Image from the publication, End To End, 2017
Visiting the recycling plant the Kringloop winkel, Antwerp (BE), 2015
Learning about LEAN management at the recycling plant the Kringloop winkel, Antwerp (BE), 2015
Work in Process, developing a score, 2015
Residues of actions and Score (ENG/CN), Performing Objects at Assembly Line projects, Jiading Venue, Shanghai (CN), 2015
Residues of actions and Score (ENG/CN), Performing Objects at Assembly Line projects, M50, Shanghai (CN), 2015
Annoucement of Assembly Line Project, Jiading Venue, Shanghai (CN), 2015
Kristof Van Gestel, Agreement Conversation Piece/AM - posters, ERforS HQ (BE), 2015
Dialogue Table, Nicolás Lamas and Juan Duque, ERforS HQ (BE), 2015
Dialogue Table, Nicolas Lamas, ERforS HQ (BE), 2015
'Language is a Failed Technology', Toril Johannessen, ERforS HQ (BE), 2015
Pas de Mots / No Words, Bie Michels, ERforS HQ (BE), 2015
Still of video recording of the artist talk by Michiel Huijben, ERforS HQ (BE), 2015
One of the two 'Zet object' sculptures by Kristof Van Gestel, in residence in the guestrooms of ERforS HQ, BE
Fragment video 'Corner Solutions', Bas Schevers, 2015
Silent Walk, France, 2014
group photo after workshop at PAF, Performing Arts Forum, in St. Erme (FR), 2014
Object send by mail by Herman Van Ingelgem instead of his own presence, 2014
2014 - 2022
Performing Objects
Experimental research project
Initiated by: Marjolijn Dijkman and Kristof Van Gestel
Involved: Pauline Hafsia M'barek, Sarah van Lamsweerde, Bie Michels, Alice De Mont, Marjolijn Dijkman, Rune Peitersen, Kristof Van Gestel, Dimitri Vangrunderbeek, Guy Woueté.
Guests / Former participants: Leontien Allemeersch, Bianca Baldi, Justin Balmain, Christoph Baum, Bart Van Dijck, Céline Butaye, Edwin Deen, Juan Duque, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, gerlach en koop, Lauren Grusenmeyer, Paulo Guerreiro, Reuben Henry, Laura Herman, Dunja Herzog, Wouter Hillaert, Hedwig Houben, Michiel Huijben, Per Hüttner, Liesbeth Huybrecht, Toril Johannessen, Ermias Kifleyesus, Karin Kihlberg, Frank Koolen, Nicolás Lamas, Heike Langsdorf, Anne Wetsi Mpoma, Laura Nsengiyumva, Anouchka Oler, Odilon Pain, Jan-Jasper Persijn, Dina Rabearivelo, Taraoo Ranarison, Manjato Rabeharinirina, Liantsoa Rakotonaivo, Carine Ratovonarivo, Anne Marie Sampaio, Sonia Si Ahmed, Bas Schevers, Johanna Sarah Schlenk, Simon Van Schuylenbergh, Dries Segers, Erika Sprey, Alina Tenser, Adrien Tirtiaux, Sarah Vanhee, Marthe Van Dessel, Nico Van Dijck, Herman Van Ingelgem, Elli Vassalou, Danny Vercauteren, Lorelinde Verhees.
Performing Objects experiments with objects and their possibilities to act as an interactive performer towards its users or audience. This project researches different ways artists can anticipate this process during the conceptualisation and the conception of their work. The artworks made for this project will possibly manifest themselves in different locations outside the regular arts contexts.
The project is process oriented and creates moments of (critical) reflection concerning our embodiment and relation to the objects surrounding us, moments of creation, collective exploration during site visits and meetings with invited guests. We create a playful and experimental situation where our relation to objects are tested and reflected upon. We work within an intimate group situation where people can experiment freely with new works and ideas with constructive feed-back from their peers. Besides this internal group process the project aims to develop a direct relationship with specific audiences that will become part of the project.
The home base for the meetings and talks is ERforS HQ, besides this location we create temporary set ups and will incorporate work in various sites that will act as a sort of test cases. These experiments will stimulate and create a base for further discussions and developments within the process of the project.
