Nemo Observatorium 02002 in CAPTURE#2

23.09.2023 - 14.01.2024

Le Pavillon
Namur (B)

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.

CAPTURE #2 is the second in a series of exhibitions devised by the KIKK to showcase the diversity and creativity of the digital arts in Belgium. The exhibition presents recent projects by artists who all use new technologies to capture the world in their own way.
Curator: Marie du Chastel

Le Pavillon
Lawrence Malstaf

SHRINK 01995 at L.E.V. Matadero

21.09.2023 - 23.09.2023

Matadero
Madrid (ES)

SHRINK 01995 - Two large, transparent plastic sheets and a device that gradually sucks the air out from between them leave the body (in this case the artist himself) vacuum-packed and vertically suspended. The transparent tube inserted between the two surfaces allows the person inside the installation to regulate the flow of air. As a result of the increasing pressure between the plastic sheets, the surface of the packed body gradually freezes into multiple micro-folds. For the duration of the performance the person inside moves slowly and changes positions, which vary from an almost embryonic position to one resembling a crucified body.

At L.E.V. Matadero there will be 6 Shrinks and the bodies of 6 performers.

L.E.V. Festival
Lawrence Malstaf

tele-present water at Scopitone 2023

14.09.2023 - 17.09.2023

Stereolux /Beaux-Arts Nantes Saint Nazaire
Nantes (F)

tele-present water This installation draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected and updated from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy station 51003. This station was originally moored 205 nautical miles Southwest of Honolulu on the Pacific. It went adrift and the last report from its moored position was around 04/25/2011.  It is still transmitting valid observation data but its exact location is unknown. The wave intensity and frequency collected from the buoy is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure, resulting in a simulation of the physical effects caused by the movement of water from this distant unknown location. This work physically replicates a remote experience and makes observation of the activity of an isolated object, otherwise lost at sea, possible through direct communication.

David Bowen
Scopitone

EXTRACTIONS 23

02.09.2023 - 17.09.2023

A Two Dogs Company / Kris Verdonck
Brussels (B)

EXTRACTIONS 23 is an exhibition that brings together different artists who work along the themes of extraction and landscapes. The selection of installations, new and mixed media, photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, performances and music, sketches an image of humankind that seems to have no other choice than to exploit its environment. Extraction does not only mean destruction, or at least not right away. It can also mean cultivation, making land available for growing crops. Nowadays, extraction has degenerated into consumption, a devastating process that is wreaking havoc at micro and macro levels, from our intimate thoughts to the layers of the Earth. EXTRACTIONS 23 is the third edition of this annual exhibition organised by Kris Verdonck / A Two Dogs Company and takes place in the company’s atelier.



EXTRACTIONS 23

2 - 17 September 2023


Saturday & Sunday


14:00 - 18:00


A Two Dogs Company 


Adolphe Lavalléestraat 41


1080 Molenbeek (B)


PHOTOGRAPHS, SCULPTURES, PAINTINGS, INSTALLATIONS & PERFORMANCES

Stephan Balleux

Noemi Iglesias Barrios

Judith Nangala Crispin

Frederic Fourdinier

Hermann Nitsch

Sabrina Ratté

Kris Verdonck

Maxime Denuc

Lucas Messler
Anita Cappuccinelli
Gert Aertsen

EXTRACTIONS 23

With the support of:
The Flemish Community, The Flemish Community Commission, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

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Listen to Eco... del vuoto

30.06.2023

Apple Music Classical
New release

Eco... del vuoto (16') 
2019

Annelies Van Parys honours her former teacher Luc Brewaeys, who died far too young, with a work commissioned by the Concertgebouworkest. Her astounding style makes Van Parys a totally original voice in contemporary music.
The world premiere recording of Eco... del vuoto by Annelies Van Parys is now available on Apple Music Classical in hi-res stereo and Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos (from July 28 in stereo only on other platforms).

Written for & performed by  the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, conductor Kristiina Poska.

