[spectre] Here We Are Now // Screening // Brussels 13.10.2010

Stoffel Debuysere stoffel.debuysere at gmail.com
Tue Sep 28 10:32:24 CEST 2010


Here We Are Now

13 October 2010, 21:00. Beursschouwburg, Brussels.
A Courtisane event, in the context of the S.H.O.W. (Shit Happens on  
Wednesdays) series. Free entrance, plus food & drinks & Courtisane DJs.

To what extent can we still make a difference between “public” and  
“private”? According to philosopher Jean Baudrillard, “the one is no  
longer a spectacle, the other no longer a secret”. Now that the most  
intimate details of our lives are thoughtlessly shared on the internet  
and the media, in order to feed an endless, compulsive loop of  
information, participation and circulation, it seems like ever more  
constraints and obstacles are being annulled. Surrounded and obsessed  
by a world of images, overcome by a gnawing insecurity, we submit  
ourselves to a regime of ultimate visibility. We are well aware of  
being seen, followed and remembered, but that is precisely what pushes  
us to all kinds of forms of disclosure, confession and  
“selfploitation”. The mediatised gaze of the other, at the same time  
disturbing and stimulating in its elusiveness and omnipresence, has  
become the paramount point of reference for our obsessive search for  
identity and belonging. We show ourselves in order to become  
ourselves, while we irrevocably disappear behind our images. The  
uncanny transit zone where intimacy merges into transparency is the  
central theme of this programme. Four recent video works, each in  
their own way, explore the contemporary conjunction of media and  
subjectivity, in which it seems no longer possible to maintain an  
unequivocal relationship between watching and showing, subject and  
object, seeing and being seen.

With works by Mohamed Bourouissa, Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes,  
Ruti Sela & Maayan Amir, Shelly Silver

more info: www.courtisane.be / www.diagonalthoughts.com



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