browsing beauty in Steinkjer, Norway

by Sigi on January 11, 2012

a project by Sigi Torinus & Andrea Sunder-Plassmann
November 2 – 13, 2011 Hillmarfestivalen Steinkjer

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Club Instabil

by Sigi on May 14, 2011

Club Instabil networked improvisation
blackhole-factory + guests

pics on flickr
Kunstmühle Braunschweig, Germany, May 21 at 8pm

in Braunschweig:
Marc Sloan (New York City): bass, electronics
Brent Lee (Windsor, Canada): sax, electronics
Elke Utermöhlen (Braunschweig): voice, live processing
Martin Slawig (Braunschweig): objects, live processing
Sigi Torinus (Windsor, Canada): visuals

online:
Chris Vine (Londrina, Brasil): guitar, electronics
Michael Trommer (Toronto, Canada): field recordings
Rob Cruickshank (Toronto, Canada): electronics
Yavuz Uydu (Sydney, Australia): oud, bendir

Club Instabil Performance

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On the Spot – SOVA Projects Gallery

by Sigi on March 20, 2011

Mirame Pero No Me Toques
2-channel video

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THRUM in/fuse 14

by Sigi on February 22, 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Lambton Tower, Studio A Windsor ON Canada
Visiting artist Jaroslaw Kapuscinski joins the Noiseborder Ensemble in an interactive performance with Sigi Torinus, Matthew Rideout, Trevor Pittman, Nicholas Papador, Riaz Mehmood, Megumi Masaki, Chris McNamara, Brent Lee
THRUM in/Fuse14

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Particle Zoo

by Sigi on December 4, 2010

Particle Zoo is an interactive piece for one percussionist (Nicholas Papador) and two laptop performers (Brent Lee & Sigi Torinus). The work explores ideas of scale and the perception of time sonically and visually. MaxMSP/Jitter is used to process live sound and video to map gestures from the sonic into the visual realm, and to mix a variety of sounds and images relating to the central concept.

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browsing beauty opens in North Bay, Ontario

by Sigi on October 9, 2010

a project by Sigi Torinus & Andrea Sunder-Plassmann
show runs through November 4, 2010

Thanks to Dermot Wilson (curator), Alex Campbell (Gallery Coordinator) and Natasha Landry (Education Officer) for making our time in North Bay fun, and for Lieann Koiwkoski (Director of Near North Mobile Media Lab) for her enthusiasm during setup!

WKP Kennedy Gallery 150 Main St E, North Bay, ON – open Tues-Fri 11-5 PM, Saturday 12-4PM

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browsing beauty opens in Oshawa, Ontario

by Sigi on July 26, 2010

The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada
with Andrea Sunder-Plassmann, Germany


Special thanks to Linda Jansma (curator) and Jason Dankel (Preparator) for an exciting and wonderful time at the gallery! You absolutely rock! This has been our best setup ever. And thanks to Carl Lavoy (curator, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham) for bringing the show to Oshawa!

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browsing beauty opens in Chatham, Canada

by Sigi on October 30, 2009

Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Canada
with Andrea Sunder-Plassmann, Germany

browsing beauty

Thames Art Gallery, Chatham

Oct 30 – Nov 29, 2009

The project was first launched in Australia in 1997 with Anita Kocsis (Australia) at the SCA Gallery in Sydney; the same year we brought browsing beauty to San Francisco (Gallery 16). In 1998 we created a very different-looking show in Berlin, Germany (Galerie am Marstall), with the balloons remaining as the main carriers of images, and in Moscow (TV Gallery Moscow) with Russian text and images we found in and around Moscow. In 1999 the idea of browsing beauty became the basis for “Slushaj! Sasha und der Kosmos” (Galerie Marstall, Berlin Germany).

So far, each show had a different focus in relationship to beauty; Australia was intimacy (inspired by the vast distances geographically), Moscow had nostalgia (this was during the transition of Soviet Union to Russia), San Francisco was magic and pleasure (during the dotcom rise with its oppulence), in Berlin it was the question of identity of a new Berlin after the wall came down, for Canada we are thinking of longing (it’s a country of immigrants, many dreaming of going ‘home’ one day, while in Australia immigrants came to stay for good…).

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