brainstorming
To organize the May festival we want to hold some brainstorming meetings with all the people interested to join BaBeL in its way, or to propose some project for the spring event. The first meeting is on DECEMBER 15th at FORTEPRENESTINO, at 20.00, meeting at the entrance hall.
other dates
THU JANUARY 12th Hr20,00
THU FEBRUARY 16th Hr20,00
THU MARCH 15th Hr20,00
THU APRIL 12th Hr20,00
@ FORTEPRENESTINO
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fire at work + reeks vs byruzz
Live set of audio and video sound, live manipulation of film material from ’70 to ’90. Reeks with his electronic manipulations reworks the original audio of video material by enriching it with synthesizers and drum machines; Byruzz manipulates the original video by following the new soundtrack, and adapting to the new rhythm.
STIRPE999 is an independent label founded in 2003 in Rome, as a direct result of the artistic career of the FIRE AT WORK, a combo of experimental electronic music that in the late ’90s quickly reveal itself on the international underground scene. A reference point for the production, dissemination and sharing of independent electronic music. Rhythm and sound experimentation in search of new musical languages out of the entertainment logic and able to trigger reactions. Underground as a choice of field, critical and aware.
STIIRPE999 is the natural evolution of this adventure. Since 2003 is an arena for artists from all over the world, driven by a common need / desire to create communication and underground culture, free and accessible to everyone in the awareness that only by violating the perimeters of the official culture you can create music instead of merchandise consumption. soundcloud.com/stirpe999antilabel
Tag Cloud dell'Abitare Critico
Check out the first experimental map of Critical Housing, you will find it for free at the first BaBeL2 session. ‘Cause the 99% claims the right to the city. Keywords @wikibabel
Map.01 BaBeL2
regenerating residence
“Criteria suitable for residential building that, compared to infrastructural projects, leads to smaller savings in interventions that are of minor entity, but potentially more numerous. In Rome in the next spring there will be a critical analysis of these issues during a festival on housing. Among the organizers is Francesca Iovino, architect, adjunct professor at the University of Chieti and La Sapienza, who explains: “During the festival Babel, to be held in May, we will study spontaneous experiences of self-construction and self-recovery.” Through workshops with international professionals and researchers, it will also address issues like contextualization of the object, “which is given new meaning in the act of re-use. – adds – In Italy no one ever talks about it and we have to call professionals from abroad. “In Utrecht, for example, they have held an event on the “parasite” architecture , “Parasite Paradise”: No Italians in it, except for an art project of Vito Acconci (though it is formed and lives in New York) .”
Sole24ore/Casa 24 Plus – Giovedì 1 Dicembre 2011 – La residenza si rigenera di Cristiana Raffa. Downoload here the complete article or read online here www.casa24.ilsole24ore.com
EVOL/VE ::: FM Einheit - Massimo Pupillo
2010 – The year they make contact. FM Einheit contributed to invent the very same notion of industrial music, starting from his crucial role in Einstürzende Neubauten up till now, always moving towards directions unknown, following unpredictable paths; Massimo Pupillo has moulded a basic, brutally impressive and basically one-of-a-kind sounding out of the four strings of his indestructible electric bass. Together them two have generated EVOL/VE, one radical improvisational project that brings industrial music itself to the next level. Obtained mostly out of raw live sessions, later remixed and reprocessed, the eponymous album, out in november for Offset Records, is in fact a measure of capacity of these two individuals captured in a state of grace. By the way, you have to see them perform live to get the whole experience. In times when almost every possible continuum has been torn down by new technologies and many of the prophecies once told by unhopeful cyberpunk novelists have come true, after having witnessed the substantial moldering of music itself into billions of cold files to be stored into hard-disks that could crash anytime, the moment has come to raise the tools of the trade again, to start making new noise, with new means and new motivations.
New buildings keep on collapsing.
FM EINHEIT: metal spring; clay bricks; drills; metal sheet; laptop
MASSIMO PUPILLO: electric bass; effects
off-set production
SHA System Hardware Abnormal
System hardware abnormal is a skizofrenic sociopatic hard noizer. The comparisons with Merzbow and with the rudest Lesser can only give a partial idea of his music: maniacal exaltations and openings of total abandonment to the world of “acufeni” correspond to autistic closin. System Hardware Abnormal competes, in terms of surreal atrocities, with the best musicians of the invisible scene that is leading all over the world to the extreme the digital sound features: paradoxical, ironical and with a taste for provocation (an example for all, Passenger of Shit).