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14 October - 14 December 2022
Performing Objects
Exhibition and program of events, CC Strombeek, BE
At Cc Strombeek Performing Objects will present the personal results of their artistic research between 2014-2022. The exhibition space will function as a kind of “depot” that will be activated during a public programme of activities. The current members are Pauline Hafsia M'barek, Sarah van Lamsweerde, Bie Michels, Alice De Mont, Marjolijn Dijkman, Rune Peitersen, Kristof Van Gestel, Dimitri Vangrunderbeek and Guy Woueté. The group usually meets in Drogenbos at the site of ERforS.
Participants in the exhibition program: Alice De Mont; Marjolijn Dijkman with Toril Johannessen, Henry Vega, Jan Willem Troost; Sarah van Lamsweerde with Dada Stella Kitoga, Esther Mugambi; Pauline Hafsia M'barek; Bie Michels with Liantsoa Rakotonaivo; Rune Peitersen; Kristof Van Gestel; Dimitri Vangrunderbeek with Wouter Krokaert; and Guy Woueté.
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1 March 2020 - 28 August 2021
Bie Michels – ‘(Pas) Mon Pays’
Enough Room for Space, BE
The film ‘(Pas) Mon Pays, Part I and II’ together with the installation ‘The Copy’ will be shown at Enough Room for Space. The exhibition will also present archival material in relation to the history of the colonial monument in Mechelen and the proposed new inscription.
As the title indicates, ‘(Pas) Mon Pays, Part I and II’, is in two parts. The first deals with a colonial monument in Mechelen and Michels’ efforts to decolonize this statue with a group of Belgian citizens with Congolese roots. The second shows the artist’s visit to DR Congo and is based on her personal history. The film is an attempt to let the past encounter the present and see further into the future of the postcolonial situation, in both DR Congo and Mechelen.
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25 May 2019 Opening event + Screenings 1 / 8 / 15 June 2019
The Voters and the Politicians & No Wo.man is an Island
Enough Room for Space, BE
Opening with the premiere of 'The Voters and the Politicians' a new film by Rune Peitersen, a conversation between Rune Peitersen and Wouter Hillaert about 'The Voters and the Politicians' and the related political issues addressed, and a participatory event No Wo.man is an Island hosted by Erika Sprey and Rune Peitersen.
The Voters and the Politicians is taking its outset in a personal experience - his first conscious contact with the democratic system during a political demonstration as a teenager in Denmark – Peitersen attempts to analyse the relationship between voters and politicians in Western democracies through a series of iconic situations and political archetypes.
On the eve of the European elections, you're kindly invited to participate in the staged polylogue No Wo.man is an Island hosted by Erika Sprey and Rune Peitersen. Moving through space and assuming shifting roles we will speak in tongues about one of the central questions that haunt these elections: is a (new) future possible for the EU? For once not seeking sleek solutions or half baked compromises, we will entangle ourselves in the different strands of the Gordian knot and stretch these to their extremes, as we dig ourselves deeper in our post-factual truths that may or may not untangle new vista beyond the EU.
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11 May 2019
Performing Objects: Decolonial Tour by Anne Wetsi Mpoma
AfricaMuseum, Tervuren, BE
A decolonial tour through the newly rebuilt AfricaMuseum in Tervuren (BE) by Anne Wetsi Mpoma. Wetsi is an activist, journalist, curator and was a member of a group of 6 experts appointed to participate to the consultation of the African diasporas which was established by the Royal Museum for Central Africa (AfricaMuseum) and the latter. The group withdrew from the process after they felt their advises were not taken seriously. During the tour we discussed the difficulties she and the group encountered in the process, the museum as a whole, elements of the exhibition design and specific objects on display.
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22 April - 2 May 2019
Performing Objects – Residency: Justin Balmain
Enough Room for Space, BE
…they could watch themselves. No one who ever came to know himself with the detachment of an observer, is ever the same again. Edmund Carpenter, Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!
Following a research and development period partnered with the Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), Justin Balmain utilised Enough Room for Space as an opportunity to nurture and expand upon production undertaken in Marseille, France. Interacting directly with a maleific object that remains in archival limbo in the Mucem collection, Balmain worked with the museum staff towards addressing ideas of the value of objects within cultural and capital contexts: access, commodity, archival and conservation practice, along with the complex issues this particular object raises: superstition, optics, art history, the occult, class and hierarchy within museological contexts.
