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By Caterina Davinio & Karenina.it
Gates is dedicated to Pierre Restany
ARTISTS - Belgium - Ghent
With:
Took
place in:
Art cinema OFF OFF
Begijnhof ter Hoye
Lange Violettestraat 237
9000 Gent
Dates:
Friday 26-09-2003
We finished the installation yesterday,
inclosed you can find some pictures,
it was very dark in the cinema (black walls so it was difficult to make good
pictures) there is also a picture of a woodblock i found at the site that
symbolized for me what the sound piece was about. I would like to send you
the two sound pieces i created for the installation, but i think it's best
done by post, cuz downloading them would take to long.
Krikri is a group of people looking for a contemporary way to bring the poetic to the fore, a combination of sounds, writing, shouts and whispers; creeping through territory that may or may not be forbidden; a name derived from the poet Antonin Artaud's 'gris gris' ('gris gris' is the word for a kind of protective talisman), a playful existence. Krikri emphasises the poetic and in particular the 'sound' of the poetic, since poetry in the usual sense began as an oral phenomenon independent of books and paper. Krikri’s activities include: performances, workshops, an annual festival.
Jantar is a licentiate in Art Studies. In her dissertation, "Le
poison de l'être, in search of Antonin Artaud’s Rodez drawings", she investigated
the difficulties surrounding the link between body and mind, and the expression
of this in the drawings and literature of Antonin Artaud. Fascination with the
apparent duality between body and mind has inspired her to explore this theme
further in doctorate research.
Jantar has
always been fascinated by language, image and mise-en-scène. Since 1995 she has
given performances linking these three elements. These productions were based
on texts she has written and produced for the stage. Thus Da Capo,
Maskers van Zwijgen, Huis
van de ongeboren dichter en Medusaleum came into being.
Her work on
these performances has also led to her projects as a director. In 1999/2000
Jantar provided the direction, scenery and costumes for De Schilder and
Waterman by Meander. The production of these two monologues took
place in De Schakel in Waregem and the Vooruit in Ghent.
For the Klankfabriek festival (summer 2002) she provided the
direction and scenery of Infinito Nero, an opera by Salvatore Sciarrino.
Jantar has given a number of performances in 2002 and 2003 for the Krikri
project (www.krikri.be) , in Antwerp, Arnhem, Vienna,
etc.). She is also involved in visual art. In the summer of
2001 she studied with Herman Nitsch at the Salzburg summer school, where she
deepened her knowledge of the materiality of painting itself and of the
possibilities that “action painting” can offer. She followed workshops with
Lydia Lunch and with David Moss (Institute for Living Voice), where she
explored new vocal techniques to enrich spoken text.
Together
with engineer Johannes Taelman and dancer Nicoletta Branchini, she is currently
working on Tsutsu Izutsu (based on Nô theatre, première on 30th-31st
May 2003, Ghent).