In the Ether is a live video performance of the installation comprising five suspended CRT monitors and a set of VCRs, connected with an abundance of black cord. Lisa Slodki, a long-time participant in Chicago’s experimental-noise community (who performs as Noise Crush), sources found footage from prerecorded tapes, uses digital and analog mixing techniques to manipulate the video, and then returns it back onto the same magnetic-tape media. Each of the five monitors displays a seamless black-and-white video loop.
During the performance these images will evolve and morph together, expanding the original series of dynamic, kinetic vignettes into a woven narrative. Many of these images have been pulled from natural science or mechanical sources, yet the ambiguous scale of the now abstracted gestures evokes celestial phenomena such as solar flares, cosmic rays, and upper-atmospheric lightning.
The performance will be accompanied by a soundscape performed with an etherphone (more commonly known as a theremin), an electronic instrument played by contactless motioning through the air.
Free admission
Sunday 05.01.2025, 18h00 — 19h00, Casino Luxembourg
“River East, River West” by Aube Rey Lescure is a touching debut novel set during China’s rapid modernization. The narrative shifts between Alva, a young girl in Shanghai, and Lu Fang, a clerk in Qingdao. Alva, who is raised by her American expat mother, dreams of moving to America but faces unexpected challenges when her mother gets engaged to their wealthy Chinese landlord. Meanwhile, Lu Fang navigates the political upheavals of 1985 China and is profoundly affected by his encounter with an American woman who challenges his worldview. This novel intricately examines themes of cultural identity, social hierarchy, and the often elusive nature of the American Dream.
Language: English
Free admission, registration needed
Tuesday 14.01.2025, 18h30, Lëtzebuerg City Bibliothèque
Humming Home is a series of events that aim to look at how different cultures, community groups, and people use sound, music, and silence to talk about their history.
What can music and history have in common? Can the sound tell us more about the past? What role does the voice have in this? And what about silence? Does it also speak? And does voice imply agency over history? How are sounds and their absence reflected in our political and cultural recollection of the past?
The series “Humming Home” is kicking off with a live jazz concert and discussion with Palestinian composer and musician Mohamed Najem from Mohammed Najem Quartet on January 16, 2025.
The event will include:
A short presentation by Dr. Myriam Dalal of her research project at the University of Luxembourg.
A presentation by curator Charlotte Masse of Konschthal’s ongoing exhibition Dis-Placed, in discussion with Dalal, focused on the works of visual artist Taysir Batniji.
Discussion between Dalal and invited musician and composer Mohamed Najem on his work, his thought process when creating music to talk about history and belonging.
Live performance by Mohamed Najem Jazz Quartet.
Reception and discussion in the bar
Language: French
Free admission, registration needed
Thursday 16.01.2025, 18:30 - 23:00, Konschthal Esch
Take yourself on a date and come join us for a cozy evening with tea/wine and drawing! Beginner friendly– remember there's no such thing as "i can't draw". And, for those who have already taken part in this infamous Studio Scuro event, get ready for a new model!
30€ participation fee, registration needed
Thursday 16.01. 2025, 19h - 20h30, Studio Scuro
Join Irina Moons for a workshop on screen printing.
The multi-disciplinary illustrator and designer invites you to create a notepad with a cover that you have silk-screened yourself. The special thing about this technique is that it allows you to print without emulsion or insolation. The motifs are cut out of paper and placed directly on the frame. The ink is retained by the paper and reproduces the motif.
Irina Moons is happy to share and pass on her knowledge, and will guide you through every step. It's all about conviviality!
15€ participation fee, registration needed
Friday 17.01.2025, 18h00 - 19h30
No waste creating something new when you can use older items and bring them back to life. A workshop guided through by the talented person behind the Stuff by Nomi account (@stuffbynomi), a second hand and upcylcing space in Batiment 4.
Participation fee (TBD)
Saturday 18.01.2025, time TBD, Studio Scuro (have a look at the @studio.scuro account for updated information regarding this event)
Pleasing, a Luxembourgish alternative rock back, have focused their music largely on allowing for the free flow of emotions, feelings and creating the space to share them openly and honestly with themselves, each other and their audiences. The two conceptually-interlinked EPs — the recently released for us to escape and the upcoming for us to feel lonely — are an invitation into the musicians' personal experience of life, at times turbulent and confusing, however always with a glimpse of hope for relief.
The Double EP Release Show will guide you into experiencing the open-to-feeling atmosphere and the artistry behind the two EPs, and invite you to dive into the complicated mind and tangled emotions of Patrick Miranda, the frontman of pleasing. The immersive release show will consist of multidisciplinary elements that will all serve as introduction into the conceptual background behind the EPs. A literal entry passage in the form of an art gallery corridor with Pleasing's artworks, props and text elements to understand the thoughts behind the lyrics and music... A theatre piece written by Patrick Miranda performed before the musical set to create the feeling of full immersion into the show... Pleasing share this over-encompassing need to be deeply personal and open with their audiences with the special guest of the release show - Maz Univerze.
