27 August 2006

Robodock Festival - Amsterdam


ROBODOCK FESTIVAL 2006 - ALCHEMY

The 9th edition of the Robodock Festival will be at the NDSM-wharf in Amsterdam-Noord.

It will take place from 20 till 23th of september 2006.

The theme of this festival edition is alchemy. This will be the leading thread within the program and a source of inspiration for the participating artists.


Robodock is a unique international festival with a main core of technology, spectacle theatre, multi-media and industrial installations.

In cooperation with artists, technology students and theatre makers the festival is styled by re-using scrap and other industrial left-overs. Nowadays Robodock has an important international workshop-function.


The festival shows unpredictable combinations of different disciplines and bizar theatral applications, of which fire and steel are important elements. No disciplines are excluded: theatre, plastic arts, music, dance, film, multimedia, acrobatics, technical experiments, deejays.

With a surprising and renewing program Robodock shows four days 'state of the art' - projects that have no like in Europe and that are specially developed for and by the Robodock Festival. On every day of the festival there will be a different program.

Theme of 2006: Alchemy

Alchemy is the old secret science that, by using the 'philosopher's stone', aimed at brewing a life-elixer out of precious metals. In 2006 Robodock will research the question wheter this science is still actual in our modern times. Do modern technologies contain a life-elixer?

Alchemy not only is a inspiring theme. It is also a theme that touches the search in our present society to spirituality, mysticism, symbolism and religion. Functioning as a experimental platform Robodock will become a alchemist laboratory. These are the corners of our focus this year.

http://www.robodock.org/gallery_eng.html

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