The witness archive | 2009
The witness- archive is a person who is giving a witnessing of the work of an artist .
The archive will be embodied by the memory of the person and could be materialised by
any kind of support link to the work to witness about.
The witness is made for testifying of experiences that are difficult to document, most of the time if the work is ephemeral or not an object.
The witness - archive is made for performances, or in situ unexpected experiences of the work.
There is the time factor which is embodied by a person who is memorizing a moment of work.
The witness will stay the archive after the end of the work, a reachable person who could be able to report of the past work.
Then the archive is not anymore a document but a person.
First application of this project : Specific witness - archive for Foam Lab/
The Foam Lab project is a collective form of lab in which a group of people are meeting during several times in 5 months to produce " foam" coming outside of individual project.
I proposed to elaborate a process of archiving the foam with a witness principle.
Here each participant will be a witness of each others work.
By binome dating one is following the work of the other.
At the end of the 5 months the participants will be a collective - witness of the lab.
Which will construct a "foam-archive".
In this lab : 11 people will be witness of an artist participant.
A catalogue of witness will be print and could be contacted by the audience to meet
the archive of each work.
Each archive has a different format considering the speciality of the witness.
WITNESS - ARCHIVES PHONES
MAKE AN APPOINTEMENT BY PHONE FOR EACH
PERFORMANCE PLEASE
EVELIEN WOUTERS........0486 414 273….
SARA SCHELKENS.........0496 984 557….
KIM LIEN DESAULT.........0496 789 464…
MICHIEL REYNAERT........0479 430 458…
SIMON WILLIAMS.............0472 549 345…
FLORENT DELVAL............0475 402 823…
MARIA LUCIA ....................0487 604 539…
MONICA MIRANDA ...........0479 856 435…
ANNE DEKERK ...............0475 832 038…
Tour
01-06-2009 at echobase VZW Antwerpendirector :
kim lien Desault
artists participants :
Florent Delval, Evelien Wouters, Eve Bonneau, Anne Dekerk, Michiel Reynaert, Sara Schelkens & Christoffel Hendricxx, Simon Williams, Monica Miranda, Maria Lucia.