Quick and Dirty February 2018
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at the Fatima Yamaha show, shot by Michelle Jansen for Subbacultcha
New Music for New People
s u b b a c u l t c h a e v e n t s in February music
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1.2 Bear Bones, Lay Low + Sagat C12, Brussels
8.2 Ordet Cinematek, Brussels 16.2 The Killing of a Sacred Deer Cinema Zuid, Antwerp
2.2 Slagwerk Recyclart, Brussels
21.2 Flemish Horror Double Bill KASK Cinema, Ghent
2.2 run SOFA Eden, Charleroi 6.2 Hookworms Nest (Democrazy), Ghent
theatre/dance
9.2 KAVIR Cinema Galeries, Brussels 9.2 Homeland Sunset Club, Brussels
16 + Portrait as myself as my father 17.2 Beursschouwburg, Brussels
9.2 JESSICA93 + Usé
Madame Moustache, Brussels
23.2 To Name Herstory Arca (NTGent), Ghent
9.2 Concert Capacitors Le Vecteur, Charleroi
1.3 Cuckoo Campo, Ghent
10.2 Christian Löffler + Bleeds + more Reflektor (PopKatari), Liège
expo
10.2 Energie01 - intersport edition Minus One, Ghent
— 18.2 A Film Argos, Brussels
10.2 African Electronic Night Het Bos, Antwerp
— 22.4 Get Help Argos, Brussels 22.2- 11.3
Circuit des Yeux 12.2 Galerie vorn und oben (Meakusma), Eupen 15.2 Vooruit, Ghent
To each his own mask Argos, Brussels
18.2 Montero Botanique, Brussels
1-28.2 From Bosch to Tuymans MSK, Ghent
21.2 Hiele — Bin Frei deSingel, Antwerp
9.2-27.5 FIG BPS22, Charleroi
22.2 Le77 + Blu Samu C12, Brussels
9.2-8.4 Derrière le soleil — Extra View BPS22, Charleroi
23.2 Artefact: Ensemble label night STUK, Leuven
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Quick and Dirty A perfunctory stop at a drive-thru for guilty pleasures. Unspeakable acts in dark places. The craving at a gas station that sneaks into your pocket while the attendant’s eyes are averted. A glimpse of an indecorous moment stolen through partitioned rooms, or flashing on a screen and just as quickly shut off from view. We’re all about dirty schemes and clean getaways this month — it’s what the best stories are about, after all. Making a mess is fine, as long as you’re willing to clean up after yourself, or — even better — as long as you don’t get caught. 5
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subbacultcha events 9—21 Circuit des Yeux 22—25 Munix 26—29 scene report: Porto 30—35 Nyege Nyege Tapes 36—39 artist 40—45 book 46—47 recent finds 48—59 we visit you 60—61
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BE ANKERRUI 5/7, 2000 ANTWERPEN DOND. 1 FEBR. • 21u
CLOSET OF RECORDS: SEA TRUE TAPES DJ Didier Massage [Weird Dust]
VRIJ. 2 FEBR. • 21u
20 JAAR NICC PARTY DJ's Dennis tyfus, Guillaume Bijl, Jan Matthé, Mati Drone
ZAT. 3 FEBR. • 21u
PRIMITIVE MOVES Presents DWAALLICHT met LUCIA [NL]
DOND. 8 FEBR. • 18u
CLOSET OF RECORDS: SLEEPERHOLD PUBLICATIONS DJ-set
VRIJ. 9 FEBR. • 20u
GOLDEN VOID [US] DOMMENGANG [US] CHRIS FORSYTHAND THE SOLAR MOTEL BAND [US]
ZAT. 10 FEBR. • 11u
KUNSTRUCTIEF: FIGHT FOR YOUR COPYRIGHT [infosessie auteursrechten in de filmsector] AFRICAN ELECTRONIC NIGHT SOUNDS OF SISSO [TZ] NYEGE NYEGE TAPES DJ’S [UG] • REBEL UP SEBCAT
DOND. 15 FEBR. T/M ZON. 18 FEBR.
POELMANS & LAZER — REAL ORIG¥NAL €XTRA PROFESSIONAL DRAWING $UPERSTARS • Expo FREDERIK HEYMAN CIRCADIAN RHYTHM • Installatie
DOND. 15 FEBR. • 18u
CLOSET OF RECORDS GORA SOU [DE] • Gratis concert + FEW BITS Vanaf 20u
ZAT. 17 FEBR. • 21U
STADSDUIVEN Presenteert VOGELSPOTTEN 1.0
DOND. 22 FEBR. T/M ZAT. 3 MAART
VISITE FILM FESTIVAL 10-dagen durend filmprogramma ism De Imagerie
ABONDANCE VRIJ. 23 FEBR. Met Elko B, Lars Bartkuhn, • 21U Raphaël
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CHAIN AND WOE. 28 FEBR. THE GANG [US] • 21U
CARLTON MELTON [US]
touches on a daedal blend of the dark components of jersey, grime, techno, baile and ballroom, sandwiching sweet lullabies between unsettling beats. HE4RTBROKEN artist Munix and the Slagwerk DJs provide the perfect backdrop for this leap into the future.
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Bear Bones, Lay Low + Sagat 1 Feb – C12, Brussels 20.00 – €5 – free for members
run SOFA
This is the first night in a string of events happening right in the middle of the Horta Gallery, in central Brussels. Two live acts, both from the capital, but quite different. Bear Bones, Lay Low plays psychedelic drone based on improvisation. As a tirelessly touring musician Ernesto Gonzalez has proven himself to keep on surprising audiences with his spaced-out jams. Vlek favourite and Bepotel member Sagat plays techno-not-techno: you’ll recognise the big, deep sounds we all know from clubs with flashy lights, but his music is always slightly offbeat and way too foggy for your fistbumping friends.
2 Feb – Eden, Charleroi 21.00 – €5 – free for members After their first EP, Shenanigans, run SOFA is back with a debut album. For this event, the carolo group will be releasing the album at home. With nonchalant tunes, a custom pop key and jumping songs, run SOFA sometimes reminds us of Tame Impala and Jagwar Ma.
Hookworms 6 Feb – Nest (Democrazy), Ghent 19.30 – € 17 – free for members
Slagwerk
Leeds-based band Hookworms creates paradise for fans of psychedelic rock and synths. Four years after the release of their last album, Pearl Mystic, they’re back with the follow-up Microshift. With their new material, they show that there’s no way for them to become repetitive as their unique way of mixing different genres doesn’t seem to get old. Their last single, “Negative Space”, is the perfect reflection of their mastermind. Expect an explosive concert that you won’t forget any time soon.
