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On Saturday, 26 April 2025, we invite you to Out of Sight for Visite #12 — SALACIOUS SHAME AND SURRENDERING SLUTS a day filled with films, performances, and talks.

Visite #12 is realised as part of CINEMA SESSIONS 2025, an annual collaboration between Out of Sight and Morpho. Cinema Sessions is a recurring programme of short film and video work, presented four times a year across the spaces of both organisations. Each session is curated by an invited guest, responding to the artistic interests of current Morpho residents and Out of Sight’s evolving programme.

Visite #12 — SALACIOUS SHAME AND SURRENDERING SLUTS is curated by Eva van Tongeren (de Imagerie), in collaboration with Out of Sight and Emily Walter & Max Ferguson (LuCi moving image collective).

13:30-14:30 | Chapter 1. CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER
Five student short films inviting the female body to express itself in all its vulgarity, softness, and familiarity.

Che Go Eun, THE TASTE OF TEA
Amber Dooms, MY LITTLE AMBI
Albina Gaitova, SOMEWHERE WE MEET IN THE BLUE LIGHT
Ella Schöning, A TOUCH OF SCHISM
Max Ferguson, YOU ARE THE TRUCK AND I AM THE DEER

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER is curated by: Emily Walter & Max Ferguson (LuCi moving image collective), in dialogue with Camille Van Meenen (Komplot)

15:00-16:20 | Chapter 2. WOMB WARRIORS
Celebrating and mourning the womb as a bearer of tears and fears. The womb as a site of receptivity, reflexivity, revolution, and resolution. Three short films sharing the pain and trauma of the female body within a patriarchal medical system, followed by a live Grunt performance by Diane Mahin.

Marie Bottois, LE PASSAGE DU COL
Carole Roussopoulos, Y’A QU’À PAS BAISER!
Tabita Rezaire, SUGAR WALLS TEADOM
Diane Mahín, GRUNT (performance)

17:00-18:30 | Chapter 3. UNIONISING
Revolución Puta is a political manifesto in the first person. Exploring the world of sex work from the perspective of the women portrayed, the film opens a debate on its taboos and precariousness. After the screening of the film there is a conversation with Utsopi and Boysproject. Utsopi is a Belgian community organization that defends the rights of sex workers, and Boysproject is an Antwerp-based social organisation for men, non-binary individuals and trans women who earn money from sex.

Maria Galindo & Mujeres Creando, REVOLUCIÓN PUTA

19:00-22:00 | Chapter 4. UTOPIA
Let’s view the erotic as a teacher, be cautious of censorship, and grow collectively towards a destiny filled with love, surrender, and ecstasy. Let’s unleash the body, its wisdom, its power, its fury, and its fluids. In resistance, we dance; for resilience, we dance!

With Bloody Mary performance by Isabel Burr Raty and pole dance performances by Jezebel Studio.

Isabel Burr Raty, THE BLOODY MARY PERFORMANCE (participatory lecture)
Thilde, Spring Showers & Zora The Hooker, JEZEBEL STUDIO POLE PERFORMANCE


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Op zaterdag 26 april 2025 nodigen we je uit in Out of Sight voor Visite #12 — SALACIOUS SHAME AND SURRENDERING SLUTS, een dag vol films, performances en lezingen.

Visite #12 wordt georganiseerd in het kader van CINEMA SESSIONS 2025, een jaarlijkse samenwerking tussen Out of Sight en Morpho. Cinema Sessions is een terugkerend programma met korte films en videowerken, dat vier keer per jaar plaatsvindt in de ruimtes van beide organisaties. Elke sessie wordt gecureerd door een gastcurator, die vertrekt vanuit de artistieke interesses van de huidige residenten van Morpho en het steeds evoluerende programma van Out of Sight.

Visite #12 — SALACIOUS SHAME AND SURRENDERING SLUTS wordt gecureerd door Eva van Tongeren (de Imagerie), in samenwerking met Out of Sight en Emily Walter & Max Ferguson (LuCi moving image collective).

13:30-14:30 | Hoofdstuk 1. CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER
Vijf korte studentenfilms die het vrouwelijk lichaam uitnodigen om zich te uiten in al zijn vulgariteit, zachtheid en vertrouwdheid.

Che Go Eun, THE TASTE OF TEA
Amber Dooms, MY LITTLE AMBI
Albina Gaitova, SOMEWHERE WE MEET IN THE BLUE LIGHT
Ella Schöning, A TOUCH OF SCHISM
Max Ferguson, YOU ARE THE TRUCK AND I AM THE DEER

Gecureerd door: Emily Walter & Max Ferguson (LuCi moving image collective), in dialoog met Camille Van Meenen (Komplot).

15:00-16:20 | Chapter 2. WOMB WARRIORS
Een viering en een rouwproces rond de baarmoeder als drager van tranen en angst. De baarmoeder als plaats van ontvankelijkheid, reflexiviteit, revolutie en resolutie. Drie korte films en live Grunt performance door Diane Mahín.

Marie Bottois, LE PASSAGE DU COL
Carole Roussopoulos, Y’A QU’À PAS BAISER!
Tabita Rezaire, SUGAR WALLS TEADOM
Diane Mahín, GRUNT (performance)

17:00-18:30 | Chapter 3. UNIONISING
Revolución Puta van Maria Galindo & Mujeres Creando is een politiek manifest in de eerste persoon. De film verkent de wereld van sekswerk vanuit het perspectief van de geportretteerde vrouwen en opent een debat over de taboes rond en het precaire karakter van hun werk. Na de film is er een gemodereerd gesprek met Utsopi en Boysproject over de onlangs goedgekeurde arbeidswet voor sekswerkers in België.

Utsopi is een Belgische gemeenschapsorganisatie die opkomt voor de rechten van sekswerkers.
Boysproject is een Antwerpse sociale organisatie voor mannen, non-binaire personen en transvrouwen die geld verdienen met seks.

Maria Galindo & Mujeres Creando, REVOLUCIÓN PUTA

19:00-22:00 | Chapter 4. UTOPIA
Laten we het erotische zien als een leraar, voorzichtig zijn met censuur en collectief groeien naar een bestemming vol liefde, overgave en extase! Met Bloody Mary performance door Isabel Burr Raty en paaldans performances door Jezebel Studio.

Isabel Burr Raty, THE BLOODY MARY PERFORMANCE (participatory lecture)
Thilde, Spring Showers & Zora The Hooker, JEZEBEL STUDIO POLE PERFORMANCE


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ON MOBILISATION EXHIBITION https://out-of-sight.be/on-mobilisation-exhibition/ https://out-of-sight.be/on-mobilisation-exhibition/#respond Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:46:08 +0000 https://out-of-sight.be/?p=2034 Out of Sight, in collaboration with wpZimmer, opens the final ON MOBILISATION exhibition on Friday, February 28 from 19:00. It is centered around artists work that amplifies the voices, languages, and sounds of bottom-up citizens’ mobilisation, while offering a space for reflection,

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Out of Sight, in collaboration with wpZimmer, opens the final ON MOBILISATION exhibition on Friday, February 28 from 19:00. It is centered around artists work that amplifies the voices, languages, and sounds of bottom-up citizens’ mobilisation, while offering a space for reflection, discussion, and exchange.

Join us for the opening to mark this important occasion. Please save the date in your calendars, and we look forward to welcoming you in Antwerp! 

We respond to the need for transnational creation and circulation of knowledge and capacity building. In our practices we do not use our nation states to define us. But rather we work transnationally, queering and diminishing the importance of national borders by placing the similarities and differences elsewhere than in national identity. One world, same struggle.

The artists that take part in the exhibition are: Kalle Brolin, Siniša Ilić, Psychedelic Choir, The Agency of Singular Investigations, Danae Theodoridou,  Davide Tidoni, Zorka Wollny.

The ON MOBILISATION timeline is presented as an archive of video-interviews with: Danae Theodoridou, Ahilan Ratnamohan, Marika Smreková, Kalle Brolin, Elisabetta Consonni and Daniele Ninarello, reflecting on their artistic processes, and the Mobilising Words card game is available for the visitors to play.

:: PROGRAMME OF THE OPENING ::
Friday, 28.02.2025
Out of Sight, Somersstraat 31, 2018 Antwerp

19:00 – Doors open

19:30 – Welcome speech

21:00 – 21:30 SABOTAGE MANUAL by Psychedelic Choir 
Concert dedicated to the current state of the world affairs, composed for Out of Sight opening

:: ARTWORKS ON VIEW ::

THE BOTANICAL-POLITICAL DICTIONARY is part of an ongoing project by the Agency of Singular Investigations, researching the notion of expanded documentality. It introduces a secret language of flowers devised for coded communication on political subjects. What are the connections between orange blossoms and civil disobedience? Does exposure to mint oil make one more liberal-minded? Can a fragrant orchid persuade soldiers to lay down their weapons? The dictionary presents a collection of more than thirty flowers, each linked to a political concept of significance in the 20th century and potentially beyond. All entries, written by the artists, include historical notes describing instances of past political uses and effects associated with each flower.

Kalle Brolin, together with Baltic Art Center in Visby, worked for two years on the image of the peace movement in Gotland. The work began with visits and talks with people from Gotland who could be included in a broad definition of what constitutes a peace movement. Then a series of Peace Talks was arranged, bringing together all the people Kalle had previously come into contact with. Together, they discussed the image of the peace movement, while getting to know each other. The movement began observing itself. Finally, Kalle compiled a film which discusses the thematic questions developed over the course of his time on Gotland: How do we make a concrete image of an abstract concept such as peace? Which individuals and groups could be included in a broad definition of a peace movement? If form were to follow content, should a film be made with a dramaturgy not based on conflict? The name of the film is PEACE ON GOTLAND. It is in large parts built on collected image material from various sources. 

