FLACC

RÄ DI MARTINO IN FLACC

In September the shooting of a 16mm film by Rä di Martino (1975, Rome, Italy) starts at FLACC. The movie ‘Singing the news' (working title), is conceived as a tableau vivant based on a scene from Billy Wilder’s classic 'The Lost Weekend' (1945). After a characteristic cinematographic opening scene the actors start singing that shooting day’s news, announcing the date as well. The news bulletin is shortened, but the structure is kept and turned into a canon, which will be composed by Mauro Remiddi. The first voice starts to sing and thereupon the melody is successively taken over by the other voice. Di Martino is supported by the expertise of Allessandro Chiodo as director of photography and the actress Maya Sansa.

With her film and video work the artist moves in the borderland of our personal and collective memories. She analyses how media and literature are subconsciously and permanently influencing our existence and are changing it into a fictitious story line. Di Martino's technically sophisticated films are also a specific critique of film history as a prominent art form. Recently, work by Rä Di Martino was shown in the Monitor Gallery (Rome), Tate Modern (London) and PS1 (New York). At the moment her movie ‘The Dancing Kid’ can be seen at Manifesta 7 in Rovereto.

The artist is also creating a new publication in the series ‘Works that could be mine & works that I would like to be mine’, together with the artists that will be invited by FLACC this year.

There will be a film programme by Rä di Martino in FLACC on Saturday 13 September at 20.00 hours. By screening an overview of a dozen films, Rä di Martino will personally illuminate her work.

Saturday 13 September 2008 at 20.00 hours
FLACC – Casino Modern
Programme:
Between (2001 - 5 min.)
Not360 (2002 - 7 min.)
Untitled (Rambo) (2004 - 4 min.)
Cancan! (2004 – 4 min.)
La camera (2007 - 11 min.)
The red shoes (2007 - 4 min.)
Sing-a-Long# 1 (2007 - 2 min.)
Two pieces from:
The dancing kid (2005-08 - 4 min.)
The night walker (2008 - 4-5 min.)

INTERVENTION AND PICNIC HECTOR ZAMORA

Delly, readymade, Genk

In the beginning of September Hector Zamora (1974, Mexico City, Mexico) will reside in FLACC for the third time. This time he will organise a picnic and an intervention on the 'terril', the Winterslag slag heap. With this idea of a picnic the artist wants to create, with a large group of people, a temporary landmark, a powerful point of orientation in the landscape. Key to this project is the universal fact of how people in a simple way and with the means available use a mountain to communicate with their surroundings. To illustrate this the artist collected photos and satellite images from all over the world, of monumental declarations of love, of political messages and retail advertising, painted or laid in stones. In Genk, this spring, he also found 'Delly', built from the stones taken from what had been a cycle track on the mountain. These stones will be the basic material for the intervention too. The Winterslag slag heap is the highest and most visible landmark in the city, and is situated near C-Mine, the recent redevelopment project for the mine as a site for culture, tourism and creative economics. During the picnic, and together with those present, Zamora will decide the form and contents of the intervention which will be carried out straightaway.

This work does not fit in a tradition of land art, but is intended as a public happening, a play, an expression of graffiti. It is about freedom and the impact of a mountain with a message. The project aims to be a catalyst which, also in future, will prompt people to write and draw on the mountain, starting from the present setting. The intervention will be recorded meticulously and from different perspectives.

Those who want to join this project will meet in FLACC and will then be brought to the foot of the Winterslag terril. From there, everybody will walk to the top of the hill, for a picnic and the final intervention. Please confirm your presence beforehand at flacc@skynet.be.
Sunday 7 September 2008 16.00 hours
FLACC – Casino Modern

OPENING FOR ARTISTIC COORDINATOR

In October Steven Op de Beeck will leave FLACC to become director of Contour Mechelen vzw. FLACC is therefore looking for a new artistic coordinator. The job responsibilities comprise the development and follow-up of workplace projects within the existing artistic policy plan. He or she will be responsible for the coordination of the selection procedures for artists and will also support the workshop production team. The artistic coordinator will develop presentational and public activities and will be responsible for the creation and follow-up of subsidy files in consultation with business management. We expect the candidate to have a suitable cultural or artistic training and relevant experience in the field of the visual arts. You have knowledge of the international art world, are communicative, an excellent networker and a strong team player. Please mail your motivation and CV to flacc@skynet.be attn. Ludo Thys before 1 October.

HOSTED ACTIVITIES

In collaboration with the department of Culture of the city of Genk, within the framework of the project ‘Sterk Water’ the photographer Jan Kempenaers is using the Flacc digital studio at the moment. The project consists of a workshop with the photography students of the Genk Media and Design Academy and will result in an exhibition taking place in the Stedelijke Bibliotheek, the Cultuurcentrum and the Emile Van Dorenmuseum from 17 September to 2 November 2008. Furthermore a work by Geert Goiris was prepared for the film and photography festival Images '08 at Vevey.