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Dynamix Live – 2017

Lalya — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:07:54 +0000

Dynamix Live returns to Dynamix Skatepark for 2017!

Dynamix Live is an innovative live digital media arts piece that launched on 1st May 2016 and is relaunching for this winter/spring season. The piece consists of a dynamic projection of the activities which take place at Dynamix onto its building’s façade, turning it inside out. High-definition live and recorded footage of skateboarders, BMX riders, scooterers, wall-trampolinists, motocross riders and aerial circus artists, captured by action cameras and mobile phone, is edited live by a VJ into a stylised single stream video and projected in real time and large scale onto the building – thereby revealing the usually hidden activities happening inside and behind the 40 000sqft warehouse, and transforming them into a cinematic experience for the audience.

This project also serves as an opportunity to share Dynamix’s plans to further develop the Albany Road site they are based on as a Village of Health, Well-being, Creativity and Innovation, and Social Enterprise. This includes the creation of co-working and incubator spaces, as well as accelerator and other support programmes for Sport and Health tech, and tech for good companies. This collaboration with Attaya Projects is an example of the kind of benefits brought by diverse sectors and practitioners cohabiting on the site: sharing skills, creating new products and outcomes, and breeding innovation.

SCHEDULE

Dynamix Live will happen on three evenings during winter 2017, featuring invited VJ / live video editors, and with playbacks during other nights (detailed programme to be announced HERE).

Event dates:
26th February 2017
26th March 2017
23rd April 2017

Remote audiences can also experience the piece live through an online broadcast – link provided HERE.

The public is welcome from 8pm onwards, with the performance starting at 8.30pm and ending at 10pm.

Skaters and other athletes wishing to be featured during the performance get a free use of the skatepark from 8-10pm!

Free entry!

LOCATION

Dynamix Skate Park, Junction of Albany Rd and A184 (Felling by-pass), Gateshead, NE8 3AT

CONTACT INFO

For more information about the piece, please contact Lalya Gaye < lalya @ attayaprojects . com > or < info @ dynamixcic . org > for info about the events or venue.

COVERAGE

“Dynamix Live brings the inside out at a Gateshead skatepark” – We Are Tech North – 08.03.17

PARTNERSHIP

Dynamix Live is a collaboration between Dynamix Skatepark (run by Dynamix Extreme CIC) in Gateshead and the Newcastle-based digital media art practice Attaya Projects – featuring a series of filmmakers including Alessandro Pascale and Nico Amalfitano. The project is funded by Tech North, with support from ISIS Arts.

Dynamix Extreme CIC is a social enterprise that transforms disused spaces for and with communities. They have created the centre for wheeled sports and performing arts Dynamix Skatepark, located in Gateshead – the only one of its kind in the North of England – featuring facilities for indoor skateboarding, BMX, scootering, inline and quad-skating, aerial circus and trampoline circus skills training and outdoor motocross and 4×4 driving tracks.

Attaya Projects is a collaborative practice founded and run by artist and designer Lalya Gaye, which specialises in public space digital art installations, digital innovation and community engagement.

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Dynamix Live

Lalya — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:30:27 +0000

LIVE STREAM HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0GH7r8MLYU

Dynamix Live is an innovative live digital media arts piece that will launch at Dynamix Skatepark in Gateshead on 1st May 2016. The piece consists of a dynamic projection of the activities which take place at Dynamix onto its building’s façade, turning it inside out. High-definition live and recorded footage of skateboarders, BMX riders, scooterers, wall-trampolinists, motocross riders and aerial circus artists, captured by action cameras and a drone, is edited live by a VJ into a stylised single stream video and projected in real time and large scale onto the building – thereby revealing the usually hidden activities happening inside and behind the 40 000sqft warehouse, and transforming them into a cinematic experience for the audience.

SCHEDULE

The piece will launch on 1st May with live improv music from the “dorkestra” Phallictite, and will be featured at night time on a regular basis during an extended period of time, with live sessions featuring an invited VJ / live video editor followed by playbacks during the night (detailed programme to be announced HERE). Remote audiences can also experience the piece live through an online broadcast HERE.

The public on launch night is welcome from 8pm onwards, with the performance starting at 9pm and ending at 10pm.

Skaters and other athletes wishing to be featured during the performance get a free use of the skatepark from 8-10pm.

Free entry!

LOCATION

Dynamix Skate Park, Junction of Albany Rd and A184 (Felling by-pass), Gateshead, NE8 3AT

CONTACT INFO

For more information, please contact Lalya Gaye < lalya @ attayaprojects . com >

PARTNERSHIP

Dynamix Live is a collaboration between Dynamix Skatepark (run by Dynamix Extreme CIC) in Gateshead and the Newcastle-based digital media art practice Attaya Projects – featuring a series of filmmakers including Alessandro Pascale. The project is funded by Tech North, with support from ISIS Arts and Breeze Creatives.

Top photo by I Am Maxao, modified under ShareAdapt CC licence.

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Corners Project ‘Oh My Home – Lost & Found’ at Dokufest 2015

Lalya — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 14:05:38 +0000

As part of its European tour and after premiering in Stockholm last May, the project ‘Oh My Home – Lost & Found’ will be presented in the arts programme of the International Documentary and Short Film Festival DokuFest 2015 in Prizren, Kosovo, between 8 – 14 August.

Oh My Home is a collaboration between digital media Lalya Gaye from Attaya Projects, street artist Saadia Hussain from Sweden and cross-media artist Ixone Ormaetxe from the Basque Country. It is developed within the framework of the Corners Project, which Lalya has been part of since last year through the Newcastle-based arts organisation ISIS Arts.

OMH consists of a public space installation, performance and series of participative activities based around the notion of ‘home’ in relation to borders, migration and the domestic. A good fit to Dokufest’s theme for this year’s festival which is ‘migration‘, and to the location since the installation uses a large number of “cabas Barbès”, also known as “immigrant bags”: these were first mainly associated with African immigrants in France but are now widespread across the globe and used for a variety of home- and migration-related purposes and contexts, including the Kosovo exodus in the 1990’s. The bags therefore have a strong connection to this place and we are looking forward to see how the installation resonates with people in this context.

DokuFest is one of the most exciting film festivals there is. We’re very happy to take part in it and look forward to engaging with the local population and festival visitors through this project!

Links
Corners at DokuFest (in Albanian here)
Corners about going to DokuFest
The Guardian about DokuFest
Oh My Home website
Oh My Home ‘Storyteller’ (project documentation)
Reflections about migration from the Puglia Xpedition in 2014

Hashtag: #dokufest2015

If you would like to know more about the ‘cabas Barbès’, here is a very nice short documentary about its history and cultural significance, created by Alice Diop and Elsa Perry for arte TV (in French)

l'objet : le cabas Barbès from Elsa Perry on Vimeo.

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