FLACC

MARK KENT IN GENK

The modular sculpture ‘Industrial Sound Recordings from Gemaal’ by the Irish artist Mark Kent (1972, Cork, Ireland) will be in the inner court of the office building at C-Mine until 4 May.. The artist creates the work based on sound coordinates he registers at various locations in the Euregion. Kent relentlessly stores the coordinates surrounding him and applies them to his designs. These patterns are mainly presented in three-dimensional forms such as mural paintings or in prints on canvas, wallpaper and textiles. For FLACC the artist ventured to create a three-dimensional pattern. The result was a modular monument that has been travelling around in the Euregion and has been assembled in various forms depending on the respective sound recordings. Earlier this spring the work was exhibited in AINCI Maastricht, IKOB Eupen and the Kraftzentrale in Alsdorf.  A component of the installation will travel later on to Buro Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands. The project has been co-ordinated by FLACC within the framework of Gemaal, a cultural collaboration in the Euregion between the cities of Genk, Eupen, Maastricht en Alsdorf, and is financially supported by the European Community (Interreg III).

CHILDREN'S ART FACTORY 2008

The Children's Art Factory is a project that is organised by Cultuurcentrum Genk and FLACC every year. This spearhead project was created in 2001 mainly aiming at an increased participation in art forms by underprivileged children and youngsters. Starting from their own artistic practice, a dozen artists work with a group of children in the Children's Art Factory for one week. This year the artists use an approach that enters into the children’s' own surroundings and daily reality. They may hold a mirror up in a very radical and direct way, or may lodge in our daily lives in a discrete and subtle manner. As usual, it will not be the preconceived purpose to create a work of art, but a means to speak, think and learn about art and living. The eight edition took place from 31 March to 5 April 2008. The participating artists are Mike Carremans, Jo Foulon, HAP (Jens De Schutter, Wim Waelput en Piet Mertens), Jan Mast, Hilke Muyldermans, Helena Sidiropoulos, Jochem Vanden Ecker, Frederik Van Simaey, Tom Vansant, Micha Volders and Lotte Vanhamel. Jan Mast's weblog can be found here: www.lightmachine.info/morphologies/, other pictures at www.flacc.info

EXTRA MUROS

The video registration of ‘Metallica’, the performance Jimmy Robert developed in FLACC last year, forms part of the solo exhibition ‘Légèrement manipulés’ in CAC Brétigny, France, which runs from 20 April to 14 June 2008. There is to be a live performance of ‘Metallica’ during the exhibition ‘Elegantly wasted’, which takes place in NAK, Germany from 11 May until 6 July 2008. The performance ‘(seismographic fabrics) tremella mesenterica’ by Building Transmissions & Jean Martens, which took place during the FLACC Open House on 26 January is now available on record. The edition and the installation ‘seismographic fabrics’ (Kris Delacourt, Nico Dockx, Jean Martens and Jochem Vanden Ecker) was presented in Kunstverein Hannover on 6 April 2008, Germany. The installation Permanent Revolution by Sue de Beer, which was filmed in FLACC in 2007, will be on show in MuHKA, Antwerp, until 25 May. The chandelier sculpture Anne Wenzel produced in FLACC will be in ‘This is what you want…this is what you get’ in Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands until 8 June.

LECTURE DORIAN VAN DER BREMPT

Audio books are books too
‘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 Media Design and Design Academie Genk, together with the Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Kunsten of the Association K.U. Leuven.
Tuesday 13 May 2008 at 20.00 h
FLACC – Casino Modern

HOSTED ACTIVITIES

At the moment Romain Bailly is creating a number of large sculptures in FLACC. Together with dance choreographer Sacha Steenks Kim Rikken is producing a movie and installation. Maria Blondeel, Frank Castelyns, Marc De Boever, Arnaud De Wolf, Alice Evermore, Bart Geerts, Evelien Gysen, Ben Hansen, Gregory Maass en Nayoung Kim, Yves Maes, Sarah Michielsen, Lieven Paelinck, Silke Sarens, Stefan Serneels, Stefan Tavernier, Filip Van Dingenen en Sarah Van Marcke are presently using FLACC facilities.