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The Survivor Issue

There are truly awful things to live through. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the mundane, the routine, the customary. Survival is about relativity, a certain state of mind applicable in a myriad of scenarios. It can be about reinventing tradition and withstanding the backlash; it can be navigating the city in its duality of the hidden and the manifested, threat and opportunity; it can be in the murkiness of solitude, of suburban circumstance, of selfimposed cages. The act of surviving is that unpredictable juxtaposition of you against anything, be it adversity, challenge or supreme boredom. What counts is making it in the end, and conjuring up the nerve to talk about it. 03

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When we first stumbled across Issue #10 of Swiss magazine Zweikommaseiben, we were dumbfounded. © Phile Deprez Featuring in-depth interviews with the likes of M.E.S.H., Lena Willikens, Vessel, Powell and Torn Hawk, it was as though we’d found our soulmate. Someone somewhere else in the world knew exactly what we were thinking and what we’d want to read. For the Summer 2015 issue, they’ve turned their attention to another bevy of recent favourites: Beatrice Dillon, TCF, Danse Noir and Oneohtrix Point

Milo Rau searches for the limits of what children know, feel, and do. How do we respond when we see children enacting scenes of violence or love relations? And what does that say about our own fears and desires?

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With a challenging near-manifesto spanning geology and complex racial dynamics underpinning her latest works, let’s just say Elysia Crampton isn’t short of artistic ambition. But to place focus entirely on the surrounding concept doesn’t do her justice: newly released debut full-length American Drift stands on its own, a mind-blowing, near transcendent masterpiece blending Latin cumbia, Bolivian saya, tribalistic crunk and a healthy dose of DatPiff-worthy mixtape narration. After years of crafting sample-dependent (though no less incredible) sonic mosaics under the E+E moniker, she’s finally come into her own, and we’re reaping the benefits. — soundcloud.com/eande

Brooklyn band brings an old fruit crate to their live sets, which when opened reveals a tiny jungle filled with fauna, flora and lights that is magnified and projected onto the walls, enveloping the crowd in an otherworldly glow. Their debut album Islet is out on Home Assembly Records. — soundcloud.com/peptalk_music

Artist: Elysia Crampton

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Artist: Elysia Crampton

rate worlds by creating small musical islands of dreamy, exotica-inspired melodies with bird calls, synthesizers and orchestral instruments. The Brooklyn band brings an old fruit crate to their live sets, which when opened reveals a tiny jungle filled with fauna, flora and lights that is magnified and projected onto the walls, enveloping the crowd in an otherworldly glow. Their debut album Islet is out on Home Assembly Records. — soundcloud.com/peptalk_music

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Magazine: Zweikommaseiben When we first stumbled across Issue #10 of Swiss magazine Zweikommaseiben, we were dumbfounded. Featuring in-depth interviews with the likes of M.E.S.H., Lena Willikens, Vessel, Powell and Torn Hawk, it was as though we’d found our soulmate. Someone somewhere else in the world knew exactly what we were thinking and what we’d want to read. For the Summer 2015 issue, they’ve turned their attention to another bevy of recent favourites: Beatrice TICKETS &Dillon, INFO TCF, Danse Noir and Oneohtrix Point

Artist: Peptalk Having grown up in Tokyo, Los Angeles and San Juan, Shayna, Mike and 29 & 30.04.2016 – KVS Angelica of Peptalk merge their dispa-

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Contents

Protomartyr 16 Photo Essay: Yves De Mey 22 Scene Report: Johannesburg 28 Featured Artist 34 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Recommendations 09 We Visit You 14 Style 40 Books 44 Films 46 Subbacultcha Shows 49 Overview 62

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April Recommendations

Recent finds from our editorial team Zine Fest 09-10 April

Fotofestival Knokke

Every two years the city of Knokke organises one of the most prominent photo festivals in Belgium. Focus this year will be on ‘Mexico Megalopolis’, with more than 12 photographers showing their series about Mexico City. But there’s also a section of ‘Unknown Masterpieces’, with the work of upcoming talents from Belgium and featuring our very own Adriaan Hauwaert and some other inspiring photographers like Marie Wynants and Kaat Pype, among others. So jump on that train and see you in Knokke.

WIth a successful first edition under their belt, Les VoiZines return on 9 & 10 April with the second edition of their zine happening. They say never change a winning formula and so not much has changed: the focus is still on zines, zines and zines. But apart from that there will also be a mini-expo by Norwegian artist Inka Léontine and even more vegan treats than last year! C u there!