2 Feb – Recyclart, Brussels 23.00 – €10 free for members until 00.30 Two descendants of the Purple Tape Pedigree meet in Brussels. Celestial Trax released his debut LP, Nothing Is Real, on the label in the fall of 2017. It’s filled with sonic undefinables and psychedelic electro-acoustic compositions, which sometimes hit as heavy as they soothe. The sound of labelmate Dis Fig
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CONCERTS TUE 06.02
VOORUIT & DEMOCRAZY PRESENT:
HENRY ROLLINS TRAVEL SLIDESHOW
Ex-Blag Flack legend goes spoken word :
THU 14.02
VOORUIT & GOUVERNEMENT PRESENT:
THU 15.02
CIRCUIT DES YEUX / TALSOUNDS
FRI 23.02
VOORUIT & EYE ON PALESTINE PRESENT:
SUN 25.02
CINEMAXIMILIAAN EGGED ON BY MUSIC
SUN 25.02
LEE RANALDO BAND
ERIC THIELEMANS
THE COLOR IN SHADOW
The voices of Nico & Scott Walker melted together
47SOUL
“Spine-tingling Pan-Arabic street music” The Telegraph
Charley Bowers’ slapstick masterpiece with live score / CHRIS FORSYTH & THE SOLAR MOTEL BAND
Exclusive full band show!
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KAVIR
JESSICA93 + Usé
9 Feb – Cinema Galeries, Brussels 20.00 – €8 – free for members
9 Feb – Madame Moustache, Brussels 20.00 – €8 – free for members
As a part of the festival L’Heure d’Hiver dedicated to Tehran, the Cinéma Galeries, in collaboration with Subbacultcha, asked curator Niloufar Nematollahi to bring the crème de la crème of Belgian and Iranian artists together. The result of this enquiry is KAVIR, a daring exhibition and musical performance, combining at the same time modernity and tradition, complexity and enjoyment. Among others, musical guests include the acclaimed experimental composer Sote, the DJ and music producer Kali — who will make you lose your marbles with her ‘Bolly-Tech’ set — as well as crat, a DJ from Antwerp with a lot of energy to spare.
Against all odds, Jessica93 is a oneman rock band from Paris, aka Geoffroy Laporte. The Frenchman is quite a virtuoso who can play pretty much every musical instrument. His music is a mix of grunge and shoegaze. He recently released Guilty Species, comprising graceful toxic melodies. Usé, aka Nicolas Belvalette, is a friend of Geoffroy who makes garage-rock music with homemade instruments. He doesn’t really play the guitar; instead, he sticks a cymbal on its neck, hits it, and repeats the same beat. It’s a real pleasure to dance to.
Homeland
Concert Capacitors
9 Feb – Sunset Club, Brussels 23.00 – €7 – free for members
9 Feb – Le Vecteur, Charleroi 20.30 – €4 – free for members
We know how dearly you miss Homeland nights and we have good news for you: this fourth edition may be one of the best. Indeed, the Brussels-based crew invited the perfect guests for a fun and sweaty night, vibrating with the rhythms of R&B, grime and club music. Manara, host and co-founder of the BBC AZN Network radio show, will fly straight from London to heat up the dancefloor. She will be accompanied by Munix, the Belgian cupid behind the HE4RTBROKEN nights, DJ Hunid (Perron Zes) as well as homie Gold Saucer.
Argentinian artist Alan Courtis hosts a musical workshop meant for people with a physical or mental impairment. With a rew approach on different instruments, he will try to give a taste of musicality to people who are undereducated on the matter with a playful set up. Part of the duo Reynols, whose drummer and singer Miguel Tomasin has Down’s Syndrome, the artist will deliver a necessary piece of work, and will open some minds about how music should be accessible to all.
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Christian Löffler + Bleeds + Hypochristmuttreefuzz
called ‘Energie01’, an ever-expanding universe in which underground and experimental meet techno for a dark and throbbing night. Young artists such as Tim Tama, Jung An Tagen, Twan and Rinzler will get you in an upper body trance with beats ranging from experimental jungle electro to hard and pulsing industrial techno.
10 Feb – Reflektor (PopKatari), Liège 20.30 – €15 – free for members Hybrid Nights is a newcomer on Liège’s nightlife scene. They aspire to host events where all musical genres are welcome. The point is to party and to discover. For their first event, they stuck to their word and invited two very different acts. The first is the Ghent band Hypochristmutreefuzz, the weirdos of the Belgian rock scene, famous for their exciting live performances and raging sound. The second prefers calm, soulful atmospheres. Indeed, when he’s not running his own label, Ki Records, Christian Löffler delights deep house aficionados with his intense, melancholic yet playful jams. A not-to-be-missed mixture.
Energie01 — intersport edition
African Electronic Night 10 Feb – Het Bos, Antwerp 23.00 – €7 – free for members This evening will be ruled by DJs and producers from Uganda, so make sure to bring your sweaty afro-house and kuduro moves to the woods. The Kampala-based Nyege Nyege Tapes label explores, produces and releases outsider music from around the region and beyond. Brussels-based DJ Sebcat brings a mix of old and new Latin-American music such as dancehall, reggaeton, mambo and other beats from sunny spheres. Together they’ll get you through this cold and harsh winter. Promise.
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10 Feb – Minus One, Ghent 23.00 – €10 – free for members Niels Verougstraete, founder of the underground label KERM, and Sam Gunst, founder of Ghent-based techno label Euro2000, have started a new project
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Circuit des Yeux
album, Performer, will be coming out on 2 February on Chapter Music.
12 Feb – Galerie vorn und oben (Meakusma), Eupen 20.00 – €10 – free for members
Hiele — Bin Frei
15 Feb – Vooruit, Ghent 20.00 – €13 – free for members
21 Feb – deSingel, Antwerp 20.00 – €18 – free for members
On her latest album, Reaching For Indigo, Haley Fohr continues the sonic journey she started with the 2015 album In Plain Speech, pushing forward into expansive sonic frontiers. Her singular, twangy bellow and alien drones conjure the image of a lone rider traveling the prairie under a star-splotched sky. Largely inspired by a nervous breakdown she experienced some years ago, the album sounds like a liberating epiphany, drifting through daring and free compositions, always touching on dark and pure emotions.
Little known fact about Roman Hiele, one of the golden boys of the current Antwerp electronica scene and part of the Ekster crew: he is actually schooled as a jazz musician. In his newest project, Bin Frei, he takes his music back to the bühne, mixing it into a dialogue of electronic and acoustic sounds, a conversation of giving and taking, contrasting loud volumes with minimal resonant sounds. Bathing in a cinematographic play of light and darkness, the freedom obtained through corporation with other musicians is central to this performance.
