Place/Dates: Budapest, Trafó House of Contemporary Art, 1-7 December 2008 (public performance: 4-7 December)

Description: :

Making New Waves Festival

The 10th edition of the Making New Waves contemporary music festival was dedicated to the CO-Me-DI-A project. The program of the festival included series of concerts and creative workshops.

The playful beginning of the collaboration served as an inspiration for allocating a theme and giving the subtitle to the festival: Co-Me-Di-A. Let’s play comedy in multiple meaning! Let’s examine, how an antique tool can be redefined in the field of contemporary music and multimedia art.

In fact Comedy is a very specific kind of story. It is not simply any story which we shall see, a story may follow the plot of comedy without being intended to be funny at all. The conflict is built up with the help of mixing reality with mockery. Real identities are hidden and obscured by different tools like disguise, confusion.

Digital technology and permeation of the Internet secures a never seen communication potential for the artists of the XXIst century. The theoretically unlimited possibilities are source of a new, exciting tension. New tools have been created for hiding real identities and creating virtual personalities. At the festival the audience was able to hear and see examples of how artists apply the new tools in their pieces.

Objective:

To present performances and workshops connected to the “Comedia” idea, some of which can be developed further realizing scenarios formalized in the framework of the Co-Me-Di-A project.

Results:

6 concerts, 4 workshops ending with a concert demonstration, video and sound documentation to be used as source material for artistic research in the CoMeDiA project.

Website : www.makingnewwaves.hu

Target group: intellectuals, students, young artists, children.

Number of participants/visitors/audience : 900 persons.