LASER Talks Brussels: With Adrien Lucca, Dr Sébastien R. Mouchet, Heleen Sintobin For our next Laser Talk on Thursday 11 April 5 pm CET we discuss the topic of “Light, Color, and Matter”, an exploration into the dynamic relationship between perception and materiality. It encompasses a broad spectrum of topics, including the study of vision in various organisms, from humans to animals and insects, the fundamental properties of electromagnetic radiation, the behaviour of light waves, and the interaction of light with matter. Exploring texture, transparency, reflectivity, and other material qualities enriches our… Read More
Exhibition of the 2nd year master students for the professional days and open door days at ESADHaR Rouen. Expo des 5me conçu pour les journées professionnelles et portes ouvertes au ESADHaR Rouen. Literally a reference to the way cats walk, and normally used in the world of fashion, the word catwalk primarily explains the typical way in which models walk. But the catwalk is also a platform on which new creations are presented. Here, it zigzags through space, like a cat. It rises to attract attention, but also to create a specific… Read More
2023 wasn’t too bad for Bureau Doove. We curated the Watou Arts Festival and co-organized Laser Talks at NICC Brussels, KIKK Festival and the Royal Academy of Antwerp. And we published an article on Dominique De Beir in Point Contemporain. A big thank you to all the artists and others that we collaborated with. We are excited to be currently working on new projects, amongst which the exhibition and publication RE-SEARCH on the Belgian Research Group and their influence on art education in collaboration with The Stadsmus and PXL-MAD School of Arts… Read More
Very happy that my article on the exhibition series by the French artist Dominique De Beir, Accroc et Caractère, regarder et découvrir à l’intérieur, has been published in the online magazine Point contemporain. For more than 30 years, Dominique De Beir has been digging, making holes, hollowed-out dots, in relief, in all kinds of materials: archive paper, recycled paper, packaging cardboard and, more recently, insulating polystyrene. This radical gesture manifests “the affirmation of a lack, a caesura, a bodily presence that seeks to flush out the thickness of the material and refuses… Read More
For our 12th Laser Talk on Thursday 9 November we are happy to collaborate with MAXlab at the Royal Academy of Antwerp. The concept of Restoring the Human Element – The Power of Transdisciplinary Collaboration between Arts, Science and Technology was proposed by Kristof Timmermans who organizes the MAXlab together with Professor Ronny Blust. The current state of our society is a product of the technological developments that originated in the second half of the past century. These accelerating technological innovations have shaped our way of life profoundly. From the advent of… Read More
Marc Hamandjian‘s expo D’ESPACE still runs until 30 December at Maison des Arts Solange-Baudoux. … what Marc Hamandjian is proposing is a device for dreaming, for LEAVING THE EARTH (as one of his works is entitled), for looking back at oneself and for meeting others. His machines would gladly welcome travellers, caravan drivers in space, explorers – people who, as they’ve grown up, haven’t lost their ability to marvel at what they don’t know and to lose themselves in distant daydreams.If Marc Hamandjian were making science fiction, he would be building a… Read More
For our 11th Laser Talk we’re extremely happy to have been invited by Kikk Festival Namur to host a talk with artists Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand as well as scientist Yoann Olivier. Find the video registration here. The central point of discussion is formed around the notion of liquid crystals which have been used by Domnitch and Gelfand in their installation and performance Lemniscate Cascade (2022). Life on Earth originated in an intricate dialogue between light and soft matter (liquids, colloids, polymers, foams, gels, liquid crystals, flesh and numerous other biological… Read More
CYFEST 15 International Media Art Festival on the theme of Vulnerability opened Tuesday 5 September. Alexandra Dementieva developed a new installation for the festival that runs for the second time in Yerevan, Armenia and is also one of the festival curators. The 15th edition of the nomadic CYFEST festival focuses on imagining new perspectives regarding the ostensible (anti)fragility of the human and non-human body, bio and cyber environments, histories and futures, encounters and relationships with the world in transition. For this edition Dementieva developed Chronoscape, a multimedia interactive installation with engineers Alexey Grachev,… Read More
Summer is almost over and so is the arts festival Watou23 of which we were very proudly this year’s curator visual arts and which runs until this Sunday 3 september. The next appointment will be the first LASER Talk of the season – sunEARTH on Tuesday 19 September at NICC Brussels with amongst others Pepa Ivanova and Nicky Assmann. Please also find some images of the work of Emma Genty’s Currer Bell residency this summer at Saint-Nazaire. Looking forward meeting you somewhere this coming season! Image Iwert Bernakiewicz for Watou23