Montero
Le77 + Blu Samu
18 Feb – Botanique, Brussels 19.30 – €14 – free for members
22 Feb – C12, Brussels 20.00 – €10 – free for members
Bjenny Montero is mostly known for his artworks and comics. His four-box cartoons depict honest, tender-hearted and sometimes depressing everyday scenes enacted by animals (a duck and a frog, mostly). When it comes to music, the Melbourne artist, now based in Athens, shows the same qualities. Operating in the soft-rock tradition, Montero manages to create dreamlike moods, stirring up feelings of nostalgia and warmth. If you like Mac Demarco or Ariel Pink, you should definitely check him out. His first
Le 77 — which is the number of their happy house in Laeken — is a rap trio comprising Félé Flingue, Peet, their beatmaker Morgan and their manager Rayan. The band members come from diverse backgrounds; Morgan has a jazzy influence and his music has nothing to do with traditional hip hop, while Félé and Peet rap on his beats with their sultry flow and a great stage presence. Antwerp-based Blu Samu, who released Blue in 2015, will join the party with her soul and R&B sound.
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BRUSSELS
CENTRE FOR FINE ARTS
HUGO CLAUS, CON AMORE 28 FEB. – 27 MAY ’18 EXPO
PALEIS VOOR SCHONE KUNSTEN BRUSSEL PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS BRUXELLES Rue Ravensteinstraat 23 1000 Brussels +32 2 507 82 00 / bozar.be
Hugo Claus, Nederlands Fotomuseum © Ed van der Elsken.
Artefact: Ensemble label night 23 Feb – STUK, Leuven 21.00 – €12 – free for members In the last five years longtime house heads Kong & Gratts obtained a central place in the Belgian underground through their ensemble label and the associated BXL club nights. The imprint has so far showcased a broad range of sounds from the Belgian underground ranging from music of the Belgian cult jazz band Aksak Maboul to the electronica of 19-year-old prodigy Rhythm Mind. For their label night they invited synth sorceress Stellar OM Source, whose fortuitous procurement of a mint Roland TB-303 for the mere sum of €25 launched her on an intergalactic journey towards a rhythmically revolving planet.
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Ordet 8 Feb – Cinematek, Brussels 21.00 – €4 – free for members Lutheran widower Morten Borgen lives in a farmhouse in rural Jutland with his three sons. Mikkel is kind-hearted but sceptical; Johannes has lost it studying Kierkegaard and believes he is Jesus; Ander
wants to marry the daughter of a fundamentalist. Within two days, the Borgens’ relationship to the invisible will be discombobulated. Adapted from a play by Kaj Munk, a Danish pastor shot during WWII, Deyer’s masterpiece probes into the notions of faith and love beyond time and theological divergences with the stirring slowness of a grave gray sloth, quietly paving its way towards a staggering acme.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer 16 Feb – Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 – €5 – free for members Watching Lanthimos’ psychological horror movie (inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Iphigenia) is not unlike contemplating, placidly and fascinated, a piece of very rotten meat making its way through your belly. The stony suburban existence of prestigious heart surgeon Steven Murphy gets upended when he introduces Martin, a peculiar 16-year-old boy he seems to have taken under his wing, to his wife Anna and their two kids. As the ever-prowling camera follows the Murphys, one monotone, formulaic line after the other in their surreal ordinary world, Martin’s presence in the family’s life slowly drifts from awkwardly pressing to terrifyingly inescapable.
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DEMOCRAZY MUZIEKCLUB GENT 04.02
PALE WAVES
06.02
HENRY ROLLINS’ TRAVEL SLIDESHOW
06.02
HOOKWORMS
07.02
GUS DAPPERTON + DANNY BLUE AND THE OLD SOCKS
08.02
TRIGGERFINGER + BIRTH OF JOY
VOORUIT VOORUIT
NEST VOORUIT NEST CHARLATAN
15.02
GIRLS IN HAWAII + FÙGÙ MANGO
17.02
LOUIS THE CHILD + WHETHAN
18.02
BIG NEXT: LEYYA
NEST
21.02
ANDREW HUNG (F*** BUTTONS)
NEST
23.02
DANSENDE BEREN MUZIEKQUIZ
NEST
27.02
CINDY WILSON
03.03
DEREK & THE DIRT
NTGENT
08.03
10 YEARS ICARUS: ANDREA BELFI, GREG FOX, DICTAPHONE
NTGENT
09.03
FADED: SEVN ALIAS
NTGENT
12.03
BALMORHEA + MARTYN HEYNE
13.03
RICO & STICKS
14.03
HOLLIE COOK
15.03
EEFJE DE VISSER SOLO
25.03
HALVE FINALE HUMO’S ROCK RALLY
28.03
BALOJI
NEST
NEST
NTGENT VOORUIT CHARLATAN NTGENT VOORUIT NTGENT
29.03
FLEDDY MELCULY
VOORUIT BALZAAL
30.03
ALDOUS HARDING
NTGENT
30.03
CONDOR GRUPPE
31.03
VRWRK
NEST NTGENT
DEMOCRAZY.BE
Flemish Horror Double Bill 21 Feb – KASK Cinema, Ghent 20.30 – €5 – free for members Why wait till October to get your horror movie kicks? This month KASK Cinema will appease your need for the heebie jeebies with a hair-raising double bill — two flicks that are not without a good dose of B-movie cred. First up will be Forgotten Scares, a documentary about Flemish horror, guiding you from ‘70s camp to modern-day cult classics in the making. After that comes The Miracle of Life. Made by two KASK alumni, it relates the unconventional childhood of an unconventional… child? The less you know about it, the better. Expect gore, trashy humour, and a full-on freakshow of revolting characters and cognizant bodily fluids!
theatre/dance
Portrait as myself as my father 16 + 17 Feb Beursschouwburg, Brussels 20.00 – €14 – free for members
Nora Chipaumire lost her father as a child and was from then on raised by women. She creates an idealised and utopic image of her father in a boxing ring during her performance, attributing to him all of the characteristics that should belong to a black man. Chipaumire celebrates and at the same time criticises the male presence and representation. The piece uses sports as a way to enter the masculine world and the dancers in the boxing ring constantly balance between fighting and playing. Chipaumire scrutinises the African man while keeping in mind the cultural traditions and the effect they have on African families.