ORIENTATION IN 100 REVOLUTIONS by Siniša Ilić is a picture on a textile, one hundred square meters large, a tool to imagine the totality of the world and to comprehend its revolutionary potential. How to think totality, how to materialise it as a spatial fact in an art space? As a hypothesis, an oversized picture is placed in the art or public space, covering the floor or walls, street, facade, demanding interactions with the people who share the space with it. Picture on textile ORIENTATION IN 100 REVOLUTIONS can also be seen as the performative structure, developed with theatre maker Bojan Djordjev in which it functions as a performative object with its potential of covering other objects in the space and trigger live action. Such action can be further followed by the fragments from the novel The Poem (1952) by Oskar Davičo, Yugoslav author and communist, in which the author lists various groups, identities and entities whose critical thought and action are needed to rebel. This text will be available in the space.

Following a performance score, LANGUAGES OF THE UNHEARD by Danae Theodoridou construct an online visual and auditory manifesto based on the language of signs and slogans coming from important protests in different European countries from the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC) or ‘Common Market’ in 1957 to 2020. Playing with the performativity of zoom’s feature to ‘rename’ ourselves, we changed constantly our names using the language of those signs, producing a written dialogue in the language of protest. During this dialogue, parts of our words were audio processed and fed back into the dialogue in different ways, creating a soundscape of languages of the unheard. This ‘silent’ conversation aims to reveal the materiality of the language of protest in order to create an embodied experience of its social force. What stays from our common fights in public space when we don’t have the proximity of our bodies? How can we turn immaterial language into a material ‘action’ in the way Arendt defined the term as the human ability to initiate something in public space that addresses the many without being able to control its outcome in advance? 

THE BEST OF NoTAV by Davide Tidoni is a songbook that includes lyrics, contextual notes and reinterpretations of fifteen songs from the No-TAV struggle. Conceived as an historical documentation of the struggle, narrated through its own songs, the work also functions on a performative level. The ironic and seductive character of the musical rearrangements easily infiltrates the listeners’ attention, inviting them to sing aloud on their own. The publication of the songbook is accompanied by the music video THE GOLDEN YEARS OF SAN DIDERO. The video includes footage shot by the political police on December 8, 2011, during a demonstration against the newly installed TAV construction site. The footage was filed in the records of the trial for those events.

The participatory project EVICTION SONGS by Zorka Wollny consists of songs composed and recorded by musicians Arurmukha, Nadja, Schwund, The Inserts, Geigerzaehler, Rosa Mercedes, Persé & C. C. Estrés, who are actively involved in fighting the dramatic change of the Berlin landscape.The songs are based on personal experiences, newspaper texts, critical essays, opinions and slogans of activist groups; such as wagen communities, squatters, left-wing cultural animators. The songs created the sound installation that was presented for the first time at Skulpturenpark Berlin-Zentrum in 2021. 

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ON MOBILISATION Symposium https://out-of-sight.be/on-mobilisation-symposium/ https://out-of-sight.be/on-mobilisation-symposium/#respond Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:04:27 +0000 https://out-of-sight.be/?p=2010 During the ON MOBILISATION project (2023-2025) a collective journey, exploring the potential of transnational cooperation as a way to actively participate in an international solidarity and emancipatory movement, began. wpZimmer, in collaboration with Out of Sight, is hosting the final ON MOBILISATION Symposium on Thursday,

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During the ON MOBILISATION project (2023-2025) a collective journey, exploring the potential of transnational cooperation as a way to actively participate in an international solidarity and emancipatory movement, began.

wpZimmer, in collaboration with Out of Sight, is hosting the final ON MOBILISATION Symposium on Thursday, February 27,  bringing together artists, thinkers, and collaborators to explore the themes and outcomes of the project, offering a space for reflection, discussion, and exchange in the form of workshops, performances, sharing meals and stories, working together towards better future for all of us.

Within the ON MOBILISATION cooperation project (2023-2025) processes of micro-community mobilisation, led by six artists: Danae TheodoridouAhilan RatnamohanMarika SmrekováKalle BrolinElisabetta Consonni and Daniele Ninarello, facilitated by the partner organisations: wpZimmer (Antwerp), Baltic Art Center (Gotland), Studio ALTA (Prague) and Lavanderia a Vapore (Turin), together with two associated partners, ARIA (Antwerp) and GRASS (Gotland) began.

Geopolitical rapid changes have been asking from us to become more sensitive to mobilisation of micro-communities, while keep bringing up questions such as why, how and with whom these processes are happening today. The ON MOBILISATION project is interested in connecting to micro-communities that are emerging in order to reject, refuse and rise against violence and oppression. Micro-communities that grow into transnational alliances. Because we know that nobody is free, until everybody is free!

Symposium is FREE. Participatory performances, workshops, shared meals need to be RSVP through the online FORM, due to the limited number of places and to avoid food waste.

:: SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME ::

9:00-11:00
RISING UP with de Kompaan 
Welcome to the neighbourhood bakery where we make bread together!

De Kompaan’s Neighbourhood Bakery is for this day moving to wpZimmer. Together we will prepare a new batch of dough (measuring, mixing, rising, shaping, resting) that will be baked on Friday and shared with the community. The Neighbourhood Bakery is full of surprises and is open to everyone. You go home with new experience, knowledge and a (piece of) bread. The most important thing is the pleasure of sharing knowledge and connection in society. That is what de Kompaan stands for!

* Vegetarian & vegan breakfast provided / RSVP to be able to provide food for everyone.

11:00-12:00 
PARENT-FRIENDLY CULTURE with Marika Smreková and Petr Dlouhý
Workshop and storytelling about Inclusive Mobilisation

PARENT-FRIENDLY CULTURE is a self-transformative process of Studio ALTA (Prague) toward a more inclusive environment of cultural institutions for parents or guardians and children. Within the workshop, Marika and Petr navigate the participants through the landscapes of their research, sharing their perspectives on the need to consider accessibility tools for parents and guardians, practical hints on how to break the barrier that prevents many from being part of cultural life and address the benefits of holding spaces for all the adults and kids. 

* The session is aimed for people working in culture, accessibility managers, parents and guardians who lost their touch with cultural life as well as people who are keen to explore the possibilities of multigenerational spaces. 
** Kids of all ages are warmly invited to be part of the session.

12:30-13:30 
LUNCH BOX IN A PAPERBACK with Kalle Brolin
 and Ana Kutleša
Storytelling about artistic and political practices 

During the ON MOBILISATION project, artist Kalle Brolin, together with the Baltic Art Center in Visby, has worked for two years on the image of the peace movement in Gotland. The work began with visits and conversations with people from Gotland who could be included in a broad definition of what constitutes a peace movement. 

Ana Kutleša is a curator and researcher and occasionally works as an independent writer in the field of art, culture, and short fiction. Since 2009, she has been part of the curatorial collective BLOK in Zagreb, dedicated to socially engaged art practices. In 2019, she co-initiated BLOK’s long-term project “Trešnjevka Neighbourhood Museum”.

Together, Kalle and Ana will share their stories about the writing of their choice, intertwining fictional and non-fictional readings of the text, followed by the conversation with the audience.

* Vegan lunch included. RSVP to be able to provide food for everyone.

14:00-15:45 

HOW TO BECOME A PLATYPUS by Elisabetta Consonni
Participatory performance

“When this animal was discovered in the late 18th century, a skin was sent to Britain for examination by the scientific community. At first, scientists were convinced that the at first sight bizarre set of physical features must have been a fake, produced by some embalming process. Instead, it was the platypus.”  (Wikipedia)

HOW TO BECOME A PLATYPUS is a constellation of playful practices and exercises. The audience enters the environment with several stations, following a dramaturgical score – a set of directions that differs for each participant and is divided into sequences. Each person joins different constellations of people while engaging in a plausible negotiation of meanings. The stations invite a derailment from logic; they are, rather, pleasant impossible missions that intercept personal aspects of knowledge while avoiding functionality. In the vertigo of not knowing, possibilities open up and worlds are created: even the platypus becomes possible.

* Limited number of participants, please RSVP

14:00-15:45 
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SILENT PROTEST — CALL FOR ACTION with Daniele Ninarello !CANCELED!
Workshop leading towards public performance during dinner

You are invited to participate in a free workshop led by choreographer and dancer Daniele Ninarello. During the ON MOBILISATION project, Daniele, in collaboration with Lavanderia a Vapore, has been working with different groups of citizens, primarily young adults, collectively investigating the memories and traces left on the body by the culture of control, bullying, toxic masculinity, violence, and offence. SILENT PROTEST explores the correlation between spoken/written word and the “protest body”. At the end of the workshop, the group will be guided in creating a collective protest in the form of a flash mob, which will be performed in the evening for the audience.

* A volunteer fee is provided for the participants.
** No previous experience is required. The workshop will take place in a safe environment facilitated by the artist. You should have a desire to get to know other groups of citizens, to share the desire to mobilise, and feel comfortable to perform in front of the audience. 
*** Limited number of participants, please RSVP

16:00-16:45 
MOBILISING WORDS 

On Mobilisation publication launch

MOBILISING WORDS is the publication developed as part of the ON MOBILISATION project (2023-2025). Mobilising Words is a card game that uses the “On Mobilisation Vocabulary”, a collection of words gathered as testimonies from the process of researching, facilitating, mobilising and learning from local communities in Antwerp, Gotland, Prague and Turin. Is it possible to play with the shared experience of how words and their meanings can change through a collective process? Mobilising Words is an attempt to open up the Vocabulary’s potential by contemplating definitions and arriving at unexpected interpretations. Join us for the afternoon game!

