Summercamp Electrified

Running from July 12th to 19th 2009, the Electrified summer camp is an intensive week of work for 15 artists and 3 organizations with the city of Ghent (Belgium) as their scenery, their territory, their sparring-partner and challenger.

Electrified was set up in 2008 by Arts Centre Vooruit in association with SMAK and 5voor12 with a view to presenting work in the visual art, media art and sound art triangle. This festival brought together the work by artists who are not usually presented in the same context because of their different backgrounds and approaches. Take the city as a sparring-partner and challenger and you have the principles of the ‘Electrified’ concept.

Electrified kicked off in 2008 with artists Ronald Kuivila and Edwin van der Heiden showing work in the KunstNu area of the SMAK and in Citadelpark respectively. It consisted of two evenings of live audiovisual performances with (among others) Rikkert Brok and Maarten Halmans, Boris and Brecht Debackere and Janek Schaefer.

In the summer of 2009 Electrified will take the form of a summer camp, organized jointly by Arts Centre Vooruit and Timelab. The start-up Timelab is an open laboratory for hybrid arts grafted onto the activities of a Fablab in Ghent.

After the artists have given a presentation of their work, 3 organisations are asked to prepare a workshop. By the end of the week the artists are given the opportunity to present their work and/or their ideas or their proposals and suggestions on the city to the audience.