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Leonardo Reviews – Animal Musicalities
Living in times where the sound of birds is rapidly diminishing, we may see Rachel Mundy’s study on bird song, Animal Musicalities – Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening, to be more than timely. Far from being a simple field guide for recognising predominantly birds (the beasts from the title are hardly mentioned), this is in the first place an extremely rich publication on the evolution of the study of birdsong. What makes it so rich, and at times somewhat confusing, is that Mundy connects this study with various matters of difference and race. The… Read More
Arboretum Recovery – Hantu in Rio de Janeiro
Is there solidarity between plants and humans, or are we just predators? Today, referring to climate change, in many cases, the dangers seem real and diffuse, paralyzing and abstract. However, we inflict abuse on those in our society who are more fragile, in a manner comparable to the abuse we cause to trees and other plants. In some humans, this sad experience fuels the desire to communicate with plants in their environment. The performance Arboretum Recovery by Hantu (Weber+Delsaux) uses sprouted seeds to extend a part of their body. The artists evolve outward… Read More
Conversations
Currer Bell College proposes Conversations, a series of propositions by Jean-Louis Vincendeau and Edith Doove in which we bring the work of two different artists, writers or other in conversation with each other. The work does not function as an illustration of the other, but through its often poetic confrontation seeks to discover new forms of knowledge. Find Conversation#1 Bruno Dietsch – Guillaume Ertaud here. Image Guillaume Ertaud
Alexandra Dementieva in Venice and Brussels
Alexandra Dementieva‘s work can be seen in two exhibitions in the upcoming days. The touring exhibition CYFEST-12 will visit Venice on the occassion of the Venice Biennial. The ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION is dedicated to the ID as a phenomenon with a wide scatter of meanings – from the term in psychoanalysis (id) to the document that certifies one’s identity (ID). The show is situated around what ID represents in the world of people and things, what new meanings come to life when they interact and what this leads to. Alexandra Dementieva contributes with the… Read More
Kristof Vrancken – three exhibitions in Belgium
The work of Kristof Vrancken can currently be seen in two exhibitions. The Waiting Room is this year’s title of the group exhibition of Vonk Ateliers at C-mine, Genk that was curated by Koen Leemans. Vrancken is showing the work that he made last summer with Atelier Luma in Arles in collaboration with ENSP (Ecole Superieure de Photographie Arles) and which was earlier shown in Korea. In collaboration with the Algae Lab of Atelier Luma Vrancken developed a way to use the colour pigments of local algae to make photographic prints, and to… Read More
Perce la terre – Hantu
Pierce the earth (Original French text below) Performance performed by Hantu (Weber + Delsaux) during the study day Voice and Silence in the Arts University of Lorraine, Nancy 03 May 2019 16h15 The performance will be preceded by the workshop “Voice, Breath, Atmospheric Body” from 9 am to 12 pm with restitution at 3:45pm Small weather report of the body: spring performance. Hantu (weber + delsaux) likes to think that in changing seasons and in ancient sacred dances and songs, our bodies, sensitive to listening to invisible forces, exchange with plants,… Read More
AnneMarie Maes – Elbe Bees project in Hamburg
Today the unique Elbe Bees project by AnneMarie Maes was officially opened in Hamburg. After a ‘walk-in procession’ by a bee swarm this will live for 14 months in the beehive installed up the pillars in the port of Hamburg, close to a wild nature domain at Entenwerder 1. A digitally fabricated living sculpture is standing on top of 6m high pillars in the port of Hamburg. A similar sculpture is positioned on a rooftop in Brussels. Both sculptures host honeybee colonies and will be in communication with each other. The hives… Read More
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.
