1,000.044th Anniversary of Art

Could you think of a better way of celebrating Art’s birthday than a world wide party? The chance of doing whatever you want in the name of art and the opportunity of sharing it with people from Tokyo to Vancouver. This year’s gift from artists to their dearest friend was a common action that gathered people from very different places thanks to Internet.

We had the opportunity of attending one of these parties in Brussels, organised by OKNO. In connection with Prague, we could enjoy performances, live music, food, drinks and the event web streaming. A real homage to the man who 44 years ago settled 17th January like 1,000.000 Art’s anniversary, the French artist Robert Filliou. One of his aims was to create a universal network of artists, an objective that we can feel today nearest than never thanks to the new technologies.

Not only museums, galleries, organisations, but also websites, chats, communities, blogs… A new era and a new way of communicating and doing art. A lot of things happening world wide.

This was the program:

20.00 Testuo Kogawa and Jacques Foschia : Transversal Transmission
20.30 Isjtar & Masato Tsutsui : Mai, premature birth of a mind
21.00 So-on : : Words in Freedom
21.30 Society of Algorithm : Paskian Whispers
22.00 Break : Silence
22.20 Billy Bultheel & Ronald Boersen : Exhaust
22.45 Ronald Boersen : Frames, Study 1b
22.50 Els Viaene : An imaginary place for invisible sounds
23.15 Irvic D'Olivier : SilenceRadio.org - Remix for AB2007

More info: www.okno.be