21C_19C_Procedures For Anthropometric Image Reversal_ debate 04
A video impression of the fourth and cosiest debate of the series.
21C/19C _ Procedures for Anthropometric Image Reversal _ Debate 03
21C/19C_Procedures for Anthropometric Image Reversal is a performative 16mm film work on the painful colonial archive, specifically the anthropometric photography of 1860-1900. read more…
Artist meets Archive
I will work as a resident in the framework of the Photoszene festival in Cologne. The residency will start with the 2018 festival in september. It will build up to an exhibition in the next Photoszene, in may and june 2019. read more…
21C/19C_ Exoticism in the studio
After three very different debates, we will focus with a smaller crowd on some very disturbing images and how to handle these in an artwork. To do this, we are warmly welcomed by Jane Amegah at her Salon de coiffure Akwaba. read more…
16 mm projection and debate
First of a series of performative projections with debate, wednesday september 20th, 7pm
@ KAOS Opperstraat 73 Rue Souveraine, 1050 Xl Brussels
Four projections with debate found financial support
21C/19C _ Procedures for anthropometric image reversal found financial support at the VGC – the Flemish government in Brussels – and the the township of Elsene/Ixelles. The organizing partner is nadine vzw. read more…
Human Zoos explained in 10 minute video
Excellent short and engaged explanation on the human zoos, by Stephane Kaas. In Dutch.
Contributing to Afrikadaa – Unsettling Photocollections
In Afrikadaa I publish about the artistic search I conduct on the 19th century anthropometric photocollections : the search for the context, the search for the photomaterial itself, and, most of all, the sensitive questions on how to use, by whom, and how to speak of these unsettling images. read more…
Contributing to DW B: Anthropometric photography
I have been looking into the 19th century photography, as a central means to invent and define the ‘other’. It is a very interesting part of imperial and of photographic history, and it has become the core of my research. This month I publish on this in the leading literary magazine DW B. read more…
To know the pymies VIIIbis: in a changing world
The same filmmaker, Laurent Maget, made the documantary ‘Pygmées Baka, le grand virage’ in 2013. It starts with the same beautiful imagery, showing a large community of Baka in their more sedentary surroundings ‘Le Bosquet’ in Cameroun. They tell of how they got there, invited by a ‘sister’ (I presume a christian missionary) to come live there, next to a village, and create a large community. This worked, they got advantages like a school. The community attracted researchers (biologic anthropologists) who have in return a dentist pass by regularly. Then it also attracted Bantou shopkeepers. read more…
