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> 04/12/2008: THE MUSEUM OF FORGOTTEN HISTORY,
exhibition at the University of Ghent, Belgium
in the framework of Museumnacht and Lineart and in collaboration with HISK, Ghent
Open: 05/12/08 - 19/12/08 Monday to Friday from 13:00 - 17:00, Saturday 10:00 - 13:00
Het Pand - Universiteit Gent
Onderbergen 1 - B 9000 Gent
+32 9 264 82 75
Kaat.VandeVelde@UGent.be
> Mo(NU)mentum, commission for Generali Group, Bensberg, Germany
in the framework of the Executive Forum on Time: Business Opportunity and Strategic Timing.
05-07/10/2008: Akademie der AachenMünchener, Bensberg, Germany
mentum-web.jpg) Photo by Thomas Schmitz-Sieben
The installation Mo(NU)mentum is made up of several layers of history, creating a massive pillar, 4m30 high. The drill core is like a sample of time, taken from the earth in the future to understand how the world evolved. Starting with a massive block of marble (in which the different geological layers are visible) the drill core contains samples of wood, copper, bronze, metal, aluminum, bricks, concrete, asphalt, tar, epoxy, plastic. The layers are getting thinner and thinner the closer they get to the present = the plastic layer. So far the materials created a foundation for the next, but the plastic layer is so thin and vulnerable that it is impossible to continue from there. It is a final moment in present evolution.
Mo(NU)mentum is a monument for the future, visualizing the impossibility to continue the current evolution. It is a permanent memory and trace of the Forum on Time: Business Opportunity and Strategic Timing.
> Residency at HISK/Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
Period: 01/01/08 - 31/12/09
The HISK (Higher Institute of Fine Arts) organizes the postgraduate education in Flanders in the field of the visual arts. It provides some twenty five young artists from Belgium and abroad with a studio of their own, for a duration of two years.
At the HISK the emphasis lies mainly on individual practice, with an international focus. The visiting lecturers are crucial. Artists, curators, critics and theoreticians pay individual studio visits at regular intervals.There are also frequent visits to significant art events, and readings and workshops are organized. Thanks to the unique HISK concept the participants are given every opportunity to seriously invest in the critical research of their work, and to situate it within a broader artistic, cultural and societal context.
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