To Name Herstory 23 Feb – Arca (NTGent), Ghent 19.15 – €22 – free for members To Name Herstory uses Kathy Acker’s novel Don Quixote (which was a dream) as a starting point for its investigation. The novel tells the story of a woman who undergoes abortion and decides to take on a different identity as a result of the agony caused by the procedure. She becomes some kind of modern, female Don Quixote who decides to heal society of its capitalist delusion. To Name Herstory endeavours to translate this work to the stage, within a framework of subjectivity and patriarchy.
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PRESENTED BY KAAITHEATER TOGETHER WITH VUB, DEBUREN, WAERBEKE & ROSA
METTE INGVARTSEN
LIGIA LEWIS
HELENA DIETRICH
JULI APPONEN
SAMIRA ELAGOZ
GLORIA WEKKER
THE MONASTERY
HELEEN DEBRUYNE & others
6 > 10/03/2018 8 March is International Women’s Day: high time for a new edition of WoWmen! This focus programme around gender, art, and society opts for ambiguity in both genre and theme. Which identities will you discover on the stage? KAAITHEATER > 20 SQUARE SAINCTELETTE, 1000 BRUSSELS KAAISTUDIO’S > 81 RUE NOTRE DAME DU SOMMEIL, 1000 BRUSSELS
> www.kaaitheater.be/wowmen
#wowmen18
Cuckoo
is not a film, but an exploration and a discovery of what images tell us, and what they don’t.
1 Mar – Campo, Ghent 20.00 – €10 – free for members In Cuckoo, South Korean Jaha Koo has created a play featuring three unusual performers: rice cookers. That’s right, you read that correctly, rice cookers. The play takes you through the last two decades of Korean history, with both personal experiences, major political events, as well as food culture. This humorous, yet sometimes frightening piece, reminds us about the technological evolutions and limits of humanity: is this what we’re setting ourselves to? To watch robots on stage? How would actors fill their bowls of rice then?
expo
Marie José Burki — A Film until 18 Feb – Argos, Brussels 11.00-18.00 – €6 – free for members Swiss photographer and video artist Marie José Burki brings us her latest work, the simply but enigmatically titled A Film. A man and a woman converse about current affairs, but they are themselves never at the heart of the action; instead, a collage of images runs like stream of consciousness, unbound to narrative and flowing to their own beat. A Film that
Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby — Get Help until 22 Apr – Argos, Brussels 11.00-18.00 – €6 – free for members Argos invites artist couple Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby to present two monumental groups of works. The first one, Something Wonderment, a video produced in collaboration with Vashon Watson, explores the notion of wonder, asking questions about the relationship between the visceral sensations we associate with that concept. The second one, an interactive piece, lets the viewer investigate various objects and organisms — bones, mosses, crystals, bacteria. The devices are connected to projectors that show the objects greatly enlarged.
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until 28 Feb – MSK, Ghent €8 – free for members
vorm: Pascal Van Hoorebeke
© Joris Dierickx
VR
02.02
BaBa ZuLa: ‘Do Not Obey Xx World Tour’ Psych-tranceturko-rock
MA
19.02
Foyer Soiree: John Ghost jazz
© Caroline De Meyer
ZA
03.02
Stef Kamil Carlens
Intieme rootsy songs © Maurice
VR
16.02
Bram De Looze solo Jazz op revolutionaire piano
DO
22.02
Madensuyu pop / rock
Handelsbeurs Concertzaal
Kouter 29, 9000 Gent T ICK E T S Tickets Gent Sint Baafsplein 17 09 265 91 65 www.handelsbeurs.be
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Every now and then, there is a nearly once-in-a-lifetime type of event for a museum, where it lays out all its cards and reshuffles them to offer a new reading of its assets for audiences to enjoy. This is one such occasion; the already outstanding Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent revised its permanent collection last October, and you can now go see its new display, featuring the likes of James Ensor, George Minne, Théo Van Rysselberghe, Léon Spilliaert and more. Interventions by Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh and Rita Verhaeghe in various parts of the museum open a conversation between its formidable treasures from the past and the promising hopes for the future.
Tine Guns — To each his own mask
9 Feb-27 May – BPS22, Charleroi 10.00-18.00 – €6 – free for members
Pauline Beugnies: Derrière le soleil — Extra View 9 Feb-8 Apr – BPS22, Charleroi 10.00-18.00 – €6 – free for members
22 Feb-11 Mar – Argos, Brussels 11.00-18.00 – €6 – free for members Through To Each His Own Mask, Belgian artist Tine Guns takes a long look at protest culture and its revival in our current political climate. Her gaze is focused on the faces that take part in these occasions — or, more accurately, the masks through which these faces are obscured. The similarities between political gatherings and carnival are rendered undeniable, and the question about how deep these similarities go is far more nuanced than what shows on the surface.
Marcel Berlanger: FIG
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Circuit des Yeux After a considerable hiatus spent touring as Jackie Lynn, her cocaine-queen alter ego, Haley Fohr has returned to CDY with a fresh album and a new lease on life. The latest release in her impressive repertoire, Reaching for Indigo, is equal parts celestial and cinematic. Synthesizers, strings and guitars swirl around inexorably and infectiously, grounded by Fohr’s signature baritone, which swings between operatic intonations and primal howls, far from being quick and dirty. In fact, it took her a while to write it, but hey, this is the theme of the mag, so we had to mention it somewhere in this feature.
