NEMO OBSERVATORIUM 02002 - Styrofoam particles are blown around in a big transparent PVC cylinder by 5 strong fans. Visitors can take place one by one on the armchair in the middle of the whirlpool or observe from the outside. On the chair, in the eye of the storm it is calm and safe. Spectacular at first sight, this installation turns out to mesmerise as a kind of meditation machine. One can follow the seemingly cyclic patterns, focus on the different layers of 3D pixels or listen to its waterfall sound. One could call it a training device, challenging the visitor to stay centred and find peace in a fast changing environment. After a while the space seems to expand and one's sense of time deludes.

LES SAFRA'NUMÉRIQUES 2022

So irresistible are Joseph Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne that Oxalys commissioned Annelies Van Parys to rewrite this great orchestral work for chamber music. The premiere took place on April 5, 2014 in Amuz with the French soprano Claire Lefilliâtre (Le Poème Harmonique). Given the success, Van Parys and Oxalys are continuing this with new arrangements of music from Canteloube’s song cycles. In addition to Claire Lefilliâtre, 13 top musicians are on stage.

CC Ter Dilft - Bornem - TICKETS

WORLD CREATION
25 March 2022 - 20:15
27 March 2022 - 14:15

Conductor Kristiina Poska is making her Concertgebouworkest debut with Beethoven’s Eroica, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto ànd the most recent orchestra piece of Annelies Van Parys, written as a commission of the Concertgebouworkest.

Annelies Van Parys honors her former teacher Luc Brewaeys with her Eco… del vuoto and took the challenge to integrate his unfinished sketch for the Concertgebouworkest in this hommage. Her astounding style makes Van Parys a totally original voice in contemporary music.

Concertgebouworkest, Amsterdam (NL) - TICKETS

VONK is organizing a seminar on scenography and dramaturgy in the visual and transdisciplinary arts. The seminar consists of a series of workshops and lectures and are aimed at professional artists who want to take their artistic practice to the next level. The workshops start with the basics and provide you with a good insight into scenography and dramaturgy. During the lectures we will have a look at different perspectives and good practices. The spoken language in all events is English.

In this lecture Lawrence Malstaf will give an introduction to his work as an installation artist and scenographer. He will focus on works that approach the visitors as co-actors engaging with each other and with spaces and objects transforming over time.

The work of Lawrence Malstaf can be situated on the borderline between the visual and the theatrical. He develops installation and performance art with a strong focus on movement, coincidence, order and chaos and a series of sensorial rooms for individual visitors.

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Until 10 April 2022

CONVERSATIONS 02012 is included in the group exhibition 'YI' at ZHI Art Museum in Chengdu.

A couple of vibrating chairs are slowly moving and turning randomly through the space. They seem to search and reject each other with soft humming sounds. When a visitor passes by or sits down, the chairs hesitate and then carefully try out different patterns. The patterns are not designed; it is a self-organising system where new compositions and new behaviour arises spontaneously through the duration of the installation.

ZHI Art Museum

Just like any other form of transport, the train has altered our perception of distance and space: speed makes distances shorter. Moreover, with the arrival of the Internet, the entire world is just a mouse click away: it comes to us in real time via all sorts of screens. Conversely, we go out into the world with a screen in our hand to record, adjust and share landscapes, monuments, and other landmarks. How does that affect our experience of the here and now? Can we still distinguish the ‘real’ world from the virtual one? 

For SCREENS, you get on a train and find yourself in another world: the windows of the carriage turn into high resolution screens showing images created in a model train landscape. As you travel along the Belgian railway network, you feel like you are rolling through toy versions of other landscapes and cities. From the ‘real’ world to an unreal, virtual world. As if you are travelling inside Google Maps, or in the Caribbean, thanks to a filter on Zoom... 

Kris Verdonck perfects illusion in this new immersive video installation. When you get on a train in Screens, you sit inside a real carriage and at the same time you are elsewhere. You are ‘real’ in an artificial toy world. Both here, and not here: an ultimate form of being in transit?  

EUROPALIA TRAINS & TRACKS: SCREENS