OUTSOURCED NARCISSISM
22.04.2023 - 17.06.2023 Joseph Nease Gallery
Duluth, Minnesota
outsourced narcissism consists of a computer, a robotic arm with a camera attached and a mirror mounted to the wall. The computer is running a custom trained artificial intelligence object detection neural network at the same time it controls the movements of the robot. The AI model is being trained to recognize the robot thus the robot looks in the mirror with its camera attempts to recognize itself. If it does, the computer draws an annotation box around the image of the robot with the label of “me”. When the box is drawn, the robot moves in relation to where the box is located within its field of view. The box has a percentage of certainty that shows how sure the artificial intelligence model is that it sees itself. If the level of certainty is above 85% the system will take and post a selfie on its personal Instagram account @outsourced_narcissism. The system saves the images it collects and automatically uses them to retrain the artificial intelligence model conceivably making the robot more and more proficient at identifying and posting images. In this way, the robot’s increasing self-awareness enables it to continually look for, attempt to identify and post images of itself.
tele-present wind
18.04.2023 - 07.06.2023 Kapelica Gallery
Ljublana (SLO)
At first glance, tele-present wind (2018) by David Bowen could be perceived as a plant-like oddity composed of 126 dried plant branches mounted on metal rods. This undulating symphony is actually orchestrated by the wind’s blow, the intensity of which is captured via anemometers located in Minnesota, USA. This reconstituted mini-forest, acting as the promise of a somewhat disturbing mechanical future, rises and sways in unison, giving the scene a strange aura: that of a still life yet very much alive. The sound of the moving metal rods, like leaves caressed by the breeze, reinforces the organic spirit of the installation. tele-present wind is in fact a shifted representation of fluid dynamics, the main subject here being the observation of the movement of wind.
Soleil Noir
11.04.2023 - 15.04.2023 Festival des arts numériques Rêveries
Beauvais (F)
Soleil Noir is an invitation to contemplate a luminous phenomenon, a journey in the hyperspace between artificial light (digital) and natural light (a dying star).
Soleil Noir explores the perception of a fragment of time suspended in the life of a supernova at the moment of its final explosion, just before its extinction... The moment lasts an eternity; the long-awaited explosion never arrives. It is perceptible in the air, as marked by this this kind of floating moment that we feels before falling... Except that here, we will not hit the ground, there will be no dislocation, there will be nothing except this presence, at once impressive and disturbing, strangely vibrating in front of us and yet almost inert, revealed by the light. Unless it is the opposite, let it be this shape that engulfs lights; we are not far from a black hole.
By this suspension in the life of a supernova, Soleil Noir reveals the energy that must be burned to keep alive the datas that we accumulate during our life. Soleil Noir exacerbates the fragility of the world and the elements that compose it, about to break, even if they are imposing and seemingly immortal. It is a moment of precarious balance that expresses the ephemeral dimension of our lives, both digital and physical.
Glass Vibration Gaze
07.04.2023 - 09.04.2023 Rewire Festival 2023 - Proximity Music
Den Haag (NL)
Aernoudt Jacobs, Glass Vibration Gaze, 2023
The site-specific work Glass Vibration Gaze transforms window panes into an installation merging architecture and music. Electronically generated musical patterns are induced into the windows using audio transducers. Stethoscopes attached to the windows function as microscopic listening devices which allow visitors to eavesdrop on the sonic world inside the glass, while observing the flow of city life outside.
Aernoudt Jacobs is a Belgian artist working primarily with the medium of sound. His work is both phenomenological and empirical. It has its origins in acoustic and technological research and investigates how sounds can trigger sonic processes that will affect the observer's scope of perception. His work focuses on a central question: how can we experience the complexity, richness and stratification of our direct, daily environment?
Glass Vibration Gaze is commissioned by Rewire in collaboration with iii and Amare.
PREY
31.03.2023 Theater Rotterdam
Rotterdam (NL)
PREY is a new music theatre production by Kris Verdonck / A Two Dogs Company and Muziektheater Transparant with original music by Annelies Van Parys, in co-production with Klarafestival and Theater Rotterdam and in collaboration with Ictus ensemble.
“We are food” (Val Plumwood)
A new humility
How can we change the way we view being human from a radical ecological perspective? What stories help us to better understand the disruptions caused by the climate crisis? These questions are at the heart of PREY. And perhaps our own mortality and vulnerability provide a good starting point for the search for an answer.
