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ALCHIMIA NOVA – AnneMarie Maes solo at n0dine projectroom Brussels
AnneMarie Maes creates objects with a range of biological, digital and traditional media, including bacteria and other organisms. The Alchimia Nova-works were generated out of the interstice between nature, art and science. They make the invisible visible. She creates with a range of biological, digital and traditional media, including bacteria and other organisms. The choice of materials is a primary aspect of her artworks. The physical and aesthetic features of the materials she works with determine the forms of the individual sculptures, objects or textiles. In my practice, the concept of making… Read More
Currer Bell College
We are very happy to announce that the activities of the Currer Bell College have been resumed in a collaboration between Transtechnology Research, University of Plymouth (whose director is professor Dr. Michael Punt), represented by Dr. Edith Doove, researcher in the science and theory of art, and the Cabinet des Écarts Singuliers, of the ESDAHaR Rouen Le Havre represented by Dr. Jean-Louis Vincendeau, research professor in the theory of art (whose director general is Mr. Thierry Heynen). The objective of this reactivation of the Currer Bell College is to consolidate the common… Read More
Leonardo Reviews – Fictioning
Fictioning’s structure seems at a first glance very neat and straightforwardly organized – three main sections each divided into two subsections with four to five chapters, covering what the authors indicate as the three myth-functions of contemporary art and philosophy: ‘Mythopoesis to performance fictioning’, ‘Myth-science to science fictioning’ and finally ‘Mythotechnesis to machine fictioning’. Within this seemingly clear structure however all hell breaks loose. Read my full review of this great book by David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan here.
Call: Agrilab – the landscape at work
From 25 – 29 June 2019, the association (n) led by Dominique Leroy and Marina Pirot, designers of collaborative projects related to landscapes, will organize the so-called Agrilab meetings. These meetings will take place on an agri-cultural site of 6 hectares on the outskirts of Nantes, with organic vegetable growers, equipped with a nomadic workshop, a greenhouse for workshops, meals and various light structures. Agrilab meetings are seen as times of interaction between art/science/landscape practices to understand and share the ecological richness of the place, its estuarine and peri-urban context. It is about… Read More
AnneMarie Maes in Seoul
As announced earlier (see post) AnneMarie Maes currently takes part in the group exhibition Brussels in SongEun: Imagining Cities Beyond Technology 2.0 at SEAS // SongEun ArtSpace in Seoul. The show opens today and Maes shows the bio-art installation Future Archaeology with which she presents artistic research results from her Laboratory for Form and Matter. In this Cabinet of Curiosities every object is the outcome of a particular experiment, with the focus on the transformative power of bacteria. The images below show the actual installation and lay out. 1. Golden Beehive (modelled after an Eucalyptus seedpod with… Read More
Neil Wood – Et toi là, attrape ton étoile
The commission of Neil Wood for the Paris Metro (RATP), a 50 metre mural installation named ‘Eh Toi Là, Attrape Ton Étoile’ located at the Charles de Gaulle Étoile hub station, now also has its official plaque. The text on the plaque reads, translated: A star under the Place de l’Etoile: the work of British artist Neil Wood proposes a random constellation in the heart of the station on a fresco fifty meters long and three meters high. A tribute to the city of lights and the Champs-Elysées, the work makes use of… Read More
Jimena Kato – An Awkward Understanding of the Bodily Mechanics
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 at YUST- Antwerp
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 – Participative performance by Hantu
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
AnneMarie Maes in Milan and Seoul
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