— facebook.com/fotofestival. knokkeheist

— facebook.com/lesvoizinesgent

www.sorrynotsorry.gent October March Recommendations Recommendations Straatkunst Festival in Gent

SORRY, NOT SORRY FESTIVAL 07–08 07– 07 08 MEI 10

April Recommendations Poppostions Brussels

tory and Plek 322, should be explored in as many senses as possible. Seeking to make creative and community-oriented use of abandoned and unused spaces, the driving force behind the organisation is nothing short of noble. The results are clear: people from all over the creative scope are breathing new life into these spaces, and therefore into the city itself. One gets a sense of what the future in culture, community and city planning will look like: multifunctional, ever-growing and hella nice.

Art fairs are a dime a dozen, and Brussels isn’t lacking interesting initiatives. And yet, Poppositions Brussels – quite possibly the most alternative incarnation of the art fair form out there – is still worth checking out. Using Art Brussels as a springboard, Poppositions groups together galleries and experimental art spaces to, in their words, ‘valorise new experimental and ingenious economies amidst the prevailing art market’. This year’s tagline, ‘The Wrong Side’, boasts curations from names such as Rianne Groen, Salón Acme, and GALLERIAPIU – be there from 21 to 24 April.

— toestand.be Travel Storytelling Festival Have a thing for mental trips? Here’s something for you: 14 April will see the first edition of the Worldwide Travel Storytelling Festival.Visual artists with the gift of the gab, photographers, filmmakers, athletes, bloggers and everyone in between will come and talk philosophy and life experiences to those embarking on similar pursuits. Hosted at the aptly named LaVallée in Brussels, Travel Storytelling Festival might just become the kind of staple for the dreaming nomad in all of us.

— poppositions.com Toestand It seems weird to write a recommendation about something so large and multifaceted. And yet Toestand, the organisation behind Brussels projects such as Allee du Kaai, the Renault fac-

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A HOUSE FOR DANCE, IMAGE AND SOUND LEUVEN — WWW.STUK.BE

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THE HERFSTS (ep-voorstelling) + KALISTO BAY

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JOSEPHINE FOSTER + BROEDER DIELEMAN

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ELSEWHERE #4: RAZEN + NATHAN WOUTERS

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YVES DE MEY + RED STARS OVER TOKYO I.S.M. GONZO (CIRCUS)

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ECHO BEATTY + ASTRONAUTE

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April Recommendations Riikka Hyvönen

Eylül Aslan

We’ve all been there: walking down the street, just minding our own business, when someone’s horrified stare makes us look down and realise we have a fist-sized bruise on our butt. And by ‘we’, I mean Riikka Hyvönen’s unlikely muses. The Finnish artist is changing the way we look at beauty through monumental canvases depicting massive bruise-laden bums. Part sculptures, part paintings, Hyvönen’s works do more than just expose flesh and wounds: they celebrate them symbolically and aesthetically, reminding us that pain is both fleeting and enduring, unexpected and necessary.

Berlin-based photographer Eylül Aslan has a lot to say about gender and identity. Born and raised in Turkey, her photographs are as mysterious as they are powerful, all blurs of hair, skin and exquisitely rendered textures. Quite often gritty and bordering on the absurd, Aslan’s photos cannot be reduced to mere exercises in provocation: they are the hand of a determined artist with an acute understanding of composition, all the while using a powerful feminist rhetoric and the unpretentious, freewheeling spirit of a child at play.

— riikkahyvonen.com

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We Visit You Photo by Tine Claerhoutt

Name: Valérie Hellebaut Age: 32 Zodiac sign: pisces Website: valeriehellebaut.com studiokano.com

What kind of music are you listening to at the moment? A new discovery for me – but not new at all – is Gal Costa, whose music I really love. What’s the first record you bought? If I remember correctly, that would have been The Score by the Fugees when I was 12. I bought that record on my very first trip to Paris. Any guilty pleasures? I don’t feel guilty about any of my pleasures. Any regrets recently? I try not to look back too much. What’s done is done and you can only do it differently in the future. What makes you dance? Despacio, the new immersive project by 2manydjs and James Murphy. One of those guys is also really cute. Which future Subbacultcha show are you looking forward to? I love to see dance performances, so I always try out the dance programme hoping to discover new names.

Tell us, what do you do in life? I’m a costume designer. After a long, rich technical parcours at Vlaamse Opera and Ballet, I’ve started to create concepts and designs for musicians, dance performances, advertising and film on a freelance basis. Last year I also started my own design studio, Kan/o, with artist Stien Bekaert. We work on textile designs to make beautiful limited-edition objects. What projects are you working on? With Kan/o we’re now creating collection 03, which will be different than the previous ones – although I can’t reveal how yet. That’s still a secret for now. What do you like best about your place? The apartment building I live in is a beautiful art deco gem filled with lots of marble and wooden floors and an old elevator. The eye-catcher of my apartment is definitely the dark green marble fireplace, which I would love to dismantle if I was to ever move out, but unfortunately I don’t think my landlord would let me...

