NEWSLETTER September 2006
FLACC
workplace for visual artists

Ann Clicteur en Paul Casaer - HEAD & SHOULDERS
Presentation: 29 September 2006, 20:00 - FLACC, Casino Waterschei, Genk

As a part of the new workplace policy, the FLACC's current exhibition space is getting several new functions as well as a new layout. FLACC selected interior designer Ann Clicteur (b. 1964, Ostend ) to set up a complete workplace project of her own here, based on this starting point. As her sparring partner, she invited the artist Paul Casaer (b. 1967, Brussels) to think along with her. The exhibition hall will be transformed into a workplace in the broadest sense of the word: a place where artists can reflect, model, present, communicate… Clicteur and Casaer mainly want to cater for the very diverse needs of contemporary artists and accommodate the many different manifestations of their art production. Their second aim is to investigate the possibilities of working with, on and in different media, scales, zones and lighting situations. HEAD & SHOULDERS concentrates first and foremost on the versatility of the space: a place with room to give attention to every stage of the artistic work process. The open structure offers opportunities for collecting traces of all the activities and interventions that take place here. By allowing for this, Clicteur and Casaer also want to shape the memory of the space. As a result, their work can be seen as a blank book, open and waiting to be filled. In the past, Clicteur has worked in arts centre Witte de With (Rotterdam) and the Musée du Louvre (Aile Richelieu, Paris), Z33 (Hasselt), Netwerk (Aalst) and has been in charge of the spatial arrangement of exhibitions of several artists, including Herman Asselberghs and Lieven De Boeck. Paul Casaer has shown his drawings, sculptures, photographs and films in the M HKA and deSingel (Antwerp), Netwerk (Aalst), Mariantonia (São Paulo), and at the Architecture Biennale in Venice. In his work, he always enters into a particular relationship with whatever is unique to the space and the context.
On Friday 29 September at 20:00, the duo will present a scale model at FLACC and show a series of virtual and utopian configurations to the public. This workplace project is also the start of the actual realisation, which will proceed in stages.

FILIP VAN DINGENEN - ZOONATION
Book launch, webproject, lectures and exhibition
Five years ago, Filip Van Dingenen (b. 1975, Diest) set up ZOONATION. What started as an exploration of the history and fate of the former Limburg Zoo in Genk (Belgium) grew into a large-scale artistic project. In 1967, the Wauters family founded the private zoo in the park of the residence of the former director of Zwartberg coal mine. It soon became a popular tourist attraction. In spite of the many efforts of the owners and their public-friendly approach, the initiative caused a great deal of controversy. After it was closed down in 1998, most of the animals had to move. The zoo grounds were redeveloped and the zoo disappeared for good in 2002. Over the past few years, the artist Filip Van Dingenen has travelled to zoos in Spain, Russia, Denmark, Taiwan, the US and South Africa. The former residents of Limburg Zoo, now in their new homes, could be said to make up a 'zoonation' . They are the only witnesses of this bizarre and almost incredible story of the former mine site in Genk. On his many travels, Van Dingenen observed and analysed the visual culture of the zoo from various historical, anthropological, typological and aesthetic angles. In collaboration with FLACC, he set up the web project www.zoonation.be a while ago. In autumn, as a companion to this virtual platform for multidisciplinary research, an eponymous publication, will appear, with the support of the cultural department of the city of Genk, in which the artist elucidates his total project. The book, designed by Luc Derycke, is a startling hybrid synthesis of a tourist guide for zoo visitors, a report of a cultural-historical expedition and a pseudo-scientific case study. On Open Monuments Day, Sunday 10 September, Filip Van Dingenen is giving two lectureson ZOONATION in the director's villa of the former Zwartberg Zoo. An exhibition of his work in Genk City Hall will run from 9 September to 14 October 2006. Sunday 10 September is also when Platform Limburg Beeldende Kunsten will launch the web project ZOONATION - MAKING OF on www.platformlimbrug.be/beeldende_kunsten.

Book launch
Thursday 7 September at 14:00, Director's villa - Zwartberg Zoo, Marcel Habetslaan 7, 3600 Genk
ZOONATION, 156 p., (200 x 157 mm), hard cover, Dutch and English
with an introduction by David Van Reybrouck,
published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Geldmunt 36, 9000 Gent,
copies can be ordered via www.exhibitionsinternational.be
with the support of the cultural department of the city of Genk

Open Monuments Day
lecturesby Filip Van Dingenen
Sunday 10 September, at 14:00 & 16:00, Director's villa - Zwartberg Zoo, Marcel Habetslaan 7, 3600 Genk
in collaboration with the cultural department of the city of Genk

ZOONATION Exhibition
>From 9 September until 14 October
Culture Department and Cultural Centre
Cultural Centre - City Hall, Dieplaan 2, 3600 Genk
Opening: 9 September at 19:00
Open during the opening hours of City Hall.

SARAH VANAGT - MOI, L'ELEPHANT
exhibition - from 16 September until 15 October 2006 - Z33, Zuivelmarkt 33, 3500 Hasselt
In the installation Moi, l'éléphant, Sarah Vanagt (b. 1976, Bruges)lets two children crawl inside the skin of the stuffed elephant in the Africa Museum in Tervuren. Today, this lifeless animal from the former Belgian colony of Congo rests in everlasting peace in Belgium. The children voice the elephant's thoughts, his sorrows, his questions and visions… The dialogue of those two young white adventurers with the elephant is a confrontation with the past and with death, because many aspects of colonial history shimmer through in their fantasies. The exhibition opens on 16 September 2006 at 16:30 and will be introduced by a lecture by Koen Vlassenroot at 17:00. At 20:30, there will be a screening of Vanagt's earlier videos: Little Figures (2003), After Years of Walking (2003), Begin Began Begun (2005) and First Elections (2005). Moi, l'éléphant is a FLACC workplace project and is exhibited in the context of Powerplays - Interior Desires, Exterior Spaces, an event of Platform Limburg Beeldende Kunsten. More information on Vanagt can be found on www.balthasar.be.

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