As soon as we become motionless, we are elsewhere - outdoor installation, TOT The Orange Tree Project - residency | 2020, Rotterdam πΌπ¨ π¨π€π€π£ ππ¨ π¬π ππππ€π’π π’π€π©ππ€π£π‘ππ¨π¨, π¬π ππ§π ππ‘π¨ππ¬πππ§π is an outdoor spatial installation that alludes to notions of isolation, solitude, togetherness, contemplation, imagination, mental space and silence. Through different degrees of isolation - physical, visual, acoustic, or mental - different reports are created between the individual and the existing garden. The balance between individuality and collectivity and how one relates to either or both is a topic incorporated in the set-up of the project. Beyond an individual artwork, the installation includes contributions from guest musicians & sound artists that activate a higher level of togetherness, making it a collective work as well. From the end of September until mid December 2020, 4 π¨π€πͺπ£π & π’πͺπ¨ππ π₯ππ§ππ€π§π’ππ£πππ¨ were supposed to take place inside the installation. Because of Covid, only one performance took place. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoOc6m0Urow). In time, nature will take over the intervention, in a similar way to when your mind wanders and the space around you shrinks. It is an ode to the 'elsewhere'; it is an act of empowering the intangible over the tangible. In a world where the notion of togetherness is being challenged, one can choose to look at it as an archipelago of solitudes. https://www.facebook.com/events/693905521218830/?active_tab=about
Le barbare dΓ©licat - 'Le barbare dΓ©licat' is an installation(video&sound) I created for the 'Karel Appel Inspiratie' group exhibition at galerieWind showcasing 50 local artists.
Although being known as an abstract-expressionist painter, Karel Appel (1921-2006) composed the album 'Musique Barbare' (1963) for a documentary made on himself by cinematographer Jan Vrijman.
I manipulated both the video and its soundtrack in order to expose the hidden delicacy contrasting the 'barbaric' painting technique of Appel.
The Table - The table is a sound piece made in collaboration with Sebastien Seynaeve for the Bending Melting Aching one-day exhibition that took place in the Horta Museum during the Brussels Museum Nocturnes in October 2017.
For this piece, I wrote and recorded a palindrome text, as a direct response to Francis Pongeβs book "La Table".
https://www.100ideas.space/mik-the-table
Searching for something - Searching for a sound, for an image, for a word, for a feeling,
for a state of mind. (sound, 2020)
Exercise on intimacy - Exercise on intimacy is a sound installation proposal from 2017 that stems from my personal fascination about the concept of intimacy and its relation to our physical and mental space.
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/230495416?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=66893215
