[image forum]

Wout Berger (NL), Solu (FI), Reinhard Matz (DE), Gert Jochems (BE), ... and many others ...
FLAC© is organizing its bi-annual [image forum] for the first time this fall. This event has developed from the former International Seminar on Photography. This time it is different… An expansion is taking place towards other media arts. Thus the new name: image in the broadest sense of the word. With this project, we wish to contribute to the development of artistic photography and other media art forms in Belgium. As always, FLAC© will present a highly interesting list of events.
The theme of this first edition is ‘locality’, to be interpreted as a (critical) questioning of the term. We are not showing illustrating but confronting and revealing images, images that have the power of critical statements or those of intense and lived experiences.Traditionally, the project was subdivided into exhibitions and master classes. These will be expanded with a symposium and a film program.

Exhibition INwardOUTward

In the exhibition INwardOUTward the works of international photographers and media artists are shown in the context of a reflection on ‘localness’. The title refers to the in- and outward stream of people, goods, ideas, etc that define the singularity of a specific place.
Works by Wout Berger(NL), Dik Bouwhuis (NL), Heinz Cibulka (AT), Naval Cassidy (US), Jeremy Deller (UK), Harun Farocki (DE), Gert Jochems (BE), Kadar (HU), Anastasia Koroshilova (RU), Kai Kraatz (DE), Lena Lapschina (AT), Jean Massart (BE), Reinhard Matz (DE), Allan Sekula (US), Solu (FI), Florian Thalhofer & Kolja Mensing (DE) en Andreas Weinand (DE)

Exhibition cité-jardin

cité-jardin 'le bon patron fait le bon ouvrier' (André Dumont)
Another exhibition, Cité-Jardin, ‘Le bon patron fait le bon ouvrier’ (André Dumont), will be shown simultaneously. It is a documentary exhibition on the extraordinary architecture of the mining site Waterschei. In a photography section, images of the mine architecture taken in 1941 by Martin Kadar are confronted with a new photographic interpretation of two Limburg photographers, Tom Frederiks and Guy Dupont. A second section will be an initiative to examine the work of architect Gaston Voutquenne, who was in service at the coalmine André Dumont from 1912 until 1940. The importance of this striking piece of architectural heritage will also be studied.
in cooperation with 'Cultuurdienst Genk' and 'Vereniging ter Behoud van het Mijnverleden' Masterclasses Photography and Media Art

Symposium

On Sunday, October 30th, a Symposium will be held with presentations by the four lecturers: Wout Berger (NL), Gert Jochems, Reinhard Matz (DE) and Solu - Mia Makela (FI). Other speakers, notably Pool Andries, Stef Van Bellingen and Rik Pinxten are to be invited as well. They will approach the theme of ‘locality’ from a personal or academic point of view.

Film Heimat 3

Workplace project

Jozef Devillé
Film dedication about Genk. The young cineast Jozef Devillé is working in the digital studio from FLAC©.