Nonotak, the French duo made up of Noemi Schipfer and Takami Nakamoto, was at the 16th International Image Festival – ISEA2017. Thanks to the Colombia-France Year, the group opened the event with its performance Late Speculation and presented the Zero Point Two installation. We asked them about their career as artists and their presence at the Festival. Who are they? Noemi: We are Nonotak, which comes from our names, Noemi and Takami. We are a duo of artists from Paris. Four years ago we started working together. Takami: Noemi had studied illustration and I had studied architecture, we wanted to show visuals in a space through installations and later we started doing performances. Before I had a group, so I had musical training. At first, we started with small installations dealing with the relationship between space, light and sound. On what is the joint work for the creation […]

During the 16th International Image Festival - ISEA2017, we were able to speak with a representative of Polar Inertia, a multidisciplinary group from the French underground techno scene. Within the framework of the Colombia-France Year, Polar Inertia opened Nuits Sonores Colombia in Manizales with a concert on Friday, June 16. We asked him about the history of this mysterious group and his experience in Colombia. Good morning Polar Inertia, welcome to the International Image Festival – ISEA2017. Good morning. Tell us how the Polar Inertia project was born. It's a long story. It started when I was in Fine Arts, in 2010. I played music with a friend and we were looking for a musical identity and some concepts. At that time, we were both reading a French author named Paul Virilio, who has written several books, including one called “L'inertie polaire” (Polar Inertia). For us it was a fantastic title, […]