With Moving Identity, video artist Ilke De Vries gave five participants with psychological vulnerabilities the opportunity to learn to film their daily lives themselves. For two years, they met monthly in the Kunstencentrum De Loods. They showed each other's video and audio material, discussed its content, looked at possible techniques and talked about possible next steps. Moving Identity, the result of this intensive collaboration process, offers an insight into the creative ways these people find to deal with their turbulent lives.
In our golden auditorium, you can discover the joint video installation Struggle and the 5 video portraits:
Struggle (video installation, 5 screens with 5 different videos, 16:9, 5min.: Communication, Lost, Oxygen, Hard thoughts, Building dams, breaking dams)
#1 Luc (video HD, 16:9, 17min.)
#2 The human riddle (video HD, 16:9, 11 min. NL + 11min. ENG)
#3 I am silent (dia)
#4 Satisfied with chaos (video HD, 16:9, 25min.)
#5 A right to exist (video HD, 16:9, 11 min.)
About Ilke De Vries
Ilke De Vries (1981) is a video artist who lives and works in Antwerp. She is fascinated by what are the driving forces in people's lives. Fears, vulnerabilities, conflicts and the changes throughout a life often come up in her video work. She always looks at these aspects from a specific context. The results of these intense collaborative projects are experimental documentaries and recordings in which she serenely reduces personal thoughts, behaviour and actions to their essence.
You can find more information on her website.
Practical information
This video installation is from 25 March to 10 April 2021. The full duration of all videos together is 70 minutes.
In order to ensure that your visit adheres strictly to the protocols in place, you must purchase a ticket for an exact time slot. This way, we can guarantee sufficient distance between you and other visitors and offer you a safe experience. For the use of the headphones we will obviously provide disinfection material.
Credits
concept
Ilke De Vries in co-creatie met Tom Op de Beeck, Lucia Spillebeen, Sidney Stoffels, Luc Van Eycken, Greet Verlinden
camera
Tom Op de Beeck, Lucia Spillebeen, Sidney Stoffels, Luc Van Eycken, Greet Verlinden
editing
Ilke De Vries, Sidney Stoffels, Greet Verlinden
music
Sidney Stoffels, Greet Verlinden, Ilke De Vries
with thanks to
Christian Verschelden, Bert Van Winkel, Luc Pelgrims, Tom Keersse, Alan Quireyns, Erki De Vries, Vera Verhaert, Anna, De Vinken, mijn bollenverzameling
translation
Lee Preedy
co-production
Kunstencentrum De Loods, Universitair Psychiatrisch Centrum Duffel
grants
Universitair Psychiatrisch Centrum Duffel, the Flemish government
