Mentors: Boris Debackere, Steven Devleminck & Joost Fonteyne.
With: Stéfan Piat, Natalia Kolesova, Gunther Truijen, Filip Daniels, Nemanja Ladjic & Wouter Huis

WHEN
Friday 29/06/2010 – 20h30

WHERE
Q-O2 werkplaats – http://www.q-o2.be
Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 Quai des Charbonnages, B-1080 Brussels
+32 (0)2 245 48 24 – info//at//q-o2.be

PARTICIPANTS
Vladislav Curcin, Filip Daniels, Milena Galli, Sven Goyvaerts, Wouter Huis, Natalia Kolesova, Nemanja Ladjic, Maud Lefever, Maja Medic, Stéfan Piat, Peter Snowdon, Gunther Truijen

OPENING
Wednesday 16/06/2010 – 18h00 till 21h00

WHEN
Thursday 17 till 20/06/2010 – 13h00 till 18h00

WHERE
BRASS – Centre Culturel Forest
Van Volxemlaan / Avenue Van Volxem 364 – 1190 Vorst / Forest

MORE INFO
www.dreamingofapointatwhichparallellinesconverge.be

WHEN
Friday 04/06/2010 – 14h00 till 21h00
Saturday 05/06/2010 – 10h00 till 17h00

WHERE
Auditorium Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel
Groenstraat 162-184 – 1030 Brussels

SUBSCRIBE TO
theacademystrikesback@sintlukas.be

MORE INFO
www.sintlukas.be/the-academy-strikes-back&catid=76:deze-week&Itemid=190

When the three beggars Suskewiet, Pitje Vogel and Schrobberbeek are tired of their poverty and hunger, they decide to sing some Epiphany on Christmas Eve. Their little plan becomes a triumph and they sing themselves rich. On the way back to the pub however, they get lost in the woods and witness the birth of Little Baby Jesus. Bedazzled by this miracle, they decide to give away all their gifts. When next year Christmas is around, they decide to sing again. But puzzled by last year experience, they start to quarrel over the gifts. Our three friends fall apart and they each go their own way.

www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/little-baby-jesus-of-flandr-f14221.html

This intensive workshop will be structured around an engagement with Brussels as a site – going to specific places, research into particular urbanistic and historical questions. And, at the same time, we will discuss the question of “content,” ways such research develops into artworks and different strategies for art’s engagement in worldly affairs. These two lines of thought should then be explored in a proposal for a site-specific work to be presented in the exhibition in June.

SUBJECT MATTER / OBJECT MATTER
The painter Barnett Newman stated that even though his work was abstract, and so had no “content,” it definitely had a subject. We will consider Newman as an example of artistic engagement that is not at all explicit. On the other had we will consider artists like Allan Sekula and Renee Green who work with explicit subject matter, and the Begian painter Luc Tuymans who falls somewhere in the middle.

SITE BRUSSELS
Brussels is now the evolving capitol of the EU – a site with geo-political significance. It is also the site of the school and so the local daily background of artistic practice. We will make a series of journeys into the city, engaging with sites and using them as examples with which to ask broader questions.

WORKSHOP GUIDELINES
All participants are asked to select one site to visit in advance of the workshop. The idea is to consider the way that ideas and realities come together in places, and then use the places as object for discussion.

Examples:
How has the European Union affected the neighborhoods of the city? We could visit different European Union sites, or residential areas.
How does the arrival of the international artworld impact on the local situation (for example, what was in 12 rue de Gran Cerf before the arrivial of Barbara Gladstone’s gallery?)
Brusselization is a widely used term to describe “anarchic commercial property development in a historic city” (wikipedia) – how does this urbanistic concept affect our daily experience of the city?

In addition, workshop participants should in advance of the workshop read and be prepared to discuss the attached interview with Barnett Newman, and take a look at pictures of his work in the library. If there is time please also look at Allan Sekula’s book Fish Story and Renee Green’s project Partially Buried as documented in her Ongoing Becomings – Retrospective 1989-2009, and Luc Tuymans Mwana Kitoko. The purpose behind looking at these historical examples is to then have more basis to consider how we might ourselves work with/from our experiments with site.

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WHEN
TUESDAY 11th MAY 2010 – 11am till …
11AM – introductory meeting and presentation, discussion of Newman, Sekula, Green, Tuymans.
Afternoon – site visits.

WEDNESDAY 12th MAY 2010 – 10am till …
10AM presentation on Robert Smithson’s Site / Nonsite
Afternoon and evening– site visits

THURSDAY 13th MAY 2010 EVENT – 11am till …
=> UPDATE => NO workshop, school will be closed!?