17:00-18:45 
THE PRACTICE OF DEMOCRACY — THE ADVERSARIES by Danae Theodoridou

Participatory performance

THE ADVERSARIES is a participatory performance installation. Two small groups are brought into conflict with each other in a playful manner. A third group, the witnesses, follows the discussion and shares its perspective on the conflict. This allows the participants to think about conflict as a vital part of democracy. Following different instructions, participants explore and negotiate on an existing conflict in ways that play up the possibilities and limitations of this practice. Together they try to create a new, third space based on a synthesis of the different points of view.

* Limited number of participants, please RSVP

17:00-18:45 
THE INSTITUTE FOR ANARCHIC AND ARTISTIC LANGUAGE LEARNING by Ahilan Ratnamohan 

Lecture-performance

Ahilan Ratnamohan is an artist, but also an obsessive language learner, busy with a number of languages on a daily basis. In his work he researches language learning as a form of performance. During the ON MOBILISATION project, THE INSTITUTE FOR ANARCHIC AND ARTISTIC LANGUAGE LEARNING was created to make alternative and under-valued language-learning techniques and tactics more accessible. At the same time, The Institute raises questions in regards to language-learning pedagogy and what gets validated as such.

Are you a language student, language teacher or a language enthusiast, interpreter, translator and intercultural mediator, or are simply curious about language philosophy and pedagogy? Then we welcome you to The Institute!

* Limited number of participants, please RSVP

19:30-21:00 
DINNER AND STORYTELLING

SILENT PROTEST with Daniele Ninarello, performed by the participants of the afternoon workshop

> ISLAND STORIES ON PEACE AND WAR with Anamarija Batista (MOZARTEUM)

The sound of waves blends with the scent of pine trees, and the echoes of military boots merge with the voices of tourists from hotel terraces.

The art-based research project Collective Utopias of Post-War Modernism: The Adriatic Coast as a Leisure and Defence Paradise led by Anamarija Batista and Antonia Dika examines the phenomena of military and tourist urbanisation, as well as their impact on the Adriatic coast and the local population’s way of life.

> DEMANDING JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY with Milutin Milošević (Faculty of dramatic Arts, Film director master studies, Belgrade), one of the students of the ongoing student protests in Serbia

We are hundreds of thousands of young people from Serbia, united by grief and a desire for justice.

Serbian students represent the voice of a society demanding change after an unprecedented tragedy. On November 1st, 2024, fifteen lives were lost when a canopy collapsed at a newly renovated train station in Novi Sad, a consequence of negligence and systemic corruption. No one has yet been held accountable for these deaths. After a violent attack on students and professors at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade during a commemoration for the victims, we decided to speak up. A wave of uprisings spread across Serbia, with over 60 faculties in full blockade. Our goals have been clear from day one – justice for the victims, sanctioning those responsible for the violence, and a society where human rights are guaranteed. 

We’ve witnessed the power of unconditional love from countless people, reminding us that unity is key to progress. At the same time, the outrage we feel resonates across Serbia, proving that this is not a moment, but a movement. What you see in us is a generation refusing to yield to a broken system. Together, we are building a future where accountability is the rule, not the exception. We are the voices of change.

* Limited number of seats, please RSVP

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To make this day enjoyable, we provide: 

Free babysitting for kids from 2 to 6 years old from 11:00-19:00 / RSVP

> Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Bar opens at 16:00. It’s based on a pay-what-you-can principle (please bring cash). Coffee, tea, and water are free and available all day / RSVP

> There is a quiet prayer room with a praying mat, available for prayer all day.

> We’ve prepared a calm space, where you can find rest and peace during the full-day event. It is suitable for breastfeeding, if you or your baby prefer a calm space.

> The programme is in English, however we hope that together we can find a way to offer personal (whispering 🙂  translation when needed.

Here you can find more info about the ON MOBILISATION project.

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SIX SAMPLES OF DISASTER https://out-of-sight.be/six-samples-of-catastrophe/ https://out-of-sight.be/six-samples-of-catastrophe/#respond Thu, 28 Nov 2024 09:35:21 +0000 https://out-of-sight.be/?p=1956 EN >>> Art Pavilion in Zagreb and Out of Sight are temporary moving to the Ethnographic museum in Zagreb with the group exhibition SIX SAMPLES OF DISASTER that examines the representational, aesthetic, and tactile qualities of materials as visible imprints of

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Art Pavilion in Zagreb and Out of Sight are temporary moving to the Ethnographic museum in Zagreb with the group exhibition SIX SAMPLES OF DISASTER that examines the representational, aesthetic, and tactile qualities of materials as visible imprints of invisible or less visible human interventions into the life of matter and nature. They manifest in a range from political hegemonies to ecological disasters, and speak of extractivist policies and (neo)colonialism. Employing archival methods of collection, indexing and selection, the works emulate museum displays and correlate with the concept of the Ethnographic Museum where they are exhibited. By linking human customs, both past and present extractivist practices and daily life, they pave the way for an ethnology viewed through the lens of human exploitation of natural resources. The industries of paint, oil, electromagnetic research, stone extraction, and bauxite processing have long navigated the tension between notions of progress, wealth accumulation, exploitation, and dominance. The exhibition weaves together mythology, folklore, history, magic, and scientific viewpoints, drawing attention to the destructive imprint of the humanity’s relationship with non-human nature.

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In his work SAMMLUNG BAU UND SCHMUCKSTEIN ALTES ROM, Hannes Böck shows us 55 stone samples from a collection of ancient Roman building materials. Filmed on 16mm colour film, they appear to be fragments of an abstract composition. The 15-minute film superimposes three imperial representations: the colonial appropriation of natural resources in conquered territories by the Roman Empire, the legitimization of European imperialism by harking back to an idealised Greco-Roman past, and the institutionalisation/discursive construction of photography as an objectifying tool in the service of modern science.

CLOUD TO GROUND (#1), sculptural installation by Marjolijn Dijkman refers to fulgurites, a phenomenon commonly referred to as “fossilised lightning.” Formed when electricity discharges into the ground, these formations comprise masses of vitrified organic debris. Made in collaboration with an electro-technician, Dijkman created artificial fulgurites by discharging electricity into earth collected from mining sites in Belgium and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which she then installed in a floor installation.

Second work by Marjolijn Dijkman, RADIANT MATTER is an edited pictorial essay consisting of over 250 freely connected images selected from various disciplines: astronomy, cosmology, medicine, technology, anthropology, and space exploration. Their colour composition is not coincidental; it is based on the gradient seen in scientific observations of cosmic background radiation. The video explores the influence of electromagnetic waves and different kinds of cosmic energies on the human body, the Earth, and other celestial bodies. The images make associative links that highlight the influence of cosmic waves and energy as represented throughout time and culture.

SUN EATERS by Sina Seifee and Jassem Hindi is a contemporary folk dance and installation about the irreconcilable opposition between petro-politics and petro-demonology. Oil is the intimate language of our access to the world, the beautiful wizard, and it can be spelled as a lyrical, mytho-poetic, incarnate object. Oil is a fascinating, complicated, terrible story, filled with gore, ancient gods and revolutionary deeds. Gasoline generates impossible landscapes and pestilent beasts.

RED MUD by Davor Konjikušić shows the aftermath of one of the biggest ecological disasters in Hungary’s history. On October 4, 2010, tank 10 of the aluminium plant MAL in the town of Ajka leaked a million cubic metres of “red mud”, polluting a 40 km2 area. Ten people died, hundreds of homes were destroyed and more than two hundred people were seriously injured. The red mud was the result of a process to convert bauxite into aluminium. It has a high pH of 13 and high alkalinity. It contains heavy metals such as cadmium, chromium, arsenic and mercury that colour the landscape red. 

[…] STAIN […] by Ana Torfs is meticulously assembled from found images and texts. The starting-point for this installation are synthetic dyes. In 1856 the 18-year-old English chemistry student William Henry Perkin patented a purple dye, mauve, which he distilled from coal tar. Perkin discovered the dye by coincidence, when he was looking for a synthetic variant of quinine, in the fight against malaria. Mauve was the first mass-produced synthetic dye. The creation of mauve resulted in the emergence of big chemical companies. Bayer, BASF, as well as AGFA, all set out as dye manufacturers, during the second half of the 19th century. A sample book in which Bayer presented its range of colours on feathers was one of the sources of inspiration for this work. The research on synthetic dyes from coal tar induced many other discoveries and was crucial for the development of explosives, medicines and pesticides. It is almost as if the ancient dream of the alchemist is realised: instead of creating gold out of lead, all the colours of a rainbow were produced from the darkest black of coal tar. Torfs selected 20 representative synthetic dyes, with such evocative names as Congo Red, Bismarck Brown, Paris Violet and Uranin, and searched for connected images, each image bearing a number.

