Friday, 23 October 2020, 20:00
KASK school of arts HoGent + PILOOT present:
The Orphans of Tar — A Speculative Opera
Book presentation & long reading session
Join us ONLINE for an evening with The Orphans of Tar! The Orphans will read their book for and with you this evening.
Tune in via zoom — please register here and we will send you the zoom link.
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A factual-fiction, The Orphans of Tar features fictitious characters that are rooted in real-life questions considering a more inclusive society, a sustainable art ecology and the search for possible ‘Third Spaces’.
The Orphans have their roots in the Tondelier urban Development in Ghent. In this book, they envision a fictional future of the site through characters like The Tar, The Anxious Explorer, Miss Trust, The Lobbyist From the Grave and The People.
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The book ‘The Orphans of Tar — A Speculative Opera’ results from a workshop by the artist duo Vermeir & Heiremans for students of Autonomous Design and Curatorial Studies at KASK Ghent in 2019. Heike Langsdorf, artist/researcher at KASK, invited Vermeir & Heiremans in the context of her series of working moments and writing processes Choreography as Conditioning, which is part of a cycle of work sessions entitled CASC at KASK.
As a case-study for the workshop, Vermeir & Heiremans invited PILOOT public art platform, a group of artists and a curator, that is developing long-term artistic reflections and exercises in relation to the urban development of the Tondelier/Rabot neighbourhoods in Ghent. This construction site became the location for a fictional future that was developed in the workshop.
After the workshop the group decided to continue the conversation and Heike Langdorf’s invitation to make a publication was taken up in the form of a co-authored process of discussing and writing. The book makes the process of how The Orphans of Tar — A Speculative Opera came into being transparent.
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The Orphans of Tar — A Speculative Opera
Authors: Julien de Smet, Ronny Heiremans, Heike Langsdorf, Vanessa Muller, Filip Van Dingenen, Stijn Van Dorpe, Clementine Vaultier, Katleen Vermeir
Epilogue: Danielle van Zuijlen
Graphics: Gijs de Heij
Published by Art Paper Editions (2019)
Series concept: Alex Arteaga, Heike Langsdorf
The series Choreography as Conditioning is produced in the context of the research project Distraction as Discipline — an investigation into the function of attention and participation in performance art and art pedagogy (Langsdorf & Luyten 2016 – 2019) at KASK / School of Arts of University College Ghent
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