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Borderline Festival 2016

Dates

Prices

0 — 5 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Thursday-Sunday
Time
Check below program
Venue
Inside & Outside the Onassis Stegi

Information

Tickets

Free entrance events and events with tickets


Full price: 5 €
People with disabilities: 4 €, Companions: 5 €
Unemployed: 4 €

Sound on the edge. Restless performances and a subversive project in search of new forms of expression and new productions of sound.

Now in its sixth year, Borderline Festival continues to explore and document the tendencies of contemporary experimental music, acoustic but mainly electronic.

Aiming to create a space where ideas can float freely and mix, where adventurous situations can unfold, the Festival deliberately avoids any thematic umbrella. Confronting the risks of kitsch lurking in postmodernism, it takes as a challenge the perspective of forming imaginary mosaics. Beginning with music’s fluidity and concert actions in the amphitheatre, these mosaics are gradually drawn into theoretical constellations, and into the process of thinking about, through and by means of music and its primal material, i.e. sound, while avoiding the academic and/or purely exhibitive approach of sound art.

To weave all this together, or to make it collide: that is the essence of an intense process meant to reveal contradictions and give rise to new and unexpected thoughts and experiences. This is not simply a meditation on identity and limits, but also a reflection on the dissolution of borders that allows for hybrid and fresh forms to emerge.
If one should single out a preoccupation pervading this year’s Festival, it would be the focus on the relationship of interior and exterior. It is an exploration on the multiple ways of being inside out, with regard to various levels of perceptions, the relationship of natural and artificial environments, and social and research contexts, as well as human co-existence in space.

In this sense, this year’s Festival is enriched by a variety of additional actions (not taking place inside the Onassis Stegi or any other building), and various site-specific works that place emphasis on the aspect of procedure, among others.

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Program

Performances

Onassis Stegi, Upper Stage | 21:00-00:00 | Ticket prices per set: 5 €, People with disabilities, Unemployed: 4 €

Friday 8 April
21:00 | Sofia Jernberg
22:00 | Three Legged Race
23:15 | Jana Winderen
Stine Janvin Motland will also participate on Friday 8 April.

Saturday 9 April
21:00 | Nikos Kyriazopoulos
22:00 | Marcus Schmickler & Julian Rohrhuber, ''Politiken der Frequenz”, performance with chorus (in Greek)
23:00 | Rabih Beaini / Raed Yassin

Sunday 10 April
21:00 | Felicia Atkinson / Bartolomé Sanson
22:00 | James Hoff
23:00 | Angélica Castelló

Installation

Friday 8 - Sunday 10 April | +5 Foyer | Free Admission

TOMUTONTTU'S MUSIC BOX: Interactive sound sculpture by Jan Anderzén
(2013, technical realization by Jari Suominen)

Outdoor Events

Thursday 7 April
ROMANTSO (3-5 Anaxagora, Omonoia) | Tickets: 5 € | You can purchase your ticket also at Romantso on the event day, after 19:00 (depending on ticket availability) | No seats, audience is standing.

Goodiepal
Konrad Becker (a.k.a. Monoton)
Bill Kouligas / Rabih Beaini
Senyawa
Shackleton

Strobe lights will be used during the sets.

Sunday 10 April | Free admission

Joel Cahen: "Wet Sounds"
11:00 | Athens Olympic Park (OAKA), indoor swimming pool | Free admission, with entrance tickets | Duration: 45'

Sunday 10 April | Ticket: 5 € (for the 3 performances)
16:00* | Viv Corringham: "Shadow Walks", walking performance | 16:00 | Starting point: Metaxourgeio Metro Station (exit to Deligianni str.) | Ending point: Ε.Δ.Ω.
17:00 | Eric La Casa & Jean Luc Guionnet (in collaboration with Ε.Δ.Ω.)
18:30 | Udo Noll: "Mobile Miniatures" (in collaboration with Ε.Δ.Ω.)

*The walk takes place at an open-air location. The audience is advised to wear comfortable clothes and shoes, as they will walk for about 1 hour.
The walk starts exactly at the above mentioned hour (16:00). Please be sure that you arrive at the starting point 15 minutes prior to the performance scheduled start time. You can also purchase your ticket at the starting point. Maximum participants 30 persons.

Wet Sounds - Read the instructions and how to book your place
Parallel Events

Wednesday 6, Thursday 7 and Friday 8 April | Physiopolis, 3 Al. Papanastasiou, Halandri
9:30-12:30 | Joel Cahen: "Liquid Vibrations" (in collaboration with Watsu practitioner Steve Karle) | For special educators and children with disabilities | Click here to read more.

Friday 8 April | Onassis Stegi
18:00-20:00 | Talk-Open rehearsal of “Politiken der Frequenz” with Marcus Schmickler & Julian Rohrhuber

Saturday 9 April | Onassis Stegi
12:00-14:00 | Panel discussion with Shelter Press [Felicia Atkinson/Bartolome Sanson] and James Hoff
16:00-18:00 | Performative lecture by Konrad Becker
18:00-20:30 | Kink Gong
Screening of the SMALL PATH MUSIC documentary film (prod. Sublime Frequencies) and of videoclips with experimental soundscapes | http://kinkgong.net/catalog/video

Sunday 10 April | Onassis Stegi
11:00-14:00 | Workshop with Jan Anderzén | For children 10-12 years old

Read more about the performative lecture by Konrad Becker

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