Ecrire le son (avec le son)

OUT OF OFFICE

Video in loop 5' (2010)

The allegory of Justice, an urban spationaute is trying to keep balance with the weight of suitcases. She takes an exploratory walk on the background of the bigness. This video takes place in the Administrative City of Bruxelles, a project born in the late fifties in order to challenge  La Défense in Paris. A tabula rasa which ruptured for years with the dynamic of the popular neighboordhood. It construction site, appart the financial tower which is the taxe-building, remained a wasteland for years, hosting free parties and video clips shootings. The Administrative City carries its funny historic, like a retro-futurist former restaurant for civil servants whose saw-tooth architecture inspired the soundtrack, made after an analogic Kauai 100F solo in saw-tooth mode.

The video was exhibited at Central Electrique and Halles de Schaerbeek for a Man Machine seminar organisated by sculptor Eric Angenot.

   Briefcase used for the performance 

Centre d'Art de Chamarande

Workshop "CARTOGRAPHIE(s)" 

 Jan / Sept 2010

David Evrard

Marcel Berlanger

Marc Guillaume 
Meryll Hardt  
Pierre Van Denpitte
David Mercier
Donovan Alonso Garcia
Laurette Massant
Fix Groyn
Sarah Vandersteenen
Raphaël Bastide
Vincent Evrard
Caroline Dehareng
Lou Delmare

 " Tentative de scoutisme" in the moats of Chamarande's castle. Students and teachers are singing in the rain the hymn of Chamarande's scout camps. 

Office National des Vacances Annuelles

(c) Marc Wathieu 

 
Residency and installation at Office National des Vacances Annuelles (Bruxelles)

after a proposition of artist and teacher AgZ, I spent one week in the facilities of an administration that organized holidays for labours and artists. 

Investing the ground floor of the administration, a former mutual benefit society that closed its doors to become an art gallery, I went to the underground of the building administration to pick some vintage furniture and revive the place, in order to celebrate its original function once for all. 

Step by step, spending days at this unplugged office facility, like a ghost, I started to question which character would have work here and... I came there working everyday at the same hours of other employees. Except, having to make art instead of administrative duties. 

Inspired Monsieur Hulot, I tried to imagine several funny situations to play, but I rather ended up to perform this fictional character by playing her without knowing who she was. Each day, improvising things guided by intuition,  searching for clues about the character. 

I still don't know exactly who she was, but this video is kind of her last day at work. 

Sometimes visitors of the administration would confuse me with an actual employee, wave me though the glass window and even push my door to ask for informations about their appointment in this or those office number (insert a number). Which I gladly delivered to them, until they realized my phone was unplugged. And I was an artist. 

In order to popularize the mission of the administration, more, to celebrate it, I wrote a ritournelle about its mission that I twice sung around the neighborhood to inhabitants. 

Lightening Strikes

(c) Sonke Helde

Performance and choreography for a cover auf Klaus Nomi "Lightening Strikes"
by Felix Kubin, dir. Sonke Helde , 8mm clip, award at Oberhausen film festival in 2010. 

Lightning Strikes from Felix Kubin on Vimeo.

Out Of office

Video performance
Loop 3'

NOT DRY