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FLACC OPEN HOUSE

JIMMY ROBERT, SUE DE BEER, JOCHEM VANDEN ECKER, ANNE WENZEL, HECTOR ZAMORA, ALIEN OOSTING, MARK KENT, MANUELA VIERA-GALLO, PEDRO PULIDO ANKER, BART VAN DIJCK, KOEN DEPREZ, GEERT GOIRIS, HAP, JEAN BERNARD KOEMAN, MIRA SANDERS, LEON VRANKEN, TOM VANSANT, HILKE MUYLDERMANS, SAMIRA EL KHADRAOUI, PHILIP JANSSENS, FREDERIK VAN SIMAEY, STEFAN SERNEELS, ALEXANDRA CROUWERS, MIKE CARREMANS, KIM RIKKEN, LEEN VAN SEVEREN, MATTHIAS FRITSCH, MARTIN LORENZ, IEVA KABASINSKAITE, PATRICIA RÖDER, KRISTIN ROGGHE, MARIJKE VERKAART, RUTH VIAENE, TOBIAS WOOTTON, …

OPEN HOUSE gives an overview of the activities carried out by FLACC last year, presented through works, designs, models, sketches and documentation of the artists who collaborated with the workplace in 2007. OPEN HOUSE takes place from 27 January to 10 February 2008 (inclusive). On the occasion of the event the FLACC yearbook will be launched, in which all projects are described and illustrated extensively. The latest publication contains texts by Patrizia Dander, Koen Deprez, Guido Goossens, Jean Bernard Koeman, Piet Mertens, Alien Oosting, Karin Peulen, Bart Rutten, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Jan Van Woensel and Francis Zelck.

OPENING NIGHT FLACC OPEN HOUSE

EXPO JOHNNY HARSCH

In cooperation with Cultuurcentrum Genk FLACC presents a retrospective of the work of the Genk photographer ohnny Harsch (1929 – 2005). The archive built by this documentary photographer is so extensive, that it has been quite a feat to make a selection that is representative of Harsch's importance in the region. Ludo Thijs (FLACC) and Pool Andries (Fotomuseum Antwerpen) have been browsing through the tens of thousands of photos, together with Harsch's family, and have come up with a choice showing the different aspects of his work. There will be press photos of the miners' strike, of several political highlights in national and international history, but also sports pictures, industrial photography and landscapes. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Cultuurcentrum, the department of Culture, FLACC and the Harsch heirs.
From 14 January to 5 April 2008 (inclusive)
City hall foyer, Dieplaan 2, 3600 Genk

LECTURE YRA VAN DIJK

‘Blank Spaces in Moving Modern Poetry’
What makes a poem a poem? Not the rhythm, not the language, but the empty spaces surrounding the poem. That is the only definitive way of distinguishing prose and poetry. The white space around a poem is not pure emptiness, but 'breathing emptiness', pregnant with meaning. The visions of Stéphane Mallarmé, Maurice Blanchot and Paul Celan - writers who reflected on viewing absence - may serve as the 'reading method' for interpreting the typographical white. This reading method is applied by Van Dijk to the work of what may well be the greatest poets to write in Dutch: Leopold, Van Ostaijen, Nijhoff and Faverey. Having interpreted the typographical white that surrounds and invades their poems, Van Dijk gives ten possible functions of this white. In this way she investigates something that has seldom been discussed in debates on poetry: 'to be the beloved body of a poem', in Nijhoffs words. The body, the visual form of a poem, appears to hold more importance than one would think. Yra van Dijk teaches contemporary Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam. She obtained her doctorate with a thesis on the meaning of the typographical white in contemporary poetry and published 'De leegte die ademt' (the emptiness that breathes), published by Vanthilt, 2006. ‘Tussen Woord en Beeld' (between word and image) is a series of lectures in FLACC, organised as part of a research project carried out by the Department of Graphical Design of the Media en Design Academie Genk, together with the Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Kunsten of the Association K.U. Leuven.
Tuesday 15 January 2008 at 20.00 hours
FLACC – Casino Modern

EXPO PASSAGE 11 January - 24 February 2008

Vernissage 11 January at 19.00 hours with performances, Beursschouwburg Brussels
Students of 10 art academies in 8 European countries have worked on the same theme: the relationship between art and moving images and performances. Via pre-selections and a jury an exhibition was created with over thirty participants. Passage may therefore call itself the first European Forum of this nature and size. The Beursschouwburg in Brussels, Contour and nOna in Mechelen join forces to be able to show all this young talent: videos, installations and performances. Another aspect of this collaboration is that eight artists have further developed their work in FLACC.
Beursschouwburg, A.Ortsstraat 20-28, Brussels
Screenings / Wed-Thu-Fri / 14>18h
Cjour Sint-Romboutskerkhof 3, Mechelen
Screenings / Fri-Sat-Sun / 14>18h
Oud Ziekenhuis (O.L.V.-Gasthuis), Keizerstraat, Mechelen
Installations / Fri-Sat-Sun /14>18h
kc nOna, Begijnenstraat 19, Mechelen
Performances / 22 February / From 19h

HOSTED ACTIVITIES

At the moment Maria Blondeel is working in FLACC with the reproduction of 36 blueprints of Project G (1995). Alexandra Crouwers, Sarah Michielsen, Sarah Van Marcke, Hans van Dijck, Bert Colla, Jan Sneyers, Sarah Michielsen en Jan Ruymen are also using the FLACC facilities.