C0N10UR

C0N10UR is taking place at four venues in the heart of Mechelen. The short walking route between the downtown locations allows visitors to spend a full day watching and listening. You start your visit at one of the two points of sale (kunstencentrum nona or Museum Hof van Busleyden), where you can purchase or pick up the C0N10UR-pass. You will need this pass to visit all venues in Mechelen. Thanks to the cultural partners argos centre for audiovisual arts in Brussels and Kunsthal Extra City in Antwerp, you can also experience part of C0N10UR outside of Mechelen. These places are an integral part of the biennial and are accessible during their regular opening hours.

In Museum Hof van Busleyden, a massive wall acts as a projection screen for a continuous film program: thirty films and film clips after and next to each other, in different formats and mostly without genres. The logic behind their montage is not that of narrative but of resonance in a shared space. Facing the wall, Subversive Film depicts the many meanings of assemblage, on the side wall, Melissa Gordon offers look-out.

With: Aay Liparoto, Alex Reynolds, Alma Söderberg, Annik Leroy, Brahim Tall, Camille Picquot, Chloé Malcotti, Eric de Kuyper, Eva Claus, Eva Giolo, Frederic Rzewski, Julie Morel, Kevin Jerome Everson, Léonard Pongo, Melissa Gordon, Mieriën Coppens, Mischa Dols, Omar A. Chowdhury, Subversive Film.

In De Garage, C0N10UR brings together voices and sounds that ask to be heard. Listening here sounds like an invitation, a question, a call. Not as an order to be obeyed blindly. On the contrary, hearing can prompt questions. Who speaks when and from what position? Who gets to speak? Who takes the floor? Who makes themselves heard? Who makes noise? Not to mention, how does it sound? Listening may differ from looking, but sound makes it possible to adjust our perception.

With: Alex Reynolds, Chloé Malcotti with Alexandre Mulongo Finkelstein, Dominique De Groen, Effi & Amir, Frederic Rzewski, Guy-Marc Hinant,  Rosine Mbakam, Sandra Muteteri Heremans.

At Cinema Lumière Mechelen, C0N10UR presents a series of films by Annik Leroy and Julie Morel, Chloé Malcotti, Mohanad Yaqubi, Alex Reynolds, Mieriën Coppens and Elie Maissin, Léonard Pongo, Effi & Amir.  Daily screening at 14:00. See the screening schedule below. (Premiere screenings are not included in the C0N10UR pass)

C0N10UR and argos in Brussels present Small Acts of Violence. You’re invited to walk through a low landscape of broken ceramics vases, moldy collages and brick walls. Wait in the seating area for a caring guide to welcome you into a fabric cocoon, and experience the artist Aay Liparoto’s immersive cinematic Virtual Reality work at the heart of this exhibition.

With: Aay Liparoto.

With Double Voiced, Kunsthal Extra City in Antwerpen  and C0N10UR bring together the audiovisual work of four artists in a shared scenography created by Yuichiro Onuma. The exhibition looks at the everyday habits and objects that define these images, enters the domestic space and landscapes, listens to the human voice and nature, questions how self-images and identity are performed and constructed, and cherishes female role models.

With: Chloë Delanghe, Christina Stuhlberger, Eva Giolo, Rebecca Jane Arthur.