Epic Unidragon Game Gallery
Swedens first game gallery, exhibiting electronic, interactive and transmedia arts, and home of the festival Electrodome.
It was a container gallery for a few years, as well as a test ground for dialogue on city planning, mobility and sustainable solutions like solar and wind power. A temporary part of an initiative to open up the Masthuggskajen area to the public and include culture activities while the construction plans for the future offices etc. were being set. The Epic Unidragon gallery is founded by Idun Isdrake at Playcentric Studios. Activities are run in collaboration with other artists, from 2018 the gallery has no physical space.
The spine and ninja on the main container is made by Sagie, the sketch below by Erik Jakobsson.
Previous events
Gothenburg Culture Festival
Beats & Ord (Beats & Words) is an interactive installation stemming from the sound universe of hip hop made by Cat Eyed People’s Playground. As a visitor you are invited into the room to create and explore the beats that fill the space, and you are surrounded by signs with and without light presenting words taken from Swedish rap from the eighties and onwards. During the Gothenburg Culture Festival, August 20th 2016, a plastic wrap was up for everyone who wanted to try graffiti too.
HOME Gothenburg. Today many of us have moved, either by force or by choice. The six of us, based in different cities in Europe, are all movers and together we are exploring the concept of home and the creation of feeling home when moving and creating new homes. We believe that the more people understand about the feeling of home, the better one can relate to one’s neighbors. Hence, in this project, we are asking and reflecting on how might one take the feeling of home into one’s own hands and what are the needs we must meet to take home into one’s own hands while our communities continue to develop and people continue to move from place to place.
The project is part of the Balticlab 4.0 programme organised by the Swedish Institute and Council of the Baltic Sea States. And the interactions created and collected in Gothenburg will be content included in the programs final lab held in Moscow this September.
Group members: Alexander Bratt (Stockholm), Agnieszka Bułacik (Berlin), Samantha Hookway (Gothenburg), Szymon Keller (Barcelona), Elliot Silva (Berlin), Agnieszka Wojciechowicz (Oslo).
Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/334650996922742/
Slot Car Music
Vernissage May 28 12 – 4 pm
Opening hours
Fridays 4 pm – 8 pm
Saturdays 1 pm – 5 pm
Sundays 1 pm – 5 pm
Slot Car Music at Cat Eyed People’s Playground. An old fashioned Scalextric racetrack, two cars and a bunch of sounds. Sound art and music in a playful way where the gas handles controls the sounds and the musical expression. The exhibition is open until 19th of June. Changes might occur depending on weather conditions.
Cat Eyed People (CEP) create interactive art where the visitor can be a co-creator.
Electrodome Winter
February 1-6 2016
Check out all the participating artists here electrodome.se
Leading up to Electrodome, Playcentric Industries & Institute also hosts the game culture related events Global Game Jam and Diversi Gothenburg Meet-up.
Kulturnatta
Epic Unidragon is open during Kulturnatta 2016, see full program here
http://kulturnatta.goteborg.se/
Fredag 22 januari kl. 17-21
Lördag 23 januari kl. 13-15
Fri entré/No entrance fee
Happy to be featured in Scenkonstguidens list of golden nuggets for Kulturnatta!
http://scenkonstguiden.se/gbg-vecka-3-kulturnatta-x-2/
Experience
Sound installation and graffitti live by The Cat Eyed People.
Video installation by Idun featuring performance by Kira O’Reilly.
Night by the Sea!
Fredag 13 november kl.18-21
Fri entré
Epic Unidragon och Digitala Bildverkstan presenterar film och spel. Urvalet av verk vill ge utrymme för nyfikenhet samt både etablerade och oetablerade konstnärer. Du kommer bland annat kunna se kortfilm om Wislawa Szymborska, spela musikspel, dricka vin, och grilla pinnbröd över öppen eld i novembermörkret vid älven.
Deltagande konstnärer
Gunilla Gränsbo – Att göra en Groda, Bi for two, Sann kärlek utan konsekvenser, Internet Kärleken, Animerad poesi.
Fem underfundiga stop-motionfilmer, mest om kärlek.
Joanna Helander och Bo Persson – Om hon från Polen vore här
Kortfilm med och om Wislawa Szymborska, nobelpristagaren i litteratur, och hennes vänner.
Krystallia Sakellariou – Dans
En poetisk videoinstallation om en klänning, ljus och skugga.
David Carlsson och Magnus Carlsson – LEDdrop
Ett arkadspel lite likt Guitar Hero.
Idun och Bitslap – Gregor
Ett spel som genomgår en metamorfos. Gregors gamla kropp befinner sig nu i Los Angeles, besökarna i Göteborg kan delta och sticka en del av Gregors nya kropp.
Partners
Elvens beach & Eclosion at the Gothenburg City Triennial
Performance, fire dance, parkour, projection mapping and concert with Ida Long at Frihamnen Friday Sept 18, 8 pm.
Live stream and interaction with the piece Eclosion by Marita Isaksson and Geert Madsen connected Epic Unidragon with the Gothenburg City Triennial at Frihamnen.
Älvornas strand Playshop at the Gothenburg City Triennial Thursday Sept 17, 3-6pm at Frihamnen and Masthuggskajen. Painting by Erik Jakobsson..
6pm your local time
6PM YOUR LOCAL TIME (6PM YLT) is a networked, distributed, one night contemporary art event taking place simultaneously in different locations, coordinated from one central venue and documented online via a web application. www.6pmyourlocaltime.com
#6pmeu
Collaborative Connectivity
An exploration into the space between two sides of the canal of Gothenburg, and the global 6PM community, prototyping an invisible bridge. A strobe light on one side, a gumball machine on the other, powered by peoples tweets.
Artists:
Alberto Villaescusa
Fredrik Garneij
Johanna Pihlgren
Lindsay Tingström
Mårten Jonsson
Samantha Hookway
Curator: Idun Isdrake
Catalogue
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Thanks to all artists making the 6PM global exhibition,
reaching 996 000 viewers, awesome!
Electrodome Summer
Flag by Samantha Hookway
Installations by CEP, MJ, Idun
Spine
The spine on one side of my container was an artivist action against spineless power holders who destroy the culture scene in Gothenburg, copy and push away independent and citizen driven initiatives instead of collaborating. The container gallery attracted many social initiatives and young people, but the city and region gave no support.
Music jam
International Freedom Kiters
Kitchen on the run
Break Bootcamp
Sharing experiences about Collaboratory, open innovation, funding issues etc librarians from all over the world cyclingforlibraries.org/