Now that he’s settled down in different labels as Turgid Animal, Stront and Sonic Belligeranza, he’s simultaneously leading many other projects disguised under fake identities. Indeed, he could be even you. system hardware abnormal@myspace nuovasarin systemhardwareabnormal@bandcamp
illustrazione di Veronica Felner
Through the analysis of practices and of different modes of living we try to recognize and to discover a ‘critical’ everyday that opens heterogeneous of multiform scenario: from resources to biocompatibility directly applied to homes and the territory and from self-organization to physical structures and the sharing of experimentations and research. By activating the spaces inside the Centro Sociale Forte Prenestino, Babel2 wants to create an opportunity, open and public, where different paths and research about dwelling meet, cross and learn from each other. As a rhizomic and multiform organism, Babel2 wants to create other organisms according to multiple, complex and unpredictable pathways.
Using the closed and open spaces inside the perimeter of the Centro Sociale Forte Prenestino in Rome, we will activate special laboratories where participants will propose, reflect, discuss, imagine and build what comes out of the discussion or what it has been already imagined in other moments and places. By the direct interaction of different knowledge and experience, Babel2 provides a space where the universe “dwelling” is open and other uses ideas, and aspirations in close connection with the everyday are explored, understood, and legitimated.
The different sections of the Biennale will make the mechanism of production visible and interactive: at Babel2 you are the active protagonist of a self-evident process that manifests and realizes itself in the course of the festival. Such a process is the object and subject of attention, an open path able to activate new trajectories of action.
illustrazione Veronica Felner
Quadrillage (The Grid)
We receive from the Psychic Warfare this video and this comunicate:”The german section of the psychic warfare hosted the first international cooperation of the PW. The result is the second video in the series, “The Psychic Warfare Video Digest”. The topic this time is space, architecture and urbanism. Although the PW never apologize we have to do just that to the irish section who put a lot of work into this, but was left out of the credits due to a drunk editor”. Watch the video! PW video digest #2. A screening is scheduled in BaBel2 activities.
starting at h.19:00
City of Men (Cidade dos Homens) / Kátia LUND, Fernando MEIRELLES
City of God tells the story about the origins of organized drug dealing in the hillside communities in Rio de Janeiro. The drug dealers here are the theme of the movie, in the background we see the communities learning to deal with this new “order”. City of Men could be thought of as being the other side of his story. It is the story about the different aspects of living in one of these communities, in this case the issue being paternity or the breaking up of the family cell, and drug dealing lies in the background.
Umshini Wam (Bring me my machine gun) / Harmony KORINE
Big dreams, big blunts, big rims, and big guns. It’s time to get gangsta gangsta. Ninja and Yo Landi are wheelchair-bound lovers and real gangstas. They live in the outskirts of civilization, they shoot guns for fun, smoke massive joints and sleep in the woods. They don’t have any bling to show for their gangsta cred but the world deserves to know who they are. They’re tramps, and their wheels are starting to fall off.
Ninja become despondent over their vagabond existence but Yo Landi won’t let him give up. What ensues is straight up gangsta mayhem, the realist of the real, true gangsta shit.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMVNjMF1Suo
Play time / Jacques TATI
The capitalist society’s obsession with material goods, superficial societial relations, and the cold, impractical nature of technology and design: Playtime is a humorous and lucid comment on global International Style architecture.
“Play Time is a film justly celebrated for its amazing sets. Every scene is shot in a specially constructed mock-up of a hyper-modern Paris, all flat surfaces, gleaming floors and comfortless furniture. Much of this is realised using forced perspective (to make nearby buildings seem further away and thus larger) and photographed façades standing in for the fronts of some structures (and thus offering no reflections in their mirrored panels. The cast of extras is filled out with 2D cut-outs of large photographs of people. All of this artifice contributes to the sense of a city designed for aesthetic power and ill-suited for its human inhabitants. People are reduced to little atoms in a vast network of cubicles, box-shaped apartments, glass walls, elevators, pavements and identikit walkways.” Dan North http://drnorth.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/jacques-tatis-playtime-modern-life-is-noisy/