginarium of Tears’, three of Mikkers’ other photo series are exhibited.

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Lisa Park’s work looks at the idea of trans-sensory experi-ences. She developed a series of performances using biosen-sors (brainwave and heart-rate devices) as a medium for mani-festing her inner states. Park’s performance ‘EUNOIA II’ uses a brainwave (EEG) sensor to obtain real-time feedback of her brainwaves and emo-tional reactions. Throughout the performance of ‘EUNOIA II’, the intensity of the per-former’s feelings at the time are mirrored in the intensity of the sound in terms of volume, pitch, speed, and the pan-ning of the sound output. As a result, plates with water re-spond in real-time to the sound creating different formations of ripples and droplets in un-predictable patterns. Besides a performance of Park at a set time on Saturday, visitors will be able to experience ‘EUNOIA II’ in the form of an installation during two days.

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Plastique Fantastique LIVEBOAT

26 September

Plastique Fantastique is a platform for temporary ar-chitecture that samples the performative possibilities of urban environments. They are influenced by unique circumstances that make the city a laboratory for spaces and are specialised in creat-ing pneumatic installations as alternative, adaptable, low energy spaces for temporary and ephemeral activities. The transparent, lightweight and mobile shell structures relate to the notion of activating, creating and sharing public space and involving citizens in creative processes. They are in many ways the simplest of structures - a skin that sepa-rates but also connects.

At TodaysArt they present ‘LIVEBOAT’, which addresses the ongoing refugee tragedy in front of our borders and offers space for communication and discourses. Inside the boat, multilingual extracts from Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ as well as fragments of refugee expe-riences are intertwined in a sound carpet.

Onno PoeiszFata Morgana

25 + 26 September

For TodaysArt, Poiesz creat-ed a project intended for the most left handed island on The Pier which is planned to be demolished by the end of 2015. This project is inspired by one of the original ‘ZERO on Sea’ installation plans. Heinz Mack planned to place pillars made out of mirrors into the sea.

Poiesz is planning to wrap the island completely in mirroring foil. By doing so, a new di-mension arises and the con-text of the building changes. The building gains body and the exact contours will fade. During the day, light and colors change and reflect in the sea, while the night time also offers different appearances.

Abner PreisHacking The Pier

25 + 26 September

‘Hacking The Pier’ is an inter-active tour through the interior and exterior spaces of The Pier. The purpose is to discuss, evoke creativity, expression

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and emotion through the art of play. The journey will take you through a series of games, partially fun and rebellious, through which a collaborative exhibition is created. It offers perspective into hacking the space in which we live. The group leaves their traces in the landscape and explores some ideas of The Situationists Inter-national and ZERO.

Florian + Michael QuistrebertUntitled (tartans)

25 + 26 September

The films and paintings by the Quistrebert brothers are root-ed in the tradition of geomet-rical-abstract art and op-art from the 60s and 70s, trans-lated to the post-everything-era of 2013. The hallucinatory works are based on mathemat-ical principles, where sculp-tural considerations explicitly claim a role within the flat surface of the painting or video screen. Symmetry and dupli-cation are important aspects for the Quistrebert’s, who are able within their rigorous structured compositions to achieve a remarkable softness. The video ‘Untitled (tartans)’ is based on captures of mov-ing shadows on a wall. The

resulting video renders a cold kaleidoscopic tartan pattern in shadow gradients. It evokes avant-garde cinema in its visual aspects, but also ques-tions utopia and more general-ly progressivism, and the fact that the geometrical shapes in the video come from shadow projections which attempt to drive modernism into the dark.

Zeger Reyers Springûh…!

25 + 26 September

Zeger Reyers is known for his installations in which he con-fronts the artificial, man-made world with nature.

The bungee jump tower on The Pier is famous in The Hague and Scheveningen, along with its local dialect. This small language area is famous all around. In Zeger Reyers’ project ‘Springûh...!’ (meaning ‘jump!’), every bungee jumper gets his or her name shouted over The Pier in local slang.

