Music and art at alternative settings in the aim of variety, multimediality and contemporaneity, here are the main notes characterizing Transart.

Transart 2002, at its second edition, will take place from September 13 to 28 in various sites dislocated on the Trentino South Tyrolean territory. The starting point is the province of Bolzano and its main town; fundamental collaborations this year are artesella (TN) and the Kangspuren festival (North Tyrol).

Once again we will take part in the shows not from red velvet armchairs in a concert hall, but seated without any pretence in the midst of industrial spaces or deep in places with a strong historical characterization. From the boundary wall of the inexpugnable Austro-Hungarian fortress of Fortezza; to the sheds of the Borgo Valsugana industries, to the Pichler carpentry in Bressanone; the Edison Power Station in Bolzano and Mezzocorona; the SAD bus deposit and the cattle show room in Bolzano; while in Borgo Valsugana Transart will end at the Finstral industrial shed.

From a thematic point of view, the protagonist will be the Japanese culture, represented by great interpreters who propose fascinating projects in which, tradition and innovation, east and west, perfectly join. The most intense moments of the 2002 edition will be the projects especially realized for “Hin zur Flamme”, a project proposing itself as a sort of “total oeuvre” written by George Lopez for symphonic orchestra and lights, which will be completed by the action “The Composer. Living Installation” ideated by the performer Marina Abramovic. The same Abramovic will be present as a curator with the project BODY BASICS: an exhibit – site specific for the evocative rooms in the fortress – with installations and videos by her students and a series of performative appointments.
Fabrica, the communication research center of the Benetton group, is committed in the creation of an – exclusive for Transart – project which investigates vocalism and its great potentialities, influenced by an artist who has made of voice sonorities a virtue: Koichi Makigami. The musicians of Fabrica – music department, together with the researchers of the video department and Koichi Makigami will give body to a multimedia performance, also with the extraordinary appearance of Phil Minton.

Dance will be present through the interpretation of Saburo Teshigawara who, in collaboration with Wolfgang Mitterer creates a show ad hoc for the Cattle show room in Bolzano. Baneto, one of the youngest choreographers in the world of contemporary dance, will be here with the Tokyo Contemporary Dance. Innovation that gets along with the tradition of the chanting of the court monks Reigakusha who will reproduce the sonorities of the Buddhist religious rituals. The eastern charm will be found in an exemplary way in the fairy tales which are narrated – in an “underground” way – by Akemi Takeya and Furudate; finally Christian Fennesz has put into electronic music a Japanese silent movie of the times of the Avant-garde.

To conclude the rich program there will be a soirée showing multimedia monologues: vocals Fatima Miranda, double bas Stefano Scodanibbio, and oratory by the art critic Francesco Bonami.

Transart will end with an exceptional guest: Lou Reed, the musician who has written the history of rock. The ex Velvet Underground will play together with the Zeitkratzer Ensemble of Berlin in the proposal of a rereading of one of his most controversial works: Metal Machine Music.