PREY consists of three solos by three generations of women. Each has its own focus: text/language, song/music and dance/performance. With every solo, the tension between the human and the landscape, performer and scenography, becomes more intense and intimate. The essence of PREY is finding solace in the frightening fact that we too are food, that we too belong to an ecological cycle of life and death.
Kris Verdonck has gathered an extraordinary group of people around him for this performance: composer Annelies Van Parys, ICTUS Ensemble, actress Katelijne Damen, singer Anna Clare Hauf and dancer Mooni Van Tichel. Verdonck is responsible for the scenography, a landscape in which the performers increasingly disappear and are swallowed up.
We are all food.
Interview with Kris Verdonck and Annelies Van Parys
PREY - première
25.03.2023 - 26.03.2023 Théâtre Varia
Brussels (B)
PREY is a new music theatre production by Kris Verdonck / A Two Dogs Company, in co-production with Muziektheater Transparant and in collaboration with ICTUS Ensemble.
Annelies Van Parys is writing a new composition.
“We are food” (Val Plumwood)
A new humility
How can we change the way we view being human from a radical ecological perspective? What stories help us to better understand the disruptions caused by the climate crisis? These questions are at the heart of PREY. And perhaps our own mortality and vulnerability provide a good starting point for the search for an answer.
PREY will consist of three solos by three generations of women. Each has its own focus: text/language, song/music and dance/performance. With every solo, the tension between the human and the landscape, performer and scenography, becomes more intense and intimate. The essence of PREY is finding solace in the frightening fact that we too are food, that we too belong to an ecological cycle of life and death.
Kris Verdonck has gathered an extraordinary group of people around him for this performance: composer Annelies Van Parys, ICTUS Ensemble, actress Katelijne Damen, singer Anna Clare Hauf and dancer Mooni Van Tichel. Verdonck is responsible for the scenography, a multimedia landscape in which the performers increasingly disappear and are swallowed up.
The premiere is scheduled for 25-26 March 2023 at Théâtre Varia as part of the Klarafestival in Brussels.
We are all food.
Interview with Kris Verdonck and Annelies Van Parys
Tipping Point at Safra'numériques 2023
21.03.2023 - 25.03.2023 Le Safran
Amiens (F)
The installation Tipping Point is a sensitive and poetic tribute to those dying glaciers. It stages the (re)birth of an artificial glacier protected by a dome; a drip is feeding the glacier that will grow during the exhibition. The device invites the viewer to attend the birth of this artificial glacier. It is inspired by the “ice stupas” invented by the engineer Sonam Wangchuk and used to fight against water shortages during the summer in Ladakh.
Between a laboratory experiment, an attempt to repair the climate or an ironic collector’s item, the installation confronts us with time and scales ; 10,000 years ago, the stabilisation of our cryosphere coincided with the first human traces we found in Mesopotamia, while the fist glaciers are disappearing in 70 years under the pressure of the human activity.
NEVEL in New Religion
03.02.2023 - 05.02.2023 Dansens Hus
Oslo (NO)
After each performance of New Religion by Mathilde Caeyers, the audience is invited onto the stage to experience the installation NEVEL .
The installation, which is part of the scenography of the performance New Religion, was created by Lawrence Malstaf.
NEVEL was initially created in 2004 as an art installation, and will be used for its original purpose after the performance. The public can enter the installation to experience what it is like to be in a mutating labyrinth that determines where you are allowed to go.
Nevel Scale Model
02.02.2023 - 28.02.2023 Limited Edition
Tallieu Art Office
NEVEL 1/66
Hand polished aluminium
20 x 20 x 6 cm
Edition of 5 copies + 1 A.P
Price on request: ischa@artoffice.be
L’HORIZON DES ÉVÈNEMENTS
02.02.2023 - 15.03.2023 l’Atheneum, centre culturel de l'université de Bourgogne & Un Singe en Hiver
Dijon (F)
The space surrounding our planet is becoming saturated with debris; it will soon be impossible to cross this new belt of artificiality without a shield. The event horizon has turned into a thick, sticky fog. Left in suspension above our heads, this waste will end up falling on us, scorching meteors melting the last icebergs on which we could have still leaned before disqualifying the universe.
Impetuous, we sought to tame the infinite, to dominate time, space and climate.
Like a breach towards an undesirable future in which the human being is ironically at the centre of everything, including his own finitude, Barthélemy Antoine-Lœff pushes the voice of this climate that cracks under our feet, by poetry and sensitivity.
L’Horizon des Évènements is an exhibition on two locations:
02.02.2023 - 15.03.2023
l’Atheneum, centre culturel de l'université de Bourgogne
03.02.2023 - 24.02.2023
Un Singe en Hiver