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Mike Rijnierse Klok

25 + 26 September

Mike Rijnierse is known for his large scale works, in which the audience gets incorporated into the context of the work. His installations and perfor-mances are instruments in which dialogue and interaction are developed for sensory investigation. The relation of space and time or the geogra-phy and the perception of the observer are used as parame-ters for musical development. Rijnierse has developed a site specific work for the bungee jump tower. During the fes-tival, a 100kg church bell will bungee jump from The Pier. The sixty meter fall of the bell will result in a unique sound experience. The effect is com-monly heard when a sounding object approaches, passes, and recedes from an observ-er. Compared to the emitted frequency, the received fre-quency is higher during the approach, identical at the instant of passing by, and lower during the recession. The fall of the sounding bell will cause a Doppler effect.

Mike Rijnierse + Floris van Bergeijk + Thomas Koopmans + Arjan van Drunen+ Ludmila Rodrigues 5,4,3,2,1,…. lift-off

25 September

The ZERO artists of the 60s had an unconditional desire for what was yet to come. They wanted to aim high with their minimalist art work. They no longer felt anchored to the earth; on the final page of one of the magazines published by ZERO there is a photograph of a rocket that lifts off into the sky. On the ten pages leading up to that photo, there is a countdown to the lift-off. Now, on the opening night of TodaysArt 2015, we will pay homage to ZERO’s fascination with space with a symbolic rocket launch on the East plat-form of The Pier. TodaysArt, Mike Rijnierse, Floris van Ber-geijk, Thomas Koopmans and Arjan van Drunen joined forces to create this spectacular son et lumière, which will not pass by unnoticed in Scheveningen.

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Berndnaut Smilde CONCEPT: Breaking Light#2

26 September

Berndnaut Smilde uses his daily surroundings and spaces as motives. He analyses spac-es and their appearance and takes them apart to investigate their unique details and fea-tures. During his Zandmotor residency with Satellietgroep Smilde looked into ways of imposing a natural phenom-enon onto the surroundings. He is interested in the artificial aspect, the interference on the location, the meaning we pro-ject onto weather phenomena and the images created after them.

During his residency Smil-de continued to work on the idea of refracting the light of a lighthouse in order to project a rainbow onto the landscape. During TodaysArt, Smilde aims to open the curtains on the city side of the lighthouse for a short moment so he can compose ‘Breaking Light#2’ on Scheveningen. The lighting rhythm that the light house produces belongs to Schev-eningen as an historic and temporal icon. By making use of a prism the artist tempo-

rarily changes the function of a lighthouse of just being a beacon. ‘Breaking Light#2’ was curated by Satellietgroep for Vuurtoren Scheveningen.

Helmut Smits Waterfall

26 September

Helmut Smits is a ceaseless producer of ideas that com-ment on situations and objects in a frank and often humorous way. By observing in a straight-forward, critical and witty way, he often sheds a new light on things.

The newly commissioned performative work ‘Waterfall’ consists of a choreography of power shovels unloading water they take out of the sea.

Tiago de Sousa + Grant CieciuraZero movement

25 + 26 September

Referring to the original ‘ZERO on Sea’ event, Cieciura and De Sousa will use the utilitarian white form of the reinforced ring binder as a means to represent 0. Cieciura and De

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Sousa, being part of the live art work, will distribute strips of 0’s to the public. As the work progresses the 0’s will multi-ply and converge. The hidden form and structure underneath The Pier will be transformed by the public at night. Each 0, infinitesimal (indefinitely or exceedingly small) on its own in relation to The Pier, when placed on mass at night upon the underneath structure and lit by ultra violet light, will converge in a spectacle of shimmering fluorescence and seeming movement amongst the darkened spaces and re-cesses, informing and high-lighting unknown and unseen aspects.

