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Title: A night with Celeste
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Date: 2009-10-01 19:06
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Category: blog
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Author: Kiritan Flux
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Slug: a-night-with-celeste
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Tags: gonzo, vjism, english
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Thumb: /library/3956320962_a31d4d3c4a.jpg
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*(a personal report by Kiritan Flux, photos by Ilan Katin)*
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Just having a faint idea that there was supposed to be something going
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on this friday evening i checked the outsourced part of
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my permanently damaged brain memory. the digital cloud reminded me of
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the [Celeste prize](http://www.celesteprize.com/ "Celeste Prize 2009")
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final party event and I suddenly got really excited about going there.
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Looking at the menubar clock I realized I had only half an hour of time
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before it would start, so I threw a post about it into the VB feed,
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dropped all my other ongoing procrastination tasks, grabbed my photo
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camera and left.
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<!-- PELICAN_BEGIN_SUMMARY -->Sipping a nice cold bottle of czech beer I walked to the gigantic
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industrial compound of the old AEG factory in Wedding, scanning the dark
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area for hints about Celeste. I strayed around the red brick and rusty
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metal complex, totally lost - until a naturally wary, androgynous, and
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faceless security guard popped up from the shadows wanting to know my
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intentions. I explained myself and the guard dutifully pointed me into
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the right direction. On the way, I realized I forgot to bring the CF
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card for my camera at my office...<!-- PELICAN_END_SUMMARY -->
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Eventually I found the entrance and met Ilan in front, who seemed like
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he'd stayed there already for a (much too) long time. We had a nice chat
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and a few overpriced Becks, and stood there glancing over the crowd of
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usual suspects to expect at this type of event: new-berliner americans,
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hipsters, arty geeks and showoff-intellectuals sipping their white wines
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and puffing weed. It was a nice relaxed atmosphere. A previously leaked
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but never confirmed rumour turned out to be true: epic berlin electro
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joint venture [Moderat](http://www.bpitchcontrol.de/Moderat/ "Moderat")
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did a free 20min concert for the visuals of the first contestant
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[Pfadfinderei](http://www.pfadfinderei.com/ "Pfadfinderei"). They
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performed in the usual static in-line Kraftwerk style choreography, but
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peppered with britpop fashion and Pet-Shop-Boys-hat and even some
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head-nodding and hip-twisting in between.
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There's not much say about
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[Pfadfinderei](http://www.pfadfinderei.com/ "Pfadfinderei") that's
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really new or revolutionary. The same perfect and shiny pro aestetics as
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ever, clip-shooting as always and with some additional RGB lights on the
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triple head installation, they did a nice show matching the sound of
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[Moderat](http://moderat.fm "Moderat") quite well. But after 10 minutes
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of watching we left the room to check out [the
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fish](http://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:30052/ "Quintetto") which
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was actually much more entertaining: five real goldfish named after five
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different avantgarde music composers, floating in five narrow plexiglass
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tanks tracked by a camera and generating music - really cool!!
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[Moderat](http://moderat.fm "Moderat") was finished when we returned to
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the main stage area, so we spent the break socialising with some other
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artists who had arrived. Dr. Nojoke and Ray Beams who had participated
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at the Celeste competition and some VB family members: jorgk, e, lucas +
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christiane, georgina + felix, yagama, bram + anneke. Thenkfully the
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entertainment factor of the event went up to a higher level, hearing
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weird stories about lost wallets and smashed car windows, the latest
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gossip and some rants and rumours about Celeste.
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The second performance was [Solitude by
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Dome](http://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:27879/ "Solitude"), which
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started off a bit too noizy and slightly boring but ended up as a really
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amazing audiovisual performance. A guy who looked like he dropped out of
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a sci-fi martial arts manga, making weird sounds with natural objects
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inside and outside of a small glass terrarium and a violin bow playing
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on other objects, along with beautiful black and white videos of
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desolated industrial places and flocks of birds circling above and
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around run down factory towers. When the performance ended it left the
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audience in an intense moment of contemplation that suddenly switched to
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roaring applause.
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[Celeste
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Motus](http://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:30686/ "Celeste Motus")
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was the third piece by the italian artist group abstract birds - a calm
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and really beautiful three parts opus of generative vvvv color bliss and
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live played instruments. One of the nicest generative and sound reactive
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artworks i've seen for a while.
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My absolute favorite performance was [Mutazioni by Gianluca
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Beccary](http://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:23901/ "Mutazioni"), a
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disturbing audiovisual horror trip through a dark and mystical version
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of Italy's beaches, river valleys and epic venetian theatres occupied by
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naked swine men, wildly dancing fauns, occult monks with pale bird masks
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and accompanied by distorted live cello music and glitchy ambient noise.
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Truly amazing video footage of highly talented and well casted actors,
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incredible cinematography and great music added up to a truly memorable
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nightmare experience.
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http://vimeo.com/4782590
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The final set was [L C M [les champs magnétiques] by Otolab dies
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Orgone](http://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:29863/ "LCM"),
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stunningly loud and all black and white, two artists apparetly hooked on
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speed or ketamines making noise on steroids and running ~~a vvvv~~ *an
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isadora* patch on crack. It was all high quality generative mayhem, but
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in my opinion not really worth winning the top 1 celecte prize in the
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live media category - but oh well - maybe everyone who voted for them
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was on PCP or heroin too, so it kinda makes sense.
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http://vimeo.com/5463100
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After some more socializing, shooting cherry tomatos around the
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exhibition room with an air pressure gun and talking with friends, I was
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happy when jorgk eventually wanted to leave and gave me a ride back home
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to xberg.
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