2010 - Some webvideos Julia made for Klara.be, now Cobra.be: A short portrait of Julie Dekegeleer, a promising young & sweet Belgian fashion designer. An interview with UK video artists Al & Al (photo) about their intriguing view on art & the media. Short promo for Strada, a cultural talkshow on Canvas. Repo about the Indian performance artist Nikhil Chopra (KFDA 2009) and the collective Slavs & Tatars. In June, Julia went to the 53d Venice biennale preview, and made a fotoreport and videoreports about the Belgian (Jef Geys) and Danish Pavillion. Film director and writer Marc Didden guided Julia around the exposition of Sophie Calle in Bozar Brussels, she talked with young artists in Watou, and in Ostend she filmed the performance Sunday Smile by Mars, for Theater Aan Zee. A report on Bertrand Russell's essay 'Why I'm not a Christian' and on the expo 'Animism' (Muhka, Antwerp).
Summer 2008 - This is a series of videos about the life of attendants in six different Belgian museums. Because attendants are surrounded by art day after day, month after month, Julia asked herself what it does with human beings. Do attendants see art at an exhibition differently after a few weeks? Do they start liking works they hated before, or vice versa? Which question would they like to ask the artist? Are they inspired and make art themselves? Julia went filming in Wiels (Brussels), the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Brussels (the one you can watch left), PMMK (Ostend), le musée Félicien Rops (Namur), the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, and MUHKA (Antwerp). (Duration: +/- 5min)
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May 2008 - In February, Julien De Smedt started a division of JDSarchitects in his hometown Bruxelles (besides Copenhagen and Oslo) after having been away for 13 years. JDS is eager to shape space above the earthcrust, and do it well. He doesn't aim at beauty or spectacle, but seeks for moving, social and sharp architecture. Only 32, he can already show an impressive list of projects (some together with his former PLOT colleague Bjarke Ingels). From a skijump in Oslo (2010), a bath in Copenhagen harbour (2002), residential projects in Taiwan (2008) and a futuristic vertical city in China (...). So now JDS is back in town “because I’m from Brussels, I like Brussels, and I want to contribute to Brussels”. Something we can only be very happy about. Julia stalked Julien one day - gently though - with a camera, especially for Klara.be. (Duration: 15min)
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April 2008 -
Dan Perjovschi grew up in red Romania, and that marks a human being for life. Often his drawings are a criticism on himself, on his country, and on all the smelly stuff Western, Eastern, capitalistic, democratic, dictatorial and other human civilizations leave lying around. Luckily, his cartoons are never cynical. Dan Perjovschi observes with empathy, not with anger. He reminds me a bit of David Shrigley, although Shrigley's cartoons are more poetic and less political. But the two have their unconstrained humoristic intelligence in common. During the Kunstenfestivaldesarts 08 in Brussels, Dan Perjovschi drew on the walls of art centre Wiels. Julia checked it out for Klara.be and had a nice chat with the charming Romanian warrior. (7min)
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March 2008 - When Melanie Bono, a young curator a the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (NAK) saw ‘Summercage’, a beach cabin trying in vain to trap good old summers and lost loves, she immediately felt attracted to the mind of Pieterjan Ginckels, the artist behind the sculpture. PJG is a young Belgian artist with an architectural background - he graduated this year at Sint-Lucas Brussels - who plays around with different media: design, sculptures, video, performance and music. The focus of the exhibition was the 1000 Beats/1 Beat project, that PJG created with beatinput from techno wizkid Cristian Vogel and sleevedesign input from the almighty Norwegian Grandpeople studio. For Pieterjan, the expo at NAK is his first bigger solo exhibition, the reason why Julia wanted to accompany Pieterjan and sound him out on his work.
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