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23 March 2019
Finissage: ‘A Series of Characters’ by Alice De Mont
Exhibition, Lecture, Conversation, Enough Room for Space, BE
On the occasion of the finissage of Alice De Mont's exhibition 'A Series of Characters', Arno M. Feld will give a lecture on 'Triangular Art-Coaching in Business Environments'. Arno M. Feld, the alter ego of Christoph Baum, is an art coach who uses art and creation as a tool to enhance employees’ creativity, innovativeness and success rate. This lecture is part of De Mont's research on the function of the alter ego in artistic practice.
De Mont and Baum made the video lecture ‘Erfolg durch Kunst’ together which is on display in the exhibition 'A Series of Characters'. Their second collaboration developed for the finissage involves a scenography developed by De Mont to transform Feld's lecture into a performance. Feld's lecture will be preceded by a brief introduction by performance artist Johanna Sarah Schlenk. After the lecture by Feld, an informal conversation will take place between Alice De Mont, Christoph Baum, Johanna Sarah Schlenk and the public on the use of an alter ego as an artistic tool.
Time: 15:00-20:00 (start talks 16:00)
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22 Sept. 2018 - 24 March 2019
Performing Objects: ‘A Series of Characters’ by Alice De Mont
Enough Room for Space, BE
The ongoing research and work of Alice De Mont focuses on the construction of personalities by means of the creation of characters and alter egos. These characters function as a method to solve (artistic) problems. A character; a living and thinking thing, has the capacity to embody a problem, to bring in nuances, to change it and to accept inconsistencies. In the past year De Mont developed her alter ego Subject 23; a personality with an artistic practice which explores the relation between environment and human nature.
During a residency at Air Berlin Alexanderplatz in 2018, De Mont had the chance to work with two existing alter egos of other people as part of her current research. Between 2012 and 2017, Lena Chen developed an alter-ego called Elle Peril; a nude model, in order to cope with the trauma of revenge porn. Christoph Baum explores the role of an art coach. In the video-lecture (Erfolg Durch Kunst), his alter ego called Arno M. Feld, explains how to be successful in the arts.
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17 June - 9 September 2018
Performing Objects: ‘Taming Anonymity’ by Guy Woueté
Exhibition, Enough Room for Space, BE
An exhibition by Guy Woueté with an accompanying screening by Maxime Jean-Baptiste, both working with personal and subjective narratives in response to the representation of contemporary migration and colonial histories.
On Guy's journey that took him from Antwerp to the Jungle of Calais and back, he wrote his own subjective story of this larger collective moment. All the images, texts and objects collected by Guy became part of his personal story within the context of the significant history of the jungle of Calais. The work reflects on the question of the collective that is being shared within an artists book and this exhibition.
'Nou voix' by Maxime Jean-Baptiste is an autobiographical video departing from the participation of Maxime's father, as a Guyanese figurant, in the movie 'Jean Galmot aventurier' (1990), which deals with the history of French Guiana. By re-enacting a part of the film, Maxime and his father try to unravel other voices that have been unheard in the original French film.
Finissage 8 September - 17:00: Laura Nsengiyumva will start a conversation with Guy Woueté and Maxime Jean-Baptiste about the related themes in their practice to be followed by a conversation with the audience.
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31 March 2018
Screening: ‘Cast Witnesses’ by Sarah van Lamsweerde
Enough Room for Space, BE
The video ‘Cast Witnesses’ is based on a series of performances that took place at Playground (organised by STUK and Museum M, Leuven, Belgium) and the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, in which a group of replicas of Greco-Roman sculptures were rescued from obscurity. In this video-based episode of the project, a small group of researchers attempt to heal the phantom pains of their mauled counterparts through self-designed therapeutic rituals. Screening continuously from 18:30 - 20:30.
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3 February 2018
Performing Objects – Workshop VI
Workshop by Geert Belpaeme, De Veerman, BE
Geert Belpaeme hosted another workshop with the members of 'Performing Objects' exploring the relation between the body and architecture. 'Performing Objects' experiments with objects and their possibilities to act as an interactive performer towards its users or audience.
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16 & 17 December 2017
Performing Objects: Research trip
Paris, FR
During a two day group visit to Paris we visited several exhibitions in the city and met with curator Lotte Arndt and artist Candice Lin to discuss their exhibition project 'A Hard White Body' at Bétonsalon and it's relation to the project Performing Objects. Performing Objects experiments with objects and their possibilities to act as an interactive performer towards its users or audience.
