Last weekend on 24-25 of September, the 6th edition of TodaysArt is held in The Hague. It is a festival that is focused on amplifying the forms and relationship between art, music, and technology.
This year's theme for the event is 'Love the Real City', which implies that there is a city that is not real, which could be the abstract, administrative view of the city or The Hague's bid to become Cultural Capital 2018. According to TodaysArt director/founder, Olof van Winden, The Real City is experiences, participation, engagement, daily routines, and a festival like TodaysArt.
The event is attended by more than 100 participants all over the world. Just like the theme of the event: ‘Love the Real City’, the event is held in various places around the heart of The Hague’s city public places, such as: film theatre, dance theatre, library, clubs, city hall, galleries, and others public open spaces which mostly can be accessed for free.
The event prides itself as being one of the most inexpensive art festivals in the world. From giant mirror ball on the city hall square, talking giant robot powered by people’s text message, sound sculptures, augmented reality dance performance, up to seven story visual and sonic improvisers orchestra in the city hall.
Besides individual exhibition on some of the public spaces, there was also a PechaKucha Night Den Haag. PechaKucha is an event for designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. The participants of TodaysArt 2010 presented their work by using a standard PechaKucha presentation concept: 20 images x 20 seconds. From the presentation we can see the summary of the works and backgrounds of the participants. It was also the 5th PechaKucha Night held in The Hague.
Although the rain poured consistently in the second day of the event, it doesn’t stop attendances from all over the world to take part of the event. All of the performances in the theatre and city hall is packed with no seats left unoccupied.
text and photos by Octa Ramayana
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