11AM final site visit and lunch – wrap up of workshop and brief individual meetings.
NOTE: some sites might be best explored after business hours or at night – please set aside Wednesday night for possible workshop activities.

Clodagh Emoe, GradCAM Research Scholar

This workshop responds to aims of the Transmedia Programme at Sint-Lucas and aims to elicit methods that engage with and explore ways in which encounters beyond the utilitarian world of representation can be initiated. This workshop operates within the context of contemporary art practice using the ancient Greek term kairos as a point of departure. The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While the former refers to chronological or sequential time, the latter signifies a time in between, a moment of undetermined period of time in which something special happens. To explain kairos, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, looks at the unpredictable and exceptional situation in time and space. This moment in time unique in its’ potential, is “not another time, but a contracted and abridged chronos” (Agamben, 2005, p.69).

The Transmedia Programme focus on research is instrumentalised within the workshop and students are required to engage in both practical and theoretical research to explore strategies that enable a consideration of this term. Through a critical and practical investigation, the implications surrounding this term and the issues it raises are examined. This workshop explores ways in which a specific term can be, in a sense, made manifest.

The workshop will culminate in a live public event that the students collaboratively realise. This workshop aims to enable students to develop their research skills, expand their own individual practice and experience working collaboratively on a large-scale project. The workshop has been constructed to allow enough latitude that the project is rooted within the students’ concerns while ensuring that students have the opportunity to engage with a range of experimentation practices.

The date of this outcome is scheduled to take place midday Thursday 6th May, allowing sufficient time for preliminary research. This event will be documented by the students and following the workshop, students are required to carry out post-production of the documentation in preparation for the exhibition.

There are a number of possibilities for this workshops outcome within the final exhibition scheduled to take place in June. The first option uses the documentation from the event organized during the workshop in May, another alternative is a live event, developed from the original event that takes place during the exhibition such as a reenactment or a mixture of both documentation and live event. This will be worked out on the final day of the workshop.

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WHEN
TUESDAY 4th MAY 2010 – 10am till 5pm
WEDNESDAY 5th MAY 2010 – 10am till 5pm
THURSDAY 6th MAY EVENT 2010 – 10am till 5pm

For his research project Documenting Durational Live Performance Art Using Social Media, Sven Goyvaerts examines several aspects of the work of media artist Joseph DeLappe. Sven Goyvaerts is second year student at Transmedia Postgraduate Program in Arts + Media + Design and participant in a.pt (advanced performance training), a 12-month post-master performance research programme based in Antwerp.

WHEN
Friday 14/05/2010 – 20h30

WHERE
iMAL – Center for Digital Cultures and Technology – www.imal.org – + 32 (0)2 410 30 93
30 Quai des Charbonnages/Koolmijnenkaai 30 – 1080 Bruxelles/Brussel 1080
(métro Comte de Flandres/metro Graaf van Vlaanderen)

Sofia Bustorff
Laura Colmenares Guerra (with: Todor Todoroff & Yacine Sebti)
Marie-Laure Delaby
Barbara Lettany
Maarten Van Luchene
Joris Perdieus

WHEN
Vernisage: Wednesday 21th April 6pm – 9pm
Exhibition: from Wednesday 21th April till Friday 30th April
visiting hours: 10am – 5pm (except on Sunday)

WHERE
Sint-Lukasgalerie – Haachtsesteenweg 138 – 1030 Brussels – 02 250 11 66

All images:
Copyright: Sint-Lukasgalerie – Brussel / Images: Lieve VANDERPLANCKE

Display - A Transmedia Anthology

Display - A Transmedia Anthology

Display - A Transmedia Anthology

Display - A Transmedia Anthology

Sofia Bustorff

Maarten Van Luchene

Marie-Laure Delaby

Laura Colmenares Guerra

Joris Perdieus

Barbara Lettany

WHEN
Opening on Sunday 28/03/2010 – 15:00
Exhibition from Sunday 28/03/2010 till Sunday 18/04/2010
visiting hours Friday – Sunday / 14:00 – 18:00

WHERE
Greylight Projects – www.greylightprojects.org
Burgemeester Kessenplein, 1 – 6431 KM Hoensbroek – the Netherlands

www.arenberg.be/fr/56/event/170/Dragalina

WHEN
Sunday 28/03/2010 – 17h20
Monday 29/03/2010 – 14h30
Tuesday 30/03/2010 – 21h20

WHERE
Cinéma Arenberg – www.arenberg.be
Koninginne Galerij, 26 – 1000 Brussel – 02 512 80 63