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 […]
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 […]
Marklin
The latest residency at ZSenne Artlab has turned the place into a full-on exhibition space, presenting a series called ‘Marklin’. I have previously experimented with the series during the very first ‘Archive of Untold Stories’ but now I’ve taken the step of making the large format prints this series needs to be gazed upon. ‘Marklin’ […]
Bye Bye Leopold
Somewhere before the summer of 2021, a call was made for a project with the title ‘ByeBye Leopold, Destination Simonis’. A group of neighbours of the Leopold II boulevard (between Sainctelette and Simonis) were looking for an action that could gather people. Questionning the renaming of the boulevard, since it’s namegiver is considered highly problematic […]
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
The Extinction Survival Archive is a spin-off archive of the ‘Archive of Untold Stories’ where we look into the possibilities of survival in a post-apocalyptic world. The Extinction Survival Archive started during a previous residency at ZSenne Artlab. The pandemic has turned the attention away from an impending problem: The tipping point of our climate, […]
Molly English
The Archive of Untold Stories is a research project on how to use the archive as a narrative, using ‘raw’ materials to tell stories. The numerous boxes contain a mixture of projects and idea’s, all in different states of completion, some merely a concept, others as good as ready to go into production. For this […]
Cadavre Exquis
A collaboration by Sergio Leitão and Sam Vanoverschelde During a residency at ZSenne Artlab in january 2020, Sergio and Sam got in touch for the first time and made plans for future collaborations. The pandemic decided otherwise so a residency in Porto that summer got cancelled and when Sergio was supposed to take up his […]