Staalplaat Soundsystem Zeero

25 + 26 September

Staalplaat Soundsystem are known for their large-scale sound artworks and perfor-mances. Ephemeral yet very present and physical they often work context-specific outside of the white cube in urban environments, industrial areas or in nature.

At TodaysArt, Staalplaat Soundsystem (for this occa-

sion consisting of Geert-Jan Hobijn, Radboud Mens and Bastiaan Maris) will create ‘Zeero’, a very large organ made of steel pipes (normally used for sand suppletion) with a length of 24 meters and a diameter of 1.2 meters. Staalp-laat will use gas burners used for hot air balloon to make hot air move through the pipes, which will generate a very low tone.

Surf Lab ScheveningenLED Surfing

25 + 26 September

Surf Lab Scheveningen is an initiative by Julian van Vliet and Henk Selier. The lab initi-ates Do It Yourself clinics, the production of surfboards using sustainable technologies and open source building and research of surfboard produc-tion using CNC machines. The lab offers housing, facilities and guidance for start-ups in this field.

Surf Lab Scheveningen’s Julian Yoshi van Vliet presents ‘LED Surfing’, a visual spectacle taking place on the sea that in-volves, you guessed it, surfers and LEDs. LED Surfing is an ex-isting phenomenon that Julian

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van Vliet is now transforming into a new format together with students of the Technical University Delft, especially for the occasion of TodaysArt at The Pier. When it becomes dark, make sure to gaze to-wards the sea around The Pier on Friday and Saturday, and you might see a magnificent display of lights shifting along-side and underneath The Pier.

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Sensory Experience and Enhanced Realities

The PierFriday 25 SeptemberSaturday 26 September

At The Pier, you will be able to experience ‘Sensory Experi-ence and Enhanced Realities’ on Friday and Saturday. Artists, designers, scientists and other practitioners are designing new ways of interaction that were practically impossible in the past. We as humans are using, understanding and even extending our senses in ways never done before. In the Lounge, a living lab of sorts, a variety of makers present existing projects, new works as well as experiments that deal with immersive audiovisual environments, augmented and virtual reality devices and ap-plications, and the processing of bodily feedback.In addition to the projects in the lounge, make sure to also attend the ‘Sensory Experi-ence and Enhanced Realities’ session as part of the Bright Collisions symposium pro-gram.

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Some of the presented projects (please note: not all projects are presented in the same space):

Projects:

Arjan van Meerten Surge / The Last Mountain / Colosse

Clement Georgescu Space invaders / Cloudprinting

Julius HorsthuisFractals

Kite & LightningSenza Penso

Leslie García + Paloma López (Interspecifics) Dimensions - in collabora-tion with Masha Ru, David Goedicke and Thomas Beelen

De Naakte OntwerpersResonate

Sander Bos

Squarepusher - Stor Eiglass (Marshmallow Laser Feast + Blue Zoo + Rob Pybus, present-ed by Warp Records)

In addition to the projects in the lounge, make sure to also attend the related symposium session as part of Bright Colli-sions.

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Club Program

The PierFriday 25 SeptemberSaturday 26 September

The night program has always been an essential ingredient of TodaysArt. To create an unfor-gettable event above the North Sea, we needed seriously skilled artists willing to com-pete with the sound of the sea and the shore breeze. These artists relate to the waves using their own waves, made of sound. The festival offers a varied line-up with all sorts of contemporary musical genres by upcoming talent and es-tablished names. Sometimes hard, sometimes eclectic, sometimes downtempo, you can find it all in the two inti-mate club spaces on The Pier on Friday and Saturday: Zuid -1 (a former restaurant) and Zuid +1 (a former casino), thumping away until early in the morning.

