Lights on is an audio visual performance created for the Ars Electronica museum in Linz, Austria, which has a facade that contains 1085 LED controllable windows. The windows’ colors are changed in realtime with music that’s broadcasted on speakers surrounding the building.
The Text that goes with the video, a short film he was making about new work he was doing in Portugal, Enjoy!!:
“Sous les pavés, la plage!” (Beneath the paving stones – the beach!) – Anonymous graffiti, Paris 1968.
Paris, May 1968. When the enragés started digging up the stones from the Boulevard St. Michel to use them as weapons against the forces of the old order, they came upon the sand that covered the surface underneath them. The earth. Beneath the concrete, the earth. Beneath the urban environment, nature. Beneath the artificial, life.
Behind all these brick and concrete walls, these dull, grey surfaces that condition our existence, behind all of these cities, there is life. There are individuals, there is nature. “Scratching the surface” is an act of creation taken from lifeless forms. It is the subversion of lifeless forms. The act of engraving the idea of life on a wall, of creating the image of an individual, an iconographic piece of representational symbolism that will endure. As if rendering him eternal by bringing him to life where life was not supposed to be. By carving it out of that which is still-born by its very nature, by its design.
So until the symbolical demise of all walls that separate, that impose, that condition, of a social system that overbuilds in order to control and perpetuate its grasp on the divisions that stem from this eternal partitioning and keep individuals in place, it will be easier and easier to forget who we are, where we come from and what nature is really all about. How easy it is to lose track of what our nature really is while caught amid this saturated, un-organic environment.
“Sometimes Lady Fortune IS on my side!
Not so long ago I ended up in Paris in a venue called LE NEW VIP ROOM helping out a friend and Make-Up artist for the Designers Against Aids and H&M launch.
This is the second time that H&M and D.A.A. worked together and reached out to different artists to help and design a tshirt to benefit the war against AIDS. …” Read more
“Through dismantling the image, Kristof Van Heeschvelde creates confusion.The border between a trusted reality and a possible other reality is very thin. In a limited colour pallet, theme’s like eros and thanatos surface. On the edge of these two most important aspects of human life, paintings arise which show us hidden worlds. Worlds we carry in our collective memory but also worlds we can’t discuss because they could disrupt social acceptance.”
Dyno invited a talented Gent-based artist over to exhibit his work. June 6th is the day young and upcoming painter Kristof Van Heeschvelde will present a series of visual works, main subject being family. Click herefor more info.
Dina Goldenstein is a photographer based in Vancouver, B.C. She has balanced her love for unique portraits with a career in editorial and commercial photography.