The app can be downloaded from the App Store: https://apple.co/3TFdbqD and Android’s Google Play: http://bitly.ws/IrcL

Annelies Van Parys

ECHOES FROM THE FUTURE

29.06.2023 - 27.08.2023

Virtual exhibition
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada)

Disruptive human activity continues to threaten the Earth's ecological balances, eradicating biodiversity, and our planet’s shared resources. This digital exhibition highlights artists working across diverse media to preserve nature, reveal environmental devastation, and speculate on future life forms. Curator Tina Sauerlaender (peer to space) presents artists Aviv Benn (ISR/UK), Laura Colmenares Guerra (COL/BE), Reiner Maria Matysik (DE), Sarah Oh-Mock (DE), Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes (CAN), Sabrina Ratté (CAN), Tamiko Thiel (US/DE) in an immersive online exhibition. Echoes from the Future renders current environmental issues visible in virtual reality, inviting audiences into an immersive alternative future for hybrid lifeforms.

ECHOES FROM THE FUTURE
Laura Colmenares Guerra

What Dogs Hear - Sound installation & performance

16.06.2023 - 18.06.2023

MG+ Moderna Galerija / Museum of Modern Art
Ljubljana

What Dogs Hear consists of a vocal mimesis of imperceptible signals, sound waves and radio waves beyond human hearing range. Aernoudt Jacobs will perform this work with Slovenian vocalists in the form of an installation and several performances in Ljubljana for a wide audience of babies, children and adults. The tangibility of bodily sounds will get a focus during the performances. The performers' vocalizations will be heard through stethoscopes and amplified through a foil speaker that can be manipulated by the audience.

In the framework of B-AIR
Performed by Tisa Neža Herlec, Žiga Jenko, Tea Vidmar, Ina Puntar and Aernoudt Jacobs
Co-produced by KUD Mreža/Nataša Serec, RTVSLO, B-AIR, r25b4
With the support of Flanders State of the Art

Aernoudt Jacobs
B-AIR

Society

08.06.2023 - 01.06.2023

Filmfestivals
Grenoble / Paris / Valencia

When a sixth person tries to join, five must define what makes them a group.

A Raven tells the story of five friends who live together. It would be a peaceful life if a sixth one did not continually try to join them. The five don’t know the sixth, but they don’t really know each other either. And what is acceptable to the five is not acceptable to the sixth. How can they explain this to the sixth? Long explanations would lead them to include him in their group. Then the Five reject him, until a Seventh presents himself to the group...

Alex Verhaest
Festival du Film court en plein air de Grenoble
Festival Côté Court Paris-Pantin
Festival Cinema Jove Valencia

SHRINK 01995

03.06.2023 - 03.06.2023

Nuit Blanche Paris
Palais Galliera - Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris 10, avenue Pierre-1er-de-Serbie , Paris 16e

SHRINK 01995 - Two large, transparent plastic sheets and a device that gradually sucks the air out from between them leave the body (in this case the artist himself) vacuum-packed and vertically suspended. The transparent tube inserted between the two surfaces allows the person inside the installation to regulate the flow of air. As a result of the increasing pressure between the plastic sheets, the surface of the packed body gradually freezes into multiple micro-folds. For the duration of the performance the person inside moves slowly and changes positions, which vary from an almost embryonic position to one resembling a crucified body.

At Nuit Blanche Paris there will be 3 Shrinks and the bodies of 3 performers.

Lawrence Malstaf
Nuit Blanche Paris

Tipping Point

14.05.2023

Bleue - 3ième édition
Théâtre des Bernardines, Marseille (F)

Bleue is a celebration of the sea as a melting pot of biodiversity and part of a whole, our planet, in the era of climate change.

The installation Tipping Point is a sensitive and poetic tribute to those dying glaciers. It stages the (re)birth of an artificial glacier protected by a dome; a drip is feeding the glacier that will grow during the exhibition. The device invites the viewer to attend the birth of this artificial glacier. It is inspired by the “ice stupas” invented by the engineer Sonam Wangchuk and used to fight against water shortages during the summer in Ladakh.

Between a laboratory experiment, an attempt to repair the climate or an ironic collector’s item, the installation confronts us with time and scales; 10.000 years ago, the stabilisation of our cryosphere coincided with the first human traces we found in Mesopotamia, while the fist glaciers are disappearing in 70 years under the pressure of the human activity.

Bleue
Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff