Tom Groll

INTERFERENCE Project: What is the Difference?
A corner of Saida Ajoula street is turned to a bucolic environment of the countryside.
The projection is inspired on an anecdote of the artist’s childhood, when he questioned the idea of diversity by looking at the cows grazing in the German meadows. In this work, the peaceful co-existence of black and brown cows -that live together irrespective of skin colour and shape- has been used as an allegory of the relevance of religious differences in everyday life.

INTERFERENCE Site: Open Space (rue Saida Ajoula, Tunis)

ARTIST’S STATEMENT: Dealing with light is dealing with energy, too.
I have been working with Bettina (Pelz) for such a long time that I think that I had no choice to say “no” when she asked me to join INTERFERENCE. Now, I am more than happy to be part of this project. Meeting with all the team in Tunis in May 2016, I felt this irresistible energy that surfaced when we tested the first projection works. To walk from site to site, to see the interaction of the historic sites, the contemporary technology and the artistic materials of the colleagues was full of fun surprises and inspiration. Meeting the Medina people who helped with tools and electricity made me aware of the human and social qualities which are present in the Tunisian culture. I am looking forward to share more time and experiences with all the accomplices of INTERFERENCE.

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ARTISTIC APPROACH
In his artistic research, Tom Groll focuses on the experience of continuous transformation. His research revolves mainly around the opposites realms of what can be perceived by human senses and the imagination; his goal being to capture reality revealing unspotted issues.
Actually, he started experimenting his personal approach on light art when he was completing the project Illuminare Zonen (Illuminated Zones) in 2001. It was then that, while he was carrying out the scholarship “Märkisches Stipendium”, he started exploring how to integrate light to artistic creation. Since then, he has been working on light installations at both venues and in public space.

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Tom Groll | Web

Robert Sochacki

INTERFERENCE Project: Loophole
Loophole is a small door to see the World on the other side. A magical, unique, colorful World (…) where everything is beautifully turning in a slow rhythm of an old music box tune. It gives you a chance to breathe away from your every-day reality.
(Text by Robert Sochacki)

INTERFERENCE Site: Wall Opposite to Club Tahar Haddad (rue du Tribunal, Tunis)

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ARTISTIC APPROACH
Robert Sochacki’s artistic practice spans from video to graphic-, costume – and stage-design to time-and site-specific installations in public space. Through his performances and Vjing, he focuses on real time synesthetic experiences of vision and sound. Adapted from Article

DEVELOPMENT
Author of performances, video art, happenings and installations in public spaces
Extensive collaboration with the Gombrowicz Theatre in Gdynia as scenographer, theatrical posters designer and costume designer
1991-1997| Studies in Arts | Academy of Fine Arts | Gdańsk (pl)
1971| Born | Gdańsk (pl)

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Dominik Lejman

INTERFERENCE Projects: Fundamental Layer; Western Wall
Both Dominik Lejman’s projections feature the negative of recorded crowds. These are turned into allusive moving patterns to re-create, and describe, the architecture of sacred places.

INTERFERENCE Site: Open Space (rue Achour, Tunis)

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(Photos: Dominik Lejman.)

ARTISTIC APPROACH
Dominik Lejman combines pictures with video projections and realizes video murals and compositions in the form of large scale photo-walls, often made of various layers of differing materials, techniques and significances. As a figurative painter, he introduced some innovative elements into traditional media so that static canvas are turned into moving figurative and/or abstract realities wherein, thanks to the use of cameras and optical effects, even the spectator is frequently brought in. Thanks to this method aimed at including the spectator into the artwork, the artist brings about subjects specific to twenty-first century lifestyle such as the private and the public, individuality and alienation, as well as how the improvement of security systems may become a means for social surveillance.
(Adapted from the Article)

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Sonia Kallel

INTERFERENCE Project: Tisser la Médina (2)
Based on her research on arts and crafts in the Medina, a digital animation of silk weaving is enlarged so much so that it overwrites the appearance of an architecture ensemble.

INTERFERENCE Project: Impasse (Impasse Echemmahia, Tunis)

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ARTISTIC APPROACH
Sonia Kallel draws attention to the Tunisian heritage and threatened arts and crafts. The Medina of Tunis has been a subject of her artistic research for a long time. Her artistic concepts are rooted in personal and scientific studies.

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Moncef Ben Messaoud

INTERFERENCE Project: Into the Dark
In an completely dark room, visitors can listen to live music.

INTERFERENCE Site: Kishlet el-Attarin (20, Souk el-Attarin, Tunis)

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ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I appropriate the silence of the medina, in a place that is filled with history and culture, Kishlet Al Attarine , former national library, to dress an excerpt from one of my musical creations , 11 : 30 pm, music will run through silence and bomb the walls, an experience that I did not want to miss within the festival of light , to offer another sound to people who are accustomed to the noise of vendors, and the shouts of traders, a sound that is unexpected in such an hour.

ARTISTIC APPROACH
After mastering the horn in only 3 years of practice, Moncef started playing several wind instruments such as the trombone, the tuba and the trumpet. His multidisciplinary approach to music made it possible for him to perform within different groups in Tunisia and abroad. Love for multicultural and cosmopolite music and an ambition to surpass limits and frontiers are the basis to his work.

SELECTED WORKS

Performed within Khnefes, Sext’et, Lebess, 7ess, Jazz’Oil

DEVELOPMENT
2013-2014 | Participated in the International Summer Academy with André Cazalé in Vienna
Played numerous times within the National Orchestra of Tunis
Guitar, horn and trumpet professor
Trumpettist in Tunis Jazz Club and many other groups
2010 | Interpreter degree in Western music and Western music Diploma in the superior institut of music in Tunis
Self-taught classical and flamenco guitarist
1982 | Born in Tunis

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Mouin Moumni

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Five years after the earthh quake in Christchurch: Gap Fillers’ projects are great

From their website: Gap Filler is a creative urban regeneration initiative that facilitates a wide range of temporary projects, events, installations and amenities in the city. These short-term and comparatively small-scale projects are far less risky than new permanent developments – and consequently open up opportunities for experimentation: trying new ideas, pushing social boundaries, adopting participatory processes to get everyday people involved in creating their city. Working with local community groups, artists, architects, landowners, librarians, designers, students, engineers, dancers – anyone with an idea and initiative – we activate city spaces for temporary, creative, people-centred purposes. By recycling materials, teaming up with suppliers, harnessing volunteer power and being creative, Gap Filler proves that the regeneration of the city does not rely solely on large-scale developments by the private or public sectors. Great things can be achieved with community power and resourcefulness; we can be flexible and swift in adapting to our changing city, meaning our projects will always provide contemporary reflection on the state of society. Ultimately, Gap Filler aims to innovate, lead and nurture people and ideas; contributing to conversations about city-making and urbanism in the 21st century. >>

INTERFERENCE Tunis 2016

International Light Art Project

Author: Bettina Pelz