“Visual Arts”
10 10 2003Ine online on the next PhotoBlog features and some final Bèta debugs.
Probably she’s the one who made me start taking up classes at the Academy in Leuven. I enrolled first to Photography in Leuven. But when they informed me that it was impossible to enroll for both Photography and Visual Arts, I decided to switch and follow PhotoGraphy somewhere else (don’t tell). So, here I am: 8h Photography a week, 10h visual arts (PhotoShop, Video, Premiere, Flash) and 7h postacademic Graduation Webmaster.
Not that I have any career ambitions in that perspective. I just think it’s a basic skillset I need. The technical skills were there, but I missed the overall academic context.
And if you would ask me “what’s the most rewarding course”. Well, it’s video arts. Probably because of the person giving the classes: Beatrijs Albers. At first she seemed a little ‘different’, compared to the others. But she has soul. Every week she has some intriguing articles she just hands out. I wonder if most people really read them. But today, she took us to the video set of Vlatka Horvat at Stuk.
“But there’s also the possibility that what you’re seeing is ‘it’ -the actual real thing, that there will be no ‘later’, that this is just some private game or a ritual for this person and her reasons for it can only be guessed at. In this sense, you’re invited to wonder about the protagonist, her world and her state of mind and why she’s doing this”. I wondered…
Discovered Bea did some intruiging work. Lorena would be interested in discovering this installation. My favorite is “Pigeon“, featured on Glimpses, “after September 11″.
If you would like to see her work, you should go to the Argos festival in Brussels. Bea is performing with a video installation -an interactive video’ called ‘choose me’.
Through a sequence of subjective choices the visitor creates a network of his own associations and shifts of meaning. The work looks into the relationship between what presents itself as reality and the temporary arrangement of that reality. In this process there is no pursuit of disambiguity, but the central focus is on travelling and exploration. Apart from her own images she makes use of the structures and aesthetics of mass media.
You’ll probably understand why going to her classes is a revalation.
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