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SIX SAMPLES OF DISASTER is organised and produced by: Art Pavilion in Zagreb and Out of Sight, Antwerp

Supported by: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb — City Office for Culture and Civil Society, Zagreb Tourist Board, Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, Flanders — State of the Art, Austrian Cultural Forum Zagreb, MU.Zee Oostende, Performing Arts Hub – Norway, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Thank you: Zvjezdana Antoš, Marija Živković, Royal Norwegian Embassy in Zagreb, Centar KNAP, Anja Planinčić, Jan(us) Boudewijns, Barbara de Jong


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De tentoonstelling Six Samples of Disaster onderzoekt de representatieve, esthetische en tactiele kwaliteiten van materialen als zichtbare afdrukken van onzichtbare of minder zichtbare menselijke interventies in het leven van materie en de natuur. Ze manifesteren zich in een reeks van politieke hegemonieën tot ecologische rampen, en spreken van extractivistisch beleid en (neo)kolonialisme. Gebruikmakend van archief methoden van verzamelen, indexeren en selectie, emuleren de werken museale displays en correleren met het concept van het Etnografisch Museum waar ze tentoongesteld worden. Door menselijke gewoonten, zowel vroeger als nu,  extractivistische praktijken en het dagelijks leven maken ze de weg vrij voor een etnologie door de lens van menselijke exploitatie van natuurlijke hulpbronnen.

De verf- en olie-industrie, elektromagnetisch onderzoek, steen winning en bauxiet verwerking hebben lange tijd de spanning genavigeerd tussen begrippen als vooruitgang, rijkdom, accumulatie, uitbuiting en dominantie. De tentoonstelling verweeft mythologie, folklore, geschiedenis, magie en wetenschappelijke standpunten, en vestigt de aandacht op de destructieve afdruk van de relatie van de mensheid met de niet-menselijke natuur.

RED MUD van Davor Konjikušić toont een nasleep van een van de grootste milieurampen in de geschiedenis van Hongarije die plaatsvond op 4 oktober 2010, toen tank 10 van de aluminiumfabriek MAL in de stad Ajka een miljoen kubieke meter “rode modder” lekte. Tien mensen kwamen om, honderden huizen werden verwoest en meer dan tweehonderd mensen raakten ernstig gewond. De rode modder was het resultaat van een proces om bauxiet om te zetten in aluminium. Het bevat zware metalen zoals cadmium, chroom, arsenicum en kwik die het landschap rood kleurden. 

In zijn werk SAMMLUNG BAU UND SCHMUCKSTEIN ALTES ROM toont Hannes Böck ons 55 steenmonsters uit een collectie oude Romeinse bouwmaterialen. Gefilmd op 16mm kleurmateriaal, lijken het fragmenten van een abstracte compositie.

De 17 minuten durende film overlapt drie imperiale voorstellingen: de koloniale toe-eigening van natuurlijke hulpbronnen in veroverde gebieden door het Romeinse Rijk, de legitimering van het Europese imperialisme door terug te grijpen op een geïdealiseerd Grieks-Romeins verleden, en de- institutionalisering/discursieve constructie van fotografie als een objectiverend middel in dienst van moderne wetenschap.

Het tweede werk van Marjolijn Dijkman, RADIANT MATTER, is een bewerkt picturaal essay dat bestaat uit meer dan 250 beelden uit verschillende disciplines, zoals astronomie, kosmologie, geneeskunde, technologie en antropologie. De kleurcompositie van deze beelden is niet willekeurig, maar gebaseerd op het kleurverloop dat te zien is in wetenschappelijke observaties van de kosmische achtergrondstraling.

Het essay verbindt vrijelijk beelden uit diverse vakgebieden, waaronder astronomie, kosmologie, geneeskunde, technologie, antropologie en ruimteverkenning. Het werk onderzoekt de invloed van elektromagnetische golven en verschillende vormen van kosmische energie op het menselijk lichaam, de aarde en andere hemellichamen. De beelden leggen associatieve verbanden die de invloed van kosmische golven en energie benadrukken, zoals die door de tijd en in verschillende culturen is weergegeven.

De sculpturale installatie CLOUD TO GROUND (#1) van Marjolijn Dijkman verwijst naar fulgurieten, een fenomeen dat vaak wordt aangeduid als “gefossiliseerd bliksem”. Deze formaties ontstaan wanneer een elektrische ontlading de grond raakt en organisch materiaal verglast.

In samenwerking met een elektrotechnicus creëerde Dijkman kunstmatige fulgurieten door elektriciteit te ontladen in aarde die was verzameld van mijnbouwlocaties in België en de Democratische Republiek Congo. Deze gevormde structuren installeerden ze vervolgens in een vloerinstallatie.

SUN EATERS van Sina Seifee & Jassem Hindi is een hedendaagse volksdans en installatie over de onverenigbare tegenstelling tussen petro-politiek en petro-demonologie. Olie is de intieme taal van onze toegang tot de wereld, de betoverende tovenaar, en kan worden uitgespeeld als een lyrisch, mythisch-poëtisch, geïncarneerd object. Olie is een fascinerend, complex en gruwelijk verhaal, doordrenkt met bloed, oude goden en revolutionaire daden. Benzine schept onmogelijke landschappen en pestilente wezens.

SUN EATERS, een dansvoorstelling van Jassem Hindi en Sina Seifee, met de deelname van Charlott Utzig, Paolo de Venecia Gile, Alexandra Tveit en Harald Beharie, vond plaats op zaterdag 14 december 2024 om 18:00 uur, als onderdeel van de opening van de tentoonstelling SIX SAMPLES OF DISASTER.

[…] STAIN […] van Ana Torfs is zorgvuldig samengesteld uit gevonden beelden en teksten, een collage of montage. Het vertrekpunt voor deze installatie zijn synthetische kleurstoffen. De explosie van kleuren die we sinds 1856 kennen, werd mogelijk door het commercieel gebruik van afvalproducten van cokesproductie, zoals steenkoolteer.

In 1856 patenteerde de 18-jarige Engelse scheikundestudent William Henry Perkin een paarse kleurstof, mauve, die hij destilleerde uit steenkoolteer. Perkin ontdekte deze kleurstof bij toeval, terwijl hij zocht naar een synthetische variant van kinine in de strijd tegen malaria. Mauve werd de eerste synthetische kleurstof die op grote schaal werd geproduceerd.

De creatie van mauve leidde tot de opkomst van grote chemische bedrijven. Bayer, BASF en AGFA begonnen in de tweede helft van de 19e eeuw als fabrikanten van kleurstoffen. Het onderzoek naar synthetische kleurstoffen uit steenkoolteer leidde tot tal van andere ontdekkingen en was cruciaal voor de ontwikkeling van explosieven, geneesmiddelen en pesticiden.

Torfs selecteerde 20 representatieve synthetische kleurstoffen met tot de verbeelding sprekende namen zoals Congo Red, Bismarck Brown, Paris Violet en Uranin, en zocht daarbij passende beelden, elk met een uniek nummer. De “bijschriften” die naar deze genummerde beelden verwijzen, lijken te ontbreken, maar de kunstenaar integreerde ze in de geluidsopname die deel uitmaakt van de installatie. Een vrouwenstem leest op kunstmatige toon de namen van de 20 geselecteerde kleuren en de 182 genummerde bijschriften voor, in willekeurige volgorde en met lange stiltes ertussen, aangestuurd door een computerprogramma.

In het Engels hebben het zelfstandig naamwoord STAIN en het werkwoord TO STAIN verschillende betekenissen. STAIN verwijst naar kleur, maar ook naar “vlekken” of “vuil”, en figuurlijk naar een “smet”, zoals in: “a stained reputation”.

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Out of Sight organiseerde SIX SAMPLES OF DISASTER in samenwerking met Art Pavilion in Zagreb. 

Met ondersteuning van: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb — City Office for Culture and Civil Society, Zagreb Tourist Board, Ethnographisch Museum van Zagreb, Vlaamse Overheid, Austrian Cultural Forum Zagreb, MU.Zee Oostende, Performing Arts Hub – Norway, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Dank aan: Zvjezdana Antoš, Marija Živković, Royal Norwegian Embassy in Zagreb, Centar KNAP, Anja Planinčić, Jan(us) Boudewijns, Barbara de Jong

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Close Encounters #3: SLEMANI SOUNDS https://out-of-sight.be/close-encounters-slemani-sounds/ https://out-of-sight.be/close-encounters-slemani-sounds/#respond Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:15:33 +0000 https://out-of-sight.be/?p=1932 EN >>> CLOSE ENCOUNTERS is inspired by Allen Hynek’s categorisation of UFO witnesses. Hynek proposed three steps: *** CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #3: SLEMANI SOUNDS In September 2023 Social Recordings — alongside local historian Chia Sadeeq — wandered the streets of Slemani (Kurdistan,

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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS is inspired by Allen Hynek’s categorisation of UFO witnesses.

Hynek proposed three steps:

  1. Visual testimony from a distance of less than 150 metres, on which a degree of detail becomes clear and an angle of movement can be deduced.
  2. Physical traces of the event: impressions on the landscape, power failures or physiological effects on people.
  3. The final step involves direct contact with a living entity.

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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #3: SLEMANI SOUNDS

In September 2023 Social Recordings — alongside local historian Chia Sadeeq — wandered the streets of Slemani (Kurdistan, North Iraq) to capture the movements of craftspeople and to record the noises they produce. These craftspeople’s lives and everyday labour create the rhythm of the city — a polyphonic sonic richness.

The project is an ode to the diversity of sound in a contemporary Iraqi city. It is a sound ethnography of a place, made in relation with its people who are simultaneously senders and receivers within a shared resonant space. It takes a pulse of the politics of a place where craft is disappearing due to encroaching capitalism.

How do the producers of these work-specific “soundtracks” listen to the daily soundscape to which they also contribute? How is the sonic output of the city degrading in the face of changing and dissolving working techniques and traditional labour in general?