Every month we visit a Subbacultcha member’s place. If you want us to visit you, please send an email to magazine@ subbacultcha.be

Interview

Protomartyr Interview by Julien Van de Casteele Photos shot by Aaron Wynia in Toronto, Canada

The Survivor Issue For many of us, Detroit, a once prosperous Mecca for automobiles, has slowly mutated into a derelict city where survival is just routine. However, for locals it is the land of opportunities for the unthinkable. Turning forgotten spaces into fresh farms producing local organic vegetables, and beaten-down garages into places for local musicians like Protomartyr, have become common practice. We talked to Joe Casey, singer of the post-punk band, who explains it was born with no expectations, with just a need for good entertainment. When you guys started this project, what was the plan? Well, when we first started it was mostly… yeah, kind of a joke. I think the original plan was the guys had their own band, The Butt Babies and we’d do this split 7-inch with me and Protomartyr. So it wasn’t their main band for a while. It was mostly a way to hang out, and it wasn’t taken too seriously until… probably right now! [Laughs] Have you always sung? No, no, not at all, never. I can’t play any instruments, I don’t really know anything about music, so I figured I’d sing. I thought I knew enough people

Interview who could play instruments to back me up. It’s kind of a weird thing that I’m now considered as this singer. What do you do during sound check, if you know what I mean? Well, when we come up with songs, it’s fine. I can just mumble something. But yeah, sound checks are weird because you’re just standing there… On your latest album the song ‘Ellen’ is dedicated to your mom. In interviews like this one we try to find out a bit about you. How do you cope with your private life being exposed like this? I still can’t get over the fact that when we play a show people come up to us and say, ‘Joe!’ I always assume that we’ve met some time before and then I just realise, ‘Oh wait, they know my name ’cause they know the band.’ You know, originally my idea was to never explain anything but then I realised that people could get the wrong idea, so I figured I can do this 50/50 thing where I explain some things then leave the other ones unexplained. Also, yesterday we got a nice email from somebody saying, ‘Thanks for writing a song about Alzheimer’s,’ you know, explaining his own experience with it and to me that’s heartening. What we’re doing makes sense. I feel bad ’cause Mom is still alive, I’m embarrassed I’m writing a song about her and she doesn’t really know it. She’ll know that I’ve played it before, but then she’ll immediately forget it... Now I’m realising people are actually listening and reading these songs, so it changed my approach to how I write the lyrics. I can’t just say the first things that pop to my head. What’s the best thing about playing in Protomartyr? That’s a tough one. [Laughs] Basically seeing the world, getting around,

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‘Yesterday we got a nice email from somebody saying, “Thanks for writing a song about Alzheimer’s,” you know, explaining his own experience with it and to me that’s heartening. What we’re doing makes sense’

Protomartyr meeting people. North Dakota is a place I never thought I’d be in, first of all. Then knowing that people are willing to pay to see this is a lot of fun. What do you guys do on the side of the band? Well, mostly what I do is help my brother take care of Mom and sit around the house. Read books and watch Ma. We used to have jobs but recently we’ve been giving those up because we’re touring so much. We don’t know what life will be like when we’re back from touring. Would you ever consider living in a city other than Detroit? Detroit is notorious for having terribly cold winters and then really hot muggy summers. So it’s always the worst of both worlds. [Laughs] But I’ve lived here so long and I’ve been around enough to see that no other places really are better than Detroit. So I can see myself living there for a while. Tell me about the urban gardens? That to me is fascinating. It has something to do with the communities of Detroit trying to improve the city by using up abandoned spaces to make fresh vegetables readily available for people. I applaud that. It might not be the economic salvation we’re looking for, but at least people are trying. If it’s not vegetables, what would be in your survival kit? A book, a nice bottle of whiskey, some cigarettes then I should be okay. Protomartyr plays Het Bos, Antwerp on 06 April. The show is free for Subbacultcha members.

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Photo essay

Yves De Mey by Miles Fischler

Antwerp-based producer Yves De Mey is a silent but steady techno mainstay in our little country. With roots in sound design and scoring for performing arts, film and installations, he has released noisy synthesizer pieces with a steady pulse over increasingly anxious drills and drones, on labels such as Sandwell District, Opal Tapes and Spectrum Spools. When heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at his most techno, some draw comparison to Shapednoise and Samuel Kerridge. De Mey is also one half of Sendai, his long-running project with Peter Van Hoesen. soundcloud.com/eav Photos shot by Miles Fischler, in Antwerp, Belgium

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Yves De Mey plays STUK, Leuven on 12 May. The show is free for members.

