My Last Life, Netwerk, Aalst (B)

My Last Life Netwerk centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Aalst (Belgium)

December 10 - March 3, 2012.

January 20 : In dialogue with Christian Kravagna & Lidwien van de Ven

February 7 : Prospectus - discursive platform with guests :

Corinne Diserens /Jean-Pierre Rehm / Didier Debaise / Yvan Flasse / Fabrizio Terranova / TJ Demos / Olivier Marboeuf/Pierre Huyghebaert/

Cher Conseiller, FRAC Lorraine / La Première Rue, Briey

Cher Conseiller, 

(solo show)

FRAC Lorraine/La Première Rue

Cité Radieuse, Briey-en-Forêt, France

October 14 - january 29, 2012

Argos Center for Art & Media

Dear Adviser, Argos Center for Art & Media, Blackbox, Brussel (B) 5-16 may 2009

Can Chandigarh, the paragon of the modernist city, escape from its faith as a living museum? Can this city survive the preservation of the universal modernist fable? In the only city designed by Le Corbusier, the political complex of the Capitol is much more than scenery. The Capitol itself is the "camera". The buildings that represent the different powers keep a constant eye on each other. They channel the visitor’s movements and constantly observe him from above. The Capitol as phantasm of political power, is here nothing more than a place where the black deathsuit of modernism haunts. In this unfinished city, a few shadowy characters –a spectral silhouette, voices, sounds- rewrite a fable loved by the architect about the Raven that Wants to Imitate the Eagle. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, also known as Le Corbusier, is invited to confront his double personality. He is less alone then he used to be while he was alive. Now he is called upon by his haunted images and by the contradictions of modernism. "Dear Adviser" is  a poetic “address” to the architect and the in Chandigarh superstitiously as “adviser” disguised legislator. 

PAST - Selected Exhibitions, screenings etc

Vincent Meessen (US/BE)

(* denotes exhibition)

RECENT PRESENTATIONS (selection)

SOLO PRESENTATIONS

2010

Argos center for at & media (artist focus), Brussels

Autograph ABP, London

2009

Argos center for art & media (black box), Brussels

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA) [with Susanne Kriemann] *

 

2008

Egmont's Palace, Brussels (public commission), Foreign Affairs

2007

Art Brussels

Beursschouwburg, Brussels *

Argos center for art & media (black box), Brussels

2006

STUK, Leuven (BE) *

GROUP PRESENTATIONS

2010

Argos center for art& media, Hinterland/Open Archive #02 *

KW Berlin, Highlights from the KunstFilmBiennale

Argos center for art & media (extra muros), Cabinet Bald Eagle/ Potential Estate *

Transmediale on tour (Mexico, 

PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE), Free Falling

39th IFFR Rotterdarm, Break Even Store

Transmediale 10, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Futurity now!

CEAC, Xiamen, China, Backsourcing/Video Lounge *

2009

IDFA, Amsterdam, Paradocs

CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Offmostoles

Center for Contemporary Art, Celje (SLO), Splav Meduze *

CPH:DOX, Copenhagen

SMBA/Montevideo, Amsterdam, Africa Reflected

KunstfilmBiennale, Köln/Bonn (D)

Museum De Paviljoens, Almere (NL), Unknown Territory *

Contour Biennale for Moving Images, Mechelen (B) *

Loop Festival, Barcelona

WRO Biennale 09, Wroclaw(PL)

Frame, Helsinki (Fin)

M HKA extra muros, Antwerp, Cabinet Jurino / Potential Estate *

Transmediale 09, Berlin

Cinéma du Réel, Centre Pompidou/MK2 Beaubourg, Paris

Argos Open Lounge, Villa Merkel, Esslingen (DE) *

2008

L'Alternativa, Barcelona, CCCB (ES)

Brussels Biennial, Cabinet Anciaux/Potential Estate *

Musée du Jeu de Paume, Palais de Tokyo, Les Laboratoires...Hospitalités, touring program in 28 art centers in Paris & Ile de France (F)

