Auguste Orts
Newsletter #1

NEWS

Transmediale Award 2007 for Herman Asselberghs' 'Proof of Life'
(see NEWS DETAILS below)

AGENDA

JANUARY

26 Screening
14.15 IFFR Lantaren 2, Rotterdam 'Capsular' 2006 by
Herman Asselberghs
info: www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/eng/programme
28 Screening
10.15 IFFR Lantaren 1, Rotterdam 'Capsular' 2006 by
Herman Asselberghs
info: www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/eng/programme
31 Opening
'Unfinish!' 20th Transmediale festival for art and digital culture (Berlin, DE) Akademie der Künste in Berlin
info: www.transmediale.de
Transmediale festival Jan 31 - Feb 4
with work by a.o. Herman Asselberghs

FEBRUARY

02 Opening
"The Leading Thread" Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos (Burgos, ES)
info: www.cabdeburgos.com
Exhibition Feb 02 - March 17 with work by a.o. Anouk De Clercq
03 20.00
Théâtre Le Florida, les Hivernales du documentaire, (Septfonds, FR)
Screening 'Resonating Surfaces' (2005) Manon de Boer
07 20.30
KVS (Brussels, BE) info: www.kvs.be
Première film 'Villes Saisies / Gewonnen steden' by Manon de Boer & Nedjma Hadj
Further screenings at KVS, February 08 -09 at 20.30
12 21.00
UGent, Vakgroep Architectuur en Stedebouw (Ghent, BE)
Screening at ICC, Baekelandtzaal, Citadelpark, 9000 Ghent
'Le guide du parc' by Sven Augustijnen
13 Opening
Artefact STUK Kunstencentrum (Leuven, BE)
info: www.artefact-festival.be
Première film 'Futur Antérieur' by Herman Asselberghs
Exhibition Feb 13 - 18 with work by a.o. Herman Asselberghs
18 Opening
Tanzen, Sehen - The Provocation of the Media in the
Dialogue of Dance and Fine Art', Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen (G)
Exhibition Feb 18 - May 28 with work by a.o. Sven Augustijnen
19 20.00
MuHKA_media (Antwerpen, BE) info: www.muhka.be
"Videogasten" Chris Van Camp in conversation with
Anouk De Clercq
21 20.30
Beursschouwburg (Brussels, BE) info: www.beursschouwburg.be
Salon Magnétique, an evening with Manon de Boer and
Anouk De Clercq with music, film and video.
28 Opening
Museum Contemporary Art Belgrade (YU)
Exhibition Feb 28 - March 14 with work by a.o. Manon de Boer

MARCH

22 Opening
Espace Piano Nobile (Geneva, CH)
info: www.pianonobile.ch
Exhibition March 22 - May 1, 2007 with work by a.o.
Anouk De Clercq
26 Screening
Gradisca international film studies spring school
'Sylvia Kristel - Paris' (2003), 'Presto, Perfect Sound' (2006)
'Resonating Surfaces' (2005) by Manon de Boer
27 Gradisca international film studies spring school
Lecture by Manon de Boer
30 Opening
Museum Contemporary Art, Skopje (MN)
Exhibition March 30 - April 13 with work by a.o. Manon de Boer

NEWS DETAILS

Transmediale Award 2007 for Herman Asselberghs' 'Proof of Life'.

The winner of the Transmediale Award 2007 was announced during the ceremony on February 3, 2007 at the Berlin Akademie der Künste.
Herman Asselberghs received the first prize for his work 'Proof of Life'.
www.transmediale.de

Transmediale.07 jury statement:
"The work 'Proof of Life' by Herman Asselberghs is testament to the power of art to bring its audience into the present. Its layering of meaning and the interplay between different times and spaces, mirrors current multiple realities saturated in images of terror, the viewer is impotent and in a perpetual state of emergency. 'Proof of Life' is an artwork which first and foremost speaks to a universal and splintered human condition through both the description and metaphor of incarceration. Consistent with a long history of text based interventions, Asselberghs plays with a space denoting an, 'absence of presence and presence of absence' with strong resonances, reminiscent of the film essay by Alain Resnais, 'Night and Fog'.
Sitting between audio performance and site specific installation, this work demonstrates the power of the text. Contemporaneous in form and content, referencing and further propagating mediated witness and solace, 'Proof of Life' invites us into a space in order to question the degree of our own comfort and the abstraction of the world around us."

NEW PRODUCTIONS

'Futur Antérieur' 2007

(a.k.a. Disciples of the Heinous Path - Part 1: The Pain of Everyone) 
Herman Asselberghs + Spasm, Fairuz, Boris Debackere & Ko. 
single screen projection, color, stereo, 15', 2007 
an Auguste Orts film 

'Villes Saisies' 2007

Manon de Boer & Nedjma Hadj
single screen projection, color, stereo or dolby , 70’, 2007 
a KVS production



back to main page