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5 - 7 November 2017
Performing Objects: Artist Talks, seminar with ‘End to End’
Erfors HQ, Brussels / Campus Faculty Architecture - KU Leuven, Ghent, BE
Artists Talks by Alicia Velázquez and Wouter Krokaert on Sunday the 5th, and a seminar exploring the theme 'Performing Objects' the 6th - 7th. The seminar focusses on objects, how they relate to people and space, and how they could stimulate processes of transformation, interaction and creation. Amongst others Bie Michels will present the process of End to End and the group of participants will collectively activate the performance on site.
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1 - 18 August 2017
Research Residency: Amelia Wallin and Justin Balmain (AU)
Enough Room for Space, BE
Amelia Wallin has been in residence in Brussels to meet artists and conduct research for her upcoming exhibition “More Than Mere Jelly” (working title) in the spring of 2018 at the Centre for Curatorial Studies (CCS) Bard, upstate New York. Coinciding this period, Justin Balmain has been working on the research for a new upcoming film project to be produced in France in 2018-2019. The video work 'The Symbol for Silence is Called Zero' by Justin Balmain was installed for a whole-night screening event with invited guests.
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14 May 2017 (14:00-18:00)
Performing Objects – End To End @ Objections
MSK (Museum of Fine Arts), Ghent, BE
Objections combines the idea of ‘objects’ with the meaning of ‘objection’ as an act of resistance. How can we give neglected objects a new life? How can we renew our ways of approaching things? Which force and resistance reside in objects?
For this iteration of the project End to End performed at the finissage of Objections, the group will work with the museum objects from the MSK itself. They will mainly use objects from the backstage of the museum, part of the museum infrastructure. For the project End To End the experimental group Performing Objects is inspired by Lean Management, a form of factory management developed by Toyota in Japan. This session will be led by Lauren Grusenmeyer and Ann De Keersmaecker.
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15 April 2017
Performing Objects – Bianca Baldi / Sarah van Lamsweerde
Enough Room for Space, BE
Artists talks by Bianca Baldi and Sarah van Lamsweerde, who will respond to the notion of Performing Objects within their practice. Performing Objects experiments with objects and their possibilities to act as an interactive performer towards its users or audience.
The video installations of Bianca Baldi bring to the fore overlooked narrative strands and the hidden structures of power. In her work, through the focus on specific cultural or sociological artefacts, historical plots reveal complex webs of political, economic and cultural influences.
Sarah van Lamsweerde works across theater and visual arts, exploring the range between (unfamiliar) languages and mass media phenomena to rethink presence and perception within the experience of art.
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18 March 2017 (19:00 - 22:00)
Performing Objects – ‘End To End’, book launch & event
ERforS and 'Supermarket Drogenbos', Drogenbos, BE
The launch will be accompanied by a presentation with images of the process of 'End To End / Raversijde', a film screening of 'Semiophores' by Pauline M'barek and a performative intervention ‘Physical experiments at the supermarket #4’ by Edwin Deen at the night shop in the centre of Drogenbos explores and shows the ‘hidden nature’ of seemingly unnatural/artificial, human made things. M’barek’s work operates in the transitional space between knowledge and perception, the observer and the observed, the shown and the hidden.
For the project End To End the experimental group Performing Objects is inspired by Lean Management, a form of factory management developed by Toyota in Japan. 'End to End' is a working method which structures a collective process within which objects are constantly being transformed. Variations of the project 'End To End' have so far been on display in China (2015) and Madagascar (2016) and in Belgium (2016).
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28 January 2017
Performing Objects – Pauline M’barek and Edwin Deen
ERforS HQ, Drogenbos, BE
Artists talks with Pauline M'barek and Edwin Deen who will introduce their work in relation to 'Performing Objects'.
Pauline M’barek not only draws on sensory perceptions—such as sight, touch, and hearing—but also on the medium through which an assumed reality is manifested or shown: the frame of an image, the pedestal for an exhibited object, the supporting framework of a construction.
Edwin Deen is interested in physical and cultural processes and the use of everyday objects and base materials. ‘Physical Experiments Live’ is a continuous performance series through which he explores and shows the ‘hidden nature’ of seemingly unnatural/artificial, human made things.
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10 December 2016
Performing Objects – Bie Michels and Anja Veirman
Enough Room for Space, BE
Bie Michels will present results of her working period in Madagascar last summer for the ongoing project ‘Bricks in Madagascar’ and Anja Veirman will introduce ritual textiles from Mali. Anja Veirman is an art historian with a special interest in art and divination.