A first presentation took place during the SPACE 21 festival for experimental music in Slemani, in April 2024. It was also a time to revisit the people who had been documented the previous September, in their habitats or workshops, and to play back the recordings that had been made of them, on location. This shared listening experience of the previous recording was recorded again, to commemorate a common recollection.

For the third chapter of Close Encounters, Out of Sight presents an audio-visual performance and installation, a new one-off edit of Slemani Sounds bringing into dialogue — as an act of feedback — the sounds and images recorded during both visits. Hardi Kurda and Ernst Maréchal give an improvisational concert, intertwining the sounds of the installation with live sounds, complemented by recordings of their previous Slemani/Space 21 duo performances.

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Social Recordings researches the ethics and aesthetics of recording (with) others. How can listening be a relational and critical act? How can forms of open listening enter into dialogue with the unknown? And how do we contribute to the sonic space we share?

Through a process-based practice, Social Recordings produces a body of work that is a hybrid of field recordings, interviews, sonic encounters & ethnographies, improvisations, vocal work, electroacoustic situations, experimental journalism, found and archival sounds. It is often supplemented with photographic and filmic material — the last serving as a support, a silent witness or visual guide, of the sonic.

Exploring dialogical practices like feedbacking and playbacking (on location) as a means of communication, the act of listening triggers a sonic answer, and recordings are given an oscillating status of “transmitter” and “transfer agent”.

The act of listening (or re-listening) is an act of giving (back) to each other and a process of learning from each other’s ways of resonating.  As such, collective listening is a necessity for a non-conclusive practice which aims to transcend the individual act of making decisions, by resonating together again.

Practically, whenever possible, Social Recordings aims to return with sounds and images to their origins, in order to “give back” what truly belongs to those who appear in the recordings. By attending these playbacks together, a relationship is constructed between who and what is documented and the recording artist(s).

All recordings are made in a variety of social, pedagogical and artistic contexts, usually in collaboration with others, with artists and non-artists, with adults, teenagers, children, toddlers and babies.

It is an ongoing challenge to ensure that the people initially recorded are the first audiences of their documented selves. By making new recordings in the place where the original recordings are first played, choices are made together— instant processing and mutual editing of what is presented later for an audience.


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Het CLOSE ENCOUNTERS-project is geïnspireerd door de classificatie van UFO-waarnemingen van Allen Hynek. Hynek stelde drie fasen voor:

  1. Visuele getuigenis vanaf een afstand van minder dan 150 meter, waarbij details zichtbaar worden en een bewegingshoek kan worden afgeleid.
  2. Fysieke sporen van het voorval: indrukken op het landschap, stroomstoringen of fysiologische effecten op mensen.
  3. De laatste stap omvat direct contact met een levend wezen.

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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #3: SLEMANI SOUNDS 

Voor het derde hoofdstuk van Close Encounters presenteert Out of Sight een audiovisuele performance en installatie: een nieuwe, unieke montage van Slemani Sounds, waarin – als een vorm van terugkoppeling – de tijdens beide bezoeken opgenomen geluiden en beelden met elkaar in dialoog worden gebracht. Hardi Kurda en Ernst Maréchal geven een improvisatieconcert waarin de geluiden van de installatie worden verweven met live-geluiden, aangevuld met opnames van hun eerdere duo-optredens in Slemani/Space 21.

In september 2023 wandelden Social Recordings – samen met lokaal historicus Chia Sadeeq – door de straten van Slemani (Koerdistan, Noord-Irak) om de bewegingen van ambachtslieden vast te leggen en de geluiden die zij produceren op te nemen. De levens en het dagelijkse werk van deze ambachtslieden vormen het ritme van de stad – een polyfone klankrijkdom.

Dit project is een ode aan de diversiteit van geluid in een hedendaagse Iraakse stad. Het is een geluidsetnografie van een plek, gemaakt in relatie tot haar inwoners, die zowel zender als ontvanger zijn binnen een gedeelde, resonerende ruimte. Het project meet de politieke dynamiek van een plaats waar ambacht langzaam verdwijnt onder de druk van oprukkend kapitalisme.

Hoe luisteren de makers van deze werkgebonden “soundtracks” naar het dagelijkse klanklandschap waaraan zij zelf bijdragen? Hoe wordt de klankwereld van de stad aangetast door veranderende en verdwijnende werktechnieken en het verval van traditioneel ambacht in het algemeen?

Een eerste presentatie vond plaats tijdens het SPACE 21 Festival voor experimentele muziek in Slemani, in april 2024. Dit moment bood ook de gelegenheid om de mensen die in september waren gedocumenteerd opnieuw te bezoeken, in hun leefomgeving of werkplaatsen, en hen de opnames van hun eigen geluiden ter plekke terug te laten horen. Deze gedeelde luisterervaring van de eerdere opnames werd opnieuw vastgelegd als een manier om een gezamenlijke herinnering te creëren.

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Social Recordings onderzoekt de ethiek en esthetiek van het opnemen van en met anderen. Hoe kan luisteren een relationele en kritische handeling zijn? Hoe kunnen vormen van open luisteren in dialoog treden met het onbekende? En hoe dragen wij zelf bij aan de sonische ruimte die we delen?

Door een procesgerichte praktijk creëert Social Recordings een hybride oeuvre van veldopnames, interviews, sonische ontmoetingen & etnografieën, improvisaties, stemwerk, elektro-akoestische situaties, experimentele journalistiek en gevonden en archiefgeluiden. Dit wordt vaak aangevuld met fotografisch en filmisch materiaal – de laatste dient als ondersteuning, stille getuige of visuele gids van het geluid.

Door dialogische praktijken te verkennen, zoals feedback en playback (op locatie), wordt luisteren een middel tot communicatie: de luisterhandeling triggert een sonisch antwoord, waarbij opnames een oscillerende status krijgen als ‘zender’ en ‘overdrachtsagent’.

Luisteren (of herbeluisteren) is een daad van geven (teruggeven) aan elkaar en een proces van leren van elkaars manieren van resoneren. Zo wordt collectief luisteren een noodzaak voor een niet-conclusieve praktijk, die de individuele daad van besluitvorming wil overstijgen door opnieuw samen te resoneren.

In de praktijk streeft Social Recordings, waar mogelijk, ernaar om geluiden en beelden terug te brengen naar hun oorsprong – om terug te geven wat werkelijk toebehoort aan degenen die in de opnames verschijnen. Door samen deze playbacks bij te wonen, wordt een relatie opgebouwd tussen degenen die gedocumenteerd zijn en de makers van de opnames.

Alle opnames worden gemaakt in diverse sociale, pedagogische en artistieke contexten, meestal in samenwerking met anderen: kunstenaars en niet-kunstenaars, volwassenen, tieners, kinderen, peuters en baby’s.

Het blijft een voortdurende uitdaging om ervoor te zorgen dat de mensen die oorspronkelijk zijn opgenomen, ook de eerste toehoorders zijn van hun gedocumenteerde zelf. Door nieuwe opnames te maken op de plek waar de oorspronkelijke opnames worden afgespeeld, worden keuzes samen gemaakt – een directe verwerking en gezamenlijke montage van wat later aan een breder publiek wordt gepresenteerd.

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CLOSING SESSIONS & CLOSE ENCOUNTERS https://out-of-sight.be/close-encounters-chapter-2/ https://out-of-sight.be/close-encounters-chapter-2/#respond Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:20:19 +0000 https://out-of-sight.be/?p=1879 EN >>> Kunsthal Extra City, MORPHO and Out of Sight are joining forces on Saturday, 28th September 2024. We are warmly inviting you for a full day of events in our neighbourhood. For Kunsthal Extra City and MORPHO this day

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Kunsthal Extra City, MORPHO and Out of Sight are joining forces on Saturday, 28th September 2024. We are warmly inviting you for a full day of events in our neighbourhood. For Kunsthal Extra City and MORPHO this day marks a start of Closing Sessions, a new collaborative ritual that celebrates the ending of an exhibition and an artist residency at their shared locations in the monastery. For Out of Sight it is the second chapter of the long-term project CLOSE ENCOUNTERS.

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Kunsthal Extra City | Provinciestraat 112
13:00-14:00 | Curatorial walk with Joachim Naudts for the finissage of the exhibition ANCESTRAL CLOUDS, ANCESTRAL CLAIMS by Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman

OUT OF SIGHT | Somersstraat 31
14:00-15:30 |
Diane Mahin — GUT / durational performance
15:30-16:00 | Laila Claessen — BITTER / performance
16:00-16:30 | Boris de Klerk — ER IS GEEN RITME, ER IS REGEN / performance
16:30-17:00 | Break & drinks
17:00-17:45 | Manuel Groothuysen — IN SOFT OUT LOUD / performance
18:00-18:30 | Boris de Klerk and Finn Borath — CHAMBER PIECE / audio-visual performance
Warning! This performance contains strobe lights which may be harmful to photosensitive people.

MORPHO Refectory | entry through Kunsthal Extra City, Provinciestraat 112
19:00-19:45 | Judith Engelen — MELT / performance (by OUT OF SIGHT)

Kunsthal Extra City | Provinciestraat 112
20:00-20:35 | Melisa Yağmur Saydı — A STAIN OF LIGHT ON MY SCREEN, TRAVELING DOWN THROUGH YOUR PIXELS / audio-visual performance (by MORPHO, M HKA and Salt)
21:00-22:00 | Drinks in the garden

Entry to all the performances is FREE.
Realised with the support of: Flanders — State of the Art, the City of Antwerp, M HKA, Salt


CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #2


CLOSE ENCOUNTERS is inspired by Allen Hynek’s categorisation of UFO witnesses.

