"New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore increase your necessity so that you may increase perception."

Rumi (thineenth-century Persian poet and mystic)

Fragment from Private City

Soundscapes

My Space

works in progress :

2008

Black Noise / White Noise

a collaboration between

Stefaan Loncke Geert Wachtelaer Ine Pieters

- Installation / Bodyworks

black noise . white noise is about the struggle with presence and absence, the struggle with norms and cultural constructions which set the boundaries to a supposedly liveable, social life. Even when these norms are meant to protect, they have something suffocating about them. A subject who feels this, often tries to answer some kind of inner call to reach beyond and transgress these boundaries, even at the cost of a safe life. When this call is too high and the outer circumstantional/cultural/social bonds too strong, so they prevent even the slightest creativity, it’s no exception that it literally results in suicide.

2008

Summoning Stones : videoinstallation with French performer Cia Barbett and Wing Yan Man

Music by Bils Giel, Vanlaer Pol, Marsoul Tim (Noir)

The performance is a physique examination in which the textures of the body and the nature elements opposite each other and measured. Composing and decomposing the social landscape. This landscape is a functional existentially meaningful space, a space characterized by vulnerability, uncertainty and unsatisfaction, need and desire. In this way s/he imitates a process of breakdown to turn their victims into spineless and amorphous beings by removing any taste for another existence, by smothering even the slightest glimmer of hope. Everything that is prefabricated and pre-finished is already dead.

2008

ce[n]suur

     - Ce(n)sure focuses on the tension between nature and culture.

Stefaan Loncke and Geert Wachtelaer in     

 collaboration with

      D. Braille,

     Nicoletta Branchini

2008

I Have Nothing (worktitle)

Based on the texts of French theater/playwriter Corinne Lagord.

Artdocument/video : a restrained confession of a single individual at the same time a testimony of the social and cultural reality in which we live. The universe is astonishing in its richness, beauty, and complexity, we are but a vapor. A filmic essayistic work, multilayered and metanarative. But it still leans to the expressive art practice. t

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Corinne Lagord © short while. Society has build a construction which is not bearable.

2008

Transgression of Soules (worktitle)

In collaboration with Italian videoartist and performer Isobel Blank

A videoconstruction/performance/soundinstallation onto architectural device, sound, wood, concrete for 1 female dancer, "art is not something that is but something that happens between the artist and his audience" and the artist's personality appears "as a medium, a level of existence called consciousness, which transmits a larger truth, be it the infinitude of being, or the voice of a higher being" A questioning precisely of what is the ultimate reality behind human life.

©Isobel Blank