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Rozengeur en maneschijn (opdracht, 2005)

All Roses

In favour of the performance Rozengeur en maneschijn by theatre company Golden Palace, Ida Lohman created a series of ‘magic lantern monsters’.

The performances took place within the framework of the concert series ‘Lichtjes in je oren, Jeugdconcerten’ (‘Light in your ears, Youth concerts’) in the Amsterdam Concert building during the China festival.

Musiscoop (2004-2005)

Musiscope

An interplay of live animated imagery and specially composed live music. Circles and lines filled up the screen, accompanied by improvisations by viola, trombone and bassflute. Musiscope consisted of four parts, each breathing their own atmospheres: from silent black and white up to noisy and full colour, from melancholic up to amusing. Musiscope was the sum of (pre)cinema, object theatre, contemporary music and visual arts. A new name for Ida Lohman’s magic lantern company was born: Musiscope.

Concept and magic lantern animations; Ida Lohman (1961-2007)
Compositions: Cecilia Arditto (‘Lijnen’ and ‘Zand’), Eline Noorman (‘Moiré’) and Ned McGowan (’Switch’).
Magic lantern manipulation: Cecilia Arditto and Ida Lohman
Viola: Manuel Visser
Trombone: Axel Schappert
Bass flute: Ned McGowan

Musiscope played at e.g.:
Nieuwe Vide (Haarlem), Paradiso (Amsterdam), Centraal Museum (Utrecht), De Balie (Amsterdam), Internationaal Poppentheaterfestival (Dordrecht) and Oerolfestival (Terschelling)

Flamingo (2001)

A magic lantern installation by Ida Lohman with iron wire, cord, (adhesive) plastic and an engine.
The spectator stood right in front of both the magic lantern and its projection.
Part of the installation was the squeaking and crunching sound of the drive.
The installation was demonstrated in ‘Arti et Amicitiae’ as well as during the Polderlicht-festival in Amsterdam and on Curacao.

Lus Màgiko (Curaçao, 2000)

A group of artists created a magic lantern performance in Papiamento. Lus Màgiko was played on elementary schools all over Curacao and Bonaire. Some of these schools enjoyed the privilege of attending an accompanying workshop, whereby students made their own magic lantern pictures.

Artists and performers: Hortence Brouwn, Norma Cova, Emly Francisca, Ida Lohman, Carl van der Meulen, Humphrey Monte, Evelien Sipkes, Yarre Stooker

Diascoop (1997 - 2000)

On the initiative of Francien van Everdingen and Ida Lohman, in 1997 several visual artists polished up the magic lantern and started all over. They created a series of short magic lantern productions, featuring a diversity of techniques and styles.

Creators and players: Francien van Everdingen, Pauline Hoogweg, Jop Horst, Ida Lohman, Anne-Marie van Sprang, Yarre Stooker
Guest artists: Ap Esenbrink, Dan geesing, Anne ten Ham, Helga van Stralen, Eleni Tzatzalos, Kees Wijker

Between 1997 and 2003, over 100 Diascope performances took place at the Boulevardfestival in Den Bosch, during lunch breaks at university, at schools, as part of a ‘high tech’ evening and in the Amsterdam Filmmuseum.