Projects
2022
LASER Talks Brussels – Out-of-control-ness and the emergence of possibilities
Currer Bell Residency #4 – Fleur Leclère
Currer Bell Residency #5 – Agathe Schneider
Bureau Doove Editions – Héloïse Marie
Empirical Nonsense Daily
Kerminy – newsletter
News
Bolero 2021 Stories – Neil Wood
Today’s Bolero 2021 story is that of Neil Wood who decided on an alternative view for his contribution and to turn his newspaper in a horizontal direction. FOXGLOVEThis work examines the idea of alternative realities and how separate worlds co-habit. What is the relationship? What happens when alternative realities are joined by design?Unlike alternative facts, alternative realities don’t seek any truth competitions, they just co-habit in the physical world, in the human psyche and in human society at large. Bolero, with its physical newspaper support, invites a chance confrontation between worlds – in this case a… Read More
Alexandra Dementieva in Chaos & Cosmos BXL
‘Chaos & Cosmos BXL’ is a showcase at iMAL that brings together three prototypes of interactive installations from Brussels based artists. George van Dam & Various Artists, Beatrijs Albers & Reggy Timmermans and Alexandra Dementieva – in collaboration with Yacine Sebti – were invited to produce new works for the media art festival CYFEST-13 that takes place in Saint Petersburg, Russia in November 2021. Alexandra Dementieva presents Inland Wonderland, an interactive object that deals with the concepts of chaos and order. Our universe obeys to the logic of four interactions – gravitational, electromagnetic, strong,… Read More
Bolero 2021 Stories – Thomas Maestro
Today’s story is that of Thomas Maestro who starts with a quote by George Perec. “The daily newspapers talk of everything except the daily. The papers annoy me , they teach me nothing. What they recount doesn’t concern me, doesn’t ask me questions and doesn’t answer the questions I ask or would like to ask. What’s really going on, what we’re experiencing, the rest, all the rest, where is it? How should we take account of, question, describe what happens every day and recurs everyday: the banal, the quotidian, the obvious, the… Read More
Alexandra Dementieva in LASER Talks CYLAND Saint-Petersburg
Join Alexandra Dementieva Saturday 10 April for the LASER Talks CYLAND Saint-Petersburg on the theme of Space Exploration. The motto for this talk is Konstantin Tsiolkovky‘s remark “All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.” Apart from Dementieva the other panelists are Oleysya Turkina, Andrey Bartenev and Matthew Lee. The moderator is Natalia Kolodzei. Saturday 10 April Register here to attend the talk. Olesya Turkina is a senior researcher at the Russian Museum and an associate professor at St. Petersburg State University. She has been a full member of… Read More
AnneMarie Maes – Sensorial Skins and Woven by Nature
Sensorial Skins and Woven by Nature is a double exhibition by AnneMarie Maes curated by Camilla Colombo. The works on show focus on membranes and surfaces, on organic materials and on tactility, on processes and transformations, on bacteria and life. Sensorial Skins and Woven by Nature is a journey into working with natural elements and co-creation with living organisms.In April and May 2021, two complementary chapters will be presented, at PILAR gallery – the house for Art and Sciences at the VUB and at iMAL, Art Center for Digital Culture and Technology… Read More
Bolero 2021 Stories – Frank JMA Castelyns
In the upcoming week we post some stories behind the new contributions to the Bolero project. To start with that of Frank JMA Castelyns, one of the initiators of the project: The new work is a continuation of my previous contribution Remember Marc Twain – King Leopold’s soliloquy.The new contribution Remember… is an ode to Morel, Casement, Harris and all the unknown courageous people who denounced the abuses in Congo at the beginning of the last century.The title Why a truth commission if the truth is already known? I also applied in… Read More
BUREAU DOOVE in END – Loving Care and Troupe/troep
For our last publication in Empirical Nonsense Daily of this week, we present two other recent projects. Apart from BOLERO 2021 that’s still on show until 10 April in the Centre André-Malraux and in the streets of Rouen, we organized Loving Care with the large-scale paintings of Pierre Mertens in De Blikfabriek in Antwerp last September-October. And end of January there was the group show Troupe/Troep at ChezKit. Find the page dedicated to these two projects here.
BUREAU DOOVE in END – Nathalie Hunter
In today’s publication in Empirical Nonsense Daily we present Nathalie Hunter. We’ve been working together since Super! Triennial for Visual Art, Fashion & Design in Hasselt (2005). Over the years Hunter has build an impressive oeuvre that touches on several seemingly contrasting fields that however happily intermingle with each other: her (wall) drawings, work on an edible landscape and more recently, her ceramics all connect in an alchemist way. The underlying energy of which, as she says, is always one of transformation, transcendence through daily acts of reconnection. Much based upon the… Read More
BUREAU DOOVE in END – Benoît Géhanne
Today’s publication in Empirical Nonsense Daily is the occasion to welcome Bénoît Géhanne as an affiliated artist. We first worked together for the exhibition Troupe/Troep at ChezKit in Pantin. Find his page in END here. Featured image: Benoît Géhanne, Bias #21, 2019, 502 x 125 x 27 cm
BOLERO 2021 in END
Today we publish all the new contributions to BOLERO 2021 in Empirical Nonsense Daily. Find the page here. You can visit the exhibition virtually via this link. More about the stories behind every contribution next week. From top left: Willo Gonnissen, Thomas Maestro, Pierre Mertens, Neil Wood, Mulugeta Tafesse, Miguel Angel Molina, Marielou Perez, Jean-Louis Vincendeau, Jason Karaïndros, Héloïse Marie, Hantu, Gaspard Lieb, Frank JMA Castelyns, Driftingspace, Dominique De Beir, Chloé Elmaleh/Marcos Uriondo, Béatrice Cussol Featured image: Willo Gonnissen
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