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25 September Zuid -1

Electric Indigo + Thomas Wagensommerer, Ellen Allien, Group A, Rrose, Yobkiss, Zamilska

Electric Indigo emphasizes the spatial temporal placement of subtly elaborated sounds and structures in her new live audiovisual performance ‘Mor-pheme’ together with Thomas Wagensommerer. Yobkiss (Paul Borchers + Yuko Hazama) returns to TodaysArt for their combination of electro, synth rock, acid house, groove, kraut and whispery vocals. Group A (Tommi Tokyo and Sayaka Botanic) is a Japanese industri-al electronic punk duo. Moving and breathing like a living enti-ty, the music of Rrose channels the spirit of techno’s roots while injecting influences from pre-techno electronic music and the avant-garde. Zamilska delivers solid portions of raw and heavy techno in her live shows which burst with vibrant energy, monstrous bass and powerful fat beats that works audiences into a frenzy. Veter-an Ellen Allien will be essential in the transformation of the former restaurant into a fully fledged “club on sea”.

25 September Zuid +1

Zebra Katz + Torus, 22tracks

The program on Friday for Zuid +1 features a unique back 2 back appearance by Zebra Katz and Torus. New York rapper Zebra Katz’ explosive yet unpredictable live shows will match-up with Torus’ slow, bass heavy, warm and atmospheric sounds. The rest of the program is compiled by 22tracks, who have selected a range of upcoming producers and dj’s in the realm of beats, funk and tropical.

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26 September Zuid -1

Lorenzo Senni, Lotic, DJ Nigga Fox, Prefuse 73, Suicideyear

Lorenzo Senni is known for de-constructing and then recon-structing dance music by care-fully analyzing its constituent parts for reuse in a very differ-ent context, with repetition and isolation as key concepts. His work explores the idea of “buildup” found in euphor-ic dance music as a starting point to make a non-uplifting, more introspective piece that implicitly preserves its emotional tension and drama. Lotic brings an apocalyptic mix of haunting synth melodies, destructive beats, and skewed experimental electronica. Pre-fuse 73 will present his sounds, rhythms and formations in an exclusive set featuring ma-terial from his new album, a worldwide premiere before the start of his European tour in November. Rogério Brandão, aka DJ Nigga Fox, uses what he learned from local producers in Portugal and Angola to cre-ate a new hybrid, informed by kuduro, afro-house, Angolan deep, tarraxinha and batida. Suicideyear closes the night, with a set ranging from wide-

screen emotional landscapes of abstraction, underscored by sonorous concave bass, trap beats and starry hi-hat show-ers.

26 September Zuid +1

Loscil, Regis, Cassegrain + Tin Man, Low Jack, Acronym, Ketev, Sebastien Robert

Loscil will perform work from the appropriately titled album ‘Sea Island’, an enchanting collection of electronic ambi-ent compositions and visuals. Sébastien Robert will debut a new set. Low Jack will come at you with grinding, psychedelic electronics. Ketev will present his post techno-project made by phasing patterns from reel-to-reel tape loops that are manipulated by 4-track cas-sette decks, resulting in dark and heavy sounds. Cassegrain + Tin Man will present their unique brand of deep techno and acid. Acronym is on board for a deep techno live set, fol-lowed by heavyweight Regis, who will conclude the Satur-day night program.

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TodaysArt x PIP

The PierSaturday afternoon Outdoor Stage

Auntie FloI-FSession Victim Young Marco

There will be an outdoor pro-gram on the upper deck of The Pier on Saturday afternoon presented in collaboration with PIP Den Haag. Expect a gen-re-defying and highly dancea-ble line-up, an intimate atmos-phere, a careful selection of quality live- and dj-sets and a wonderful crowd.

Auntie Flo will present his Afro-futurist sounds. The two-man band Session Vic-tim are expected to unleash unparalleled energy in their performance, demonstrating a charming disregard for the boundaries of house music. Dj, producer and digger Young Marco will bring his collection of strange gems and unclas-sics. I-F returns to TodaysArt to represent the Dutch West Coast sound and to close the stage with a notorious set packed with old, new, rare, and obscure italo, disco, techno and house sounds. In case of bad weather, this event will take place inside one of the spaces of The Pier.

