In the past
2015
I Paused Halfway Up The Stairs (April 2015)
I Paused Halfway Up The Stairs brought together artists and cultural workers that have been involved in the recent migration of choreography and performance from the theater to the visual arts context. Over the course of two evenings, I Paused Halfway Up The Stairs raised questions about how performance practices play with this institutional border, and how they appropriate, negotiate and challenge its aesthetics and production circumstances.
I Paused Halfway Up The Stairs, a curatorial project by Tom Engels, containing works and words by Simon Asencio, Alexander Baczynski-Jenkins, Lina Hermsdorf, Clare Molloy, Thomas Puisquelaloi and Marta Ziólek.
April 16-17, 18:00 - 22:00 Grünberger Straße 12, Gießen, Germany
For more information, please visit the website of the project
Support de Fortune (April 2015)
Kristien Van den Brande installed her research on Support de Fortune in the vitrine of Recyclart. Inspired by Robert Walser, Emily Dickinson, Walter Benjamin, Martin Kippenberger, a.o. she collects and deciphers 'marginal' notes. She looks for conceptions and visualisations of the connection between tools, thinking and writing. This on the basis of a most paradoxical ‘tool’: the chance support as an old yet new medium that challenges deeply-rooted ideas and practices of writing and reading.
April 1-23, 2015, 12:00-20:00 Open lab: work in progress, talks, interviews, library
April 13-14, 2015, 16:00-22:00 Artist talks, seminar and performative readings by Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield, Femke Snelting and Nick Thurston
Recyclart, Station Bruxelles-Chapelle, Ursulinenstraat 21 Rue des Ursulines, Brussels
2014
The Dancer as Agent Collection (December 2014)
(c) Brynjar Abel Bandlien
The Dancer as Agent Collection is an unwrapping of The Dancer as Agent conference (DOCH Stockholm, November 2013). Several dancers who attended the conference accepted commissions from DOCH to draw, write and speak about ideas that had been present there and have continued roaming since, occupying other times and places. Various objects were made, including essays, conversations, maps, films, materials and active texts. Eight booklets, a card and a map appeared in print, and the complete collection is housed on Oral Site. It creates a context in which the contours of agency that emerge from dancers' artistic practices can be bounced off, wandered through, felt, fit and shared.
The Dancer as Agent Collection was launched on Dec. 1st, 2014. Edited by Chrysa Parkinson with the assistance of Jeroen Peeters and Julien Bruneau. Produced by Sarma and DOCH, Stockholm University of the Arts.
Oral Site: Artist publications in a digital environment (December 2014)
On Tuesday 2 December 2014, 6-8.30pm at 50°49’19.50’‘N 4°21’25.53’‘E, ERG´s gallery, Rue du Page/Edelknaapstraat 87, 1050 Brussels.
David Weber-Krebs, from `Miniature´, Berlin 2008
Oral Site is an online platform for expanded publications. It proposes an experimental approach to the documentation, study, dissemination and creation of art works. During this evening organized by Sarma and hosted by Erg, the public got introduced to some art works as well as to the unique tool that enabled them. Alexandre Leray (OSP) and Kristien Van den Brande (Sarma) presented Olga, the new architecture behind the current updated version of Oral Site, choreographer and visual artist Julien Bruneau navigated through the intricate landscape of his publication Strata and artists Alexander Schellow and David Weber-Krebs gave during their performance a glimpse of their upcoming publication for Oral Site. The evening was framed by artist and founder of Oral Site, Myriam Van Imschoot.
Book presentations: Through the Back (May 2014)
In his book Through the Back: Situating Vision between Moving Bodies (published in May 2014 by Theatre Academy in Helsinki), Jeroen Peeters reflects on spectatorship in contemporary dance.
On February 20, 2015 at 18.30 at the Municipal Theatre Rivoli in Porto: Jeroen Peeters in dialogue with Alexandra Balona.
On February 23, 2015 at 18.30 at Espaço da Penha in Lisbon: Jeroen Peeters presented his book with a lecture in the series My Dance History, an initiative of O Rumo do Fumo with Fórum Dança.
Audio documentation of presentations at Kaaitheater in Brussels (with Gerald Siegmund and Chrysa Parkinson), at ImPulsTanz in Vienna (with Philipp Gehmacher and Jennifer Lacey), at Oktoberdans in Bergen (with André Eiermann and Mette Edvardsen), and at HZT/Tanzfabrik in Berlin (with Stefanie Wenner and Martin Nachbar) is available here.
Through the Back can be purchased online via Sarma (Belgium), Books on the Move (Europe) and Contact Quarterly (USA).
Anthology of Jeroen Peeters’ critical writings on dance (May 2014)
On the occasion of Through the Back, Sarma realized an online anthology of Jeroen Peeters’ critical writings on dance, including unpublished lectures, hard-to-find essays and many translations.
Lars Kwakkenbos wrote an essay about the main themes in Peeters' critical writings on dance (1998-2012), his poetics, the philosophical frames for his work and the development of his thinking in the proximity of dance (De hordes van een uitgestrekt denken, The hurdles of broad thinking). Special attention goes to texts that appeared only in Dutch.
Call for artists (March 2014)
Hoe willen we in onze maatschappij omgaan met arbeid, verloning en tijdsbesteding? Hoe verhouden bestaande arbeidsmodellen zich tot de huidige artistieke praktijk? Kan de experimentele omgang van kunstenaars met tijd en werk misschien ook een licht werpen op andere vormen van “nuttige werkloosheid” die in onze maatschappij weinig waardering krijgen?
Begin 2014 wordt in België de wetgeving omtrent de sociale zekerheid voor kunstenaars aangepast, maar dat gaat niet zonder slag of stoot. Om het debat te voeden, zet Sarma een reeks publicaties op onder de noemer ‘Call for artists'. Op zoek naar scherpzinnige vragen, een bredere kadering en mogelijke uitwegen, plooien auteurs vragen rond arbeid en artistieke praktijken open.
Aflevering 1: kunstenaar en activist Kobe Matthys zet in een interview met Koen Brams en Kristien Van den Brande uiteen hoe het ‘kunstenaarsstatuut’ het voorbije decennium onder druk is komen te staan en welke aanpassingen er volgens hem nodig zijn.
2013
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