NeoArte - Synthesizer of Arts Festival

In the contemporary landscape, the edges between different creative arts are getting more and more figurative. Composers write pieces for video-art and visual artists create sound installations. It is getting harder to differentiate, yet connections and finding common grounds becomes easy. We are acting a bit like radar – trying to identify these changes – a bit like sonar – navigating the unexplored areas. Like a Synthesizer of Arts – creating new qualities.

NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts festival exists to inspire, support creativity. Its idea is rooted in the artistic synthesis. To works as a platform connecting artists from various cultural backgrounds and realms of art by creating influential environment, a chance for new connections and interdisciplinary effects.

NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts Festival has been organized every year in Gdansk, Poland since 2012. Its initiator is NeoQuartet – Polish string quartet from Gdansk, the prizewinner of prestigious Pomeranian Artistic Award 2019 and one of the most prominent ensembles in Polish contemporary (and not only!) music. Starting this year, NeoArte will also happen abroad.
NeoArte Association is the organizer and producer of the festival.

NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts, Oslo edition is three days (March 24-26) of concerts and more: art installations, performance, panel discussions. In addition, the younger audience (kids and youth) will be able to participate in the uniquely-designed workshops concerning field recordings and electronic music. All the events will take place in Kulturkirken Jakob, Sentralen and Gamle Raadhus Scene in Oslo.

Festival’s composer in residence – the outstanding Norwegian composer and performer Trond Reinholdtsen – will present the premiere of his newest project. Among the performers and musicians there are the top tier of most creative Norwegian and Polish artists including: Cikada Ensemble, Ania Karpowicz, Jennifer Torrence, PARALLAX & Heather Frasch, Oslo String Quartet and Dariusz Mazurowski. What is more, the festival’s hosts NeoQuartet will present a new – interdisciplinary and international – facet of the string quartet during the concert Modern Multichannel Quartet.

We will have a chance to listen to dozens of compositions written by composers from Norway and Poland, and moreover from Iceland, Iran, USA and Germany. Seven of the pieces will have their world premieres during the festival. Each concert is planned as a multidisciplinary spectacle with the audience being not only the part of the performance, but also an element of the whole artistic process.

NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts Festival, Oslo edition is part of the Neo Voyager project funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway under the EEA and Norway Grants.

Saturday, 25.03.2023
17.00 - 22.00 - Kulturkirken Jakob, Hausmanns gate 14
NeoArte Marathon

Ania Karpowicz
Jennifer Torrence
Dariusz  Mazurowski
Trond Reinholdtsen
Parallax & Heather Frasch

17.00 - Kirke
presentation of electronic music created by the participants of workshops for kids
Curator: Krzysztof Arszyn Topolski

17.15  - Kirke
Ania Karpowicz - TOVA 

18.00 - Krypt
Jennifer Torrence  - DWELL

19.00 - Kirke
Dariusz Mazurowski - Artificial Coexistence

20.00 - Kirke
Trond Reinholdtsen - Einzelgänger

21.00 - Kirke
PARALLAX & Heather Frasch - Reconfigured Objects