Interview by Julia Yudelman
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Photos by David Kasnic shot in Chicago, USA
Why the colour indigo in Reaching for Indigo? So indigo is a really interesting colour. Colours have frequencies, like a number attached to them, kind of like a frequency in audio. But with indigo, it’s never really been scientifically defined. It’s a spectrum on a rainbow, but scientists have never really agreed on what exactly indigo is. In human culture, it’s been celebrated and honoured for centuries as the sixth chakra, which is intuition, or the third eye. I find intuition really hard to utilise in today’s world. With the internet, and the swiftness of the media, and overpopulation, I just feel overstimulated. So for me it was kind of like, returning to intuition and following that internal knowledge. I know that you’re a big advocate of home recordings. Why is that so important to you versus working in a studio? I guess initially it stemmed from my means. I’ve never had a large budget for recording and everything I’ve done, I paid for myself. Now that I’m, you know, deep into my discography, when people approach me with money, I have a hard time taking it, just because there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and ownership is so hard to hold onto these days. But
also artistically, I’m more comfortable when your mind’s not on the clock. I think you’re able to re-approach some songs and accompaniment in, like, a more careful way. Each song that Cooper and I captured is basically because we had ample amount of time at home. We would try something out and then really dig in because we had the freedom to do that. For instance, with overdubs and the arrangements, Cooper and I get pretty deep. Like on ‘Brainshift’ there’s a backing vocal part that’s 16 or 18 vocals stacked on top of one another. Your alter ego Jackie Lynn is awesome. Is that like a David Bowie / Ziggy Stardust kind of distinction? Yeah I mean, I did some research and I thought the way that David Bowie approached Ziggy Stardust was pretty inspiring, pretty effective. I’ve gotten a lot of comparisons to Chris Gaines [country singer Garth Brooks’ alternate persona], which I’m not inspired by at all. [Laughs] But yeah, I do think it’s pretty individual. I wasn’t trying to repeat anyone else’s artistic steps, and I really gained a lot of perspective through that project. What kind of perspective? Well, I thought I was untethering myself from identity in a lot of ways, but in fact I think it was
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the opposite. I take a lot of time to write, so this was supposed to buy me time for this Reaching for Indigo album, but in fact I just created a second band that people kind of cared about. So that was a lot of responsibility. And on a technical, selfish side I just wanted to write smaller songs — shorter songs that were easier to digest — and, like, sing more words, and be more of a poignant lyricist instead of going existential all the time, which is something I have to do just to deal with my mind sometimes. How do you feel getting back to CDY now, after adopting that other persona? It definitely felt like a departure, and I guess I feel the largest difference in a live context. When I’m performing as Jackie Lynn, and Jackie Lynn’s doing her thing, it’s fun but there’s something missing — something’s not satiated. I have such a hunger to return back to my heart and what’s coming from the demon side of me. Practicing and rehearsing for this tour, it’s just so fulfilling. It’s all about challenging my voice and trying to go as far as I can vocally; everything just feels so real and personal as CDY, so it’s a relief to be back. The mysterious thing that people don’t talk about, where your heart’s at, really does make a difference.
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Circuit des Yeux 12 Feb – Galerie vorn und oben, Eupen 15 Feb – Vooruit, Ghent free for members
music
Munix Before bearing his soul in the Brussels underground scene, Munix was mainly active down south of the flat land as part of the Folie Douce party collective. Together they presented the bleeding edge of new music in clubs and unusual spots around Liège, booking acts from labels such as Night Slugs and LuckyMe, and live performances from Sophie and Mykki Blanco. Since then Munix has taken up residence on the HE4RTBROKEN nights in Brussels as one half of duo nevrland (with ssaliva). With major influences drawn from club music, hip hop and ambient, Munix is a good candidate for a night of emotional club music.
Photos by Eva Teetaert shot in Brussels
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Slagwerk with Celestial Trax + Dis Fig + Munix 2 Feb - Recyclart, Brussels Homeland with Manara + Munix + DJ hunid + Gold Saucer 9 Feb - Sunset Club, Brussels free for members
scene report
Porto Always been curious about scenes in other cities outside your own little cocoon? We assumed you were! As much as we can, we’ll feed your hunger for insights and secrets in the Scene Report. This time, our man Joaquim, a long-time promoter in Porto, tells us about the city’s musical and touristic renaissance and the music scenes of the nearby towns. And he also plans your next holiday in Porto — with a pit-stop at a festival in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Text by Joaquim Durães Photos by Renato Cruz Santos shot in Porto, Portugal
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Lovers & Lollypops is an independent label and promoter established in Porto, celebrating 13 years in 2018. We run our little operation like a family business and our ground support comes from the artists we release and work with, creating a sense of community between them, us and the audience, as we grow together. Besides our activity as a label (84 releases to the date), we run two celebrated festivals: Milhões de Festa and Tremor, the latter hosted in the magnificent Azores Islands. I’ll start with the future, as this year we’ll have our own venue, one of our wildest dreams coming true. It will be in an avant-garde venue that was active in Oporto from the ’80s till the ’00s, called Aniki Bóbó. We’re retaining its name as we want to keep expanding the ideas celebrated back then, exploring and defying as much as we can and bringing together different artists and audiences. It’s located in one of the most symbolic and
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antique areas of the city: the Ribeira neighbourhood, right at Douro’s riverside. Talking about Porto also means talking about some nearby cities that contribute to the region’s pulsating underground scene. Small cities like Barcelos, where we host Milhões de Festa, is now experiencing its fourth generation of some of the most interesting rock bands in Portugal — Black Bombaim, Glockenwise and Killimanjaro, to name just a few of the dozens of names that are active over there. Milhões is the beacon for all our work. The festival lives
with the local artists who gravitate around it and who experiment with no borders, from the most danceable of pop to the most extreme metal. It is also about African, Latin-American and Asian musical languages, promoting and supporting all kinds of experiences and cultural exchanges.
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Just next to Barcelos we have Braga, where venues like GNRation or the Semibreve festival provide an interesting insight into experimental electronic music, connected with the idea of placing the city as a capital for media arts. Finally there’s the beautiful Guimarães where Revolve, also a label and promoter, provides groundbreaking work in the city’s constant search for new and exploratory sounds. As for Porto, after a dark and gloom era in the first half of the ’00s, the city has found a new heart for its nightlife. Right after that, the rest of the world discovered it too, with more tourists flooding it every year. As the city saw a new life, it also started to suffer from the lack of housing and increasing rents. With many people struggling to keep their homes, we started questioning whether this cultural resurrection will flourish into something sustainable or collapse after the hype.
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In Porto, I don’t think we can say that there’s a scene but we have all these micro and cross-genre collectives, spaces and events that pollinate and spread across the city. Even if at times I feel that there should be more collaborations between all these different structures, it’s interesting to find audiences so young and curious, constantly attending new gigs and parties, from exploratory gatherings at Sonoscopia (an old kindergarten school run by local experimental musicians that hosts max. 50-capacity gigs with a side serving of dinner for just €6)
to secret rave parties led by Parva or Ácida, or even Favela Discos (a younger collective connecting the dots between experimental and rock culture). A constant presence at these raves is local hero DJ Lynce, who entwines techno and jungle sounds with an intense psychedelic touch. Be sure to catch him every Wednesday at Café Au Lait, one of Oporto’s nightlife hotspots. In the last half decade we’ve seen dozens of new bars and clubs mushrooming, but it’s interesting to see that
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promoters like ourselves or those at Amplificasom are still favouring long-running venues, where music and gigs are still the core of their work. These include Maus Hábitos, located on the fourth floor of a garage building or, right in front of it, Passos Manuel, an old cinema converted into the most iconic venue in the city, or even Hard Club, an old market-turnedtwo-room venue for larger gigs. Finally, I would recommend visiting Porto in March, hanging there for a few days, then catch a flight to the Azores islands and go to Tremor Festival (20 to 24 March), a true musical experience in the heart of the Atlantic Ocean.
