Symposium: Francis Alÿs - The Nature of the Game (EN)
Symposium ter gelegenheid van de publicatie Francis Alÿs - The Nature of the Game. Het boek biedt een multidisciplinair perspectief op de vele lagen van Children’s Games van Francis Alÿs. Het bevat een interview met Francis Alÿs en Rafael Ortega, een reeks essays van wetenschappers en kunstcritici, curatoriële verklaringen en een logboek met betrekking tot de presentatie van de Children's Games op de Biënnale van Venetië van 2022.
Programma
14:00 – 14:15: Welkom door WIELS Directeur Dirk Snauwaert & introductie door Gerard-Jan Claes en Stéphane Symons
14:15 – 15:30: lezingen door John Potter (University College London)en Jan Masschelein (KU Leuven)
15:30 – 16:00: koffiepauze
16:00 – 16:45: lezing door Karen Lang (Royal Society of Arts)
16:45 – 17:00: slotopmerkingen
Gratis toegang
Francis Alÿs. The Nature of the Game
Gerard-Jan Claes, Stéphane Symons (eds)
In 1999, a short video of a solitary boy kicking an empty bottle up a hill in Mexico City became the first instalment of Children’s Games, a series of works by artist Francis Alÿs (b. Antwerp, 1959). The ongoing project, which now numbers around thirty-five works, has gradually given shape to an extensive collection of videos of children at play. For almost twenty-five years, Alÿs and his collaborators Félix Blume, Julien Devaux, and Rafael Ortega have been travelling around the world to document the distinctive ways in which children interact with each other and their physical environment. They have gone from remote villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Venezuela, and Nepal to the mountains of Switzerland and metropoles like Hong Kong and Paris, but have also visited the war-torn city of Mosul in Iraq, the border between Mexico and the United States, and the strait of Gibraltar that divides Africa and Europe. The resulting images are standing proof of the seriousness of play and of children’s stunning powers of resilience in the face of conflict.
Open Access ebook, ePDF 9789461665416
Paperback, € 30,00 / £29.00, ISBN 9789462703841, 176 p.