BELGRADE
Artist
Lukatoyboy
Lukatoyboy (Luka Ivanović) was born in Belgrade and lives in Berlin i.a. His current work focuses on electroacoustic improvisations with various objects, voices, toys, field recordings and live sampling. One of his focal points are participatory, site-specific performances, e.g. in one-to-one situations or using walkie-talkies.
He performs regularly throughout Europe. His series “Walk That Sound” was broadcasted on Deutschlandradiokultur, Ö1 and SWR 2, Radio Beograd 2. Co-Founder and organiser of the artist residency MultiMadeira.
Performance
Ist,er,s
In his participatory two-directional multichannel radio walk, Lukatoyboy will develop a spontaneous communication-structure composed of sounds, live field-recordings and words via a network of dozens of walkie talkies.
Using them as portable 8 channels mixer, Luka's personal history will be interwoven with other narrative elements on the Danube, Belgrade and Pančevo, on leaving, escaping and arriving, while the spectators - each equipped with a device and thus participant at the same time - are crossing the bridge. The audience can actively search for sounds, feed their own input to one of the channels or simply listen while the artist mediates between the channels and contributes his impulses to the creative process of the temporary community.
The audio walk will be recorded and edited in radio broadcast form, while interactions in situ, across the bridge and in the cities, will spread further to the FM spectre, using the low powered transmitters and portable radios.
In the summer of 1998, Luka tried for the very first time to leave Belgrade as a teenage troublemaker, taking the family-owned desktop PC with him to Pančevo and moving in with a philosophy student. Weeks later (as well as several unsuccessful police attempts to solve the problem), he was found in Belgrade. In October 2014 Luka left once again and never stayed more than a few weeks afterwards.
Location / Partner
Location: Pančevo bridge
Partner: Ring Ring Festival
Stanica / Station
The Pančevo bridge is Belgrade's oldest one crossing the Danube and until 2014 it was the only one. The combined railway- and car-bridge connects the main parts of Belgrade to the small trans-Danubian district and, after that, with the city of Pančevo.
Ring Ring Festival is Belgrade's international new music-festival existing since 1996. It's specialized on avantgarde, free-jazz, improvisation, contemporary...
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