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Scene Report Johannesburg

Words by Nicholas Rawhani & Khanyesile Phahla Photos shot in Johannesburg, South Africa by Valerie Steenhaut, Nicholas Rawhani & Khanyesile Phahla

Scene Report — Johannesburg Always been curious about the music scene in other cities outside your own little cocoon? We assumed you were! So we feed your hunger for insights and secrets in the Scene Report. This month we talked with photographers Nicholas Rawhani and Khanyesile Phahla, who’ll guide you through South Africa’s roughest metropolitan pearl, aka the city of Johannesburg – one worthy of its ‘true survivor’ descriptor, given its bloody Apartheid history. The first thing you have to know about Johannesburg is that it’s known as the City of Gold. Not just because it was established on one of the world’s largest gold fields, but because it’s the economic hub of South Africa and perhaps even the entire African continent. It’s fast-paced, it’s energetic and it’s got a completely unique flavour. Nonetheless, Jo’burg is not as obviously beautiful as its sister Cape Town, but requires you to dig in and find out more. It’s a city that demands to be explored in all its diversity. There are people of every shape, colour and culture living here, and like any garden, the diversity of its flowers just makes it more beautiful. In consequence, Johannesburg is host to countless artists and hustlers who are currently creating and imagining things that the world has never seen before, since their vision is the result of a cultural, political and ideological mishmash. We have pop-up stores next to World Heritage sites and photo shoots held in mine-dumps, which I think makes Jozie’s current artistic expression quite unique, seeing that it was founded in a long pro-

Scene Report — Johannesburg cess towards freedom — a fact that requires not only celebration but also grieving and a lot of extra work all at the same time. This makes Johannesburg one of the most dangerous and exciting places to be in the world right now. The thing about the scene in Jo’burg is that there are actually multiple scenes when it comes to music, arts and photography, since there’s a lot happening at the moment. There’s a great indie scene, for example, with musicians like Josh Kempen and – of course – an amazing Afro-soul scene with artists like Itai Hakim. Besides that, we have a lot of Afro hip hop and spoken word stuff from young artists like Sam Turpin – which relates to the strong culture of poetry in this city – and there are some already internationally renowned performance artists and acts going on – like, for example, The Brother Moves On. I feel like someone is always performing something somewhere in this city. We also have a festival going on in Jo’burg, called the 4/20 festival. It’s a cannabis festival hosted by the Dagga Couple and everything about it is dedicated to all things weed-related. At 4/20 you can find a complete cross-section of South African society: from young to old, black to white, to all shades in between. There’s always that unmistakable odour of the herb in the ’hood from early on, setting the tone for the unique sight of a huge body of people openly sharing joints, jokes and anecdotes across the racial, social and economic divides. Another festival – outside of Johannesburg but worthwhile mentioning nonetheless – is Oppikoppi, adored by everyone in South Africa. It’s in Limpopo and there are all kinds of acts from jazz, world music, house music, acoustic things, to comedy and everything else in between. When it comes to non-music related scenes, there are quite a few young people starting their own clothing brands nowadays and some incredible visual artists popping up everywhere. South African street culture is ever-expanding, and groups like BoyznBucks are doing a great job inno-

Scene Report — Johannesburg

‘... their vision is the result of a cultural, political and ideological mishmash’ vating that particular scene. I know it might seem like I’m inflating this, but I’m really not. We’re a city of people hustling and expressing ourselves in ways that weren’t there before. The photography scene, for example, is even more diverse and widespread. Subsequently, a lot of local photographers have made it their mission to show the world that Africa – and more specifically, South Africa – is nothing like we are or have been portrayed as. An example of this is a photography collective from Soweto called I See A Different You, portraying South Africa as they see fit. As for places to go, Jo’burg has some really diverse venues. There are at least three central business districts and a whole load of cultural centres – think Mellville, Parkhurst, Newtown, Linden, Rosebank, Arts on Main and Braamfontein. Nonetheless, my favourite area to be right now is without a doubt the inner city. There is so much happening there at the moment in terms of city development and so much progress in terms of the arts, the city centre is buzzing and the buzz is expanding. There are art shows at the Kalashnikovv Gallery in Braamfontein or at the Wits Art Museum, live music and DJs at Kitchener’s bar, as well as an enormous amount of other parties and events that are being held all around the city. The thing that I really like about Jo’burg is that people aren’t lazy with their events. I’m always going to parts of the city I’ve never been to before because somebody is having some event in an old train station or a derelict post office or something. It’s a super-cool vibe.

