PIPS:lab

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PIPS:lab

Never a comfortable ride

Language: 

English/German/French

Contact: 

Artistic direction: Keez Duijves, Thijs de Wit,

Stije Hallema, Daan van West, Steven van Hulle

T +31 (0)6 – 48 15 82 70

E thijs@pipslab.nl

I www.pipslab.nl

For the last ten years, PIPS:lab has been producing raw, expressive, visually stunning, interactive, multimedia performances. The software they write themselves has put them at the forefront of live video editing. Technology, particularly video and audio, plays a dramatic theatrical part in their performances. The footage shot during a performance is swiftly cut and edited, the context changed and set to music. This makes the ‘video’ as ‘alive’ as the actors and musicians. The ensuing collaboration between actors, visuals, live music and the audience, in which the computer serves as a mixer, is surprisingly innovative and a challenge to your powers of perception.

The music is eclectic; a combination of jazz, hip hop, nursery rhymes and pop. The audience is never given a comfortable ride; they are expected to take an active part in the performance. PIPS:lab is creating new interdisciplinary combinations such as video-rock-operas, internet-upload-sessions, interactive installation, live-VJ-performances (lumasol) or whatever else springs to their mind. The productions are always humorous and light-hearted, while touching upon serious current topics such as religion, death and the reliability of the media.

Several PIPS:lab productions were developed together with Paradiso Melkweg Productiehuis (www.paradiso-melkweg.nl).

International: 

PIPS:lab performs throughout Europe in countries such as Italy, Poland, Germany, Spain, Hungary, France and Belgium. They also build interactive installations, which are shown throughout Europe. The Lumasolator was recently bought by the ZKM Karlsruhe.

Alongside their live-VJ-performances, PIPS:lab also performs Wortal Combat III, The washing powder conspiracy and DieSpace outside the Netherlands.