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Louis Gallait’s painting representing the abdication of Charles V hides an improb able story. Between 1841 and 1845, this monumental painting was effectively dismantled and rolled around a large wooden cylinder to be sent across a part of Europe by train. The work was exhibited in various cities as propaganda for Belgium, which had only been independent for ten years or so at the time.
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I invited students from the Academy of Fine Arts of Tournai to roam from the Museum through the city of Tournai with the wooden roller that was used to transport the painting. The performance was filmed with a drone. Each landscape crossed by this curious object suggests different interpretations. It is reminiscent of a religious procession when the roller approaches the cathedral, of a funeral when the bearers enter the graveyard in the north of the city, and it looks like a tree trunk when it is engulfed in a park. The video delivers the performance as it took place in November 2021, in its actual length. It takes the form of a long visual silence interrupted by short dialogues taken from the film Dispute in Valladolid by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe. The film refers to the political and religious debates that took place in the middle of the 16th century within the empire of Charles V to determine whether the indigenous people in the New World had a soul or not and to frame the consequent rules for dominating and converting them.
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2322 à ouvrir dans 30, 50, 100 ans 15 17 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 15 Enclosure Acts, Great Britain, 1700-1801 16 Plan of Saint Gall monastic compound dating from 820–830, in Historique du Jardin potager, Florent Quellier, Armand Collin, Paris, 2012 17 Panorama of the Clos des Pêches in Montreuil-sous-bois around 1900, in Historique du Jardin potager, Florent Quellier, Armand Collin, Paris, 2012 18 Poor Clare Sisters at the Cimiez Monastery in Nice in the 1930s, in Jardin de Monastères, Régine Pernoud and Georges Herscher, Actes Sud, Paris, 1996 19 Miniature from the The Queen’s Manuscript by Christine de Pizan, ca 1410-1414, in Calibano e la Strega, Le donne, il corpo e l’accumula zione originaria, Silvia Federici, Mimesis, Milano, 2020 20 Miniature from Le Rustican ou Livre des prouffitz champestres et ruraulx by Pietro de Crescenzi, ca1459-1470, in Le Roman du Potager, Colette Gouvion and Marielle Hucliez, Editions du Roubergue, Arles, 1998 21 Miniature from Le Rustican ou Livre des prouffitz champestres et ruraulx by Pietro de Crescenzi, ca1459-1470, in Jardins du Moyen âge Marie-Françoise Valéry and Alain Le Toquin, Edition La Renaissance du Livre, Waterloo, 2001 22 Hortus botanicus van de Universiteit Leiden, Willem Isaacsz van Swanenburg, 1610, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Founded in 1590, it is the oldest botanic garden in The Netherlands. It hosted tropical (Indies) and subtropical (Cape Colony) species collected by Philipp Franz von Siebold from Deshima in Japan from1823 until 1829, and medicinal plants. 23 The Gardens of Fidelity (Bagh-i Vafa) being laid out at Kabul in 1504, in Vaqi’at-i Baburi, the memoirs of the Emperor Babur ca 1590, British Library Entour
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Strolling through the greenhouses of the Botanic Garden in Meise, young women discuss the survival strategies peculiar to specific plants. They explore different themes around the theory of “mutual aid” by Peter Kropotkin. Contrary to the Darwinist hypothesis of survival of the fittest, Kropotkin demonstrated that coop eration and mutual aid are the major factors of evolution and progress. Their discussions then evolve to discourses on the foundations of capital ism in the Middle Ages. With personal interpretations of the research by historian Silvia Federici, they discuss the place of women in this growing paradigm based on the privatization of land. At that time, many women were marginalised after being dispossessed of common parcels of land on which they used to cultivate for subsistence. Instead of healers they were judged as witches, initiating a social hunt onThewomen.discussions with moments of collective singing and of watching a video explaining how African women used to hide rice in their hair before fleeing from slavery.01-02
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Shooting, Meise Botanical Garden, September 2021 01 Film 4K, 16:9, colour, sound, 16’26”, 2021 GaranceWITH Buxtorf Judith Gaillard Emma Lee Harder Valérie Maione Ayana Sato-Rheims Tara EmanuelaVOCALVeyrunesCOACHLodato ACTING AntoniaEDITINGPRODUCTIONMariannaEDITINGIoanaSOUNDAlexeyCINEMATOGRAPHERStéphanieCOACHMangezSantiagoMandrescuRomanoANDASSISTANTTorfs-Leibman MUSIC Passacaglia Della Vita anonymous author, 1657 ONLINE RETRIEVEDVIDEOFROM How the Maroon ancestors hid rice grains in their hair Tilde van Andel, 2017 02 (l’entraide)appoggiomutuoIl 36