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Putting all of this together, the completely unique feel that Johannesburg is producing right now, that grungy and truthful mirror to a developing and yet developed, peaceful and yet warring, frustratEssentials ed and out-of-place reality is what Places: The Whippet in Linden, has been developing in this city Father Coffee in Braamfontein, while we as a country were chalArts on Main, The Bioscope, The lenged with our own adolescence. I Maboneng Precinct, Kitchener’s, Wits Art Museum, Kalashnikovv mean, South Africa is only 21 years Gallery, Pata Pata old right now, and what is currently Music: Bambatha Jones, Mooncoming out of Jo’burg is so unique child, The Brother Moves On, and nascent, I feel like if it’s allowed Josh Kempen, Itai Hakim, Sam to grow it’s going to become incredTurpin, The Muffinz, The Soil ibly influential.

Featured Artist Liesbeth Henderickx is a Ghent-based sculptor who makes art that is simultaneously both surprising and rich in association.

Liesbeth Henderickx ‘I want everyone to see different themes and concepts in one single sculpture. It shouldn’t be too univocal in its interpretation. I want to be surprised, otherwise I lose interest.’

Interview by Valerie Steenhaut Photos shot by Tiny Geeroms at Veeartsenijschool and the artist’s home in Ghent

Liesbeth Henderickx What’s the idea behind what you’re making? Well, I used to start with objects. I was always fascinated by something that’s called ‘negative space’, which basically means the space that’s detached from that object. Now I get inspired by what I encounter. Yesterday I found these flower pots. I’ll probably use one of their shapes over and over again so it remains harmonious. This repetition is important, because the sculpture can easily get too complex. Does that connect you to architecture? Definitely. A very classical pillar or construction can inspire me. Also the architects I like, I tend to consider them as sculptors. I never think about architecture in a functional way, I see it more as a monumental sculpturing. Why the use of concrete? I like the fact that it’s a very typical construction material, so there are endless possibilities in usage. It also allows me to keep my sculptures very natural, flowing and elegant, because they still have open, see-through parts. In that way the sculpture is actually revealing everything and I’d like my work to be like that. What makes an atelier so essential? It’s important to have a place to go work. You can leave it behind as well

when you’re finished, and go some place new, which usually feels kind of refreshing. In this particular atelier I like the table in the middle, even though no one else wanted this space because it’s actually not that handy [Laughs]. Table space is good for me because I have many small elements that need to be piled up. tell me about this cupboard? It used to be my grandfather’s. He was always working with his hands, making things, very functional. He designed this special device to clean chickens after slaughter [Laughs]. Now he got too old, so he gave me his cupboard along with the tools inside. He’s been using these tools since his adolescence. I don’t have that many tools in general actually, because I like to work with what I have. I like to be durable with the technical side of my art, and since I still switch materials sometimes, I only want to invest in the essentials.

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Books Text by Gabriela González. Artwork by Dieter Durinck

Patience by Daniel Clowes ‘Ever since we got the big news, my brain is like a non-stop tape loop of catastrophic doom scenarios, horrible crushing guilt, and hideous memories.’ The thoughts of the eponymous victim, unwilling heroine and accidental survivor ring like a distant, recognisable echo. Anyone who’s ever experienced Hegel’s uncanniness, that looming shroud that every so often makes the day-to-day seem different and strangely meaningful, might relate. For Patience, it’s certainly not without reason. It feels like Daniel Clowes needs no introduction; anyone who was around during the late Nineties and early Aughts with nerdist tendencies and a penchant for quirk is familiar to some extent with the Clowes canon, which includes Wilson, Death Ray and (fuck yeah) Ghost World. Think existential meanderings interspersed with in-your-face outbursts of humour, exasperation and truth, sometimes with demented inter-dimensional elements and laid out in panels that go beyond the cinematic and delve into the eerily recognisable. Back to Patience: I’m not going to give away much about the story here. I had no idea myself and figured that, at worst, I’d be into it for the beautiful design alone. But it ended up being an all-consuming, highly revisitable and sweetly enduring two-hour read during an awkward plumber’s visit. Let’s just say it’s a love story/murder mystery/ sci-fi experiment, one that begins in tragedy and aims for dubious cosmic redemption, rendered with the frantic intensity and hazy cognisance of someone piecing their life back together with no satisfying outcome ahead. Like every day’s adversities, but with blaster guns and wormhole goo.