Festivals: Milhões de Festa, Semibreve, Mucho Flow, Amplifest Venues: Maus Hábitos, Passos Manuel, Café Au Lait, Hard Club, Sonoscopia Record shops: Louie Louie, Matéria, Prima Bunker Labels and promoters: Lovers & Lollypops, Amplificasom, Soopa, Crónica Food: BOP Café, Black Mamba, Lameiras Bands: Paisiel, HHY & The Macumbas, Black Bombaim, 10000 Russos, Glockenwise, Live Low, Vive Les Cônes, Conjunto Corona, Killimanjaro
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Nyege Nyege Tapes Interview by Rafael Severi Photos by Darlyne Komukama shot in Kampala, Uganda
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The Uganda-based Nyege Nyege Tapes label has been showcasing the underground sound of the local Kampala scene and outsider sounds from across Africa since 2016. They also run the Boutiq Electroniq club nights and the Nyege Nyege Festival, which is by far the most important gathering in Africa featuring underground and electronic music. We talked to Arlen Dilsizian, one of the duo behind Nyege Nyege. An academic of Greek-Armenian descent, he’s lived in Kampala for more than seven years. The following article represents Nyege Nyege in their own words, as they see themselves, and music in general. How would you describe the underground and experimental music in Uganda? There’s generally very little Western underground music penetration in Uganda, from North America or Europe. I’m not sure how many people have ever ordered a Throbbing Gristle album in the country, but most probably no one ever has. On the other hand, people’s relation to noise (as in, ambient noise) is much more open than in Europe and distortion, reverb are a big (unconscious) part of people’s sonic lives. A lot of early African societies prefigured abstraction in the visual arts much earlier than in Europe. The same can be said
for music but in some ways those trajectories have been forgotten by local producers. Once again urbanisation and lack of access to old field recordings (like you find in Western music libraries and collections) can explain some of this, but definitely one aim of our label more recently has been to explore the possibilities that the immense continental body of work can open for young producers. What is the idea behind Nyege Nyege Festival? We wanted a multi-day event where we could showcase in one spot what we felt were the interesting forms of African electronic music on the continent.
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When it comes to the mobility of underground African artists within the continent the situation is not good. Few promoters are willing to book such acts outside of their country of origin and very often even within. Funds and national grants to assist with touring support are close to non-existent. It’s way easier for us to get a grant to fly over, say, Yves De Mey from Belgium than it would be to fly in a Balani DJ from Mali. We book a lot of local DJs from smaller towns across East Africa who often play their own tribal vernacular electronic forms of music but who rarely play in Kampala. At the same time Nyege Nyege was envisaged as a space where young producers who are again working outside the mainstream could showcase their music including a lot of stuff coming out of our studios and artist residencies.
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African Electronic Night: Nyege Nyege Tapes DJs + Sisso Sounds + Rebel Up Sebcat 10 Feb - Het Bos, Antwerp free for members
artist
Frederik Heyman
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Interview by Isaline Raes Photos by Tiny Geeroms shot in Antwerp
Antwerp-based artist Frederik Heyman is always game to push his work into territories unknown. Going from photography into cyberpunk-ish digital installations, he’s made a science of exploring the essence of the photographic and the desire to overcome humanity. We chatted about his recent love for 3D techniques, the future of our visual world, his latest expo, Circadian Rhythm, and extreme mummification. How did your artwork evolve from photography into threedimensional, digital installations? When I worked as a photographer, I always built my own sets by hand. But a couple of years ago when the digital art vibe was rising, I started to collaborate with 3D designers to create my sets in three dimensions. Suddenly everything became possible. Without worrying about my budget or other production restrictions, I could design the most daring stagings. This experience became the starting point of a fascinating journey. After ten years of being a photographer, I got a bit stuck and wanted to go beyond the two-dimensional. So I began to teach myself to work with 3D techniques, like 3D scanning, photogrammetry, etc. Although I never intended to become the best 3D designer in the world; I still see myself as a photographer who makes pictures, except now they’re three-dimensional.
At Het Bos you will show Circadian Rhythm. Can you tell us bit more about this project? My latest work, Circadian Rhythm, combines five digital artworks, called clusters. At Het Bos the clusters will be presented in an installation consisting of four monumental screens set up in a square with a smaller screen on the ground in the middle. Each screen will show a different digital world wherein other digital installations are integrated. As a viewer it will feel like you’re entering a digital exhibition space. Each cluster is accompanied by a manifesto. But in general this project is about the desire of people to overcome humanity and the influence of technology on our society. At the same time, Circadian Rhythm renders a reflection of my research into the whole medium of 3D and the essence of photography. How is digital imagery related to
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photography? What’s the meaning of a snapshot and a photographic message? How has this been evolved in our society with the rise of digital media? What’s the difference between reality and digital reality? And what’s the relevance of knowing this? In an age wherein the virtual and the 3D world are coming more and more within our reach, it’s good to question the media that visualises our past, present and future. I saw that one of the clusters is inspired by Meltdown, a novel by Nick Land, the English philosopher and father of accelerationism (a theory that the acceleration of the prevailing capitalist and
technosocial systems will generate radical social change). Do you share his worldview? I got this essay from Daan Milius, a Brussels-based dramaturge, with whom I’ve started a fruitful back-and-forth relationship of exchanging texts and dialogues. Some quotes and passages we’ve literally integrated into my works; others are visually reflected. Meltdown is a dystopian essay on the quick evolution of our technological system and its negative influence on humanity. This corresponds both with my formal research into the evolution of photography and with the apocalyptic punchline that slumbers through all of the clusters.
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What are you working on now? Currently I’m researching how different cultures use images to design memories. How do we want to remember and be remembered? In Puerto Rico there’s a new funeral trend, called ‘extreme embalming’. Instead of being laid in a coffin, the dead are mummified in lifelike poses, dropped in familiar situations and surrounded by their favourite stuff. For example, the family of a passionate biker mounted his corpse on his motorcycle, enabling him to attend his own funeral. It’s the ultimate memorial of a person. Like waxwork models, the deceased are remembered as who they were, almost like a copy-paste of a moment from the past. Besides this, I’m also excited to be working on Kane, a theatre play by Naomi Velissariou for which I create visuals that dialogue with her performance.
