Tour&Taxis Voix Off
Filmprojectie - Lou Delamare
In 2016 wordt de hedendaagse kunstbeurs Art Brussels voor de eerste keer georganiseerd op de site van Tour & Taxis. De film van Lou Delamare schetst de laatste maanden voorafgaand aan de stedelijke ontwikkeling van deze 30 hectare verlaten woestenij en toont hoe de inzittenden het einde van een gouden tijdperk van ongebreidelde mogelijkheden beleven.
Tour&Taxis Voix Off - film, kleur, 40 minuten
Brussels, March 2014, Europe is investing. There is the imminent disappearance of 30 hectares of semi-marshy terrain in the wasteland surrounding Tour & Taxis. The building workers enter the territory from the south side to level off its vegetation cover. To the north, the various occupants on the edge of this vast wilderness continue their activities as if nothing can disturb them. They have stopped wavering between the desire to function uniquely by themselves and the need to address the world by asserting their individuality. They steal time and space. Another sort of thief of the hybrid variety, between a construction worker and an Indian, has inserted himself at the centre of the zone. He has penetrated into the last zone that has not yet been raked over to raze and preserve 21m2 of this "sacred ground". Here a turf war has been declared, which will be conducted not with guns, but with the territory itself as primary weapon. Some of them move heaps of earth, others whole pieces of land, others just sand and dust. We can see a relationship between ancestral practices and those of today in these acts of resistance to maintain a free territory. In silence and physical exertion, heads bent to the ground, everyone realises the enormity of dreams and the excessive expenditure of energy that these create on the ground. In their respective desires for accomplishment, a eulogy for slowness comes face-to-face with the anthems of global planetary speed and speculation.
De film wordt getoond in het auditorium van Leefmilieu Brussel op vrijdag 22/04 en doorlopend in iMAL van vrijdag 22 tot en met zondag 24 april 2016, telkens tussen 13:00-18:00.
Tour&Taxis Backup - Relikwie van het terrein (2014 > 2016) op Art Brussels
Van 20 tot en met 24 april wordt een ander onderdeel van het project, Tour & Taxis Backup, tentoongesteld op Art Brussels, op de parkeerplaats tegenover het gebouw van Leefmilieu Brussel.
In February 2014, while workers were raking up the low-relief plant cover of the wasteland around Tour & Taxis, Lou Delamare cut out a 21m square of this wasteland by hand. She then reconstructed, true to the original, this sample which had been extracted from the landscape. This "soil scalp" dissociates the territory from the terrain, and the soil from the land surface. This work is an "extracted reality" which has been removed from its context, nature and own reality. This landscape sample, the only live memory of the site, has become a nomadic plot of land which travels and mutates according to the nature of the places that welcome it. In 2016 it will be returned to its promised land...
In 2017 zal Tour & Taxis Backup opnieuw worden geïntegreerd met de vernieuwde site. Een "data center"-project, als sarcofaag voor het bewaren van verleden, heden en toekomst van de site wordt momenteel bekeken.
Over de kunstenares
Lou Delamare (Sisteron, FR - 1986) is a visual artist and architect (ENSAD, France). She combines in her art practice art architecture with landscape. Her main themes investigate the possession and appropriation of territory. She explores the spatial and fictional potentialities of functionless zones. She integrates in her projects the various angles of the realms she discovers: anthropological, geographical as well as historical. Lou produces "geographical performances", "places as devices" composed of a relational network of artefacts and materials : fragments of the physical world, installations, photographies, documentary movies, texts, architectural fictions, sculptures, small scale models and primitive achitectures,...
Praktische Info
Tour & Taxis Voix Off:
- publieke filmprojecties bij Leefmilieu Brussel, Tour & Taxis, vrijdag 22/04 (12:15 en 13:15, auditorium)
- doorlopende filmprojectie in iMAL van 22 tot 24/04, 13:00-18:00
Tour & Taxis Backup:
- tentoonstelling tijdens Art Brussels (parking voor het gebouw van Leefmilie Brussel)
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Credits
Tour & Taxis Voix Off werd geproduceerd met de steun van de Hallen van Schaarbeek, iMAL en Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre Danse.
Realisatie : Lou Delamare
Camera : Lou Delamare, Kevin Dardenne, Stéphane Degoutin, Toma Wa, Nim en Samuel Fleury.
Montage : Samuel Fleury
Tour & Taxis Backup wordt gesteund door iMAL en Leefmilieu Brussel en wordt getoond in partnerschap met Art Brussels en Extensa. Curatoren: Yves Bernard en Stéphanie Pécourt.
Tour & Taxis Voix Off:
- publieke filmprojecties bij Leefmilieu Brussel, Tour & Taxis, vrijdag 22/04 (12:15 en 13:15, auditorium)
- doorlopende filmprojectie in iMAL van 22 tot 24/04, 13:00-18:00
Tour & Taxis Backup:
- tentoonstelling tijdens Art Brussels (parking voor het gebouw van Leefmilie Brussel)
Lou Delamare