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Geert Wachtelaer

Atelier/studio : Pontstraat 39 9300 Aalst Belgium

cellphone : 0032 478 91 30 17

BTW n°: BE0879.810.487

FORTIS 001-2383909-16

IBAN n° BE72 0012 3839 0916

BIC-CODE : GEBABEBB

Fortis Bank, Nieuwstraat 20 9300 Aalst Belgium

Statement :

My work concentrates on universal human experiences, birth, death and the secrets of the human consciousness, and found its roots in the psychoanalytical foundation . Although I'm not interested by showing the artist's private life or by revealing a kind of intimicy and confessions which seems irrevelant and even boring.  

The video's bring a hidden knowledge to the audience : that what is already inside of the audience. Creation , not invented, but what comes alive when you live it so that it would almost touch the soul of the spectator. Only such fysical confrontation with the elementary fysical reality can move you mentally, the metanarrative of the work of the unconscious and the ability to identify the paradoxical space created in a parallel world in which transference relationships could form.

The experimental investigation addresses to the whole field of the audio-visual arts, as well to the outside – where a dialogue is possible with the other arts : soundartists, performers, painters, writers, choreographers – as within – where the audio-visual arts are confronted with itself, even in it's hybrid state like it is now. As long if it is lived out and not invented

Video art is no longer an innocent play-thing of conceptual art. The awareness of the fact that videoart as medium has a history of forty years. So it's important to research the historical developments of videoart. With this in mind I also refers to the film history.

The relationship between concept and intuition - between theory and practice is like going through an airlock. You can only open the door before you when the door behind you closes. The time spend in the airlock is reflection. The artist may not forget to make a dialogue with society. Looking beyond borders, reseach and investigation in collaborations, positioning oneself in society. The work offers transgressive possibilities for re-imagining the past, the present and also the future.

Cultivate a sharper 'capacity to self-clean'

More reflection and more attention to the form.

Being subjective in depth can only make art greater. Inventions or objective art are not relevant. As Kierkegaard said, truth is subjectivity. Personal experience consitutes our existence. A continuity of the consciousness by time-stream, most of it find its source in the atmosphere of performance. The aim throughout is to contribute to an in-depth and properly international discussion of the implications of contempory videoart and cinema.

We see new pathways emerging for video art, representative of cultural factors, societal changes, and the advancements in cinema and technology.

Revisualising memories, which can be at times a powerful dissection between recollection and identity both in regards to visual language and cinematic presence.

These works, “dematerialized” or freed from the physicality of painting or sculpture, thus “secured a higher purity”

Evidently a different nature opens itself to the camera than opens to the naked eye … the camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

The film becomes an occasion of discovery, but instead of mystification, its sublimity comes from the celebration of what one already understands:

the film as its own subject.

Education
1986-1990 Study of film director at the RITCS, Brussels (Rijksinstituut voor Toneel en Cultuurspreidingstechnieken)

Occupation
Audiovisual artist (free-lance)

Before 2000 worked as an underground artist (mostly collaborations wihin video/performance art/Internet Art)

Exhibition 2000

2000 Argos Arts, Information days, 13 rue du Chantier B-1000 Brussels

2000 Impakt festival, Central Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Exhibitions 2004

Norapolis 2004,Internalional festival of multimedia METZ France 2004

Festival International cinema nouvelles générations à Lyon, France 2004

The Drake Hotel : notes from the underground with Steve Reinke, 1150 Queen West Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2004

Heaven Gallery Chicago, USA 2004

PLAY III - International Video Art Festival -Museo de Arte "Ángel M. De Rosa" - Junìn, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2004

Biennale Internazionale di Ferrara , Castello Estense - Ferrara , Italy . 2004

Festival « Musiques Volantes » Metz , France 2004

Exhibitions 2005

Les inattendus, contempory art evenement , Paris , France 2005

Detroit International Film and Video Festival , Museum of Modern Art , USA 2005

Art in your Face, Malmoe , Sweden 2005

Cortodrome, short filmfestival, Bari , Italy 2005

Optica2005, Video-art and Contemporary Photography, GIJÓN (ASTURIAS, ESPAÑA) 2005

bac!05 - international festival of contemporary art in barcelona sixth edition 2005

"Nuit Blanche" Paris
Face au 12 rue Neuve ou au 19 rue des Frigos, 75013 - M°Bibliothèque, projection in open sky 4X3, France 2005

Videohm, OHM Lounge Syracuse , NY 13217 USA2005

Exhibitions 2006

Semantikon,2006, ARCANA an asynchornous exposition of multimedia works of Geert Wachtelaer

ASSOCIATION DES INSTANTS VIDEO
NUMÉRIQUES ET POÉTIQUES l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence , France 2006

2006,pink tv, Each night, PinkTV transforms his antenna in « art Tv » and offers to contemporary video a unique space in Paradise. Major expression of our era, the video grew outside the broadcasting industry and to counter-current of the circuits traditional distributions. Conceived as a night laboratory, Paradise explores unpublished broadcasting containers. All the artists, vidioartists and film directors, rejoin in Paradise to celebrate the visual art. All the aesthetic and ecstatic kinds are allowed: video art, experimental movie, organizations, performances, « video dance », short movies... 2006

Vlaams Radio Koor,Marrige of Heaven and Hell, Johan Duijck conduct
Geert Wachtelaer video artist. A full programme, in which music, image and word melt together into a tribute to the visionary William Blake.

2006 Sint-Niklaas - stadhuis, Belgium

2006 Antwerpen - Augustinus Muziekcentrum, Belgium

2006 Deurle - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium

2006 Brugge - OLV-ter-Potterie, Belgium

2006 Brussel - Flagey, the former National Institute for Radio Broadcasting Belgium

2006 Metu Video Festival ,Turkey , Ankara Single channel videos from Turkey and all over the world will be in on 2, 3,4th of March

2006 Synch Festival ,Greece , Athens International eclectic collection of notable contemporary artists' films, Goethe Institute (theatre), Lavrio Technological & Science Park:“Patio” (outdoors)“Pharmacy” (indoors)

2006 Videominuto ,Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Arts of Prato, Italy

2006 Europian film festival “For the first five”, locate in Neubrandenburg / Germany .

2006 “PI performance & intermedia” festival National Museum in Szczecin SZCZECIN-SWINOUJSCIE / POLAND

2006 Les instants video l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence ,Text and Texture ,France 2006

2006 CITYPULSE 4, santiago media art festival, Chile. The citypulse collection was exhibited at the Entel Tower in Santiago, in a giant 145 square ft hi-def screen installed at 330 ft of height.

2006 Biennale 3000 Saopaulo, Brazil

2006 Art in Antwerp solo exhibition, (ANINA), Internationaal Pershuis, Antwerpen, Belgium

Exhibitions 2007

2007 CITYPULSE Lowell, at the 119 Gallery in Lowell, USA,

2007 Patagonia Electrónica Festival, in Punta Arenas, Chile

2007 "Beyond" Moka Gallery, Chicago, USA

2007 Danscamdanse festival, Film-plateau - Ghent, Belgium

2007 'Facing the river' at East Art Center, Chicago , USA

2007 Loop Festival, Barcelona, Spain.

2007 ART Santa Fe, El Museo de Cultural, New Mexico, USA

2007 Videominuto PopTV 2007,Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

2007 Art Now Fair Miami – Art Basel – USA Dec 2007 (Moka Gallery)

2007 Diva" video art fair in Paris, France (Moka Gallery)

2007 If I Can't Dance - Mukha Antwerp (collaboration with Emilie de Vlam's Ma. solo. production MA VZW )

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