Circadian Rhythm runs from 15 to 18 February in Het Bos, Antwerp hetbos.be/project/88 frederikheyman.com
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book Last Night of the Earth Poems Charles Bukowski
text and artwork by Gabriela González
‘I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people’ I’m not big on poetry, never have been and possibly never will be — I’m not sure my brain is wired for it. But I will say this: whether it’s because of the gut-punching, irreverent themes or the fact that it doesn’t feel so much like reading as much as listening to someone tell their sad, mundane stories across the counter of a dingy bar, I was able to devour a large chunk of Charles Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth Poems over one idle Christmas morning. Something about Bukowski’s offhand manner makes you want to know what he has to say, even when it’s nothing of importance; for even the meandering observations, in the way they are laid out and told, are infused with sombre overtones that, if you know anything about Bukowski and his life, are impossible to isolate. ‘I was fairly poor/ but most of my money went/for wine and/classical music./I loved to mix the two/together.’ Indeed, for all his misgivings, his confused misogyny and his crude worldview, his poetry always strikes a nerve. Maybe it’s because he, like no one else, has the talent to transmit both existential despair and thoughtful melancholy in a near-intravenous way: you can feel it because, deep down, you know it. And while his prose is rife with the trappings of gritty, sinful LA and all its shallow promises of success and personal realisation, the message is universal, to be felt on the lonely nights that we all inevitably experience wherever we are on this random little planet.
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with Alfred Anders
the lost track
Wer Bist du??? Georg Danzer
Label: Polydor Released: 1983
For the first in a series of forgotten tracks I’d like to unveil a very recent discovery: this wonderful slow-motion ’80s synth-pop track by Georg Danzer, released in 1983 by Polydor on a 7” called Zombieball. The B side of this record, called ‘Wer Bist Du???’, is the one that does it for me. Georg was an Austrian singer-songwriter and a pioneer of the Austropop genre. The slow tempo and deep bassline, suffused with Georg’s sensual German voice, kind of gives it a ‘dirty’ feeling. And, best of all, it’s a cheapo track! I found it for just two bucks. ‘Wer hast zu bin’ all my life, Georg? Happy to discover you!
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recent finds Kraak Festival
kraak.net
The pretty-much-legendary Ghent label Kraak is back this March with its definitely-legendary festival, that yearly expedition into the outer limits of experimental music known as Kraak Festival. Taking place from 2 to 4 March, and once more at Beursschouwburg, this year’s edition will not fail its loyal aficionados or its recent acolytes: from the raucous thrashing of Lemones to the free-flowing harmonies of Liz Durette’s keyboard to Jung An Tagen’s austere, enveloping electronic voyages, there’s always old friends and new discoveries to be made. The most earnest occasion to root ears to the earth and sync them to the flow of the cosmos.
SCRPR #5
SCRPR equals an evening mix of different artists and media from image to audio to installation. On the 5th happening, 22 February at Gouvernement, Ghent, you can expect selected work by KASK students Miel Audenaert, Lars Boelaerts, Jules Labath, Mats Wosky and live performances by PARTNERS and Frère Tuck. Poster by Yannick Van Dyck.
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recent finds Artefact
artefact-festival.be
Following last year’s otherworldly foray into the Art of Magic, Artefact is back with a theme that is, literally, far more grounded. With This Rare Earth: Stories From Below, STUK’s yearly audiovisual festival asks us to look down at the world below our feet. Geological elements, minerals and stones, metals and microscopic organisms; all of the components that make up our physical anchor to this world are the inspiration behind this yearly ritual that links visual arts with complex issues that affect society at large. Artists such as Ilana Halperin, Maarten Van Den Eynde, Julian Charrière and many more will broach topics like mining, recycling and the myriad situations that involve mankind’s intervention on natural processes; these are analysed and reinterpreted artistically, with a view to the existential conundrum posed by our reality in the greater universe. And as is always the case with Artefact, musical guests abound, and they really outdid themselves this year: Golin, Visionist, Ensemble Label Night (free for members!), Allessandro Cortini and more. From 13 February to 1 March, Leuven will be the place to remember where we really stand, giving us the chance to, momentarily, return from whence we came.
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recent finds SAMÄA
by Amaury Wilkin
samaa.bandcamp.com
Samäa is an alternative hip-hop beatmaker from Liège who, for almost three years now, has released EPs and LPs on Bandcamp with a decidedly dark atmosphere. Through each release he explores the rhythms of contemporary hip hop while keeping an ambient touch that he doesn’t hesitate to sublimate with samples with eclectic influences, tinted synths and artefacts to which he alone holds the secret. His productions have found an echo in the US where emerging talents such as Sosi, Sapphire, Guizmo and KissedKilled have been seduced by the modernity of his productions. His next EP will appear on his Bandcamp before the end of January.
GRAND MAISON
grandmaison.be
GM is the project of Celine and Fanny, and was created to gather people and share ideas with music and good coffee in a vibrant city. They’ve opened an espresso bar in a small house in the historic heart of Liège with a south-facing terrace close to the Meuse. At this charming home we can drink and eat — coffee, breakfast, soups, cakes and Wi-Fi. The coffee is roasted in Ghent and the food is organic or local. For the menu, for the view, the decoration, the music, they’re favouring quality over quantity. To take a break, to work, to say hello; they welcome you from 07.30 to 05.00, and Sunday from 09.30 to 16.00, closed on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
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recent finds Flohio
by Hannes Rooms
soundcloud.com/flohiomusic
Quick and dirty bars are Flohio’s trademark. Her staccato rap style is embraced by a bunch of progressive producers such as Gaika, L-Vis 1999 and God Colony. The latter is a producer duo serving harsh, industrial beats and together they toured Europe with remarkable stops at Unsound, Progress bar, Leguesswho and a support UK tour for Mura Masa. Flohio — real name Funmi Ohio — was born in Nigeria, but moved to South London borough Bermondsey (SE16) just before entering boarding school and found herself quickly submersed in the grime scene. Now, at the age of 22, she’s crafted her own way of storytelling and when you listen carefully you’ll notice her poetic lyrics are often confessional. She is definitely our safest artists-to-watch-in-2018 guess.
House of Kenzo soundcloud.com/houseofkenzo
Together with Halcyon Veil boss Rabit, House of Kenzo performed at festivals in the States last summer — and did not go unnoticed: quick and dirty south vogue is what you can expect when witnessing House of Kenzo live. The collective of dancers, producers, DJs and all-round creative artists from San Antonio, Texas, are on a mission to deconstruct club conventions even further by blending performance art, drag show performance and hype machinery on top of sample-heavy soundtracks of crashing cars, eerie screaming, military drums and devotional speeches. Forget staring at static DJs behind the booth: this new club experience makes all boundaries between DJ, performers and audience fade. HOK released three-track EP On Bonfires of Urbanity on Halcyon Veil but their mixtape for THUMP is probably a more accurate portrayal of their identity. Although f*cking heavy with the queer frequency, their message is actually one of open-mindedness rather than exclusively queer.
