Summer Intensive: Archive

SI Documentation Published

SI (short for Summer Intensive) was the initiative by Christine De Smedt co-curated by Myriam Van Imschoot and produced by Les Ballets C de la B to host artists from various backgrounds to meet for exchange and develop (a part of) a project in a brief amount of time. What started as a two-week process later developed into ongoing interaction and exchange. This publication is a documentation of...

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Keywords from Pieter Van Bogaert

SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL – this is the first thing I had to think about when I saw the logo on the flyer for SI, a few weeks before the meeting actually took place. Many links between SI and SI still stand: spectacle becomes situation (as in Sartre’s “Theatre of situations”) – the construction of situations as a setting up of environments – the notion of space (and of the diagram) that plays an...

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““The interesting thing was that artists did their experiments, and...”

– From an interview with Hans-Ulrich Obrist via Johannes Wengel

Aug 28th

Life Skills Series

“How to Be Lost” by Pieter Ampe “How to Read” by Christine De Smedt “How to Rest at a Working Place” by Lilia Mestre “How to Do Something You’ve Never Done Before” by Vladimir Miller “How to Enjoy a Moment Outside” by Sergio Cruz More on www.deemeetree.com/lifeskills/

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Watch

Navigate the diagram of Summer Intensive relations…

Aug 24th

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An interview between Vladimir Miller and Dmitry...

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Aug 24th

Summer Intensive

SI is a two week Summer Intensive produced by Les ballets C de la B, initiated by Christine De Smedt and co-curated by Myriam Van Imschoot. Christine De Smedt is a choreographer who has been a member of the collective Les Ballets C de la B since 1991. Les Ballets C de la B is now housed in the Bijloke Site in Ghent, with a big studio at their disposition. The Bijloke Site is a former hospital that...

Aug 24th

Texts

Here’s a compilation of some texts that we find interesting… The Coming Insurrection (how my friend said “it makes you want to break it all”) A Shock to Thought edited by Brian Massumi (Subjectless Subjecttivity chapter) Interview with Brian Massumi (movement, checkpoints, and affect) Somaesthetics: A Disciplinary Proposal by Richard Shustermann (why you should be doing...

Aug 20th

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Invited Artists

“Where are you in your trajectory as makers, thinkers, etc, and with what needs and issues are you grappling? What would you like to bring to SI. as a proposal to work on, or if this is already too definite: what sphere of interests do you like to bring to our gathering? Through these discussions we also like to find out how we can practically organize the right conditions.” Dmitry...

Aug 20th

Timetable

Friday, 27th of August 2010 Presentations from 14:00 until 20:00 @ Bijlokesite - S3 - Bijlokekaai 1 - 9000 Gent Wednesday, 25th of August 2010 open doors @ Bijlokesite - S3 - Bijlokekaai 1 - 9000 Gent Tuesday, 24th of August 2010 open doors: presentation Lilia Mestre at 16:00 @ Bijlokesite - S3 - Bijlokekaai 1 - 9000 Gent Monday, 23rd of August 2010 video presentation matter of act (project by...

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