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4DSOUND: Circadian / Techno Is Space

E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek24-27 September

TodaysArt hosts the world premier of 4DSOUND: ‘Circadi-an’. From 24 to 27 September you can experience interactive spatial sound performances in various daytime, evening and overnight programs in the impressive E.ON Electricite-itsfabriek, a former turbine of E.ON’s power plant, measuring 40x40x60 meters. In addition to the 24-hour ‘Circadian’ programs - interdisciplinary works from a diverse set of artists all created exclusively with and for 4DSOUND - the presentation will also include performances that are part of the 4DSOUND: ‘Techno Is Space’ program.

4DSOUND is a laboratory and cultural collective exploring Spatial Sound as a medium. Since 2008, it has developed an innovative Spatial Sound technology that has signifi-cantly improved and expand-ed the possibilities to create, perform and experience sound spatially. 4DSOUND is a fully omnidirectional sound envi-ronment, where the listener can appreciate Spatial Sound images in a virtually unlimit-ed spatial continuum. Sound can move infinitely distant or intimately close to the listen-er: it moves around, as well as above, beneath, in between

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or right through them. A 4DSOUND environment allows for a natural reproduction of sound sources in a spatial en-vironment. The loudspeakers are completely transparent: instead of listening to speak-ers, one is listening to space.

4DSOUND: ‘Circadian’ inves-tigates how spatial listening influences conscious states throughout the day and night. Performances explore how to physically connect the listener with the surrounding space through movement, bio-phys-ical media and psycho-acous-tic stimulation. The program features sound and movement workshops, immersive sonic meditation, participative spa-tial performances, overnight collective dreamstate and talks. The ‘Circadian’ program features Lisa Park, Marco Donnarumma, Michelle Lew-is-King, Kazuya Nagaya, Rob-ert Jan Liethoff and the over-night a/v meditation project ‘Noqturnl’ by John Connell and Florence To.

The ‘Techno Is Space’ program features performances by Oscar Mulero and Cassegrain. The series explores the nature of spatial forms and energetic movements within techno, with artists reinterpreting

techno through spatial sound composed for 4DSOUND’s om-ni-directional soundsystem. To supplement the soundsys-tem for these performances, 4DSOUND is teaming up with SubPac to outfit participants in the performances with weara-ble, wireless bass units.

The 4DSOUND program is included in the TodaysArt Fes-tival and Day passes, although reservation will be required for some of the performances. More information and reser-vations via www.todaysart.nl/2015/info.

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4DSOUND: Program

E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek24-27 September

Thursday 24 September (from 20:00 to 06:00)

Circadian: Lisa Park – NUE / John Connell + Florence To – Noqturnl / Kazuya Nagaya

Friday 25 September (from 09:00 – 06:00)

Circadian: John Connell + Flor-ence To – Noqturnl / Kazuya Nagaya / Marco Donnarumma / Michelle Lewis-King / Robert Jan Liethoff

Saturday 26 September (from 09:00 to 06:00)

Circadian: John Connell + Flor-ence To – Noqturnl / Kazuya Nagaya / Marco Donnarumma / Michelle Lewis-King

Sunday 27 September (from 09:00 to 12:00)

Circadian: Kazuya Nagaya / Robert Jan Liethoff

Sunday 27 September (from 20:00 to 00:00)

Techno Is Space: Cassegrain / Oscar Mulero

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Bright Collisions - Symposium program

The PierFriday 25 SeptemberSaturday 26 September

The fourth edition of the Bright Collisions symposium pro-gram takes place on the 25th and 26th of September on The Pier.

Bright Collisions aims to form a meeting point with a cross-sector focus aiming to promote transdisciplinary and creative explorations. Bright Collisions refers to a specific moment in time in which peo-ple from usually disconnected backgrounds gather out of either necessity or curiosity. Through these collisions, ei-ther directed for this occasion or displayed, the event aims to contribute to developing a greater understanding of, or initiating alternate perspec-tives on, contemporary and urgent topics.