Hynek proposed three steps:

  1. Visual testimony from a distance of less than 150 metres, on which a degree of detail becomes clear and an angle of movement can be deduced.
  2. Physical traces of the event: impressions on the landscape, power failures or physiological effects on people.
  3. The final step involves direct contact with a living entity.

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For the second chapter, Out of Sight presents a series of audio-visual performances in which we taste and we smell, we see and then we hear. Through senses we meet each other and the world around us.

Diane Mahin, Laila Claessen, Manuel Groothuysen, Boris De Klerk, Finn Borath and Judith Engelen confront us with the materiality of the body while questioning the metaphorical meaning we ascribe to our perceptions.

In the durational performance GUT, Diane Mahin imagines how humans behave when their bodies are turned inside out. The intestinal sounds of a performer are amplified. A visceral and absurd experience that gains in vitality as the gut becomes more active.

Moving up to the mouth, Laila Claessen presents Bitter. We are invited at her dinner table to eat Brussels sprouts, while she recounts a tale of adverse family relationships. Drawing inspiration from Ayurvedic nutrition, she investigates how bitter tastes disappear from western diets while it actually has a positive effect on our physical and mental wellbeing.

er is geen ritme, er is regen by Boris de Klerk is a slow and rhythmical exploration of silence, speech patterns and the voice. Via a short repetitive reflection on how a day passes by, Boris slowly uncouples his voice from his body slowly merging it with the echoes of the space to eventually have it drowned out by rain and eventually silence.

Manuel Groothuysen investigates the synchronicity between the breath and the moving body in In Soft Out Loud. Through his physical motions, the rhythm and intensity of his breath is affected, the sound of which drives an acoustic composition invoking strange and uncanny worlds.

In their Chamber Piece, Finn Borath and Boris de Klerk create a direct relationship between light and sound, eyes and ears. A grid of fluorescent lights is manipulated, creating intense visual patterns while at the same time producing an electro-acoustic composition from the sound the lights make when switched on and off.

MELT by Judith Engelen starts from the visual and tactile properties of wax. As a material that historical played an important role in the development of writing and cast making, it is deeply entwined with how we as humans extend and share our memory. The transient nature of the material is used as an analog to the uncertainty of our recollection.


CLOSE ENCOUNTERS 2024 is realised with the support of Flanders — State of the Art.


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OUT OF SIGHT, MORPHO en Kunsthal Extra City bundelen op zaterdag 28 september hun krachten. We nodigen jullie van harte uit voor een dag vol evenementen in onze buurt.

Voor Kunsthal Extra City en MORPHO markeert deze dag het begin van CLOSING SESSIONS, een nieuw gezamenlijk ritueel dat het einde van een tentoonstelling en een kunstenaarsresidentie viert in hun gedeelde locatie in het klooster. Voor Out of Sight is het het tweede hoofdstuk van het langlopende project CLOSE ENCOUNTERS.

*** PROGRAMMA ***

Kunsthal Extra City | Provinciestraat 112
13:00-14:00 |
Curatoriale rondleiding met Joachim Naudts voor de finissage van de tentoonstelling ANCESTRAL CLOUDS, ANCESTRAL CLAIMS door Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman. 

OUT OF SIGHT | Somersstraat 31
14:00-15:30 |
Diane Mahín — GUT / doorlopende performance
15:30-16:00 | Laila Claessen — BITTER / performance
16:00-16:30 | Boris de Klerk — er is geen ritme, er is regen / performance
16:30-17:00 | Pauze & drankjes
17:00-17:45 | Manuel Groothuysen — In Soft Out Loud / performance
18:00-18:30 | Boris de Klerk en Finn Borath — Chamber Piece / audiovisuele performance

MORPHO Refter | Ingang via Kunsthal Extra City
19:00-19:45 |
Judith Engelen — MELT / performance (door OUT OF SIGHT)

Kunsthal Extra City | Provinciestraat 112
20:00-20:35 |
Melisa Yağmur Saydı — A stain of light on my screen, traveling down through your pixels
/ audiovisuele performance (door MORPHO, M HKA, Salt)
21:00-22:00 | Drankjes in de tuin

Toegang tot alle performances is GRATIS, reserveren is niet nodig.
Met ondersteuning van Vlaamse Overheid — Departement Cultuur, Jeugd & Media, Stad Antwerpen, M HKA, Salt


CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #2


CLOSE ENCOUNTERS is geïnspireerd op de classificatie van UFO-waarnemingen door Allen Hynek.
Hynek stelde drie fasen voor:

  1. Visuele waarneming vanop een afstand van minder dan 150 meter, waarbij details zichtbaar worden en de bewegingshoek kan worden afgeleid.
  2. Fysieke sporen van het fenomeen, zoals afdrukken in het landschap, stroomstoringen of fysiologische effecten op mensen.
  3. De laatste fase betreft direct contact met een levende entiteit.

OUT OF SIGHT gebruikt dit kader als een manier om na te denken over verbindingen met kunstenaars, partners, publiek en de buurt. Klassieke toeschouwersrelaties worden uitgebreid met directe participatie en samenwerking.

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #2 presenteert een reeks audiovisuele performances waarin we proeven en ruiken, zien en vervolgens horen. Via onze zintuigen ontmoeten en herinneren we elkaar en de wereld om ons heen.

Diane Mahin, Laila Claessen, Manuel Groothuysen, Boris De Klerk, Finn Borath en Judith Engelen laten ons de fysieke aanwezigheid van het lichaam ervaren, terwijl ze tegelijkertijd de symbolische betekenissen die we aan onze waarnemingen in vraag stellen. 

GUT van Diane Mahín is een langdurige performance die verkent hoe mensen zich gedragen wanneer hun lichaam binnenstebuiten wordt gekeerd.Tijdens deze ervaring komen toeschouwers oog in oog te staan met een man wiens darmgeluiden worden versterkt. Zijn gedachten, handelingen, communicatie, bewegingen en gevoelens worden volledig gestuurd door deze rauwe, lichamelijke geluiden. Sterker nog, de gutmensch kan niet bewegen of denken zonder zijn darmen. Hoe actiever zijn ingewanden, hoe levendiger hij wordt. Deze performatieve wereld legt de fragiele grens bloot tussen leven en dood, rationeel denken en het onderbewuste lichaam – wat resulteert in een fysieke, bijna absurde ervaring.

In dit project BITTER verkent Laila Claessen de connectie tussen eten en emotionele verwerking. Centraal staat bitterheid – zowel letterlijk als figuurlijk – en hoe dit ons kan helpen de “bittere smaken” van het leven te verteren. In de Ayurvedische traditie speelt bitterheid een cruciale rol: het stimuleert de spijsvertering en kan introspectie en zelfbewustzijn bevorderen. Op zijn kern is dit een persoonlijk verhaal, geïnspireerd door Laila’s complexe relatie met haar vader tijdens haar jeugd. Door deze herinneringen opnieuw te beleven, zoekt ze naar begrip en heling via het recept van haar vader voor spruitjes.

Oorspronkelijk werd dit werk gepresenteerd als een doe-het-zelf maaltijdkit, met daarin een verhaal, een recept, een handvol ingrediënten en stap-voor-stap instructies. Voor deze gelegenheid brengt Laila een live versie van het concept. Terwijl ze ter plekke een gerecht bereidt, vertelt ze haar kortverhaal Chīkū (vert. Bitter).

er is geen ritme, er is regen van Boris de Klerk is een langzame en ritmische verkenning van stilte, spraakpatronen en de stem. Via een korte repetitieve reflectie op hoe een dag voorbijgaat, koppelt Boris zijn stem langzaam los van zijn lichaam, waardoor deze zich vermengt met de echo’s van de ruimte, om uiteindelijk door de regen en uiteindelijk stilte te worden opgeslokt.

In IN SOFT OUT LOUD onderzoekt Manuel Groothuysen de synchroniciteit tussen ademhaling, het bewegende lichaam en een audiocompositie.

“Wat als de mensheid een ademhalingsapparaat zou kunnen maken dat de stroom van ademhaling verbindt met de soundtrack van realiteiten buiten de onze?”

Vanuit deze fictieve vraag ontdekte Groothuysen verschillende performatieve onderzoeksterreinen, zowel verkennend als vormgevend. Denk aan de relatie tussen deze technologie en de persoon die ermee verbonden is, maar ook de muzikale en auditieve impact van ademgestuurde geluiden. Door zijn bewegingen verandert het ritme en de intensiteit van zijn ademhaling, wat de drijvende kracht wordt achter een akoestische compositie die ons meevoert naar vervreemdende en onbekende werelden.

In CHAMBER PIECE creëren Finn Borath & Boris de Klerk een directe verbinding tussen licht en geluid, oog en oor. Een raster van tl-lampen wordt gemanipuleerd, waardoor intense visuele patronen ontstaan. Tegelijkertijd vormen de geluiden van het aan- en uitgaan van de lampen de basis voor een elektro-akoestische compositie.

Waarschuwing! Deze performance bevat stroboscopisch licht, wat schadelijk kan zijn voor mensen met lichtgevoeligheid.

MELT van Judith Engelen vertrekt vanuit de visuele en tastbare eigenschappen van was. Dit materiaal speelde historisch gezien een belangrijke rol in de ontwikkeling van schrijven en giettechnieken en is diep verweven met de manier waarop wij als mensen herinneringen vastleggen en delen. De vergankelijke aard van was dient als metafoor voor de onzekerheid van onze herinneringen.

