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 March 10, 2011 - 7pm (soup), 8pm (salon) @ Bains Connective: Salon#2: Time is on your side. With guest speakers Agency and Sarah Vanhee, and thematics artists Marthe Van Dessel, Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Adrian Fisher and Luna Montenegro.
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?
Next Dpool meeting on March 7, 4-6pm. Reading Chrysa Parkinson's text: "Art Practice as Ecosystem Questionnaire", which you can find here. The reading of this text is related to Walk+Talk.
In the week of 15-19 March choreographer Philipp Gehmacher and visual artist Alexander Schellow organize the series "walk+talk" at the Kaaistudio's, in which ten choreographers will present a performance in which they reflect upon their own practice. Next to these performances, the building will also host a workspace for reflection on the documentation of the week, in order to "slow down the process of disappearance and extend the traces of the performances" as Schellow has it. In a changing scenography, different tools for documentation (talking, walking, writing, mapping,...) will be developed and shared amongst a group of artists and researchers, and partly opened up to the audience in the evening. The Research Centre for Visual Poetics of Antwerp University and Sarma are invited to join this specific research context.
Also related to Walk+Talk, Sarma is compiling an on line text collection with materials that provide a context for the event. Next to a few essays written on the first walk+talk series in Vienna, we're collecting writings by all the artists involved. You can already read some of the texts here.
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