Jacques Urbanska (Be)

1 November 2019 City Sonic

Lectures urbaines (creation)

20 places and 20 texts from a UCL writing workshop will lead you to discover the city of Louvain-La-Neuve. A poetic wandering is interspersed with a selection of sound objects from fifteen years of City Sonic Festival. This project started in 2017 with the UCLouvain Culture is an experiment on sound paths. This year it takes a new form by experimenting the Escapad application.

Texts: Belinda Cannone, Myriam Delmotte, Maxime Deblander, Perrine Estienne, Benedict Lambert, Romuald La Morte, Camille Dasseleer.
Framing writing workshops: Belinda Cannone, Myriam Delmotte.
Reading/Interpretation: Benjamin Chaval & Laurie Bellanca.
Sound creation: aMute, Christophe Bailleau, Stephan Dunkelman, Gilles Malatray, Paradise Now, Franck Soudan…
Production: Transcultures and the partnership of the non-profit organization Lettres en voix and UCLouvain Culture. With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. The Lectures Urbaines is based on the RHYZOmatics geolocalised project conceived in 2017 by the art2.network collective, developed by the artist-coder Franck Soudan as the result of a partnership between Transcultures, UCLouvain Culture (Frédéric Blondeau) and the non-profit organization Lettres en voix. With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (digital arts).

Escapad (application)

This project is part of the Sonic Walks and will take place in the application for smartphone and tablet Escapade (to download and install on your mobile).

Biographie

Actor and theatre director by training (Royal Conservatory of Liège), Jacques Urbanska is a multimedia artist, in charge of digital arts projects and networks at Transcultures.

His research questioned the conventional theater scene as the only possible place of performance, the individual relationship to the viewer, the spectatorial apperception and the notion of post-dramatic theater. Between 2000 and 2005, he developed a series of ambulatory shows around writing, the Intimate Readings, a research aimed at exploring the different aspects of a chance encounter between two beings around a triggering theme at different levels (physical, psychic, sensory).

In 2007, he moved more clearly towards performance and digital arts. His projects range from multimedia performance, interactive installation to networked arts.

Since 2010, he has built a very large network of information on digital arts (artsnumeriques.be – arts-numeriques.info – twitter @arts_numeriques – Media Art WatchLab), but also on various political and societal issues (using various twitter feeds: fukushima_actu, revolution_info, occupy_USA, Belgique_info, RN_PASofficiel…).

He is part of the variable geometry collective art2.network, which he initiated in 2017, with the French artist-programmer Franck Soudan.