Walking The Hinterland, Argos Center, Brussels

Walking the Hinterland considers the ways in which contemporary art responds to geographical non-spaces, those ’suspended spaces’ within or bordering on delimited urban zones, through the work of eight artists for whom walking is also a creative act. Over the course of the late 20th century, ’hinterland’ (originating from the Middle High German ’hinter’, meaning ’beyond’) has gradually taken on a modified interpretation, no longer used in the strict geographical sense of land directly adjacent to and inland from a coast, or a region remote from urban areas. The word now embodies the idea of a place, an era or an aspect of life considered as lacking in spiritual, aesthetic or other humanising qualities; a vacuum; a cultural wasteland. Wastelands, ’zone blanches’ as described by Philippe Vasset in Un Livre blanc, (Editions Fayard, 2007) are areas that have been left white or uncoloured on maps. They are free zones, no man’s land – both politically and socially – streets of “sub-primed” houses, or quite simply suburbs of warehouses or mega shopping complexes surrounded by far larger asphalted spaces given over to parking. In the vein of contemporary literary flaneurs like Iain Sinclair or W.G. Sebald, the works presented are the audiovisual results of artists striding the underbelly of urban spaces around the world. Mapping, photographing, sketching, recording sound and images, performing, retracing their steps again and again in order to permeate themselves in these environments which, even if they often exude an air of desolation or hostility, are the essence of urban regeneration.In addition to the works presented in the exhibition, two Brussels-based artists Els Opsomer on October 30th and Mira Sanders on November 7th who are affiliated with the Argos Archive will lead walking tours through different parts of Brussels. 

• Antoine Boutet, 
  • Jordi Colomer, 
    • Peter Downsbrough, 
      • Redmond Entwistle, 
        • Jan Kopp, 
  • • • • • Vincent Meessen, 
            • Till Roeskens, 
              • Florin Tudor & 
                • Mona Vatamanu. 
  Curated by Brent Klinkum (Transat video)

The New Settlers at Ridehuset, Aarhus (DK)

The New Settlers at Ridehuset
Aarhus
Danemark
November 17-21, 2010

Vita Nova

Vincent Meessen, Belgium, 2009

Experimental documentary, 27 min

This rewriting of some Roland Barthes's overlooked biographical facts is based a modern icon.
The now famous picture of a colonial military cadet demystied by Barthes in his essay Mythologies is revisited in order
to reflects on the conflicting narrative regimes of storytelling. 

What I Have

Andrey Zhidkov, Russia 2009
Experimental/Animation, 11 min.
An eerie tale of intricately depicted isolation, this recounting of Borges’ story, The Disk, outlines the abstract fate of a woodcutter visited by a king.

Notes on the Other

Sergio Oksman, Spain 2009
Documentary, 13 min.
On July 13, 1924, Ernest Hemingway was on a balcony in Pamplona, Spain and saw a wounded man lying on the other side of the street. He became consumed with the feeling that he was that man. Notes on the Otherfollows the example of this sensation in the form of an annual Hemingway lookalike contest in Key West, Florida. Dozens of older men do their utmost to be Hemingway. The film investigates the curiosity for alternate perception, for stepping outside of ourselves to contemplate the world in a different way, if only for a little while.

Organized by Litteraturen på scenen & Aarhus International Film Festival

Amakula Festival, Kampala, Uganda

The Amakula Kampala International Film Festival  2010 will occur from October 29th to November 6th with the theme of Inevitable Transition. The festival will be presented at the National Theatre as well as twenty video halls located in the five districts of Kampala.

Plateform3, Munich

Musing architecture
Film Programme
October 13, 2010, 7pm

The film programme Musing Architecture contemplates architectural structures. Four videos examine on architecture in relation to time, transience as well as the people inhabiting this architecture.


With the following works:


City of Progress, Justin Bennett, NL 2008-2010, 11'
Dear Adviser, Vincent Meessen, BE 2009, 8'
A Necessary Music, Beatrice Gibson, UK 2008, 28'
Os Candagos, Guillaume Linard Osorio, F 2010, 8'


Platform3 is a unique interdisciplinary cultural model for contemporary art based in 2000m2 of ex-warehouse in the South of Munich.