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 […]
There Here Now
Installation Performance for viola, masks & moving image First try-out at the Tristero House (Schaarbeek, Brussels) on April 8 2022 There Here Now is a new project I’m working on with viola player Sigrid Keunen. The sculptural/music performance she was working on counterpointed nicely with an audiovisual version of the Marklin series I was developping. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The archive of untold stories
I had the pleasure of being invited for a residency of two weeks at ZSenne Art Lab. The intention was to research and experiment with different forms of presentation, looking for solutions to tell stories with pictures and objects in a different and personal way. I came up with the archive as a form of […]
Piazza del’ Arte
Over the course of a decade now, I’ve been regularly working with Piazza del’Arte, an Antwerp based organisation that plunges children and youngsters in various artistic and creative workshops. Having the vj and audiovisual background, I started off mainly doing live video, installations and mapping. But over the years those Mixed Media sessions evolved into […]
Big Apple
Made an installation with youngsters from Stedelijk Lyceum Quellin in Antwerp, during a Piazza de l’Arte workshop. Sponsored by Argenta, it was presented during an event that launched the building of their new head offices and later got a spot in their reception hall.