the Milena principle news 2012
Anatomia da Escrita - National Museum Brasilia Brazil 2012.
Exhibition Anatomia da Escrita by Yiannis Melanitis, Stefaan van Biesen and Geert Vermeire, produced by the Milena principle, at the National Museum of Brasilia closes its doors with 5.833 visitors, including Brasilian president Dilma Rousseff and ex-president Lula.
At the occasion of the visit of Dilma and Lula to the National Museum of Brasilia a closed reception was organized in the exhibiti...on space of Anatomia da Escrita with guests invited by the president and ex-president on April 25th, during the last week of the exhibition.
The interactive sound and video installation “360 degrees / travelling spaces” by Enrique Tomas, Stefaan van Biesen and Geert Vermeire was presented at the main space of the Bienal of Literature in Brasilia and had more than 2.000 participating visitors.
The introductory event to Anatomia de Escrita, called Corpus´Island, from March 1st to March 15th included lectures about visual arts and José Saramago by Simona Vermeire in the National Library / the National Museum of Brasilia and an exhibition of paintings by Yiannis Melanitis and videopoems by Stefaan van Biesen and Geert Vermeire in the National Library.
The project Anatomia de Escrita connected the act of writing with visual arts, including several art works inspired by the Portuguese writer José Saramago, and was a part of the artistic program of the Bienal of Literature 2012 in Brasilia, the largest of its kind in South America.
Artists: Yiannis Melanitis, Stefaan van Biesen, Geert Vermeire and Enrique Tomás. Literary consultant: Simona Vermeire. Curator: Geert Vermeire
Soundproject Balkan Tales - Goethe-Institut Athens Greece 2012.
Enrique Tomás, Stefaan Van Biesen and Geert Vermeire are working together on several projects connecting literature with sound art via new medias and interactive technology. After a pilot project and workshops in SMAK, Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent and at E-Culture Fair in Hasselt, followed projects in several museums and important cultural venues in Greece, Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, Germany (Museum Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Museum Deichtorhallen Hamburg), Belgium (BOZAR), Italy and Turkey. On this moment an interactive poetry video and sound installation of Enrique Tomás, Stefaan Van Biesen and Geert Vermeire is presented at the Bienal of Literature of Brasilia, the largest of its kind in South America.
Lecture WIT about WIT Sint-Niklaas Belgium 2012.
Event and lecture by WIT urban intervention team. 01.03.2012. Location: WARP vzw Koetshuis, entrance Regentiestraat Sint-Niklaas. 20.00 hours.
WIT continuously examenes the fabric of the town, looking for dysfunction, imperfect aesthetic interventions and neglected spaces or locations that invite the making of a statement. What the team does, happens at irregular intervals, is short lived, and is in no way populist. Although the action group is dressed in black and wears an armband with their logo, their methods are inclined towards a philosophy of peaceful resistance. Their actions are almost contemplative and occur without much noise, which means they function more like warnings. They hope to stimulate the consciousness of others with a small gesture, so that in future, change will occur. The actions are documented with photographs and video recordings, and they can be viewed on this website via You Tube.
Hasselt Belgium 16-17 Novembre 2011.
E-culture Fair. Presentation [(no) Tour project Geolated poetry, the Milena principle/WIT, Escoitar.org] Ethias Arena Hasselt Belgium.
Meeting at Nogueira da Silva Braga Portugal 2011.
Event and lecture of the Milena principle during the international Festival Encontros da Imagem at the Museu Nogueira da Silva with students of the University of Minho Guimaraes-Braga, october 2011. "Arquétipos/Novas visões: a fotografia como documento social".
"...These artists where in Braga they perform great expositions and workshops and deserve our attention, first because they move from they're country to ours to share they're wonderful knowledge, second because they chose our town and third because they are great persons working for human and global purposes. Thank you very much once again...". by Bruno Alexandre Silva 2011.
Canto Indentro Accademia Dantesca Jahnishausen Germany 2011.
Soundscape-Performance of the Milena principle at Accademia Dantesca Jahnishausen 04.06.2011 ⋈ [near Dresden] Germany. 'Canto I' from the Divina Comedia, Dante. 5 speakers & languages: Linda Ivens, Stefaan van Biesen, Annemie Mestdagh, Walter Van Dam and Geert Vermeire. An inferno of words. The soundscape 'Passio' was created by Stefaan van Biesen for this event.
The Milena principle was invited by the Accademia Dantesca Jahnishausen for an artistic project in which renaissance and contemporary culture are connected.The original Accademia was founded by King Johann of Saxony, who has translated Dante's Divine Comedy in Castle Jahnishausen. The King founded a group of artists, writers and experts, called the Accademia Dantesca, to discuss the work of Dante and to collaborate on an interdisciplinary way on this project. Famous member were for example Carl Gustav Carus and Ludwig Tieck.
The contemporary Accademica wants to restore this culture of dialogue with interdisciplinary meetings in the castle Jahnishausen. Goal is to iniate event linking the arts, culture and environment, as well working on the conservation and restoration of Castle Jahnishausen. The castle will be a meeting place between artists, cultural experts and ecological and environmental workers and act as an interdisciplinary center with projects open to participation for a large public.
Growing Silence Goethe-Institut Athens Greece 2011.
A project to promote the qualities of silence and space in an urban context. Our project is about the experience and importance of urban silence and the connection between space and silence.
Not the physical definition of silence, or the acoustical definition counts. Through a phenomenological approach to silence the artists explore how sound unambiguously works on the human being (in this case in an urban context). Silence is an instrument of experience and as well as an instrument of knowledge.
The project wants to realize a cultural bridge between the presence of silence as access to historical and natural soundscapes and the inner experience of silence. Silence is not limited to a material-accoustical aspect, silence is as well a part of city life as an inner space, a breating space.
This project tries to involve young people in the making of and creating of (urban) silence. We invite students and young artists into the design process and try to engage them in the future development of their environment and to excite them about the city. Approaching silence will explore silence in the city, looking for design tools for the shaping of places and urban experiences.
In the Goethe-Institut Athens the Belgian artists Stefaan van Biesen and Geert Vermeire show videos of performances and art projects in Germany, next to an installation/performance made in Athens, documenting urban artistic interventions realized together with students of the Athens School of Fine Artts.
Meeting Gilberto Zorio at Serralves Porto Portugal 2010.
The members of the Milena principle, (Bregt Smeets, Shaomin Mhin, Stefaan van Biesen and Filip Van de Velde), are having a conversation with Gilberto Zorio, (the great Italian Arte Povera artist), at the Serralves Foundation during the lunch.
Amsterdam - Antwerp - Athens - Berlin - Braga - Brasilia - Bruges - Delphi - Florence - Ghent - Guimaraes - Jahnishausen - Kassel - Lodz - Naumburg - Porto - Prague - Santiago de Compostela - Sint-Niklaas - Tirgu Mures - Venice - Vigo - Weimar