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The Wired festival brings upfront music, audiovisual art, new media and live cinema together in the shape of a mini-festival. Wired is about experiencing art in a very easy accesible way and in a natural atmosphere.
The first edition of the Wired festival took place last July at De Besturing in The Hague featuring live music from Aux Raus, Adolf Butler, The Wooden Constructions, The Moi Non Plus, Gameboys A Gogo, Klopje Popje The Routines and Organisms. Next to the music program we invited the following artists to create an Interactive Playground of visual art installations: Yacine Sebti, Mike Rijnierse, Bas de Boer, Marcus Graf, Jessica de Boer, Gosse de Kort and Eelco de Vries.
Saturday December 19th will bring us the second special winter edition of Wired namely Winter Wired '09. We've picked BINK 36 as venue for the festival as it offers huge area's at an unique industrial location: the former KPN building in De Binckhorst (The Hague). The Winter Wired '09 festival will feature more art genres than before with live cinema and fashion being integrated in the program.
Winter Wired '09 is supported by VSB Fonds and Gemeente Den Haag.
A circus festival street performance (the popcorn bucket was picked up form a surprised kid in the crowd)
Preparing to install the overhead wires.
"To achieve good high-speed current collection, it is necessary to keep the contact wire geometry within defined limits. This is usually achieved by supporting the contact wire from above by a second wire known as the messenger wire (US & Canada) or catenary (UK). This wire approximates the natural path of a wire strung between two points, a catenary curve, thus the use of catenary to describe this wire or sometimes the whole system. This wire is attached to the contact wire at regular intervals by vertical wires known as droppers or drop wires. The messenger wire is supported regularly at structures, by a pulley, link, or clamp. The whole system is then subjected to a mechanical tension."
barbed wire holding the trelis for my grape vines up to the fencepost. it's a very bubblegum-and-duct tape setup.