Auguste Orts
Newsletter #17

NEWS

AN EVENING OR TWO (AND SOME) WITH AUGUSTE ORTS #7, #8, #9
#7 On Feb 03 Berlin filmmakers Clemens von Wedemeyer and Maya Schweizer present screenings from the AFAVA catalogue (more)
#8 On Feb 04 London-based critic and curator TJ Demos talks on 'Art and the Crisis of Globalization' (more)
#9 On Feb 04 The People's Cinema invites Angela Melitopoulos to present her film portrait of political philosopher Antonio Negri, 'The Cell' (more)

Nomination of 'probe' by Boris Debackere for Multimedia Award 2010 of the Liedts-Meesen Foundation

Auguste Orts at International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL): 'Dissonant' by Manon de Boer, 'Oops wrong planet' by Anouk De Clercq, 'Black Box' by Herman Asselberghs and 'L'Ecole des Pickpockets' by Sven Augustijnen Jan 27 - Feb 07

Residency of Anouk De Clercq at Cite des Arts, Paris (FR) Jan - Apr and of Herman Asselberghs at V2_Lab Rotterdam (NL) Feb - Apr

NEW PRODUCTION


Premiere of 'Dissonant' by Manon de Boer at International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) and at Jan Mot, Brussels (BE) (see NEWS DETAILS below)

AGENDA

Exhibition
De Hallen Haarlem (NL) 'Recente aanwinsten'
Dec 12 - Mar 07 incl 'Johan' (2001) and 'Francois' (2003) by Sven Augustijnen
www.dehallenhaarlem.nl

Exhibition
Cultuurcentrum Mol (BE) '360c Landschap in Beweging'
Jan 18 - Feb 01 incl 'Kernwasser Wunderland' (2004) by Anouk De Clercq
www.rasa.be

JANUARY

28 Screening
International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) 'Break Even Shop' incl 'L'Ecole des Pickpockets' (2000) by Sven Augustijnen
www.iffr.nl
28 Screening
19.30 International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) incl 'Oops wrong planet' (2009) by Anouk De Clercq
www.iffr.nl
29 Screening
11.45 International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) incl 'Oops wrong planet' (2009) by Anouk De Clercq
www.iffr.nl
30 Screening
16.30 International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) incl 'Dissonant' (2010) by Manon de Boer
www.iffr.nl
31 Screening
14.00 International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) incl 'Dissonant' (2010) by Manon de Boer
www.iffr.nl

FEBRUARY

01 Exhibition
Cultuurcentrum Brecht (BE) '360c Landschap in Beweging'
Feb 01 - 22 incl 'Kernwasser Wunderland' (2004) by Anouk De Clercq
www.rasa.be
03 Screening
International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) 'Break Even Shop' incl. Black Box (2009) by Herman Asselberghs
www.iffr.nl
03 Screening & talk
An evening with Auguste Orts #7: AFAVA
20.30 Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE) AFAVA is the Berlin-based platform for distribution and reflection established by audiovisual artists Clemens von Wedemeyer, Guy Ben-Ner, Laura Horelli, Yael Bartana, Hito Steyerl, Norman Richter, Koken Ergun and Maya Schweizer. Auguste Orts invites co-founders/filmmakers von Wedemeyer and Schweizer for a talk on the workings of AFAVA, including a full screening program by its members (more)
www.afava.org
04 Talk
An evening with Auguste Orts #8: TJ DEMOS
14.00 Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE) This is the second in a series of small-scale meetings on topics related to the Auguste Orts members' art practice. Critic, curator and art historian TJ Demos (US) teaches in the Department of Art History, University College London. Under the title 'Art and the Crisis of Globalization', TJ Demos' talk will look closely at how contemporary art intersects with the conflicts of global cultural politics. To address this question, he will present a couple of group exhibitions he curated (more)
04 Screening & talk
An evening with Auguste Orts #9: THE PEOPLE'S CINEMA PRESENTS THE CELL
20.30 Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE) The People's Cinema focuses on recent work that has not been shown in Belgium so far. At the invitation of Auguste Orts, The People's Cinema presents Angela Melitopoulos' film 'The Cell' (2008, 120') which consists of three interviews with the political philosopher Antonio Negri (more)
04 Screening
00.00 Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL) 'And the moral of the story is: From flaneur to outlaw' incl 'L'Ecole des Pickpockets' (2000) by Sven Augustijnen
www.wdw.nl
07 Exhibition
Tabakalera Center, San Sebastian (ES) 'Silicon Dreams - Art Science and Technology in the European Union'
Feb 07 - Mar 21 incl 'probe' (2008) by Boris Debackere
www.laagencia.org
11 Exhibition
Jan Mot, Brussel (BE) 'Dissonant'
Feb 11 - Apr 10 'Dissonant' (2010) by Manon de Boer
www.janmot.com
19 Exhibition
Royal Hibernian Academy/Gallagher Gallery, Dublin (IE) 'Critique of Archival Reason'
Feb 19 - Mar 13 incl 'Black Box' (2009) by Herman Asselberghs
www.gradcam.ie
22 Exhibition
Cultuurcentrum Wevelgem (BE) '360c Landschap in Beweging'
Feb 22 - Mar 08 incl 'Kernwasser Wunderland' (2004) by Anouk De Clercq
www.rasa.be
25 Exhibition
Frac Lorraine, Metz (FR) 'Listen to your hears'
Feb 25 - Apr 18 incl 'Two Times 4'33"' (2008) by Manon de Boer
www.fraclorraine.org/

NEWS DETAILS

Dissonant
Manon de Boer
16mm-transferred-to-video (11') & 16mm installation (10', loop), color, sound, BE, 2010
an Auguste Orts production
co-produced by Jan Mot, Belgium
with the support of Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren, Atelier Graphoui
dance & choreography: Cynthia Loemij
image: Seb Koeppel
sound: Els Viaene & Laszlo Umbreit (Atelier Graphoui)
In 'Dissonant', Manon de Boer films dancer Cynthia Loemij while she performs a 10 minute response to Eugene Ysaye's 3 sonatas for violin solo - a piece of music that holds vivid memories for Loemij. The camera follows her movements.
A physical time limit, the 3-minute duration of one 16-mm roll of film, interrupts the camera's recording of movement. While the dance continues, and the sound of movement is audible, the screen is black for the one minute that is needed to replace the roll of film.
During the moments that the image is suspended, a game with the audience's memory is being played. Just as Loemij has to draw the music from her memory, the viewer can project the image of Loemij's dancing body onto the black screen, enabled by the sound and memory of her repetitive movement. By respecting the duration of the dance along with the duration of the individual rolls of film, the audience is faced with a puzzling dissonance of image and sound.


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