Rencontres Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt,Berlin (DE)

Error #9/Extra City, Antwerp, Shadow Cabinet (three rendezvous) *

Videoex, Zürich (CH)

Videonale 10, Kunstmuseum, Bonn (DE)

LOOP video art fair & festival, Barcelona (ES)

e-flux video rental, Fundaçao Gulbenkian, Lisbon (P) *

Montevideo/Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (NL), Temporary States *

Fairplay Film & Video Award, Lugano (CH)

5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, (TH)

Cabinet Wally Hope/Potential Estate, Antwerp *

FORDE , Black Movie Festival, Genève (CH), Politique de la vision *

Momenta Art, New York (US) 

International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Genius Loci

2007

Mostra Invideo, Milano (IT), Clinamen Cinema

MUSEION @ Filmclub, Bolzano (IT)

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Cine y casi Cine

Rencontres Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris (F)

IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Paradocs

Argos center for art & media, Brussels, Open Archive #01

Error # 7, Antwerp, Just a Movie for Godsake *

e-flux video rental, Lyon Biennial (F) *

Fair Play 2007, film & video award, Berlin (DE)

Musée des Beaux Arts, Grenoble (F), De leur temps (2) *

Netwerk, Aalst (BE), Cabinet Reclus/Potential Estate *

Witte Zaal, Gent, Elusive Cities *

Swiss Institue, New York (US), Movies Without Pictures,

Oberhausen International Festival (DE)

Oberhausen on tour (Europe) Berlin- Bucharest- Istanbul- Torino- Münster- Leipzig- Karlsruhe- Bremen-Utrecht-Potsdam- Zielona Góra - Nürnberg- Frankfurt- Rotterdam- Paris- München- Regensburg- London.

Image Forum Festival, Tokyo,Yokohama & Kyoto (JP), Critical distance

EMAF European Media Art festival), Osnabrück (DE)

Transmediale 07, Berlin (DE)

IFFR / International Film Festival, Rotterdam

Momenta Art, New York, Weak Foundations *

e-flux video rental (NY & touring)

MARTa, Herford (DE), Leere X Vision : ConneXions *

2006

Videomedeja, Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad (SEB)

EntreVues International film festival, Belfort (F)

Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, (CZ)

Cinémathèque Française, Paris (FR), Archéologie d'un territoire

Botanical Gardens, Meise (BE), Breughel Revisited *

STUK, Leuven (B), Cabinet Jacotot/Potential Estate *

Borderline Festival, Bejing (CHI)

Oberhausen International Film Festival (DE)

Art Brussels, Psychogeograhies

Courtisane Festival, Gent

ZOne, Documentair Filmplatform, MuHKA_media /Buda/Film Pateau, Antwerp/Kortrijk/Gent (BE)

CURATED PROGRAMS & EXHIBITIONS

CEAC, Xiamen, China, Backsourcing (screening) *

Extra City, Antwerp, Shadow Cabinet (3 rendezvous) (exhibition) *

Argos center for art & media, Brussels, Out of Place I (exhibition) *

Cinema Museum, Brussels, Out of Place II (screening)

BAK, Concerning Knowledge Production (screening)

e-flux festival @ Extra City, Antwerp, Cosmopolitical Bodies (screening)

UTIL, Brussels (5 exhibitions 2002-2006) *

LECTURES-TALKS-ARTIST PRESENTATIONS

2010

KASK / Intern.Film festival Gent/Vooruit , Gent

Autograph ABP, London

CA2M, Madrid

2009

E.R.G., Brussels

R.I.T.S/K.A.S.K/V.U.B, Brussels, The document as performance/ The performance as a document

2008

Film Plateau, Gent, Video Out of Joint

E.N.S.A.V La Cambre, Brussels

2007

M HKA _media, Antwerp, Video guest

Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Word of Nearness / Studium Generale

2006

Argos tuesday's, artist talk with Corinne Diserens

BAK, Utrecht (NL), Concerning "Knowledge Production"