Events : Event#01 - 2006

SIDE EFFECTS brings together the work of two photographers. Lynne Cohen (CA) and Bert Danckaert (BE) capture the residues of human activity without showing people themselves. Bert Danckaert shows a selection from Make Sense!, the vast photographic work he has been working on since 1999. Lynne Cohen presents the recently published Camouflage in Netwerk for the first time. It is an survey of and retrospection on Cohen's career, which goes back to the early seventies. In Camouflage she brings together works that have never been exhibited nor published before.

Lecture by Jean-Louis Poitevin (FR),on the recent publications Camouflage by Lynne Cohen, Le Point du Jour éditeur and Make Sense! by Bert Danckaert. Make Sense! is a production of Project & Project vzw and Netwerk vzw and is published by POC (FR). Jean-Louis Poitevin has written on Julien Gracq and Robert Musil, ao.

JacquesTati / Retour à la terre (1938) / L’ecole des facteurs (1946) / Jour de Fête (1949) / Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) / Playtime (1967) / Traffic (1972) / Parade (1975)

JacquesTati / Mon Oncle (1958) The photographic work of Bert Danckaert and Lynne Cohen relates to the spirit of Jacques Tati's films. His films have a social and political motivation, but there is no concrete message. Although the storyline is always extremely simple, the films of Tati are also very satirical: Tati provides criticism (critique) on the current modern society. In all of his films the human masses stand central but there's always a personage that does not want to adapt but eventually nevertheless disolves in the crowd. This individual, monsieur Hulot, always played by Tati himselve, fights (often subconsious / unconscious) against moderninty. This results frequently into hilaric faillures, in which modern techique is destroyed by the human nature.

Eavesdropper
Eavesdropper's music presents a mix of minimal and detailed compositions, and more violent rythmic work. His sound is provided with dark and layered structures sprouting both from accoustic and electronic sources.