Block 8
The city as a site for questions

Period: 23 February 1998 - 4 May 1998

Locations

- The buildings of Victoria in Ghent (Belgium), various sites in the city of Ghent
- The auditorium of the University of Amsterdam

Mentors

Moniek Toebosch (NL) and Dirk Pauwels (B)

Activities

Informal presentations
- Super 8 presentations on a weekly basis, You ask, we ask back?
- Office desks in various city sites
- Presentation of Super 8 films
- Ovalium meetings
• Tim Etchells, presentations based on a workshop
• Vlaamse Kermis
• Group presentations:
• What happens if a scenographer, a sculptor, a choreographer and a director make a theater performance?
• Memory
• 100% Acryl

Symposium

The Case against the Global Economy
With Edward Goldsmith (GB), Helena Norberg-Hodge (GB), Jerry Mander (USA), Vandana Shiva (India), Sijbolt Noorda (NL) at the Aula of the University of Amsterdam

Visits to

• Ilya Kabakov/Jan Fabre, Een ontmoeting/Vstrecha
• De Rode Poort
• Forced Entertainment, Quizoola!
• Tim Etchells/Studio Herman Teirlinck, Ruin yourself before they do
• Michael Hanecke, Funny Games
• Jan Fabre, Glowing Icons

Participation in

• Colleen Scott, preparatory lecture on the conference
• Pol Hoste, chroniquer on the city of Ghent
• An van Dienderen and Didier Volckaerts, workshop Super 8
• Tim Etchells, workshop
• Jan Fabre, meeting the student, lecturing on his work
• Rudy Laermans, television and manipulation
• Gerard Mortier, lecture on opera
• Festival directors, Ovalium meeting on festival cultures

Guest teachers

Patrick Allegaert (B), Bart Caron (B), Lieven de Cauter (B), An van Dienderen (B), Tim Etchells (GB), Jan Fabre (B), Edward Goldsmith (GB), Hugo de Greef (B), Pol Hoste (B), Rudy Laermans (B), Frie Leysen (B), Jerry Mander (USA), Gerard Mortier (B), Helena Norberg-Hodge (GB), Chantal Pattyn (B), Colleen Scott (NL), Vandana Shiva (India), Marc Vanrunxt (B), Bruno Verbergt (B), Didier Volckaerts (B)

Participants

Jordis Cordua (D/NL), Liesbeth Gritter (NL), Robbert van der Horst (NL), Mirjana Smolic (HR), Ela Kagel (D), Christiane Lopes da Cunha (Brasil), Saskia Meulendijks (NL), Jasja Musatov (NL), Kees Roorda (NL), Mette van der Sijs (NL), Merit van Wageningen (NL), Judith Wilske (D)

Projects within the studies programme of DasArts

• Cees Krijnen, Lemba, queen of asylum, Toneelschuur 15-19 April ‘98
• Sjoerd Wagenaar, Klepperrek II, Grand Theater and tour 23 April - 21 June ‘98
• Michael Beards, Uit het lijf, Westergasfabriek 25-28 June ‘98 (Klein Yalta 64)
• Ros Volten, Tropenwortels, Westergasfabriek 25-28 June ‘98 (Klein Yalta 65)
• Jens H. Hoffmann, contemporary.self.portraits, Sean Kelly Gallery NY 18 June - 24 July ’98
• Germaine Kruip, Silence/Violence, Reuten Galerie Amsterdam, 24 October - 18 November ‘98

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