posts tagged ‘antwerp’
The Residence | video + lecture
February 3rd, 2012 • events, movingmemos
Tags: antwerp, brussels, lectures
Ronny Heiremans & Katleen Vermeir, The Residence (a wager for the afterlife) (2012). Photo: Kristien Daem.
The Residence (a wager for the afterlife) is a video project by Belgian artist-duo Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans (website), on display in Argos, Brussels, until April 1, 2012. Their new video focusses on the artist as entrepreneur in a global society that qualifies economy as the single measure of things and is the result of a six month residency in China in 2009-10. Besides the video, they also host the The Residence (reading room) – presenting itself as a discursive platform and a dense cabinet of curiosities in ExtraCity, Antwerp. During several Saturdays in the coming 2 months, ExtraCity will host a series of performances, screenings, lectures and book presentations. As part of this program, Bert de Muynck | MovingCities will lecture about The Creative City in China on Saturday March 10, 2012. read more »
Belgium | drive-through
October 12th, 2010 • 1 comment movingmemos, travel
Tags: antwerp, brussels, on-the-move
Belgium | September 1, 2010
The Washington Post calls it a Belgian family drama and the Hollywood Report a bawdy, heartfelt glimpse into a proudly dysfunctional Belgium family. No, we’re not reviewing the current political crisis in Belgium, but quote reactions on The Misfortunates, a movie by Belgian director Felix van Groeningen, based on a novel by Dimitri Verhulst. Driving recently by train through the Flemish countryside, we were reminded about the analysis of Gunther Strobbe, the main character in the movie. read more »
Belgium | trainstations & landscapes
March 15th, 2010 • 1 comment cities, movingmemos, travel
Tags: antwerp, brussels, ghent, infrastructure, on-the-move
Ghent | February 23, 2010
An extended series of images capturing one week of moving around in the northern part of Belgium, Flanders, by train. The home of continental Europe’s first railway, built in 1835, Belgium has one of Europe’s most extensive rail networks. Snapshots from Ghent, Antwerp, Bruges and Brussels. And the 99% urbanized area in between these cities.
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Driving through Belgium | part I
May 8th, 2009 • architectures, cities, movingmemos, travel
Tags: antwerp, brussels, ghent, on-the-move, urbanism
Belgium | April 2009
In 1968 the Belgian architect Renaat Braem published a manifesto on his native country called “The Ugliest Country in the World”. In 1979, on the eve of the 150th anniversary of Belgian independence, architect and artist Luc Deleu (T.O.P. Office) laid ‘the last stone of Belgium’ in his small front garden in Antwerp. Today, rather surprisingly, Belgium still exists. Some snapshots and background to a 99% urbanized territory.
MAS | under construction snapshots
August 26th, 2008 • architectures, movingmemos
Tags: antwerp, architecture, construction
The MAS (tagline a new museum in Antwerp about the river, the city, the port and the world) is a design by Neutelings-Riedijk Architects and currently under construction. Surprisingly under construction one could say, as the design was already on the table in 1999 when Neutelings-Riedijk won the international architectural competition. It took 7 years to lay the first stone, in September 2006, and the museum is supposed to be operational in 2010. read more »
