June-July 2009 Pact Zollverein Essen

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Location and circumstances

It started with a residence for the project Sweet Dreams Are Made (Simone Aughterlony and Isabelle Schad), where multimedia artist Olivier Heinry and lighting designer Bruno Pocheron developed a video based control interface for lights. Following the showings at the end of the residence, Pact Zollverein Essen offered the two of them the opportunity and the money for initiating and organizing an informal research gathering of artists, designers and technicians aimed at a collective reflection around their individual practices, an exchange of interests, tools and visions, as well as the development of a common language for making interdisciplinary stage work. The experience was then baptised Gangplank.