Artefact expo: You must change your life
Artefact expo: You must change your life
Opening hours expo
th 12/2 - sa 14/2 : 14:00 - 22:00
su 15/2 - tu 17/2 : 14:00 - 19:00
we 18/2 - su 22/2 : 14:00 - 22:00
The expo takes place in STUK.
Balance from Within (2010)
Jacob Tonski (US)A 170-year-old sofa balances on one leg. With the aid of an internal kinetic, robotic mechanism, the sofa responds to gravity that brings it out of balance. Falling is corrected by an internal kinetic robot mechanism. Metaphorically speaking, the old sofa refers to moments when we reflect upon...
Cosmic Tissue (2014)
Emily Whitebread (UK)Cosmic Tissue shows several gymnasts practising on the trapeze. Simultaneously we hear about gravity, the body, the imagination and the universe. The video conveys a beautiful metaphor about the power of humanity to surpass its own capacity by means of its own imagination. Through...
When you fall into a trance (2014)
Emily Wardill (UK)The film When You Fall into a Trance shows the complex relationship between Dominique, a neuroscientist, and Simon, her patient, Tony, a synchronised swimmer, and Hugo, a care worker. Simon suffers from impaired proprioception or position sense, i.e. the neuro-motor capacity to perceive...
The Hand, the Eye and It | The Hand, the Eye, It and the foot
Hedwig Houben (NL)The Hand, the Eye and It is a documentated lecture performance in which a plasticine replica of Hedwig Houben’s hand, seen in the video as an amorphous, flesh-coloured object on the table, takes on the role of a mediator. The hand mediates between the performer (the eye of the maker)...
Stranger Visions (2012-2013)
Heather Dewey-Hagborg (US)Stranger Visions consists of seven sculpted heads based on DNA examples found in public places, e.g. a strand of hair or a cigarette butt. The artist uses a new method to gain information from DNA about a person’s appearance, such as eye colour, heritage or gender. One of the seven...
Body Revolution (2015)
Mokhallad Rasem (IQ)Installation on view permanently during the entire festival.
At specific times, the installation becomes the set of a performance.
DNA, A Graphic Guide to the Molecule that shook the world
Israel Rosenfield (US), Edward Ziff (US), Borin van Loon (UK)With humor, depth, and philosophical and historical insight, DNA, A graphic guide to the Molecule that shook the world reaches out to a wide range of readers with its graphic portrayal of a complicated science. Suitable for use in and out of the classroom, this volume covers DNA's many marvels,...
Room C (extended) (2015)
Roel Heremans (BE)In Room C (extended) the viewer is invited to enter a room and stand on one of the white crosses on the floor. Via headphones the viewer is instructed to close their eyes and imagine various situations. The mental images vary from the abstract to the extremely personal. Every now and...
Echo Moiré (2012)
iii - Matteo Marangoni (IT)Echo Moiré is a robot-opera-ballet in which a pair of mobile, directional loudspeakers play the STUK Verbeeckzaal like a musical instrument. The loudspeakers are operated automatically and ride across the hall floor on small wheels. With the aid of pulsing sounds they explore the...
CineChine (2012) | CineChine performance (2014)
iii – Mariska de Groot (NL) & Dieter Vandoren (BE)CineChine enables you to experience the physical proportions of optical sound. Optical sound was used a lot in the 20s on celluloid and synthesizers, particularly among the Russian avant-garde artists. In this form light and sound are inseparable from one another. In the exhibition...
An Eye for an Eye (1998)
Artur Żmijewski (PL)In the video work An Eye for an Eye, by the artist Artur Żmijewski, the expression from the title gains new meaning. The video portrays people with a disability, people who following an amputation are severely restricted in their day-to-day lives. Temporary relief is offered by able-...
PlaneScape (2011-2014)
Wolfgang Bittner (AT), Lyndsey Housden (UK), Yoko Seyama (JP), Jeroen Uyttendaele (BE)PlaneScape is an immersive audio-visual installation. The work consists of an entirely darkened room in which a raster of elastic cords has been spanned between the ceiling and the floor. An animated image of dots is projected into the space whereby the illusion of an abstract three-...
Captives #B04 (2014)
Quayola (IT)Captives is a series of digital and physical sculptures inspired by Prigioni (1513-1534), the unfinished series by Michelangelo. Here Michelangelo used the non finito sculpting technique: sculpting only part of the figure whereby it appears to be ‘captive’ within the block of...
Afterword (2014-2015)
Oscar Santillan (EC)The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche owned only one typewriter, a Malling-Hansen model, in his whole life. Most of his philosophical texts he wrote by hand. He did not succeed to write with this typewriter. He typed more than 70 letters with the machine, but had to correct en finalize them...
Operation - For Something Black and Hot (2012)
Okin Collective (KR)In this installation the artists alert us to the shortcomings of governments during catastrophes such as Fukushima in Japan. The Japanese government failed to produce an effective solution for the local residents to protect themselves and prevent the disaster from escalating further. The artists...
John Hull became blind at an early age. Artefact shows the video of a lecture he gave as part of the Memory Marathon organized by the London Serpentine Gallery in 2012, in which he spoke in an immersive way about what it is like to be blind and how it has changed him as a person.
Être et ne pas avoir (2014)
Younes Baba-Ali (MA)Être et ne pas avoir is a video in which a Belgian resident explains the different strategies of access linked to the local social welfare system. This work refers to the flaws of a social system and the money it can generate, as well as the phenomenon of a...
Shalom Aleikoum (2013)
Younes Baba-Ali (MA)Shalom Aleikoum (literally 'peace upon you') is a form of bilingualism, mixing the common origins of the Arabic and the Hebrew greetings. The proposition, beyond the orthographic differences or the antagonistic relationship between both cultures, becomes a peace...
Mediterraneo (2014)
Anna Raimondo (IT)Drop after drop, a glass is filled until it overflows, while the artist repeats the word ''Mediterraneo'' as if it were a mantra. During the action, her voice sinks in the water, thus becoming less and less audible, and the word itself becomes unintelligible....