The Emergence of Things brings together some 20 artists who investigate the fundamental components or “elementary particles” of media, technology and their production processes. Like anatomical surgeons or archaeologists, they dissect our everyday instruments and image production. Some artists approach the theme from the social or political implications of certain ‘tools’ and the power structures that are interwoven with them.
Others have a more structural and conceptual working method. These artists focus not on the content, but on the infrastructures and production standards of diverse media. They reveal a strong engagement in fathoming the depths of these microstructures, material attributes and mechanisms.
“Imploding” technology and media are here separated from their original objectives. They fold, as it were, back onto themselves. By way of fragmented investigations they look for knowledge about how they work. Often, they involve a return to basics and a challenge to find alternative uses.
The word “emergence” primarily refers to “the appearance” of something or its “rising to the surface”. In the sciences and philosophy, however, it can also have a more profound meaning. It is a term for complex systems and patterns that originate from a multiplicity of small, relatively simple interactions and procedures. Characteristics come into being which are not visible or present in the underlying components or levels. The whole is more than the sum of the parts.
Artefact is initiated by provincie Vlaams-Brabant and STUK arts centre
Tuesday 15 feb 2011
17h00 > 23h00: expo
20h00: opening
21h00: Hans W. Koch Computermusic I – Julien Maire Open Core
Wednesday 16 feb 2011
14h00 > 23h00: expo
20h30: Patrícia Portela – The Private Collection of Acácio Nobre
Thursday 17 feb 2011
14h00 > 23h00: expo
19h00: Kris Verdonck – Actor #1
20h30: Kris Verdonck – Actor #1
21h30: Gold Panda + Eleven Tigers
22h00: Kris Verdonck – Actor #1
Friday 18 feb 2011
14h00 > 23h00: expo
19h00: Kris Verdonck – Actor #1
20h30: Kris Verdonck – Actor #1
21h30: Biosphere + Oubys
22h00: Kris Verdonck – Actor #1
Saturday 19 feb 2011
14h00 > 23h00: expo
20h00: Amiina
20h30: Lindstrøm + San Soda (We Play House) + Gratts
Sunday 20 feb 2011
14h00 > 23h00: expo
16h00: Frederik Croene – Roll over Czerny
Monday 21 till Thursday 24 feb 2011
14h00 > 21h00: expo
Expo: YoHa, Harwood | Wright | Yokokoji, Herman Asselberghs, Herman Asselberghs | Fairuz, Julius von Bismarck | Benjam…, * Alexander Gutke, Simon Starling, Angela Bulloch, Miks Mitrevics, Gebhard Sengmüller, Dieter Kiessling, Robert Morris, Carla Arocha, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Morgan Fisher, Alexander Gutke, Wim Janssen, Ludo Engels | Stefaan Quix