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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #1 https://out-of-sight.be/close-encounters-chapter-1/ https://out-of-sight.be/close-encounters-chapter-1/#respond Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:12:17 +0000 http://out-of-sight.be/?p=1824 EN >>> During Antwerp Art Weekend we open 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 with the first chapter of a long-term project CLOSE ENCOUNTERS inspired by Allen Hynek’s categorisation of UFO witnesses. Hynek proposed three steps: 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 uses this framework as a way of

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During Antwerp Art Weekend we open 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 with the first chapter of a long-term project CLOSE ENCOUNTERS inspired by Allen Hynek’s categorisation of UFO witnesses.

Hynek proposed three steps:

  1. Visual testimony from a distance of less than 150 metres, on which a degree of detail becomes clear and an angle of movement can be deduced.
  2. Physical traces of the event: impressions on the landscape, power failures or physiological effects on people.
  3. The final step involves direct contact with a living entity.

𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 uses this framework as a way of thinking about connecting with artists, partners, audience and neighbourhood. Classic relations of spectatorship are expanded to include direct participation and collaboration.

*** PROGRAMME ***

Thursday, May 16

12:00-22:00 URSULA #3: THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS / Exhibition 
19:00-22:00 SHARED OPENING DINNER hosted by Hafsa Elazzaoui & Latifa Saber

Friday, May 17

12:00-18:00 URSULA #3: THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS / Exhibition 
18:00-19:00 IMAGES OF PAST AS IMAGES FOR THE FUTURE by Doplgenger / Lecture-performance

Saturday, May 18

12:00-18:00 CAR DECONSTRUCTION: THINGS NEED TO BE TAKEN APART. A LOT OF THINGS. by Dina Rončević / Durational performance
12:00-18:00 URSULA #3: THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS / Exhibition 

Sunday, May 19

12:00-18:00 CAR DECONSTRUCTION: THINGS NEED TO BE TAKEN APART. A LOT OF THINGS. by Dina Rončević / Durational performance
12:00-18:00 URSULA #3: THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS / Exhibition


:: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. Chapter 1 ::


In the first chapter we immediately set the tone with an extended weekend of diverse interactions, focusing on collective processes and different forms of collaborative practices. 

Ursula collective reaches back once again to a text by Ursula K. Le Guin: “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, also the title of their exhibition at Out of Sight. It tells the story of a seemingly perfect city, Omelas, where the happiness of the people is built on the suffering of a single child. The story raises questions about the ethical foundations of a utopian society and the individual’s responsibility in the face of collective well-being.

Artists in the exhibition: Meltse Van Coillie, Jana Coorevits, Lydia Hannah Debeer, Ans Mertens, Isabelle Tollenaere & Kathy Vanhout. 

SHARED OPENING DINNER is hosted by Hafsa Elazzaoui and Latifa Saber. As cooks, exploring how food is deeply intertwined within our relationships, our cultures, our identities and our politics, is their bread and butter. When hosting dinners, Hafsa and Latifa underline the importance of what it means to be one with the dinner table and those you’re sharing it with, while paying close attention to each ingredient that’s intentionally brought to the table. “Eating for research purposes” is a quintessential part of their practice. 

In collaboration with MORPHO, Out of Sight invites Doplgenger to present IMAGES OF PAST AS IMAGES FOR THE FUTURE, a part of an artistic research project called “Fragments Untitled” that examines the media’s participation in the construction of historical narratives. The lecture-performance discusses the problem of remembering, representing and giving voice to distant histories through images from the media, the politics of archiving, audiovisual experiments and the impact of this language on the viewer.

Over two days Dina Rončević together with a group of girls, calmly deconstructs a car. The durational performance/workshop CAR DECONSTRUCTION: THINGS NEED TO BE TAKEN APART. A LOT OF THINGS. gives a chance to girls to work with tools and learn to use their bodies in relation to heavy forces. Performed in front of an audience but lacking a need for its gaze, car deconstruction proposes agency over our own female bodies while relentlessly following our curiosity.

Out of Sight organises CAR DECONSTRUCTION in collaboration with Werktank.

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS is realised with the support of Flanders — State of the Art.
We would like to say THANK YOU to Cardoen Company, Matthias Gommere and Bert Cardoen.


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Tijdens Antwerp Art Weekend openen we de nieuwe locatie van OUT OF SIGHT met het eerste hoofdstuk van het CLOSE ENCOUNTERS-project.

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS is geïnspireerd op de classificatie van UFO-waarnemingen door Allen Hynek.
Hynek stelde drie fasen voor:

  1. Visuele waarneming vanop een afstand van minder dan 150 meter, waarbij details zichtbaar worden en de bewegingshoek kan worden afgeleid.
  2. Fysieke sporen van het fenomeen, zoals afdrukken in het landschap, stroomstoringen of fysiologische effecten op mensen.
  3. De laatste fase betreft direct contact met een levende entiteit.

OUT OF SIGHT gebruikt dit kader als een manier om na te denken over verbindingen met kunstenaars, partners, publiek en de buurt. Klassieke toeschouwersrelaties worden uitgebreid met directe participatie en samenwerking.

*** PROGRAMMA ***

Donderdag 16 mei
12:00-22:00 | URSULA #3: THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS (Tentoonstelling)
19:00-22:00 | OPENINGSDINER gehost door Hafsa Elazzaoui & Latifa Saber

Vrijdag 17 mei
12:00-18:00 | URSULA #3: THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS (Tentoonstelling)
18:00-19:00 | IMAGES OF PAST AS IMAGES FOR THE FUTURE door Doplgenger (Lezing-performance)

Zaterdag 18 mei
12:00-18:00 | CAR DECONSTRUCTION: THINGS NEED TO BE TAKEN APART. A LOT OF THINGS. door Dina Rončević (Doorlopende performance & workshop)
12:00-18:00 | URSULA #3: THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS (Tentoonstelling)

Zondag 19 mei
12:00-18:00 | CAR DECONSTRUCTION: THINGS NEED TO BE TAKEN APART. A LOT OF THINGS. door Dina Rončević (Doorlopende performance & workshop)
12:00-18:00 | URSULA #3: THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS (Tentoonstelling)


:: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. Hoofdstuk 1 ::


In het eerste hoofdstuk zetten we meteen de toon met een uitgebreid weekend vol diverse interacties, met een focus op collectieve processen en verschillende vormen van samenwerking.

Het Ursula-collectief (Isabelle Tollenaere, Ans Mertens, Kathy Vanhout, Lydia Hannah Debeer, Meltse Van Coillie, Jana Coorevits, Alex Schuurbiers) grijpt opnieuw terug naar de tekst “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” van Ursula K. Le Guin. Het vertelt het verhaal van een ogenschijnlijk perfecte stad waar het geluk van de mensen is opgebouwd uit het lijden van één kind. Sommige bewoners kiezen ervoor om Omelas te verlaten zodra ze zich bewust worden van dit morele dilemma, wat de complexe keuzes en opofferingen benadrukt die inherent zijn aan de zoektocht naar maatschappelijk geluk. Het verhaal roept vragen op over de ethische grondslagen van een utopische samenleving en de verantwoordelijkheid van het individu tegenover het collectieve welzijn.

De kunstenaars in het collectief reageren op “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” met werk van henzelf, bestaande of nieuw. Deze reactie is geen illustratie van de tekst, maar gaat eerder een dialoog met haar aan. Ze verkennen de verschillende sferen, vragen en persoonlijke associaties die de tekst bij hen oproept. Zo duiken ze in de complexe thema’s van utopie, ethische dilemma’s en maatschappelijke keuzes die Le Guin in haar verhaal onderzocht.

Als koks verkennen Hafsa Elazzaoui en Latifa Saber hoe eten diep verweven is met onze relaties, onze culturen, onze identiteit en onze politiek. Bij het organiseren van diners benadrukken Hafsa en Latifa het belang van wat het betekent om één te zijn met de eettafel en degenen met wie je die deelt, terwijl ze aandacht besteden aan elk ingrediënt dat bewust op tafel wordt gebracht.

IMAGES OF PAST AS IMAGES FOR THE FUTURE, een onderdeel van een artistiek onderzoeksproject genaamd Fragments Untitled, onderzoekt de rol van de media in de constructie van historische narratieven. In de lezing-performance bespreekt Doplgenger het probleem van het herinneren, representeren en het geven van een stem aan verre geschiedenissen via beelden uit de media, de politiek van archivering, audiovisuele experimenten en de invloed van deze taal op de kijker.
Out of Sight organiseert dit evenement in samenwerking met MORPHO.

Gedurende twee dagen deconstrueert Dina Rončević samen met een groep meisjes een auto. De doorlopende performance/workshop CAR DECONSTRUCTION: THINGS NEED TO BE TAKEN APART. A LOT OF THINGS. biedt de meisjes de kans om met gereedschap te werken en te leren hun lichaam te gebruiken in relatie tot zware krachten. Gevoerd voor een publiek maar zonder de behoefte aan zijn blik, stelt de deconstructie van de auto zelfbeschikking over onze eigen vrouwelijke lichamen voor, terwijl het onophoudelijk onze nieuwsgierigheid volgt.
Out of Sight organiseert dit evenement in samenwerking met WERKTANK.