Performing Objects experiments with objects and their possibilities to act as an interactive performer towards its users or audience. This project researches different ways artists can anticipate this process during the conceptualisation and the conception of their work. The artworks made for this project will possibly manifest themselves in different locations outside the regular arts contexts.
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26 November 2016
VODUN: Performance lecture by Theo Atrokpo (in French)
Enough Room for Space, BE (in collaboration with mòsso)
Theo Atrokpo from Benin will give a performance lecture where he will give insight into the world of Vodun with an introduction into its rituals, charms and performative objects. During this intimate evening event, Theo Atrokpo will present the objects used and worn at Vodun ceremonies like raffia, beads, sceptres, bells or the apklè. He will also present some medical magic ingredients like atakun, which has medicinal and esoteric virtues: its chewed seeds will incite the spoken words. Besides this he will introduce some incantations and Vodun chants.
(Due to limited seats available please reserve before the 20th of November)
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18 September - 13 November 2016
Performing Objects – End To End
Exhibition, Private Tag, Vrijstaat-O, Atlantikwall Raversyde, Ostend, BE
For the project End To End the experimental group Performing Objects is inspired by Lean Management, a form of factory management developed by Toyota in Japan. For the continuation of the project during the exhibition 'Private Tag' some members of the group will develop an installation as an artistic interpretation of an assembly line where systems of interaction between man and things will be investigated.
Objects will be transformed and manipulated during performative acts, outlined in a score that leaves space to free interpretation, reflecting both on factory work and on the creative process of the artist. During the performance the group-members are constantly searching for a harmony between efficiency, planning, improvisation and reflection. Through the techniques of Lean Management, they try to give structure to their performance in which they have to collaborate and handle objects and vice versa.
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11 July 2016
Performing Objects – End tot End
CRAAM, Antananarivo, MG
A full day workshop activating 'End to End', a performance developed by the group Performing Objects and inspired by Lean Management, kicked off Bie Michels' residency and participatory project in Madagascar. The seven participating artists from Madagascar worked mostly on little transformations of the collected objects by improvisation.
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16 May 2016
Bricks in Madagascar: first workshop
Lezze Brickfactory, Boom, BE
In Madagascar, the ancient process of making bricks is still omnipresent. The small portable brick, one of the oldest objects (+/- 5000 years old) is very interesting as a starting point for her research. It’s an object that becomes part of a building and therefore part of an environment. Exactly fitting into the human hand, it is the bearer of human scale and intimacy. Bie Michels will take on the dialogue and immerse herself in local situations and let events/actors co-determine the choices she will make, to achieve a multimedia art installation. The first workshop to develop this project will be based on the performance ‘End to End’ that she developed with ‘Performing Objects’.
July 2016: Bie Michels will travel to Madagascar to further develop this workhop on site in collaboration with CRAAM (centre de ressources des arts actuels de Madagascar).
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17 October 2015 - 15 May 2016
Transgression / Transition
Exhibition, ERforS HQ, BE
The installation is part of Transgression/Transition: an exploration of the Senne and its surroundings, an ongoing research project by Paoletta Holst on the Belgian Senne river. The project started in April 2015 and has known several moments of exploration and presentation since. These photographs represent the Senne and its surroundings in the colors of the regional area destinations as defined by the Belgian regional spatial planning institutions.
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7 May 2016
Performing Objects – End tot End
Workshop at De Veerman, Antwerp, BE
During this session we will rework and rethink the performance score End To End developed for Assembly Line projects in Shanghai for possible continuation of the project. For the project End To End the experimental group Performing Objects is inspired by Lean Management, a form of factory management developed by Toyota in Japan. They learned about Lean Management during a workshop in the Central Recycle Plant in Antwerp.
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18 - 21 March 2016
Performing Objects meets The Disembodied Voice – II
ERforS HQ, BE
To continue to explore links and connections with other international research groups, 'Performing Objects' will meet with the members of 'The Disembodied Voice' from London who will come over for 4 days to Brussels. Through critical engagement, discursive processes and production 'The Disembodied Voice' set out to investigate the relationship between the disembodied voice and contemporary visual culture.
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13 February 2016
Artist Talk: Camilla Monga
ERforS HQ, Drogenbos, BE
Artist Talk by choreographer Camilla Monga amongst others on her piece Quartetto per oggetti, a choreography using objects as choreographic tools. Monga uses common objects that removed from their daily context, become the basic tool to define a range of physical possibilities. Their functions determine patterns whose directional components are unpredictable, but serve as the basis for expansion and variation of rhythm.
