FORGE - Video Mapping Festival

2 pm to 6 pm
ARCHEO INDUSTRIE: Sound Walks
With Phileas Fiorino and Clara Hanzal
For all ages

The workshop invites participants to explore the Völklingen Ironworks through its sounds – during a guided soundwalk. Afterwards, participants will collect their own recordings in groups, which will then be combined to create a collective sound portrait.

4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
La Bête
With Beds
Young people aged 15 and over/adults/seniors

In this workshop, participants capture their own movements using motion capture and transfer them to avatars within a 3D model of the Völklingen Ironworks. This results in an animated camera movement as a video – a hands-on introduction to digital art, no prior knowledge required.

(FULL)
10 am to 2 pm
Echo: Facets of a Place
With Nina Scheffel and Emily Lou Ehrlich
For all children aged 8 and over

Sketches, rubbings and photos are used to create an individual collage that shows the place from different perspectives – without any prior knowledge.

4 pm to 6 pm:
Esthétique du sublime
With Thibault Messac
For all ages

Themes explored in the work at the ironworks are developed through collages and sound recordings. The results are then digitally processed and collectively reflected upon in relation to questions concerning the Anthropocene and future potential.

10 am to 3 pm (including breaks)
Detours. Promenades after work.
With Francis Karat and Ansien
For all ages.

As a counterpoint to the facade projection, we shift the focus to shared exploration: Drawing inspiration from Lucius Burckhardt’s ‘promenadology’, we explore the ironworks by taking detours, observing, describing and reinterpreting the place. In slowing down and revealing, different perspectives on work, technology, and the present emerge.

3 pm to 7 pm
Extended Listening
With Willi Bücking and Malte Kropp
For all ages

Through sound walks, listening exercises and the use of contact microphones, materials, architecture and resonances are made audible and explored experimentally together.

3 pm to 7 pm:
Stratigraphy of Obsolescence
with Corentin Boubay
For all ages

A sensory journey of discovery using video mapping: from the impressions gathered, participants work together to create collages, projections and sound fragments, which are then combined—both in analogue and digital form—to form a collective mapping project.