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8/9/2010

Candice Breitz

Stuk Kunstencentrum, Leuven

Though Candice Breitz (°1972 Johannesburg, South Africa) has focused largely on creating multi-channel video installations since 1999, her approach to the moving image grows out of an earlier body of photographic work, in which she made extensive use of photomontage and cut-and-paste strategies. In composing her multi-channel video installations, Breitz deploys both freshly shot footage and material drawn from familiar films, modifying her source material digitally in the working. Amongst other themes, Breitz's video oeuvre reflects critically on the narrative structure of Hollywood cinema, the counter-projections of fans and their idols, and the challenges posed to the individual and individuality within contemporary media culture.

STUK presents Candice Breitz’s New York, New York, a multi-channel video installation that grows out of and includes documentation of Breitz’s first foray into directing live theatrical performance. The work was originally commissioned in the context of Performa 09.

Four pairs of identical twins were each invited to develop a character of their choice over the course of a daylong workshop recorded on camera, in preparation for bringing these characters to life on stage. The characters emerging from these lengthy sessions were then abandoned to improvisation on stage in a two-act play performed before a live audience in New York City on 12 November 2009. For the live performance, the cast of eight was split into two identical casts of four (each cast of four actors was composed of all four characters). Each pair of siblings was asked to appear as identical to one another as possible on stage, in keeping with their shared character. Twin siblings did not appear together on stage at any point.

New York, New York shifts the probing of sameness and difference that has been central to Breitz's video-based work into the space of live performance, bringing her interest in what she has called "the scripted life" together with an ongoing reflection on the fragile condition of individuality. The work will be presented in the form of a two-part video installation. While the first part is comprised of four short films that document each of the four character development sessions, the second part of the installation consists of two projections that are experienced parallel to one another, evoking stereoscopic vision as they document each of the separate casts responding to the improvisational challenge of taking their characters live on stage.

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Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
From Here to Ear
thu 9 sept - sun 3 oct 10

In From Here to Ear 40 zebra finches go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from various electric guitars. The birds create a captivating live soundscape, a unique symphonic and sensory experience.

Trained as a musician and composer, French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways. The artist puts certain laws and systems in motion which he then allows to exist and evolve autonomously, rather than merely using chaos and dissonance as compositional models.

Displaced Sounds is een initiated by STUK arts centre and K-RAA-K
special thanks to Sebastien & Jos Libens

Press contact:
Frank Geypens | 32/16/320 313 frank.geypens@stuk.be
Helke Smet | 32/16/320 317 helke.smet@stuk.be

Image: Candice Breitz Cast Of New York, New York
Photo by Jason Schmidt

Opening reception Thursday 9 September 19h00

STUK arts centre
Naamsestraat 96, B-3000 Leuven
Opening hours: Wed & Thu 14 - 21, Fri - Sun 14 - 18, Mon & Tue closed
free entry

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