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16 - 17 January 2016
Performing Objects at The Norwegian Sculpture Biennial
Vigeland Museum, Oslo, NO
During its two day participation in the biennial Performing Objects will organise a one - day intimate workshop and a one day public performance. For their workshop in Oslo they invite 8 artists, curators, art students and others with an interest in 'objects and their possibilities to act' to take part.
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5 December 2015
Artist Talks: Ermias Kifleyesus and Dimitri Vangrunderbeek
Artist studio & ERforS HQ, BE
A visit to the studio of Dimitri Vangrunderbeek where he will give some insight into his relation to the studio and his way of working where normal objects - such as chairs and lamps - and spaces acquire a completely new meaning. Afterwards an artist talk by Ermias Kifleyesus who will elaborate on his use of telephone booths in Brussels and in other places in the world as part of his artistic process.
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15 November - 5 December 2015
Performing Objects – End To End
Assembly Line Projects, Fei Contemporary Art Center (FCAC) & Jiading District, Shanghai, CN
Performing Objects will participate in the exhibition Prototypes, Duplicates and Cast-offs of Assembly Line Project Studio (ALPS), a mobile art platform focusing on themes of industrial production, urbanization, globalization and migration. For the project End To End the group is inspired by Lean Management, a form of factory management developed by Toyota in Japan. Some members of the group will make and perform an installation as an artistic interpretation of an assembly line where systems of interaction between man and things will be investigated and the group-members are constantly searching for a harmony between efficiency, planning, improvisation and reflection.
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17 October 2015
Detour Zenne
Meetingpoint at ERforS HQ, Drogenbos, BE
Detour Zenne is a walking tour through Drogenbos and adjacent communities that will try to follow the course of the Senne in search for its surrounding histories and spatial realities. Be prepared for a firm and adventurous 10 km walk along different sites and insights, stories and storytellers ending at ELIXIR the yearly harvest feast of Enough Room for Space.
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11/12/13 September 2015
Performing Objects at Brussels Art Days
Exhibition at ERforS HQ, BE
Performing Objects experiments with objects and their possibilities to act as an interactive performer towards its users or audience. This exhibition is a dialogue between the artists who are regularly involved in the project Performing Objects and guest artists we have invited in relation to our interests. The exhibition will present video works, installations, sculptural works and there will be performances happening during the three days. The exhibition will take place at the head quarters of Enough Room for Space (including its project space, the guests accommodation, the studios) and expand outside in the surrounding public space.
With: Céline Butaye, Alice De Mont, Marjolijn Dijkman, gerlach en koop, Toril Johannessen, Frank Koolen, Nicolás Lamas, Bie Michels, Anouchka Oler, Odilon Pain, Anne Marie Sampaio, Bas Schevers, Alina Tenser, Nico Van Dijck, Kristof Van Gestel, Dimitri Vangrunderbeek, Herman Van Ingelgem, Lorelinde Verhees.
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1 Augustus - 4 September 2015
Transgression / Transition
Research residency / walk by Paoletta Holst, ERforS HQ, BE
Transgression/Transition, an exploration of the Senne and its surroundings is a walk along the 103 km long course of the Belgian Senne river that has its source is in Soignies (Wallonia) and flows at Heffen (Flanders) into the river of the Dijle to finally reach the Schelde and the North Sea. The Senne flows through the three Belgian regions -Wallonia, Brussels Capital Region and Flanders- and passes the city of Brussels and some thirty villages. The river has no existing trail that follows its course. At certain points it flows underground or along private property.
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20 June 2015
Becoming a Building
Now Online: Video of the lecture by Michiel Huijben
Video recording of the talk by Michiel Huijben. From the verticality of the body as resembled in Greek columns, to people eating and dating walls and other built structures, this talk proposes that buildings share more similarities with us (and vice versa) than we are usually inclined to think.
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8 - 9 May + 19 June 2015
Performing Objects at The Kringwinkel
Kringwinkel / WOrK Palace, Antwerp, BE
This collective working period will develop new ideas for our upcoming participation in the exhibition 'Liu Shui Xian' (Assembly Line) in Shanghai. We will use objects from the central recycling plant in Antwerp and learn more about the process of recycling and the management of the goods and employees at the plant which are inspired by Lean manufacturing.
