We have finished the White Out period in Kortrijk (B). Buda offered us the ideal environment to work on the performance, in their workspace-program. Starting point was the existing material as shown in Campo in Ghent. From there we went further on to explore the strange but beautiful world that Naomi initiated. New scenes, actions [...]
- – Cleaning up the attick, I stumbled upon these pictures. Back in 1997, we (fellow students architecture) built this fortress in Cap Gris Nez (Fr). We challenged the sea to destroy it. We lost.
Bal des boiteux released their album ‘Small House, Wide Open View’ on Keremos records 2006, produced by Stef Kamil Carlens. They asked audio-visual artists to re-interpretate the material on the album. I selected the track ‘I’d like to take the plastic flower from your hair’. Together with Kurt (who operated as Robert Roger at that [...]
As a workplace for visual artists, FLACC creates the conceptual, organisational and technical conditions for realising unique artist projects. One of these was ‘the end’: a video installation by Gregg Smith with digital prints and other elements. The film is shot on a constructed set and in an abandoned coal mine in Genk, Belgium. For [...]
Last sunday, we had a try-out of DING at Flavoria. This is a cosy place/building/artefact-collection in Brussels (B) runned by Pat van Hemelryck. “De voorstelling begint bij de opbouw van het ‘Ding’, enkele mannen in grijze stofjassen ontcijferen ingewikkelde plannen, meten de ruimte op en zetten de lijnen uit. In het ritme van de gemiddelde [...]
Part two of the etoiles polaires ‘sonic pictures‘ project. This time, Nuuk (Gr) was the target for the JCCC army. Quite a long journey and many long hours on the plane. But wow, what a country, what a nature, what a kind of nice people. The theme of Imperialism that I like to adress in [...]
The etoiles polaires festival in 2004 focused on the arctic region: Iceland, Greenland & Cananda. It was a collaboration between kitchen motors and Kling&Bang from Reykjavik (Is), Katuaq from Nuuk (Gr) and etoiles polaires and Vooruit from Ghent (B). As part of the program, they invited 3 artists to visit each others hometown and to [...]
These pictures are made while I was a student of Yves De Smet at St Lucas Ghent. It’s a report of the invasion of the ‘Maaltebrughepark’. While most of the park itself is well maintained, I was interested in the little wilderness in the back. I decided that it needed submission to human standards. And [...]