the graveyard // STAM exhibition

Today we opened ‘the graveyard / cities on the edge’, an exhibition in STAM, Ghent. open May 17th – November 4th 2012 The graveyard installation is an ensemble of audiovisual works: 4 films, 8 field recording boxes with stills from the movies and a 5.1 surround sound installation in open air. It is the result of…

C Mine expeditie

Binnen het team van Nu architecten ontwikkelde ik het geluidsontwerp voor ‘C Mine expeditie’ in Genk, een avontuurlijke tocht door de ventilatietunnels van de mijn van Winterslag. Het parcours focust op zintuiglijke beleving en prikkelt de verbeelding. Architect Halewijn Lievens op  ‘de wereld morgen’: “We wilden met ons team echt iets maken dat verder gaat dan enkel ruimtes vullen…

triple deck

another unusual kapotski release . Kapotski is a live plastic & electric impro trio. Its energy and singularity arise from the magic of playing together, from the dynamics that emerges between the three musicians Jonas Nachtergaele, Ruben Nachtergaele and Kurt Stockman. Triple Deck is  a release/installation that represents Kapotski in its purest form. For a week Jonas,…

nuit blache amsterdam

Kapotski teamed up with Daniel Rivero Baralt and Louise Van den Eede for Nuit Blanche Amsterdam @ Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond. “A wild trip through Amsterdam, from seven in the evening till seven in the morning. An all-nighter of art and experiment at seven locations throughout the city, including De Brakke Grond. The programme was inspired by people with great ideas…

kapotsi live @ D.ART

Kapotski teamed up with Ben Benaouisse to build a “human powered installation”  inside an old chapel. Opa Malyn envited us to participate at their D.ART festival  in Mechelen. Together, we made some kind of pop-up scenography with objects trouvées (lots of cardboard). Ben himself was not visible. Jonas & I were connected to him by walki-talki’s. Ben…

zipstick

  voor Ladda vzw ontwikkelde ik het Zipstick-meubel. Zipstick is een offline project waarbij bezoekers via een usb-stick hun eigen creatieve (zip-)bestanden kunnen uploaden op een installatie en die van anderen eraf halen. Gebruikers verklaren zich akkoord met een Creative Commons-licentie en bouwen zo mee aan een grote gezamenlijke databank met open (kunst)bestanden (beeld, klank, muziek, video,…

karfour

‘Karfour 2010′ @ Campo Nieuwpoort = an evening program with several works, and a variety of media & backgrounds. Live action, home videos, interviews, dance, animated objects, songs,  travel, sculpture, short films, music and small theatrical effects: These are just some of the ingredients Benaouisse Ben has composed together in a unique ‘soiree composée’. Kapotski…

hotdogski

  installatie/performance-reeks in de publieke ruimte: een hallucinante integratie van buurtbewoners, meubelontwerp, youtube en hotdogs. We realiseerden dit VJ-project als laureaat van de ‘kunst in de buurt ‘ wedstrijd van Stad Gent. Het doel was sociale cohesie te bewerkstelligen door mensen samen te brengen rond een hotdog kraam en te confonteren met beelden van zichzelf…

Kapotski Optical Sound Generator

Kapotski participated at “The Game Is Up” festival at the Vooruit in Ghent and presented a limited serie of DIY optical tone generator kits. You can call it an installation, a realease, an instrument, a multiple.  I designed & printed a simple electronic circuit based upon this scheme: Inside a plastic sphere, we provided the circuit…

ctrl_alt_del radio broadcast

my contribution to a radio broadcast  sound-art-compilation initiated by the ctrl_alt_del festival, on a wide range of international radio stations. With contributions by Random inc, Johanna Billing, Thomas Burkhalter, Samon Takahashi, Visa Kuoppala, Sophea Lerner, James Andean, Eva Durall, Frontierlab (Montreal) + Ethedrone Muzak (Austin), Charbel Haber, Matjaz Mancek / CrossRadio team, Tobias c. van Veen, Tobias…

Ding

The show starts with the construction of the ‘Thing’, with several men in grey coats deciphering complicated plans, measuring the space and marking out the lines. In this way, at the tempo of the average council worker, the ‘Thing’ gradually takes shape. The musicians arrive and set up their instruments, the technical staff take their…

Singel Singel by kapotski & othin spake

Kapotski + othin spake played a concert together at Dedonderdagen. A split 7″ de ‘Single Single’ which featured live excerpts of this gig was released on 26th April 2007 and distributed for free in an installation @ deSingel. performance: Ruben Nachtergaele, Jonas Nachtergaele, Kurt Stockman, Teun Verbruggen, Mauro Pavlowski, Jozef Dumoulin mixed & mastered by Ruben Nachtergaele      

kabuski

Voor het Yo opera festival in Utrecht (NL), ontwikkelde kapotski ‘kabuski’. We bouwden een reguliere rijdende stadsbus van de GVU om tot instrument/geluidsomgeving. Ons doel was de openbare ruimte te transformeren tot een speelse omgeving en onverwachte sociale interactie te stimuleren. ” De bus is omgebouwd tot een rijdende muziekinstallatie, een Kabuski dus. In Kabuski mag en kan wat anders niet kan en mag: spelen en al…

JCCC / etoiles polaires / Nuuk

The next step for me & my toy army.  The  Jesus Creation Control Centre invades Nuuk, Greenland. Again not much of a resistance here. Temperature dough was not so ideal; but we survived. Maybe thanks to the  portion of whale blubber we consumed. The installation was shown at the katuaq art centre. Again, the tracks I…

JCCC @ Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

The Jesus Creation Control Center / Reycjavik installation is being shown in the museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle (B) in combination with an installation by Erki Devries, from 24/07/2004 untill19/09/2004. Simultanioiusly, there is the “ijs” exhibition with Ásmunder Ásmundson, Steingrimur Eyfjord, Gabriella Fridriksdottir, Icelandic Love Corporation, Gudný Rósa Ingimarsóttir, Harldur Jónsson, Libia Pérez de Siles de Castro &…

JCCC / etoiles polaires / Reycjavik

Within the etoiles polaires festival  – and more particulary the project ‘Sonic Pictures’ – I worked on the next fase of the Jesus Creation Control Centre. Invading Reycjavik with my toy soldier army was quite simple since the Icelandic people were totally unprepared and willing to cooperate. Miki Jacobsen was there too and helped me…

kaboxski

Interactive machine / installation built for children aged 4 to 88 by Kapotski Kaboxski humzzz quietly in the room, apart from some electricity all it needs is you to play with it! Through leavers, faders, a lightpen, ropes, squeekholes, a solar power panel, contactmicrophones, … You direct and manipulate the sounds and visuals Kaboxski makes. Using…

kapotski

“The trio Jonas Nachtergaele, Ruben Nachtergaele, and Kurt Stockman, aka Kapotski have become quite infamous for (re)appropriating unexpected technologies and artefacts for the creation of music. Kapotski (derived from the Dutch word for broken ‘kapot’) have elevated hacked toys, reverse engineered junk, and the peep and squeak of pre-historic kitchen and household appliances to an art form:…