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29 May 2015
Becoming a Building
Lecture by Michiel Huijben, 16:00, ERforS HQ, BE
From the verticality of the body as resembled in Greek columns, to people eating and dating walls and other built structures, this talk will propose that buildings share more similarities with us (and vice versa) than we are usually inclined to think.
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8 April 2015
Performing Objects Workshop III
De Veerman, Antwerp, BE
This third workshop will experiment with scores proposed by the involved artists and develop new ideas for our upcoming participation in the exhibition 'Liu Shui Xian' at Fei Contemporary Art Center in Shanghai in the end of October 2015.
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28 February 2015
Performing Objects – Workshop II
Destelheide, Dworp, BE
Heike Langsdorf will guide the second performance workshop part of Performing Objects. The workshop will explore experimental performance relating to the assembled objects by the participating artists.
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5 - 9 February 2015
Performing Objects – Bas Schevers
Performance and new work, Galerie gallery, NL
Bas Schevers will be exhibiting parts of his current research on the corner as an object. This exhibition will include a video work in process of a performance with a corner, instructions for the audience to interact with the empty corners in the exhibition space as well as a video interview with Wouter Davidts on corner solutions in architecture.
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30 January 2015
Performing Objects – Kant and Hysterical Flowers
Lecture by Jan-Jasper Persijn, ERforS HQ, BE
After our collective reading sessions part of Performing Objects, philosopher drs. Jan-Jasper Persijn from the University of Ghent will frame and introduce current thoughts around Object-Oriented Philosophy in relation to the philosophy of Kant.
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9 January 2015
Performing Objects – TRACINGS, Analogies and Dissonances by Bie Michels
Now online with ENG subtitles
Recorded in the central recycling plant in Antwerp, 'TRACINGS, Analogies and Dissonances', focuses on the interaction between men and objects and compiles answers to questions like: ‘Does an object have a soul?’, ‘Does it live?’ and ‘What about its concept?’
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5/6/7 December 2014
Performing Objects – Workshop I
PAF, St Erme, FR
Paulo Guerreiro will guide the first workhop relating to Performing Objects at PAF in France. We will experiment with performance exercises and instructions specially developed by Paolo in relation to Performing Objects.
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14 - 19 November 2014
Performing Objects meets The Disembodied Voice – I
ERforS HQ and Hotel Charleroi, BE
To explore international links and connections with other Vision Forum groups Karin Kihlberg and Reuben Henry came over from London to meet up with the Performing Objects group. Karin and Reuben introduced their project The Disembodied Voice and we participated in Hotel Charleroi 2014.
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25 - 26 September 2014
Vision Forum Autumn meeting
Norrköping Art Museum, SE
The annual Vision Forum Autumn meeting will focus on how to formulate problematics and how this process is similar and different in the arts and sciences.
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19 September 2014
Performing Objects – Talks: Dunja Herzog & Anouchka Oler
ERforS HQ, BE
Dunja Herzog and Anouchka Oler will present recent works and respond to the notion of 'Performing Objects' within their practice. Besides they will discuss and introduce some theoretical texts that have been influencial for their practices in relation to their use and appropriation of objects.
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5 September 2014
Performing Objects – Talk: Sarah Vanhee
ERforS HQ, BE
Sarah Vanhee's artistic practice is linked to performance, visual art and literature. It uses different formats and is often (re)created in situ. In this artist talk she will relate to the idea of 'Performing Objects' within her practice.
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2 May 2014
Performing Objects – MAP-IT session
ERforS HQ, BE
On the 2nd of May we set out a possible future for the collaborative research project Performing Objects using the MAP-IT tool developed by Liesbeth Huybrechts.
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11 - 12 March 2014
Vision Forum Spring Meeting
Norrköping University, SE
Vision Forum spring meeting will focus on how creators can nurture human and inter-human qualities in the face of the (disintegrating?) welfare state. The participants will reflect on questions about how technology and human mobility has changed ideas of wealth distribution, solidarity and discuss if there are new ways deal with/counteract or resolve these questions.
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January 2014
Start of Performing Objects
Experimental research project
Performing Objects will explore objects and their possibilities to act as an interactive performer towards its users or audience. Performing Objects will research different ways artists can anticipate this process during the conceptualisation and the conception of their work.
Initiated by: Marjolijn Dijkman and Kristof Van Gestel