THE WAVES
synergetic light & sound performance as a prologue for a scientific narrative
WEAVING THROUGH THE SOLAR SYSTEM
lecture
WEDNESDAY 2/6/2019 @ KC GRAD, 8PM
Synergetic light & sound performance: The Waves
Finding inspiration in the unusual paths of celestial bodies in outer space, visual artist Aleksandra Stratimirović and Argentine experimental trumpet player Leonel Kaplan submerge into a light and sound journey, tracing interweaving corridors within the Solar System and beyond.
WAVES performance emerged inspired by the subject of astrophysicist Nataša Todorović’s lectures “Weaving through the Solar System”. The two artists meet for the first time on this occasion to explore interplay from light and sound perspective. Stratimirović creates dynamic spatial light installation. Kaplan, known for his use of unique extended trumpet techniques, will create a site-specific composition in real time connected to the light work.
Lecture title: Weaving through the Solar System
The stability of our solar system occupies astronomers for several centuries. Will the planets stay where they are, or will they scatter around at some point? Answers to these questions have become much clearer today, in the era when it is possible to combine complex mathematical expressions, which describe the movement of celestial bodies, with fast and powerful computers. One such combination will be shown in this talk. We will see unusual structures that really exist in space. These structures are natural routes along which it is possible to move, routes along which small planets could leave the solar system or fall to the Sun. At the contrary to them, we will see stable islands in which everything is calm in terms of dynamics. At those places, the only acting force is the sunlight.
Finding inspiration in the unusual paths of celestial bodies in outer space, visual artist Aleksandra Stratimirović and Argentine experimental trumpet player Leonel Kaplan submerge into a light and sound journey, tracing interweaving corridors within the Solar System and beyond.
WAVES performance emerged inspired by the subject of astrophysicist Nataša Todorović’s lectures “Weaving through the Solar System”. The two artists meet for the first time on this occasion to explore interplay from light and sound perspective. Stratimirović creates dynamic spatial light installation. Kaplan, known for his use of unique extended trumpet techniques, will create a site-specific composition in real time connected to the light work.
Lecture title: Weaving through the Solar System
The stability of our solar system occupies astronomers for several centuries. Will the planets stay where they are, or will they scatter around at some point? Answers to these questions have become much clearer today, in the era when it is possible to combine complex mathematical expressions, which describe the movement of celestial bodies, with fast and powerful computers. One such combination will be shown in this talk. We will see unusual structures that really exist in space. These structures are natural routes along which it is possible to move, routes along which small planets could leave the solar system or fall to the Sun. At the contrary to them, we will see stable islands in which everything is calm in terms of dynamics. At those places, the only acting force is the sunlight.
THE WAVES & WEAVING THROUGH THE SOLAR SYSTEM 6/2/2019
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ALEKSANDRA STRATIMIROVIĆVISUAL ARTIST
Aleksandra Stratimirović is a visual artist with a special interest in light. She graduated in Applied Arts and Design at the University of Arts in Belgrade and completed her studies in specialized lighting design at Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Crafts, and Design and KTH – Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Aleksandra is worldwide active in the world of art and light with professional experience of more than 20 years in this field. Number of her permanent site-specific artworks are integrated in various public places in Sweden and abroad, such as hospitals, school areas, train stations and residential areas. In recent years her artworks have been included in exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Konstnärshuset in Stockholm, Jardin du Palais Royal in Paris, and various institutions and events in London, Amsterdam, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Tokyo, Osaka, Verona, Singapore, Stockholm etc.
Aleksandra is the cofounder of the Lighting Guerrilla festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia, a core member of Transnational Lighting Detectives, and founder and artistic director of the event Belgrade of Light. Aleksandra Stratimirović's studio is based in Stockholm. |
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LEONEL KAPLANTRUMPET
Leonel Kaplan is an Argentine trumpet player active in free improvisation. He has been part of the international improvised music scene since the early 2000s performing and recording throughout Latin America, Europe and U.S. Kaplan has performed regularly alongside musicians like John Butcher, Lê Quan Ninh, Edén Carrasco, Tetuzi Akiyama, Axel Dörner and Christof Kurzmann among many others, and has been cited as a crucial part of the international movement in improvised trumpet, redefining the way this instrument is perceived.
Kaplan’s music can be found in labels like Another Timbre (UK), Relative Pitches (USA), ESP-DIsk’s (USA) and more. Currently he is involved as a composer with Swiss theater company CapriConnection. |
NATAŠA TODOROVIĆASTROPHYSICIST
Nataša Todorović works at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade as a research assistant. She completed her undergraduate, master and Ph.D. studies at the Mathematical faculty of the University of Belgrade, on the Department of Astronomy. Her scientific interest is mainly focused on the dynamics of our Solar system. During her postgraduate studies, she collaborated with reputable professors like Massimiliano Guzzo from the University of Padova, and Claude Froeschle and Elena Lega from the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in Nice, where she learned about methodologies for detecting chaos in idealized mathematical spaces. Those methodologies where later applied to our Solar system, meaning that dynamical structures therein could be visualized, which improved our understanding of its complex nature. Her research articles were published in prestigious international journals and some popular magazines like 'Astronomy'.
Nataša Todorović participated as a lecturer in numerous domestic and foreign conferences and seminars. By the end of 2018 her exhibition "Asteroids, little rocky worlds" was opened in Belgrade, and is currently exhibited at SASA Gallery of Science and Technology, Belgrade. |
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