THIRST with Franck Vigroux & Werktank
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Doors: 7PM
Show: 8PM
All Ages
Standing performance
Strobe warning
View our FAQ page for more info, or contact us at [email protected] with any accommodation requests.
THIRST with Franck Vigroux & Werktank
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Doors: 7PM
Show: 8PM
All Ages
Standing performance
Strobe warning
View our FAQ page for more info, or contact us at [email protected] with any accommodation requests.
A concert featuring pulsating live electronic music, THIRST transcends the boundaries of traditional audiovisual performance by utilizing multi-projections of images. Drawing inspiration from the lexicon of road movies, Americanized iconography, and hyper-colored, image-saturated aesthetics, it offers a sensory journey that prompts reflections on past symbols of transgression, picaresque adventures, and romanticism. These symbols are now challenged by contemporary societal, digital, and environmental developments.
Franck Vigroux is a multifaceted artist whose works range from experimental electronic music to modern composition and music theatre. Franck Vigroux‘s music is made of tectonic tensions, beats, electronic textures and a very personal approach to sonic exploration. He is equally prolific as a solo artist and as a collaborator, he has worked with musician such as Elliott Sharp, Mika Vainio, Reinhold Friedl, Ars Nova... Vigroux’s uniqueness comes from his artistic approach that integrates new media and performance arts. He designs transdisciplinary shows and audiovisual concerts, collaborating with visual artists such as Antoine Schmitt and Kurt d’Haeseleer.
The Recombinant Media Labs organization was founded to research the qualities and artistic potential of Spatial Cinema. It does so by means of Experiential Engineering; exploring processes that propagate the aesthetic and technological boundaries of panoramic AV exhibition. RML acts as producer and presenter of hybrid artworks and performance archiving based on spatial media synthesis; intermodal works using image, light, sound and other disseminated media in three-dimensional space. The CineChamber is RML's curated, nomadic platform under the artistic trajectory of founder & Director Naut Humon plus a superhuman crew.
Werktank is a production platform for media art. Our main mission is the realisation and distribution of installation art that investigates the relation between technology and perception.
Werktank functions as a work tool for the artist and puts its artistic, technical and productional expertise at the disposal of young and emerging artists. We accompany the artist through all the phases of the creation process of media art, from the research process till the final realisation and active distribution of the work, by offering residencies, financial and productional support.
Every year we give new artists the opportunity to work in Werktank, in parallel with a selection of artists who are supported on a longer term and who assure the continuity of the Werktank-dramaturgy.
We aim to continuously challenge the artistic line developed over the past years with new impulses, at the same time trying to maintain a coherent story which connects the works we produce.
Werktank operates at the crossroads of media art, visual art and performance art. Most of the works produced in our media-factory are comments or reflections on contemporary visual culture. They form a bridge between the past and the present by deliberately mixing new and old media. Often they combine the latest digital technologies with old craftsman like techniques, always maintaining the focus on the content and imaginative force of the artwork.
Our headquarters are situated in the heart of the city of Leuven (Belgium) and consists of offices, workspaces and a technical workshop. We are an inter(national) organisation, but are also firmly rooted in the city, closely collaborating with local actors to give new impulses to its emerging artistic scene.
Werktank is supported by the Flemish Authorities and the City of Leuven.
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