Salon#2: Time is on your side.
@ Bains Connective!!! (GC Ten Weyngaert, Bondgenotenstraat 54 rue des Alliés, 1190 Brussels)
10 March 2011, 7pm (soup) / 8pm (start salon).
Free entrance. Reservation required: send an email to contact.sarma@gmail.com
ENG- How do artists work today? How do they speak about their method? How can one make a start with documenting, discussing and sharing the hybrid and heterogeneous practices that underpin the performing arts today? How can the informal and embodied discourses, as well as the implicit knowledge they carry, find a wider recognition and accessibility? A series of monthly salons, organized by Sarma on different locations in Brussels, create a live research environment for makers and researchers to address issues of new artistic practices and discourses. In the thematics “-18/+65 Politics of the An-Aged” at Bains Connective, artists and researchers develop in the course of two months artistic practices with a participatory dimension in a local social context. The focus on ‘non-productive’ ages yields several questions regarding time. Who has time and who spends it? In what ways? How can one ‘author’ one’s time within the ‘authorized’ time alotted by our society? Can one actually ‘produce’ meaningful time? What about free time, quality time, collective time, public time, alternative time, marginal time, losing time, wasting time? Transgression, loitering, procrastination? Volunteer’s work and the right to useful unemployment? How do artistic practices put these issues in perspective? |
NL- Hoe werken kunstenaars vandaag? Hoe spreken ze over hun methode? Hoe kunnen hybride en heterogene praktijken, die ten grondslag liggen aan de hedendaagse podiumkunsten gedocumenteerd, besproken en gedeeld worden? Hoe kunnen informele discoursen, evenals hun impliciete kennis, een bredere erkenning en toegankelijkheid vinden? De vraag naar nieuwe artistieke praktijken en discoursen staat centraal in een reeks maandelijkse salons voor makers en onderzoekers, opgezet door Sarma op verschillende locaties in Brussel. In de Thematics "-18 / +65 Politics of the An-Aged" ontwikkelen kunstenaars en onderzoekers gedurende twee maanden artistieke praktijken met een participatieve dimensie, in een lokale maatschappelijke context. De focus op de 'niet-productieve' leeftijden roept een aantal vragen op over tijd. Wie heeft tijd en wie besteedt tijd? Op welke manier? Hoe kan men de eigen tijd beheersen binnen de 'toegestane' tijd die onze samenleving ons geeft? Kan men eigenlijk zinvolle tijd 'produceren' ? Hoe zit het met vrije tijd, kwaliteitsvolle tijd, collectieve tijd, openbare tijd, alternatieve tijd, marginale tijd, tijd verliezen, tijd verspillen? Transgressie, getreuzel, uitstel? Vrijwilligerswerk en het recht op nuttige werkloosheid? Hoe zetten artistieke praktijken deze problematiek in perspectief? |
Guest speakers: Agency, Sarah Vanhee
and Thematics artists: Marthe Van Dessel, Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Adrian Fisher and Luna Montenegro
Concept: Lilia Mestre, Jeroen Peeters, Kristien Van den Brande
Production: Sarma
Co-production: Bains Connective
With the support of WorkSpaceBrussels and Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
Bios and links
Agency is the generic name of a Brussels-based agency that was established in 1992 by Kobe Matthys. Agency constitutes a growing “list of things” that resist the binary division between culture and nature, and consequently between expressions and ideas, creations and facts, subjects and objects, humans and non-humans, originality and banality, individuals and collectives, etc... These things are mainly derived from juridical processes, lawsuits, cases, controversies, affairs and so forth around intellectual property (copyrights, patents, trade marks, etc...). The concept of property relies upon the assumption of the division between culture and nature. Each thing on the list invokes the moment of hesitation in terms of this division.
Agency calls things forth from it’s list via varying “assemblies” inside exhibitions, performances, publications, etc... Each assembly explores in a topological way a different aspect of the performative consequences of the apparatus of intellectual property for an ecology of art practices.
For Assembly (Time is on my side), Agency will call a thing forth, speculating on the question: How to include “user generated content” in art practices? How are user uploaded content of media like Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, etc... taken into consideration by copyright law?
Sarah Vanhee was born in Belgium (1980) and currently lives in Amsterdam and Brussels. In her work she mixes product with process, theatre and visual arts with literature, fiction with reality. She has written various theatre texts, which she also staged herself and published Untranslatables - a guide to translingual dialogue (Onomatopee, 2009, in co-operation with E. Marchesini, C. Schwarz, Y. De los Bueis).
She recently realized the C-project which resulted in the book The miraculous life of Claire C. Some years ago, Sarah Vanhee found an unfinished manuscript by Guillaume Maguire in which the main character is the insecure, unheroic, somewhat lost Claire C. Fascinated by this character, she decided that her story should not be lost. In The C-Project, Sarah Vanhee finished Maguire's novel by becomming Claire and going in search of the other characters from the book in Amsterdam. This enabled her to find the missing part of Claire's identity, along with the rest of the story. Through various channels, she came into contact with people who considered themselves potential characters in a novel. The book was then written on the basis of their meetings with Claire.
Adrian Fisher & Luna Montenegro: http://mmmmm.org.uk/
Marthe Van Dessel: http://www.ooooo.be/
Wendy van Wynsberghe: http://constantvzw.org/site/
Bains Connective: http://www.bains.be/index.php?ccid=18&ctid=371&caid=6580&now=2011-02-28