Spoorzoekers
[NL/EN below] “Spoorzoekers” ging op zoek naar de materiële restanten van wat de kolonisatie van Congo heeft betekend voor de gemeente Sint-Pieters-Woluwe. De belangrijkste factor daarin was de aanleg van de Tervurenlaan en de tram en treinsporen die voor de wereldtentoonstelling van 1897 werden aangelegd. Op die wereldexpo presenteerde Leopold II zijn kolonisatieproject aan de […]
Kunstvrienden Catalog
As the conservation of the heritage of my great-grandfather Joe English and our family archive in general is one of the many aspects in my work, I’m part of an informal network of collectors, connaisseurs and experts in the field of Belgian painters from the 1830-ies to the 1950-ies, called Kunstvrienden (‘artfriends’). Back in april […]
The Field
The Field is a short film that retraces the steps of Frederick Walker on the night of october 8th to 9th 1918 when he suffered a gas attack in a field near Houplines. It left him visually impaired for the rest of his life. The film is currently ready for festival submissions so I cannot […]
Memories Gone Wild
An exhibition of the Fictive Archive Investigations group Back in the days when covid locked down our world, I answered a call from Claire Ducène who was looking for artists-researchers working in the field of history and archives, to start up a group project reflecting about the kind of work we did. After an extensive […]
Clutter
A residency at ZSenne Artlab had me experimenting with some new idea’s for visual work. Although I strive for a low to no-waste way of living, it has to be said that is quite a challenge. Just to have an idea of how much I consume in packaging alone, I had been collecting every plastic […]
Survival Social Club
I’ve had the opportunity to work at GC Het Huys in Ukkel over the holidays, preparing for a load of new projects in the making. One of them is the Survival Social Club, a new project that builds further on the Extinction Survival Archive: this time we’re really preparing for the apocalypse. The Survival Social […]
94ste IJzerbedevaart
Na de honderdjarige herdenking van de eerste IJzerbedevaart in 2020 kreeg ik dit jaar weer de opdracht om een nieuwe IJzerbedevaart in elkaar te boksen. Een hele uitdaging om een tweede editie op mijn conto te schrijven en tegelijk de vernieuwing in het herdenken van deze honderdjarige traditie door te voeren. De thema’s vrede, vrijheid […]
Moments before the apocalypse
I had some mighty fine time again, residing at ZSenne Artlab for two weeks. Next to presenting The Archive of Untold Stories and The Extinction Survival Archive, I worked on a new film within the framework of the latter project: “Moments before the apocalypse”. I started shooting footage during a summer escape in Portugal and […]
The extinction survival archive #2
How to survive in the city, with Ann Van de Vyvere The “Archive of Untold Stories” project landed at ZSenne Artlab again. This edition further investigated the the archive as a way of presenting stories. The Extinction Survival Archive started during a previous residency at ZSenne Artlab. The pandemic has turned the attention away from […]
The Age of Aquarius
From may 17th to 30th, ‘The Archive of Untold Stories’ was hosted again at ZSenne ARTlab examining the archive as a presentation tool and presenting projects in different stages of completion. The archive boxes, old and new ones, can be opened up again and reveal their stories. A live broadcast on saturday 22nd, presented the […]