NEWS LETTER February - March 2007
In 2007 the first artist to start in FLACC is Jimmy Robert (1975, Guadeloupe). The versatile artist will not develop a temporary and well-defined project in the centre, but has promised a year-long commitment made up of frequent yet short spells of work. In Genk Robert is to create sculptures, prints, installations as well as performances in which he will be studying the relationship between dance and the visual arts. Besides setting up a public film programme, he will also develop more intimate visual moments. The first presentation is planned for Thursday 8 March at 7 p.m. in FLACC. For this event Jimmy Robert has invited dancer Werner Nigg (1978, Switzerland) to develop a choreography together, based on a fragile metal sculpture. In the performance, titled Metallica, the dancer's body follows the forms, layers, lines and folds of the object. The piece will be performed in the metal workshop where the metal sheets were folded to achieve their final shape, commenting at once on masculinity and the idea of work force versus fragility, manual labour against mannerism.
Jimmy Robert studied at Goldsmiths’ College (London), was a resident artist at the Rijksacademie (Amsterdam) and recently showed his work at the Tate Britain (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Recently the artist moved to live in Brussels.
Metallica: dance performance 10'
Thursday 8 March 2007 at 7 p.m.
Metal workshop FLACC, André Dumontlaan 2, 3600 Genk
FLACC is looking for 'Handy Andies' to help on the film set of Sue de Beer (1973, Massachusetts). This American film maker will shoot her film ‘the Bauhaus’ at the Waterschei mine buildings in Genk in March of this year. An extensive crew of actors, set designers, camera people, sound technicians, make-up artists and special effects experts has been put together for the shooting. The psychedelic and historic film is about thirty minutes long and will be shown in Los Angeles, Antwerp and Berlin at the end of this year. FLACC is coordinating the process and a private collector will provide financial support. Sue de Beer lives in New York and Berlin and in recent years she has exhibited for instance at the Whitney Biennial, the Brooklyn Museum in New York and in the Sandroni Rey Gallery in Los Angeles. If you are interested in assisting on or behind the set, please email us at flacc@skynet.be or ring 0032 89 84 52 23. More information on Sue de Beer and ‘The Bauhaus’ will appear in the next newsletter, and can be found here too.
- The exhibition 'Have a nice day' by Frederik Van Simaey runs from 3 to 28 March in Cultuurcentrum De Schakel, Waregem. Philip Janssens is participating in The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience, a project by Hans Theys for NICC and work by Joris Perdieus is on show at Atelier Soylent White, Brussels.
FLACC
workplace for visual artistsJIMMY ROBERT IN FLACC
In 2007 the first artist to start in FLACC is Jimmy Robert (1975, Guadeloupe). The versatile artist will not develop a temporary and well-defined project in the centre, but has promised a year-long commitment made up of frequent yet short spells of work. In Genk Robert is to create sculptures, prints, installations as well as performances in which he will be studying the relationship between dance and the visual arts. Besides setting up a public film programme, he will also develop more intimate visual moments. The first presentation is planned for Thursday 8 March at 7 p.m. in FLACC. For this event Jimmy Robert has invited dancer Werner Nigg (1978, Switzerland) to develop a choreography together, based on a fragile metal sculpture. In the performance, titled Metallica, the dancer's body follows the forms, layers, lines and folds of the object. The piece will be performed in the metal workshop where the metal sheets were folded to achieve their final shape, commenting at once on masculinity and the idea of work force versus fragility, manual labour against mannerism.
Jimmy Robert studied at Goldsmiths’ College (London), was a resident artist at the Rijksacademie (Amsterdam) and recently showed his work at the Tate Britain (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Recently the artist moved to live in Brussels.
Metallica: dance performance 10'
Thursday 8 March 2007 at 7 p.m.
Metal workshop FLACC, André Dumontlaan 2, 3600 Genk
COLLABORATION JAN VAN EYCK ACADEMIE – FLACC
These past few months the Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, the Netherlands) and FLACC have been engaged in a collaboration in the field of research and support of projects that are being developed within the institutions' curricula. From now on, the workshop facilities and technical expertise will be shared for the realisation of productions. The Jan van Eyck Academie will also offer free admission to its library and documentation centre. The organisations have drawn up a joint inventory of all their facilities and know-how, and will exchange their yearly facilitary investment plans. The institutions are also setting up a joint database for external expertise, which will be valuable and usable for the realization of productions. FLACC and the Jan van Eyck Academie aim at complementarity regarding facilities and expertise and a cross-border dynamism between residing artists/researchers. The organisations wish to extend this cooperation, preferably at the Euro-regional level.CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: FILM BY SUE DE BEER
14 - 28 March 2007, mine building Waterschei, GenkFLACC is looking for 'Handy Andies' to help on the film set of Sue de Beer (1973, Massachusetts). This American film maker will shoot her film ‘the Bauhaus’ at the Waterschei mine buildings in Genk in March of this year. An extensive crew of actors, set designers, camera people, sound technicians, make-up artists and special effects experts has been put together for the shooting. The psychedelic and historic film is about thirty minutes long and will be shown in Los Angeles, Antwerp and Berlin at the end of this year. FLACC is coordinating the process and a private collector will provide financial support. Sue de Beer lives in New York and Berlin and in recent years she has exhibited for instance at the Whitney Biennial, the Brooklyn Museum in New York and in the Sandroni Rey Gallery in Los Angeles. If you are interested in assisting on or behind the set, please email us at flacc@skynet.be or ring 0032 89 84 52 23. More information on Sue de Beer and ‘The Bauhaus’ will appear in the next newsletter, and can be found here too.
HOLODECK CONVENTION
The temporary collective that Geert Goiris set up last year, together with Jean Bernard Koeman and (Jens de Schutter, Piet Mertens and Wim Waelput) also met in Genk last week. Their collaboration has evolved into a longer-term project in which the artists regularly get together, for a week at a time. At these 'conventions' they present new findings to one another and FLACC organises an intensive programme tailored to reflect their joint research. Holodecka reference to the Enterprise-D in Star Trek, was the initial starting-point of their quest, in which the artists explore the empirical power of space and image. Last week the artists visited the Europlanetarium and separately invited guest artist Koen Deprez and art philosopher Francis Smets to think along with them for a day. On those occasions they visited five different types of water towers, in association with the Flemish Water Distribution Company. Visuals of their recent meeting can be found here.FLACC: EXTRA MUROS
- The young graduates Samira El Khadraoui and Hilke Muyldermans were recently selected for a three months' residency at the Academia Belgica in Rome. To keep track of their stay and visual research FLACC has set up a photo log, titled S.I.D.E.W.A.L.K.S. on the website, where the artists regularly post new images.- The exhibition 'Have a nice day' by Frederik Van Simaey runs from 3 to 28 March in Cultuurcentrum De Schakel, Waregem. Philip Janssens is participating in The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience, a project by Hans Theys for NICC and work by Joris Perdieus is on show at Atelier Soylent White, Brussels.