A strategy to edify our role

'A strategy to edify our role' is the third and final act in Nepotists, opportunists, freaks, friends and strangers intersecting in the grey zone. During this act everything is about the participant. There will be workshops and performances. If you like clapping, dancing ballet, rithm or if your are unemployed, you are kindly invited to join Audrey Cottin, Factory of Found Clothes or Zorka Wollny.

Iuliana VarodiIuliana Varodi
Residency
Read the story about the residency on Iuliana's blog.

April 2-7, 2010, Z33

 “2 ou 3 choses about the inhabitants of the grey zone (2 or 3 things about the inhabitants of the grey zone)” - Lise Duclaux
Inventarisation

In the context of “Nepotists, opportunists, freaks, friends and strangers, intersecting in the grey zone” Lise Duclaux will attempt to inventory the ordinary1 and extraordinary2 grey zone inhabitants in collaboration with spectators3, employees, gardeners, nepotists, opportunists, friends, freaks and strangers.
 
Roaming in the grey zone, au milieu, par terre, en l’air ou sous terre, unexpectedly meeting grey zonians4.
 
1- Ordinary grey zone inhabitant: any living creature who takes up residence in the grey zone.
2- Extraordinary grey zone inhabitant: any ordinary inhabitant who becomes extraordinary as a result of the place being kept tidy.
3- Occupant: small or tall human being - spectator, employee, gardener, nepotist, opportunist, friend, freak or stranger - regularly or occasionally present in the grey zone.
4- Grey zonian: inhabitant of the grey zone.

Duclaux will attempt to gather information (name, text, description) and/or drawings of visitors, employees and the gardeners of the Z33 gardens. These will be kept in a map and posted on her blog liseduclaux.be/greyzone
 
February 7 – May 2, 2010, Z33 surroundings
April 4-10, 1010, Duclaux will be present at Z33 to work on the inventarisation

"Manual" - Paul Hendrikse
Installation

As a contribution to the exhibition at Z33 Paul Hendrikse produced  “Manual”, an adaptation of a work from 2009. The work consists of a pile of 250 posters that are lying on the floor and that can be taken by the visitors.

From April 16, 2010, galerijruimte, Z33

"Strange Stories" - Zorka Wollny
call / performance

For “Nepotists, opportunists, freaks, friends and strangers, intersecting in the grey zone” Zorka Wollny invites people to take part in a workshop and performance. Her call:

WE ARE LOOKING FOR PERFORMERS!

we are looking for nice people with good feeling of rhythm to take part in a performance.
The piece will be based on simple gestures referring to everyday life situations.
The performance will take place on the 17th of April.
Rehearsals will start a week before and we will be meeting in the evenings.

Feel like participating? Sign up via zorkaw@o2.pl with the subject heading: participation Strange Stories

“Unemployment Utopian Union” - Factory of Found Clothes
call / performance

For “Nepotists, opportunists, freaks, friends and strangers, intersecting in the grey zone” Factory of Found Clothes invites people to take part in the performance Unemployment Utopian Union. FoFC is searching for people who have lost their job and are quite frustrated about that. FoFC presents their workshop as an experiment and an adventure; they strongly believe that art can help people, and invite participants to use their situation to try out a different ‘state of mind’.
To loose your job can – according to FoFC – potentially be revolutionary. Indeed, in moments in which one finds oneself in between fixed positions, lays the possibility to re-invent one’s identity and start a new life.

In short, FoFC invites people and allows people to be or become a different person than before.

The Unemployment Utopian Union project will consist out of three parts:

1.    interviews
2.    preparation for the performance / rehearsal
3.    realisation of the performance

Phase 1 and 2 will take place in April 2010 in Z33 and FLACC
Phase 3 will take place in the Fall of 2010 in Gynaika

More info about how to inscribe to follow!

“Hasselt Clapping Group” - Audrey Cottin
call / performance

''because we feel local, vernacular - but the thing is that we are also very much vehiculaire,,,''

Audrey Cottin invites enthusiastic people to take part in the Hasselt Clapping Group. Together, the group composes volumes by clapping. Cottin created Clapping Groups before in Toulouse, Gent and Antwerp. The Clapping Groups are each time reconstituted: different people are invited, specialists or not, to take part in the local clapping groups. Each group will create its own clap-effects and –affects. It’s a constant redesign of the non-professionalism of clapping, privileging enthusiasm.

Those who feel like participating should contact Cottin via email: clapping.group@gmail.com.
All participants will together choose an appropriate location for the performance on May é, 2010.

May 2, 2010, 5pm, location to be determined

ONGOING 

February 6 – May 2

“2 ou 3 choses about the inhabitants of the grey zone (2 or 3 things about the inhabitants of the grey zone)” - Lise Duclaux
Inventarisation

In the context of “Nepotists, opportunists, freaks, friends and strangers, intersecting in the grey zone” Lise Duclaux will attempt to inventory the ordinary1 and extraordinary2 grey zone inhabitants in collaboration with spectators3, employees, gardeners, nepotists, opportunists, friends, freaks and strangers.

Roaming in the grey zone, au milieu, par terre, en l’air ou sous terre, unexpectedly meeting grey zonians4.

1- Ordinary grey zone inhabitant: any living creature who takes up residence in the grey zone.
2- Extraordinary grey zone inhabitant: any ordinary inhabitant who becomes extraordinary as a result of the place being kept tidy.
3- Occupant: small or tall human being - spectator, employee, gardener, nepotist, opportunist, friend, freak or stranger - regularly or occasionally present in the grey zone.
4- Grey zonian: inhabitant of the grey zone.

Duclaux will attempt to gather information (name, text, description) and/or drawings of visitors, employees and the gardeners of the Z33 gardens. These will be kept in a map and posted on a blog.

February 7 – May 2, 2010, Z33 surroundings
April 4-10, 1010, Duclaux will be present at Z33 to work on the inventarisation

posters - Katja Gretzinger
graphic design postersl

Graphic designer Katja Gretzinger designed for “Nepotists, opportunists, freaks, friends and strangers, intersecting in the grey zone” a series of posters. The posters announce or remind, invite to participate or remember past workshops, action and interventions in Z33 or outside. Some clarify, others ask entice more questions. As in many lobbies, they are silent witnesses.

Kris Kimpe

More info soon.

From February 6, 2010, galerijruimte Z33

“24 Hours --> 1 Meter 2009” - Karl Philips
installation

Between February 6 and April 4, you will find a rather strange looking trailer in Z33.

Karl Philips created in 2009 as his graduation project (PHL, Department Architecture and Visual Arts, Course Visual Arts) an installation with which he conducted a week long performance. 24 Hours à 1 Meter is a living module existing out of six identical trailers. Together they form one space. Philips attempted to survive one week “on the rhythm that keeps the city alive.” In his final paper, he explains: “To not violate the law on unauthorized camping, I’m moving the living module every 24 hours to the next parking spot, a couple of meters down. In this way I scan the parking space and confront society and its rhythm during the day as well as at night.”

In Z33 and in the context of “Nepotists, opportunists, freaks, friends and strangers, intersecting in the grey zone” the trailer will be used for a variety of actions, interventions, and workshops. And sometimes, this it  will also serve its base-function: offer sleeping and living quarters for participating artists and performers of the Grey Zone project.

More info on Karl Philips and his project

February 6 – April 4, 2010, Z33 garden