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Watou23 – /kom.po’zi.ci.o:/ – Press release
LASER TALK – Immersive listening with Roel Heremans and Esther Venrooij
Currer Bell Residency #5 – Agathe Schneider
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Alexandra Dementieva and Various Artists in ZombieBox
ZombieBox is a Q&A exhibition by Alexandra Dementieva and Various Artists. Q&A is a series of collaborations initiated by Various Artists with fellow artists who are active in different fields of the art world. Both Alexandra Dementieva and Various Artists are interested in the ‘p-zombie concept’, a hypothetical creature that is completely identical to a person in terms of the physical body, but does not have consciousness. They take this as a starting point to make new work. ZombieBox serves as a metaphor for the current broadcasting culture that is zombifying a huge amount of spectators everywhere and… Read More
Sara Bomans – Double Act
During the month of August Sara Bomans will perform a double act with no less than two solo shows in Ostend, Belgium. As she indicates herself she will perform this double act as a kind of strange comical duo, split in two, a puppeteer in miniature decors. Both shows open Friday 29 July from 6-8pm at Gallery White InteriorsLangestraat 55 – OstendOpen: Thurs-Fri 11am-12pm30 – 2-6pm; Sat 11am – 6pm; Sun-Mon 2-6pm&Gallery BeausiteAlbert I-Promenade 39 – OstendOpen every day 11am-9pm Please note that the end dates haven’t been decided yet.
BOLERO in Kyiv and Kassel
The BOLERO-project, of which BD was the curator in spring 2021, is finding new halting places in Kyiv and Kassel this summer, opening both this Saturday 23 July. Passing the baton from Rouen to Kyiv and Kassel Five Ukrainian artists, selected by curator Alexandra Tyranova, contributed works in which the war in Ukraine is tangible. In Kassel, five German artists, selected by the German artist Jürgen O. Olbrich, participate in Bolero’s ‘nomadic exhibition’, which fits with the concept of Documenta 15, looking for connection between artists and different cultures. Bolero is a… Read More
Alexandra Dementieva in THINGS WE SUSPECTED (from each other)
The expo THINGS WE SUSPECTED (from each other) is a temporary collaboration between GC Nekkersdal and visual artist Yvonne De Grazia. Brussels-based and (inter)-national artists responded to De Grazia’s call to present a recent work or research in the former ‘talking book library and Materne jam factory’ annexed to GC Nekkersdal. The show is aligned with the expanding and dynamic contemporary Brussels art scene. Sustainable projects, co-creation, exchanges and synergies between artists are essential in a diversified Brussels. Alexandra DEMENTIEVA shows a series of her light paintings. Other participating artists are:➝ ASH… Read More
Annemarie Maes in BIOTOPIA
This Saturday 18 June opens BIOTOPIA – a contraction of Biotope and Utopia, that plunges us into the universe of the living beings that populate our planet. The exhibition brings together nearly 30 artists, designers, researchers, women, men and people who question the central position of humans in the world, amongst which Annemarie Maes showing her Transparant Beehive. BIOTOPIA proposes shifting our points of view, immersing ourselves in the heart of non-human societies and opening ourselves up to the diversity of ways of being. Our body is composed of 90% bacteria; we live in… Read More
Alexandra Dementieva in Projection, Projections at UNLOCQ53, Brussels
The 7th exhibition at UNLOCQ53, Projection, Projections shows the work of Alexandra Dementieva (B), Anna Frants (USA), Marin Kasimir (D) and Emilio Lopez-Menchero (E). The word “projection” of Latin origin has many meanings and is used in many areas. No psychology, geometry or cartography without projection, no cinema hall, no discotheque and today no museum without projection. Nor is there any exhibition of contemporary art any more without projection, in all states, in all ways, on all possible image carriers and for all reasons (… ). E.L.M.Probably the most direct projection in this… Read More
A Bee is a Bee is a Bee – Annemarie Maes in Palais de Tokyo and Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles
Annemarie Maes starts June with an immersive performance at the Palais de Tokyo followed by an installation at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/Paris. As part of the performance program during the exhibition Reclaim the Earth, Annemarie Maes transforms the spaces of the Palais de Tokyo into a laboratory, combining an artistic and scientific approach. The starting point for A Bee is a Bee is a Bee is the research of two major scientists on the world of bees: Karl Von Frisch and François Huber. Through a poetic narrative, the artist leads us into an… Read More
Alexandra Dementieva and TUBULAR HEARING Trio
This Sunday 22 May Alexandra Dementieva takes part in the concert of the TUBULAR HEARING Trio. “TUBULAR HEARING TRIO” is a performance in which sound and image produce each other. In the present moment, the mysterious quality of the relationship between the two persists even when the physical basis of their interaction is established in the mind and eyes of the audience. Thus, sound becomes a flicker of light and shadow a change in timbre. The artists / musicians are:Alexandra DEMENTIEVA – Artist creator of electronic video artworks and interactive installations, daughter… Read More
LASER Talks Brussels: The olfactory experience as a new language with Peter de Cupere and Piet Devos
The 7th edition of LASER talks Brussels will take place on Sunday 12 June at 5pm as part of the Festival of the New European Bauhaus. We will be talking about the importance of the olfactory experience with Peter de Cupere and Piet Devos. The olfactory experience is accessible to people of different cultures and with different abilities. It might actually become a new language for dialogue about common human values and needs. In the animal world the olfactory system plays one of the most important roles to help animals to survive…. Read More
LASER Talks Brussels: Tangible sound, postdigital instruments, audio spatialization technologies and extended reality
The sixth LASER Talks Brussels takes place next Saturday 23 April at 7pm at dinA (the contemporary art laboratory/center). The discussion will be focussing on materializing digital matter into sound objects, embodied music interaction, spatialization technologies to enable and investigate synchronization between musical players using movement and sound, the physical aspects of musical human machine interaction, reinterpretation of the physical value of well established cultural techniques creating tangible user interface. With Claire Williams, Enrique Tomás and Bavo Van Kerrebroeck. Claire Williams is working at the borders of science, technology, arts and textiles. She… Read More
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