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recent finds
by Isaline Raes
The Girls Next Door curated by Nadia Bijl
Until 18 February NEXT DOOR (by At The Gallery), Antwerp Free entrance atthegallery.be
Neonish letters on a candy pink background announce the new expo The Girls Next Door, now running at NEXT DOOR, the annexed and intimate art space of At The Gallery. Curator Nadia Bijl invited three young female artists: Elleke Frijters, Valgerður Sigurðardóttir and Charline Tyberghein. Frijters is a sculptor who questions the functions of practical objects from daily life by transforming them into heroic pieces. Sigurðardóttir makes drawings and sculptures recalling dreamy situations. And Tyberghein paints trompe l’oeils of banal forms and structures induced with small symbols that evoke little narratives. Although the exhibition is made by women only, it’s certainly not the intention to articulate a strong feminist message. It’s just a show with work by artists who happen to be women. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t hear them mumble the occasional soft scream for attention. After all, it’s still hard for female artists to make it in the art world and to compete with their male colleagues. But they’re not pointing fingers — so boys, please don’t be afraid to visit The Girls Next Door. Everyone is very welcome
Sibran Sampers: HEIR — KÖNYNCK
1 – 4 February In De Ruimte, Ghent Free entrance inderuimte.be
HEIR — KÖNYNCK is the new thought-provoking exhibition by Ghentbased artist Sibran Sampers. Preserved hare skins and scalps are exhibited in display cabinets as if they were trophies hailing from an ancient and violent civilisation. However, nothing could be further from the truth: the pieces have no historical or ethnographical value. They were shaped in the present to serve in the future, like artifacts from a new (or lost?) empire waiting to be adopted by a significant head of state. By means of a totemistic imagination and a healthy amount of cultural pessimism, Sampers uses morbid beauty as the intriguing groundwork for a new kingdom. But what exactly is he preparing for? Will we be ready for it? And who will get the crown?
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recent finds Hong Sang-soo retrospective
by Sabzian
18 Jan – 25 Feb @ Cinematek
‘Poetic by its precision, attentive to duration, to the uncertainty of the moment, to outlined movements and to what they betray or control: Hong Sang-soo’s cinema seems to consist only of details, of contingent moments that suddenly get out of hand or explode. “I never aim for generalization; there’s never a global view on society at the origin of a film or even a shot. It seems to me that reality can only appear between the cracks of discrete, hypothetic[al], uncertain elements. I am wary of clichés and big expressions. I do not believe, for example, that something we could call ‘the’ contemporary Korea exists. I never try to share a truth, but only approximations”.’
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On the occasion of Hong Sang-soo’s retrospective at CINEMATEK, Sabzian and Courtisane have published a cahier with collected and newly translated texts on and interviews with the South Korean director. Read more at Sabzian.be
Un soir, un train André Delvaux, 1968
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
1 Feb – 20.00 Cinema Zuid, Antwerp
Paul Delvaux’s paintings are often set in desolate train stations where mysterious women linger. They seem to be waiting, but whether it’s for an encounter or a farewell remains unknown. In this intermediate moment, it seems as if time itself has been derailed. The Belgian director André Delvaux (no, not related) made a film that seems inspired by those paintings. In the film, the train is a metaphor for life. People pass their time collectively as passengers, forcibly moving through time together. Trains create the conditions for a cinematic spectatorship: like the film spectator, you’re sitting passively, moved by the spectacle behind the window. And just like the characters in Un soir, un train are unable to gain control over their lives, the cinema-traveller is unable to climb through the window and take part in that other reality.
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we visit you
Names: Alice & Rémy Ages: 27 & 31 Zodiac signs: Gemini & Aquarius Instagram: alicevandenbergphotography & remyficheroulle Subbacultcha members since: December 2016
Tell us, what do you do in life? Rémy: I’m a painter and a painting teacher and I’m currently working as a social worker with kids in Neder-Over-Heembeek. Alice: I’m a photographer and video artist and I’m working in a shop in Brussels where I’m responsible for the plant department. What do you like best about your place? R: The beautiful mess and the strong contrast between the stuff we bring inside. There’s something organic about our place. Like it has its own life or something. It’s kind of an echo to my mind. A: I love my plants that are slowly taking over and my old pieces of furniture that all have their own stories; each is a memory. Memory has always been a big part in my life (which can be seen in my artistic work). And also the incredible view from our balcony; Brussels is at our feet. What kind of music are you listening to at the moment? R: Parquet Courts, Gun Outfit and Ultimate Painting and the last EP of van den Bear. A: I mostly listen to the radio at the moment (KEXP) but I listen a lot to the latest album by Warhaus.
What’s the first record you bought? R: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication. I’ll never forget ‘Road Trippin’. A: My dad had so many records that I don’t really have a memory of buying one… Either he would buy them for me or I would find them in his collection… The first memories of music that was only my own where probably Aaliyah, Britney or Alicia Keys. What makes you dance? R: ‘Eisbaer’ by Grauzone. This songs drives me crazy! And the swingin’ legs of my love! A: Alcohol, good friends and good music (R&B does the trick pretty good). Any quick/dirty pleasures? R: Drugs in general; alcohol in particular. A: Smoking, fast food, soft caresses of my hair… Which future Subbacultcha show are you looking forward to? Both: Andrew Savage in Ghent!
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Photo by Sasha Vernaeve shot in Brussels
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front cover: Munix by Eva Teetaert editors in chief: Herlinde Raeman & Kasper-Jan Raeman magazine editors: Julien Van de Casteele & Gabriela González copy editor: Megan Roberts design: Chloé D’hauwe website editors: Valerie Steenhaut & Thomas Vanoosthuyse community management: Lisa Wallyn (lisa@subbacultcha.be) advertising & partnerships: Kasper-Jan Raeman (kasper-jan@subbacultcha.be) distribution: Herlinde Raeman (herlinde@subbacultcha.be) printer: Drukkerij GEWADRUPO, Arendonk, Belgium contributing writers: Gabriela González, Julien Van de Casteele, Nicolas Baudoin, Bart Bruneel, Anaïs Violet Van Eldere, Matias Calderon, Souria Cheurfi, Denis Wouters, Eleonore Kenis, Rafael Severi, Pim Thomas, Isaline Raes, Amaury Wilkin, Julia Yudelman, Joaquim Durães, Hannes Rooms & Sabzian
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contributing photographers: David Kasnic, Renato Cruz Santos, Darlyne Komukama, Tiny Geeroms, Sasha Vernaeve & Eva Teetaert contributing artists: Frederic Heyman & Gabriela González
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