Bright Collisions 2015 is fo-cused on creative explora-tions on the border of natural elements, technology and humanity. The program is composed of several themed sessions staged in collabo-ration with many partners, networks, participants and audiences. Leading thinkers and practitioners meet, dis-cuss current developments and urgent issues, present challenging ideas and foster holistic approaches.

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Sessions:

ZEROnow: Beyond the White Cube24 + 25 September

Sensory Experience and Enhanced Realities 25 September

Hack the Body 25 September

Sound, Heterogenous Art and Performance in Europe (SHAPE) 25 + 26 September

Thinking with the Sea 26 September

Space Science in the Arts 26 September

Failed Architecture: Excavating the North Sea 26 September

For updates and further information find the Bright Collisions booklet at the festival or visit our website: www.todaysart.nl

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Tickets

Get your tickets or exchange your pre-sale tickets in the ticket shop at The Pier or at the E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek during the festival.

The Pier ticket shop opening times

Friday 25 September: 10:00 - 03:00

Saturday 26 September: 10:00 - 03:00

E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek ticket shop opening times

Thursday 24 September: 19:00 - 00:00

Friday 25 September: 08:30 - 00:00

Saturday 26 September: 08:30 - 00:00

Sunday 27 September: 08:30 - 11:00 + 19:00 - 22:00

Venues

The PierThe Pier, an architectural and technical highlight from 1959, is not just an icon for the Neth-erlands; it is also well-known outside the Dutch borders. Due to financial difficulties, The Pier was closed down several years ago. In October 2014, The Pier was bought by KondorWessels Vastgoed (VolkerWessels) and DanZep. The Pier is the main venue of TodaysArt.NL Festival 2015. A map with the different spaces on and around The Pier that will be used can be found in the printed timetable and on our website.

Address:Strandweg (on the pier)2586 JK Scheveningen

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E.ON ElectriciteitsfabriekIn 2013 E.ON and Stichting Electriciteitsfabriek turned this industrial hall into an artistic hub. A large part of the factory is still active, but the former turbine hall (40x40x60 me-ters) has not been in use for 30 years. During TodaysArt the Electriciteitsfabriek provides the ideal backdrop for the 4DSOUND program.

Address: De Constant Rebecqueplein 20 2518 RA The Hague

Grand Hotel Amrâth Kurhaus

The Kurhaus was built in 1818. This monumental hotel was always known for its allure and high-end guests. Today, it is part of the Amrath Hotel Group and still provides one of the best sea views in Schevenin-gen. The Kurhaus will be the location for the official opening performance of TodaysArt 2015 and access free.

Address:Gevers Deynootplein 302586 CK Scheveningen

How to get there and back?

All venues are easily accessible by public transport, bicycle and car. Please check www.9292.nl for actual public transport details and routes.

The Pier / Kurhaus by Public Transport

The Pier is easily accessible from Den Haag Centraal Station and Den Haag Hollands Spoor with tram 1 (stop: Kurhaus). You can also take bus 22 from Den Haag Centraal Station, to bus and tram stop Kurhaus. Impor-tant: Tram 9 is out of service and is replaced by bus 69 from Den Haag centraal station!

From 01.00 until 05.00 you can take the nightbus from Kurhaus to Den Haag Hollands Spoor. This bus leaves 13 minutes past each hour.

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The Pier / Kurhaus by Car

The Pier is easily accessible by taking the highway A4, A12, A13 or A44/N44 in the direction The Hague (Den Haag), following the direc-tion Scheveningen-Strand or Scheveningen / Scheveningen Haven. Upon arrival, follow the directions to one of the many car parks: Zwarte Pad, Kurhaus, Nieuwe Parklaan or Scheveningen Bad. Find more information about parking options on our website (www.todaysart.nl/2015/info) or use the route and parking tool on www.denhaag.com/en/schev-eningen/route.