Films by Sabzian

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Experimental filmmaker, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, drifts between cinema and art. CINEMA GALERIES and KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS dedicate a retrospective to one of the most interesting and original voices in contemporary cinema and arts. Often political, Weerasethakulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work deals with memory. Politics and social issues are subtly addressed through the remains of a forgotten era whose ghosts are nevertheless still present. His characters, haunted souls separated from linear time, drift through dark jungles, hospitals, hotel rooms and past lives. In a poetic and mythical way, he forms a personal and mysterious history of his country, Thailand. His work is also about his own work. A work in progress, an ever-changing memory. Cinema Galeries will not only screen his feature films but also his daring shorter works. In addition, there will be an exposition and the European premiere of his performance Fever Room. Screenings from 12 April to 29 May at Cinema Galeries, Brussels

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Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)

Killer of Sheep is more than worth the trip to Leuven. Especially since director Charles Burnett will be present at the screening of his 1978 film. Expect an interesting talk afterwards between Burnett and Stoffel Debuysere, who curated an extensive programme at last year’s Courtisane Festival of films by the L.A. Rebellion movement in which Burnett played a pivotal role. Those who missed it should rush to see this painstakingly preserved gem of American cinema. ‘The film […] creates a sense of immediacy and spontaneity […] as well as quiet moments of humor and despair. Burnett finds lyricism by combining quotidian images – children playing on rooftops or Stan and his wife slow-dancing in their living room – with a highly evocative soundtrack of African American music. It’s both a time capsule and a timeless, humanist ode to urban existence.’ — Doug Cummings Screening at STUK Leuven, 25 April, 20.00 Sabzian is a collection of online reflections on cinema, and maps cinephile events in Belgium and its surroundings. Articles are written in Dutch, English and French - sabzian.be

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Film: Eau Zoo

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landscapes beaten by the wind, the movie flirts with a certain anticipation cinema, proves to be a Shakespearean drama and becomes a captivating, peculiar tale.

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was screened at several movie festivals. Lou and Martin are adolescents living on an island with their overprotective parents, trying to escape. Against a backdrop of

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Party: FC#4

Lee Fraser + Yann Leguay + Jim Ghedi

01 April - Area 42 (Fortune Collective), Brussels 22.00 | €6 | Free for members

02 April - Les Brasseurs, Liège 20.00 | €6 | Free for members

The American experimental pop band Animal Collective will roam the streets of Brussels for a little longer as the guys at Fortune Collective have kindly invited them to perform a rare DJ set to a room of 300 people as the afterparty of their show at Botanique. The band who has been shaping the avant-garde music scene for the past 15 years will be mixing some of the tunes that have influenced their sound. Also on the list are the UK’s GOFTY and LIl Data, both signed on PC Music and who will keep the night kitsch and sexy. And to all the Subba member, as the capacity at Area 42 is tight, make sure you book your spot by sending an email to fortunecollective@gmail.com, if you want to come dance with us.

With a PhD in electro-acoustic composition, Brit Lee Fraser is an acousmatic musician who celebrates sounds and textures. In this form of music, there is no clear mention of nor clues to the source of the sound, nor of the human involvement in music production. An Entr’acte label signee, Fraser creates undulating sounds, metallic and electronic distortions, which evoke colours, resonance and echoes. Common adjectives that describe music will most likely fail to fully grasp his music. The evening will also see performances of British solo-finger guitarist Jim Ghedi with his ageless music influenced by jazz, flamenco and eastern-European folk plus Franco-Belgian sound performer Yann Leguay.

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Party: HE4RTBROKEN ft. Total Freedom + Mischa Mafia + Neverland + Deejay Oulare + Liyo x Steff

who masters patching cosy beats with free falls and ecstatic escalations. Next to him is Mischa Mafia, the goddess from England who is as influenceable in music as in fashion. Finally, Deejay Oulare, host of the night, picks up the decks to keep your heart beating before hitching that ride home.

A Place To Bury Strangers + Räpe Blossoms 05 April - Muziekodroom Box, Hasselt 20.00 | €17 | Free for members While shoegaze is too often associated with artists staring at their feet and passively delivering their pedalboard-led dreamy music, NYC-based band A Place To Bury Strangers picks up the experimental and repetitive aspect of the genre to incorporate it into an invigorating mix of noise, space and psychedelic rocks. The very promising and skyrocketing Gentenaars from post-punk quartet Räpe Blossoms will be your best foreplay so far.

02 April - Universal Club, Brussels 22.00 | €10 | Free for members This month, the H4BKN team celebrates its first birthday, and to celebrate the occasion a wild and adventurous night is on the cards. On the line-up is Ashland Mines, aka Total Freedom, one of the most informal collage R&B DJs

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Protomartyr + Meatbodies

ally meaningful composition. In their raging glory, The Angelenos Meatbodies have tons of their ferociously heavy, groovy tunes up their sleeves to have yours soaked with the ambient sweat.

Film: Embrace of the Serpent 08 April - Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 | €5 | Free for members 06 April - Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | €14 | Free for members

Winner at the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year at the Oscars, this Colombian historical drama is loosely based on the diaries of two scientists, written while they were in the Amazonian region. The movie relates the story of a shaman – Karamakate – and his bond with these two researchers during a 40-year quest for a sacred healing plant. Embrace of the Serpent poses the vital and yet somewhat controversial question of the intricate relationship between indigenous lives and the (in)voluntary invasion of secluded tribes by so-called modern society and its exclusive values.

