If dancing is about walking, and walking is about swinging the body weight, sculpture makes part of these games of balance. Jimena Kato states that these physical notions are the main directional traits of her work: I use matter and its weight as a principal foundation for my pieces. Accept their constitution, their movement, their own dynamics, to work with them instead of trying to controle them. The making of a sculpture becomes also a “laisser faire” game. This Friday 22 March from 7 – 9 pm her solo exhibition opens at… Read More

Nathalie Hunter was invited by the brand new flexible housing project YUST in Antwerp to make some drawings in their communal space around the themes of sharing, living together, sustainability and renewable energy. YUST proposes smaller and larger lofts for longer stays with a large communal space on the ground floor, a restaurant and meeting rooms for talks, music and art exhibitions. Find some details of the large window drawing she just finished below.   You can find YUST at Coveliersstraat 2, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium Contact: antwerp@yust.be   #yust.housing/

Errances (Wanderings) is a participative performance proposed by Pascale Weber and Jean Delsaux of Hantu, in collaboration with Simona Polvani. A bride, a soldier, a corpse in the Labrador Forest… unless it is one and the same body, surrounded by a constellation of avatars that manifest themselves as just as many inner voices and that evolve in satellites around it. Errances describes a war and an enemy impossible to name. Errances talks about the harsh law of humans and the loss of those who try to escape it. Errances was first an… Read More

This week AnneMarie Maes takes part in the Milano Digital Week with a presentation of a version of her Guerilla Beehive. In the exhibition that is curated by the Joint Research Center of the EU, Maes was chosen as a representative of the project Resonance II that took place in 2017. Her installation can be seen at the Palazzo dei Giureconsulti at the Piazza dei Mercanti in Milan until 17 March. Find more information (in Italian) here. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Glossa + Stimuli (2016, lightboxes 1060mm x 720mm each) – Scanning Electron Micrographs, tongue of… Read More

1928. Henri Ford embarks on intensive rubber mining. To clear a million hectares of forest, in the Amazon, on the banks of Rio Tapajós, to plant rubber trees, and to build a factory city, a utopian city, with school, hospital, dancing… The project was a real failure, Ford never exploited rubber. 2018. Florence Jou discovers the history of Fordlandia during an exhibition and round tables organized by the collective Suspended Spaces at the Colonie in Paris. She writes a poetic survey based on testimonies, anecdotes, observed gestures, readings… She proposes Dominique Leroy… Read More

Anna Walker was selected to be included in Mixtape #IWD, a two day multi-channel sound installation of experimental electronic music and sound art. This “cinema for the ear” is hosted by the Department of Creative Arts, Media & Music at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) to celebrate International Women’s Day 2019. This event brings together a wide array of music and sound art which celebrates womanhood. The event, curated by composer Dr Hilary Mullaney, Lecturer in Music at DkIT, is a response to the wider issue of representation; imbalances exist in genres… Read More

An exhibition as a riddle, that is the least one can say about Ik Zie Ik Zie Ik Zie Watjijnietziet – I See I See I See Whatyoudon’tsee – the left-out spacing of the last part of the title intended. As curator Lieve Segers describes it the exhibition is …a game in which one has to guess an object that one of the players has in mind and that is visibly present for all players. The only characteristic the player gives is its colour. …the exhibition not only lets the viewer search… Read More

On Saturday 23 February Sara Bomans will take part in the first ‘Stadsavond’ (City Evening) organised by Studiostad in the former town hall of Hasselt, Belgium. For this evening Wim Verluyten invited his favourite artists and other creatives. For the opening of the evening Sara Bomans meets up with fellow artists Bart Deglin and Pieter Timmers. Having recently started to experiment with using colour in a new series of paintings she will be showing ‘There is a rainbow underneath…’. As usual she she uses her particular humourous manner of observing. The evening… Read More

This Thursday you can enjoy a new sonic installation by Mike Blow and Peter Batchelor at The Royal Festival Hall in London. Inspired by Peter Eötvös’s composition Multiversum that premieres that evening in the UK, the installation is part of the Music of Today series. Blow and Batchelor are as composers based at the Music Technology Institute at  De Montfort University, Leicester, which is a Music of Today series supporter. Find an impressive video of the work in progress, which will thus sound even better during its final installation, below. Tickets are free and… Read More

It’s been a while, but I am happy to have another review published in Leonardo Reviews. In Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson French philosopher David Lapoujade sets out to construct a portrait of an ‘another’ Bergson, one not solely defined by the three main aspects of his thinking on affect – emotion, sympathy, and attachment. You can find the full review here. Some of my reviews are sometimes re-published in Leonardo. My review of Arts of Living on Damaged Planet was this month published in Volume 52, Issue 1 which you can find here. And finally… Read More