Met ondersteuning van Vlaamse Overheid — Departement Cultuur, Jeugd & Media

doplgenger’s residentie bij MORPHO en presentatie bij OUT OF SIGHT wordt ondersteund door Culture Moves Europe, een project gefinancierd door de Europese Unie en Goethe-Institut. De meningen die hier worden uitgedrukt, kunnen op geen enkele manier worden geïnterpreteerd als het officiële standpunt van de Europese Unie.

“For Now, I Play Along” door Ans Mertens werd gerealiseerd met de steun van LABO Bxl en Studio Start.

Wij bedanken graag onze partnerorganisaties en iedereen die heeft bijgedragen aan CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. Hoofdstuk 1: MORPHO, Werktank, Cardoen, Matthias Gommere, Bert Cardoen.


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ZOMERTANK CINEMA https://out-of-sight.be/zomertank-cinema/ https://out-of-sight.be/zomertank-cinema/#respond Mon, 30 Oct 2023 10:09:02 +0000 http://out-of-sight.be/?p=1749 On Saturday, 18.11.2023, the exhibition space becomes a cinema, screening videos and films by Eden Tinto Collins, Jamie Crewe, Ibro Hasanović and Saša Tkačenko, around topics that came to the foreground during the development of Zomertank 2023: ALL THAT WE

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On Saturday, 18.11.2023, the exhibition space becomes a cinema, screening videos and films by Eden Tinto Collins, Jamie Crewe, Ibro Hasanović and Saša Tkačenko, around topics that came to the foreground during the development of Zomertank 2023: ALL THAT WE HAVE HERE IS ALL THAT WE’VE ALWAYS HAD.


CoNec / 2019, FR, 11’
by Eden Tinto Collins

“I am those others, black bodies, lost in abstruse places, Abdoulaye, LayLa… They take possession of my I, of my role…Those haunting characters remind me of an origin to be embraced, delivered.” 

False Wife / 2022, ENG, 15’31’’
by Jamie Crewe 

False Wife is a poppers training video that leads its visitors through an ordeal of transformation. A poppers training video is typically a user-made compilation of pornographic clips, uploaded to adult video hosting sites. These clips are paired with text, hypnotic music, voiceovers, and instructions for action. Viewers are told to masturbate and sniff poppers, to let imagery and sensation meld, and reach a gooning ecstatic fervour.

False Wife’s material is obscure. Its narrative is drawn from a variety of folk tales in which transformation occurs, and relationships happen. Its footage is scavenged from sources that reflect these themes, reduced to slivers of significant imagery, rubbed together. These originating sources are warped or inflamed to say ambiguous things: to discuss desire, shame, transgression, and the longing for change, and the various ways we want—and don’t want—to face them. 

Perfect ride / 2012, 5’04’’
by Saša Tkačenko

In the interior of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, whose purpose was neglected for years (closed down for renovation for 5 years at the moment of making this video), a skater is trying to perform what is most important to him – a perfect ride. The atmosphere of timelessness that is dominant in the space of the “abandoned” Museum of Contemporary Art appears as the perfect scenery for an incompatible action that gives its endless reconstruction a new character. This way, the work shows the intimate and intense connection between a young man and his skills and the forgotten building of the Museum, thereby retrieving the grandeur of the building through a moment that, as the action unfolds, becomes a very important experience for the actor in the video. The work is essentially an homage to the building – a master piece of modernist architecture in Yugoslavia – which, despite all current technical shortcomings, remains monumental and incredibly powerful.

KKKK / 2018, 3’18’’
by Ibro Hasanović

A loose remake of Kenneth Anger’s 1965 film “Kustom Kar Kommandos” set in Kosovo.

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GUIDED WALK IN KESSEL-LO https://out-of-sight.be/guided-walk-in-kessel-lo-with-koen-stuyven/ https://out-of-sight.be/guided-walk-in-kessel-lo-with-koen-stuyven/#respond Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:42:21 +0000 http://out-of-sight.be/?p=1735 The exhibition ALL THAT WE HAVE HERE IS ALL THAT WE’VE ALWAYS HAD is the starting and end point of a guided walk in Kessel-Lo with architect Koen Stuyven. He knows the neighbourhood inside out having grown up there. Koen

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The exhibition ALL THAT WE HAVE HERE IS ALL THAT WE’VE ALWAYS HAD is the starting and end point of a guided walk in Kessel-Lo with architect Koen Stuyven. He knows the neighbourhood inside out having grown up there. Koen will guide the audience around historic landmarks and give a glimpse into the future urban plans.

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ALL THAT WE HAVE HERE IS ALL THAT WE’VE ALWAYS HAD https://out-of-sight.be/all-that-we-have-here-is-all-the-weve-always-had/ https://out-of-sight.be/all-that-we-have-here-is-all-the-weve-always-had/#respond Sun, 22 Oct 2023 10:59:31 +0000 http://out-of-sight.be/?p=1685 The exhibition ALL THAT WE HAVE HERE IS ALL THAT WE’VE ALWAYS HAD symbolically mirrors invisible and long-term dynamics within the urban landscape, through the work of Py & Verde, Sarah Smolders and Anna Witt. It is based on the premise that

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The exhibition ALL THAT WE HAVE HERE IS ALL THAT WE’VE ALWAYS HAD symbolically mirrors invisible and long-term dynamics within the urban landscape, through the work of Py & Verde, Sarah Smolders and Anna Witt. It is based on the premise that collective memory enables citizens to identify with history, as well as with the tangible and intangible heritage of their city.

The exhibition will grow from the 28th of October until the 25th of November, presenting the outcome of participatory projects and site-specific performances in the neighbourhood by Corpo Máquina Society, Dina Rončević, Davide Tidoni and Zorka Wollny & Tevin Mulumba.

The exhibition is the starting point of a guided walk in Kessel-Lo with architect Koen Stuyven, who grew up in the neighbourhood.

Exhibited works:

The BUCKWHEAT TOWN by Py & Verde is made from bundles of buckwheat noodles colonised by drugstore beetles. The insects’ larvae dig galleries in the noodle bundles, while also consolidating the material with their droppings and saliva. It is an ecosystem in a closed environment, where once the resources are finished, it becomes a fossil. It is the story of a tiny world, inhabited by voracious and insatiable creatures. In a way, it is a vanity, a memento mori. The shape recalls the ruined facades, retained during the restoration of buildings by props and steel beams.  The serie is currently composed of four architectures: The Last Facade of Buckwheat Town (2013), The Theater (2016), The Court (2017) and The Aqueduct (2023). As other remains are discovered, the archaeological site of the Buckwheat Town expands.

TIME, SET IN STONE (2022-2023) by Sarah Smolders is a playful experiment, a question on labour, a poetic gesture of mapping time and a visual dialogue with the Hydraulic Research Labs of Flanders. In the time frame of one year, Sarah Smolders and her team took care of a sculpture that was at the same time the sculptor of a Noire de Mazy marble. What remains is a stone as a document of one year’s activity. Time, Set in Stone tries to grasp and translate the dedicated time given to a specific site and share this with an audience. By observing the working process with a focus on touch, care, rhythm and movement, the film unravels the heavy labour into precise gestures of creation, their impact on the body and how material transforms through time. Today, the Noire de Mazy marble is permanently installed in the gardens of the Hydraulic Research Labs of Antwerp. The site-specific action, the stone and the two pictures are part of an art integration commissioned by the Flemish Government.

BEAT HOUSE DONAUSTADT  (2019) by Anna Witt is a collective sound performance realised within Kagran and Kaisermühlen areas in Vienna’s 22nd district that concentrate a piece of the city’s history. Formerly a working-class neighbourhood and stronghold of council housing, it was one of the last bastions of the Socialist Party in its fight against Austro-fascism. What interested Anna Witt most about this history is the vibrant utopia, the belief in the collective and in solidarity. For Beat House Donaustadt Witt used an ultrasound scanner to record the heartbeats of the residents of a “council housing”. At the start of the Wiener Festwochen in 2019, the residents opened their windows, letting their individual rhythms drift out and join to form a collective sound performance.

The video-documentation of participatory projects and site-specific performances in the neighbourhood included later in the exhibition:

For the performance IT TAKES A CHILD TO RAISE A VILLAGE, Corpo Máquina Society organises workshops for children between 7 and 12 years old. In several sessions, overlaps between Freestyle Football and Choreography are explored in a playful way. Each day, on 2nd, 3rd and 4th November, the workshop ends with an open moment for the public to come witness their ongoing creation.

Davide Tidoni’s ATTACK-DECAY and EACH TOUCH IS A MARK are performed in the area surrounding the Koning Albertbuilding in Kessel-Lo. Attack-Decay performed on October 28th, explores the acoustic qualities of the area by means of an impulse-generator device. Developed in the form of a durational performance interspersed with long silences, the work aims to witness the presence of an acoustics that will disappear together with the demolition of the Koning Albertbuilding. Each Touch Is a Mark performed on November 25th, starts with a performer walking in a space holding a snare-drum in front of their face. A collaborator positions themselves opposite to the performer and sets off a number of fireworks aimed at hitting the snare-drum. Developed as a slow walk punctuated with bangs of varying intensity, the action aims to explore the sense of uncertainty one feels when faced with sudden changes.

The workshop NEIGHBOURS’ JOURNAL is led by noise music composer Zorka Wollny and rapper Tevin Mulumba. During several days, participants create a spontaneous orchestra, learn to use their voice in an unusual way and create and perform lyrics based on their experiences, questions and opinions. The result is presented in a form of a video diary, in which participants perform their songs together with Zorka and Tevin on various found stages in public space in Kessel-Lo.

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