12,50€ early bird tickets
Saturday 18.01.2025, 20h30, KulturFabrik
What access to culture do LGBTIQ+ people have in Luxembourg? What are your experiences as a queer artist/cultural actor or as a queer spectator? What do you expect from Luxembourg’s cultural institutions as an LGBTIQ+ person?
Come and share your experiences and ideas at our focus group on (queer) culture in Luxembourg.
Language: English
Free admission, registration needed
Wednesday 22.01.2025, 18h - 20h, Rotondes
From cartoons to horror films, electronic music to the flow of images on the Internet, popular culture serves as a vast source of inspiration for many contemporary artists. In these often disorienting associations of images, humour can act as a driving force, even at the risk of unsettling the audience. Through the work of artists such as Cosima von Bonin or the Luxembourgish painter Michel Majerus (1967, Esch-sur-Alzette – 2002, Niederanven), we explore these vibrant worlds that convey a subtle, and sometimes fierce, critique of our standardised world.
Language : Luxembourgish / French
10€ admission, reductions available
Wednesday 22.01.2025, 18h - 19h / 19h30 - 20h30, Mudam
A two-day festival of new music for the curious and the experienced, for young and old, for those who know little about Luxembourg and those who can't wait to discover the global vision of the country through soundscapes, for fans of the do-it-yourself spirit and those who prefer a hands-off-senses-on experience.
Our selection from 1,500 pieces performed over the last 25 years is for everyone - so bring your kids, your family, your neighbours and your friends, as we transform the whole Kulturfabrik into a vibrant space filled with sound and music.
Free admission
Saturday and Sunday 25-26.01.2025, KulturFabrik
As Cosima Von Bonin’s work is deeply rooted in popular culture and cinematography, she and her friends curated a screening programme of iconic movies that relate to her works, both literally and metaphorically. One short film and one feature film will be screened at each session, with films by directors such as Jean Painlevé, Pier Paolo Pasolini or João Pedro Rodrigues.
Short film: L’hippocampe (1934) by Jean Painlevé
The seahorse is the only fish that moves vertically. It is one of the few species in which the male carries out the gestation of the eggs deposited by the female in the male’s pouch and gives birth to the young, rolling its eyes in pain. To film at the bottom of the Garonne estuary, Painlevé had to use the first ever unsinkable mobile camera. This film, accompanied by the music of Darius Milhaud, shows with precision and humour the life of this strange underwater animal.
Feature film: O FANTASMA (2000) by João Pedro Rodrigues
This film follows the story of Sérgio, an alienated trash collector working in Lisbon. At night, he roams the streets of the city looking for rough, anonymous sex with other men. One evening, Sérgio becomes fascinated by the owner of a sleek motorcycle – a man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies.
Languages: French and Portuguese, English subtitles
10€ admission, reductions available
Sunday 26.01.2025, 15h - 17h, Mudam
On 29 January 2025, the Laboratoire d'Etudes Queer, sur le Genre et les Féminismes - LEQGF Asbl and the Rainbow Center are organising a round-table discussion with activists involved in the demand for same-sex marriage in Luxembourg. Our panellists will look back at the successes and challenges facing the LGBTIQ+ community in Luxembourg.
The discussion is based mainly on the panellists' recollections:
What internal discussions took place? How did they organise themselves?
What actions/campaigns were carried out? Who supported this struggle at a political and social level?
Languages: Luxembourgish, simultaneous translation in French
Free admission, registration needed
Wednesday 29.01.2025, 18:30, Rainbow Center
The Mindful Hand is Belgian artist Eva L’Hoest’s first exhibition in an institutional setting. The exhibition consists of a series of new works that question the ways in which analogue and digital image-making technologies influence our perception and our memory, modifying the notion of landscape and redrawing the boundaries between manual gesture and the mind.
Eva L’Hoest’s composite artworks mix together craftsmanship and digital techniques, the human gesture becoming an extension of the machine. A series of sculptures revisits the ancient techniques of lifecasting through the medium of 3D printing, while artificial intelligence and computer-generated images intrude on the film in a new audiovisual installation. The film is projected simultaneously across four walls, transporting us into empty domestic and institutional interiors, both real and artificial, as these morph through images taken from cinema.
Accompanied by the words of poet Eva Manusco, the exhibition The Mindful Hand questions the capacity for digital technologies to redefine language, the mechanisms of our desires, and the sometimes invisible tensions between human intention and the autonomy of machines.
Free admission
Friday 31.01.2025, 18:00 – 21:00, Casino Luxembourg
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