There’s been an undoubted revival of post-punk music since the beginning of this decennia. Through more than a fortunate chain of circumstances, Detroit-based quartet Protomartyr has surfaced in this fresh wave because of a combination of distinctive character, sheer perseverance and dogged determination. With Joe Casey’s remarkable baritone voice sustaining the fierce energy of the melodic and rhythmic architecture of the formation, the instrumental unit is given carte blanche to give off addictive fumes that graciously wrap up each textu-

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Film: For Some Inexplicable Reason

Marietta + Scott Yolder

15 April - Live Club (JauneOrange), Liège 20.00 | €7 | Free for members 14 April - KASK Cinema, Ghent 20.30 | €5 | Free for members

While Guillaume Marietta’s ardour has emerged from listening to his rock and grunge icons Nirvana and Sonic Youth, the Frenchman seems to have built his project on a more extravagant and colourful ground. On his first solo opus, Basement Dreams Are The Bedroom Cream, his four-track recorder has an oldfashioned drum machine, a beautifully imperfect voice technique and psychedelia-sounding melodies that meet halfway between melancholic despair and idealistic drive. Setting a more folky tone to begin with, American Scott Yolder anchors the whole genuineness of the texts in the ironically ethereal aspect of his music.

The realisation that you’re approaching your thirties can sometimes be a rough path many would like to postpone going down. When you add the fact that your love life is a ruin and that your omnipotent mother stills keeps a firm grip on your decisions, it can be quite a hard pill to swallow. In his movie, young Hungarian director Gábor Reisz uses the above-mentioned situation as a starting point for the story of his character Áron who, tired of it all, is determined to sail away to Lisbon.

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Party: Listen! Festival ft. Fatima Yamaha + Midland + Kong + Omar S + Sixsixsixties + more

Meakusma & NoName: Benjamin Damage + Wolf Müller + Daniel[i] + Philipp Matalla + Elohim + Herc E. + Klaus Kaneski

16 April - Square Brussels, Brussels 22.00 | €25 | Free for members until midnight In its myriad of ever-increasing festivals and events of all kinds, the Belgian capital still attaches a great importance to the value of a newcomer to the city. With a focus on electronic music in its broadest sense, Listen! Festival will host a breathtaking 35 artists in eight different Brussels venues. For its first edition, the festival has gathered the crème de la crème of emerging acts and established artists of the genre. Our highlight: Amsterdambased Fatima Yamaha, Bas Bron’s electronic disco project inspired by his Turkish mother and Japanese father. To top it all off, a series of exhibitions, workshops and lectures will round out the threeday event and bring the musical experience to another level.

16 April - Alter Schlachthof, Eupen 20.00 | €12 | Free for members It’s enough to mention the name of mythical Eupen-based record label Meakusma to immediately draw electronic music fanatics’ attention and affection. Basing their catalogue on a very selective choice of alternative electro artists with (sub)genres covering a large range of the spectrum, Meakusma prioritises qualitative music in their distribution chain above all. It’s time to be curious this month, go check out the festival they put together with NoName.

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Film: Traité de bave et d’éternité

Dale Cornish + Allon Kaye 23 April - Les Brasseurs, Liège 20.00 | €6 | Free for members Dale Cornish’s three albums, Glacial (2012), Xeric (2014) and Ulex (2015), released under the label Entr’acte, form an exploration of rhythm and space. Deeply mysterious and minimal, his music evokes the work of Philip Glass as he plays with pulse and silence, vibrations and echoes. Allon Kaye, the founder of Entr’acte, will also perform that night. Created in 1999 in London but currently based in Antwerp, his label has released about 25 LPs to date, focusing mainly on experimental and electronic music. Each release shows a high attention to detail and great harmony between the music and its medium.

19 April - Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent 20.00 | €7 | Free for members More than 60 years ago in a thriving age of Hollywood cinema, the ever-flourishing industry quickly descended into making no longer creative but strictly productive movies. Fed up with this situation and in an avant-garde and against-the-current attitude, Romanian-French multitalented director Isidore Isou put together an innovative technique: discrepant editing. Applied in his chef-d’oeuvre Traité de bave et d’éternité (1951), this brings about a discrepancy between a narrative soundtrack and an almost mistreated film reel, giving the movie an absolutely revolutionary aspect.