E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek: how to get there from The Pier

Travelling from The Pier to the E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek: take bus 22 in the direction of Duin-dorp from bus stop Kurhaus. Get off at bus stop Statenlaan (6 stops), change to tram 11 in the direction of Den Haag Hollands Spoor. Get off at tram stop: Weimarstraat.

From Monday to Saturday Tram 15 will take you from The Pier to Den Haag Central Sta-tion, from there on take tram 3

(direction Loosduinen) to tram stop ‘Elandstraat’.

E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek by Public Transport

The Electriciteitsfabriek is easily accessible from Den Haag Centraal and Den Haag Holland Spoor. When travel-ling from Den Haag Centraal, tram 3 (Randstadrail, direction Loosduinen) will bring you to tram stop ‘Elandstraat’ from there on it’s only a 5 min walk away. When arriving on Den Haag Holland Spoor, take tram 11 to tram stop ‘Weimarstraat’, 3 min walking distance from the Electriciteitsfabriek.

E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek by Car

The Electriciteitsfabriek is situated in a residential area. Parking is free until 18:00. You could also use to use the Park + Ride facility. To get there, follow P+R Hoornwijck from the A4 or A13. Find more information on our website: www.todaysart.nl/2015/info.

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TodaysArt

TodaysArt is an organization that revolves around the pres-entation and development of adventurous and contempo-rary visual arts and performing arts in the urban environment.

Since 2005, TodaysArt has brought local and international artists, thinkers and audiences together worldwide. Todays- Art is a platform for talent and pioneers who explore the possibilities of new and often controversial forms of expres-sion.

Main activities include:TodaysArt.NL – The HagueTodaysArt.JP – Tokyo/Kobe/KawasakiTodaysArt.RU – Moscow

TodaysArt has built up an im-pressive international profile over the past seven years by presenting and producing works that are developed through direct and intensive relationships with some of today’s leading makers. Today-sArt is consistently involved in international collaborations, by sending Dutch artists to creative centres across the

globe and bringing inter-national pioneering and/or talented artists to local audi-ences.

TodaysArt is a hub member of several international net-works of independent festivals, including International Cities of Advanced Sound and relat-ed arts (ICAS), We Are Europe and Sound, Heterogenous Art and Performance in Europe (SHAPE).

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Presenting Partners

TodaysArtDe PierICASSHAPE

Governmental + Institutional Partners

Creative Partners

Media Partners

Facillitating partners + Preferred Suppliers

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TodaysArt

Supervisory Board

Piet Barendse Robert Koetsier Alex Adriaansens Nicole van Vessum

Board of Directors

Olof van Winden Gwyneth Wentink

TodaysArt The Hague

Tim Terpstra Galina Bartelds Brecht Hoffman Björn Remmerswaal Felipe Luiz dos Santos Irvin van der Houdt Tena Lazarevic Ivan Antonov

Artistic Team

Remco Schuurbiers Petra Heck Tim Terpstra Peter Zuiderwijk Olof van Winden

Marketing & Communication

Galina Bartelds Felipe Luiz dos Santos Björn Remmerswaal Jelle Verhoef Irvin van der Houdt

Production

Kwinten Vissers Marjolein Veerman Ramses Nieuwenhuizen Sanne Kruithof Laura Stolk

Volunteer Coordination

Joya de Bock Moniek van der Kwaak Isabel Sánchez Cecilia

Design & Campaign

Collective Works (Peter Zuiderwijk + Karin Mientjes)

Web Development

buurmen (David Veneman + Tom Laan)

Photography

Christian van der Kooy

Videography

Tanja Busking

Other crew and Volunteers

The festival wouldn’t be what it is today without the great efforts by many other crew members and all volunteers who are not listed here!