Almost Cinema
A different take on cinema
11–22 October 2011
Festive opening 12 October, 9:30 p.m.
Vooruit Arts Centre
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23
9000 Ghent, Belgium
EXHIBITION
The artists who take part in the Almost Cinema exhibition dissect or broaden the ordinary cinema experience as they experiment with sound, image, light, space and movement.
This year’s edition will feature ‘The Space Beyond Me’ by Julius von Bismarck, an “apparatus for reviving spaces that are captured in celluloid”; H.C. Gilje‘s audiovisual installation ‘Blink’ that invites the audience to interact and play with space; two ingenious kinetic sculptures by Kathy Hinde, ‘Dancing Cranes’ and ‘Piano Migrations’; Diane Landry‘s automated sound sculpture ‘Chevalier de la résignation infinie’; the in situ work ‘Disclaimer’ by Wouter Huis; several installations by Tina Tonagel, who uses overhead projectors which she rebuilds into new real time-motion-projection-machines; and the new installation ‘Continuization Loop’ by Wim Janssen that combines and imitates visual elements from three generations of visual media: the material aspect of film, the empty signal of video and the binary logic of digital media.
Ant Hampton & Britt Hatzius will present the interactive installation/performance ’16mm x 12 inch’, combining Hatzius’s research into old audiovisual technology with Hampton’s Autoteatro approach.
PERFORMANCES
Apart from an exhibition, Almost Cinema will also feature live performances from artists whose work is intertwined with cinema.
After two years of extensive international touring with the Holocene cycle (‘Jerusalem’, ‘Iqaluit’, ‘Bonanza’ and ‘Moscow’), the artist collective Berlin has embarked on a new cycle called Horror Vacui. The first project in this new cycle is the documentary ‘Tagfish’, which is presented as a performance (12–13 October).
Circumstance will take the Almost Cinema audiences to an undisclosed location in the city for a cinematic “subtlemob” exploring trust and suspicion in public spaces (‘Our broken voice’, 13 & 21 October).
‘Every minute, always’ (18–22 October), a collaboration between Melanie Wilson and Abigail Conway, is a cinema experience for two. Seated among other couples, the experience unfolds through their headphones, in symbiosis with what they see on screen.
Also on the programme: Vicki Bennett/People Like Us (‘Genre Collage’, 11 October), Theater Malpertuis/Piet Arfeuille & Nathalie Teirlinck (‘Yesterday’, 11–22 October) and Ariane Loze & Elisa Yvelin (‘Vantage Point’, 18–19 October).
Organized by Vooruit Arts Centre & the Ghent Film Festival.
Curated by Eva De Groote (Vooruit).
The exhibition runs from 11 to 22 October and is open on Monday to Friday from 6 p.m. to midnight / 2 p.m. to midnight on Saturday and Sunday. Free entrance (except for ‘This is not my voice speaking’). The festive opening will take place on Wednesday 13 October with a live performance by Tina Tonagel and a reception at 9:30 p.m. in the Vooruit Arts Centre, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23, 9000 Ghent – BE.
For more information, the programme or performances:
Contact Caroline Van Peteghem (press & PR), +32.9.267.28.88, caroline [at] vooruit.be or Eva De Groote (curator), eva [at] vooruit.be.
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