Expo: Pies in the Skies 24 April-26 June - Argos, Brussels 11.00 | €5 | Free for members

Pies in the Skies compiles works from Argos collections that take

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us back to the roots of cinema, traditional Belgian surrealism and psychological experiments. It displays a series of works in different media (collage, mirrors, art film) by contemporary artists such as Heine Adval, Charley Case, Messieurs Felmotte and Ken Koblans. These artists all relate to the representation of dreams and the interpretation of our subconscious with one common goal: to escape from our everyday lives.

lands, following her family trail, she kept traces of her quest with letters and a diary recording her impressions and discoveries. Morris reflects on current topics such as migration, persecution and identity and draws parallels with the present refugees crisis.

Ought + WYNN

27 April - Botanique, Brussels 19.30 | €19 | Free for members The Montreal rock scene just seems inextinguishable and Ought is one of its best ambassadors. Signed to Constellation Records (Godspeed You! Black Emperor), their 2014 debut album, More Than Any Other Day, was a brilliant and raw urban anthem, full of youth, immediacy and an inimitable sense of grandiloquence. On their sophomore album, Sun Coming Down, Ought juggles with garage rock and more elaborated forms of songwriting – often ignoring traditional verse/chorus structures. Tim Darcy’s wordy, conversional lyrics explode in hypnotic litanies drawing inspiration from Sonic Youth and Talking Heads.

Expo: Wendy Morris – ‘Off by Heart and Out of Breath – A Silva Rerum’ 24 April-26 June - Argos, Brussels 11.00 | €5 | Free for members Wendy Morris’ initial project was to create a Silva Rerum – a multi-generational chronicle recording the memoirs of a family and its tradition – to retrace the history of her ancestors who left Europe to settle in South Africa in order to escape religious persecution. As she travelled from France to the Nether-

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Islam Chipsy ft. EEK + Nidia Minaj + Deena Abdelwahed

Dance: It’s in the Small Things

29 April - Vooruit, Ghent 20.00 | €12 | Free for members 29 + 30 April - KVS, Brussels 20.00 | €13 | Free for members

Egyptian Islam Chipsy and his band EEK – two adrenaline-filled drum masters – roam like vagabonds between traditional chaabi music-influenced melodies, electronic soundscapes and crazy percussions duels. Portuguese Nidia Minaj feeds her outrageous raw ghetto funk on African and Brazilian influences and gives international electronic music another fresh breeze with her divinely produced tracks. To complete this fervent event, Deena Abdelwahed – co-founder of the Arabstazy collective – merges her Tunisian roots with futuristic EDM branches to come up with a groundbreaking kind of music to dance to.

From the very pragmatic and down-to-earth approach to the body that such performances can convey, Pieter Ampe – Ghentborn producer, choreographer and dancer – makes challenging and phantasmagorical pieces. After coming up with two duet-centred representations, he extends his bodily experiences to an ensemble of six performers. In It’s in the Small Things, the Flemish artist makes the stage a place of wanderings and wonders where the physical restrictions of a given space are subject to disclosing the personal limits of the human vessel.

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Party: FC#4

01 April Area 42 (Fortune Collective), Brussels 22.00 | €6 | Free for members

Film: For Some Inexplicable Reason

14 April KASK Cinema, Ghent 20.30 | €5 | Free for members

Lee Fraser + Yann Legay + Jim Marietta + Ghedi Scott Yolder 02 April Les Brasseurs, Liège 20.00 | €6 | Free for members

Party: HE4RTBROKEN

02 April Universal Club, Brussels 22.00 | €10 | Free for members

15 April Live Club (JauneOrange), Liège 20.00 | €7 | Free for members

Party: Listen! Festival

16 April Square Brussels, Brussels 22.00 | €25 | Free for members until midnight

A Place To Bury Strangers + Räpe Meakusma & Blossoms NoName 05 April Muziekodroom Box, Hasselt 20.00 | €17 | Free for members

16 April Alter Schlachthof, Eupen 20.00 | €12 | Free for members

Protomartyr + Meatbodies

Film: Traité de bave et d’éternité

06 April Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | €14 | Free for members

19 April Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent 20.00 | €7 | Free for members

Film: Embrace of the Serpent Dale Cornish + 08 April Allon Kaye Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 | €5 | Free for members

23 April Les Brasseurs, Liège 20.00 | €6 | Free for members

Expo: Pies in the Skies

24 April-26 June Argos, Brussels 11.00 | €5 | Free for members

Expo: ‘Off by Heart and Out of Breath – A Silva Rerum’ 24 April - 26 June Argos, Brussels 11.00 | €5 | Free for members

Ought + WYNN

27 April Botanique, Brussels 19.30 | €19 | Free for members

Islam Chipsy ft. EEK + Nidia Minaj + Deena Abdelwahed

29 April Vooruit, Ghent 20.00 | €12 | Free for members

Dance: It’s in the Small Things

29 + 30 April KVS, Brussels 20.00 | €13 | Free for members

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