Vrijdagavonden: Rainald Goetz & Jean D.L.: Gestoord

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Program starts at 19:30
Entrance: Pay What You Can
Language: Dutch

Book presentation of Gestoord, the first Dutch translation of the debut novel Irre (1983, Suhrkamp) by the German cult writer Rainald Goetz (1954).

Translator Sebastian Roth will read from the novel in dialogue with musician and video artist Jean D.L. (1984), whose musical live universe of guitar and field recordings evokes echoes of cinematic landscapes, imaginative and hazy soundscapes. His film A Place is a triptych that paints an abstract, detached and at the same time intimist and interiorized ‘portrait’ of various spaces, charged with affects and personal history. We look forward to welcoming Jean De Lacoste again more than a decade after the evening we dedicated to his films and music in 2011.

Expect a manic cut and paste fugue of text, sound and image!

Programme

Sebastian Roth — Performance Reading
Jean De Lacoste — Concert
Jean De Lacoste: "A Place" — BE • 2009 • 17' • colour • dv

In Gestoord [Insane], a young, aspiring punk psychiatrist is confronted by the day-to-day practices and the reality of life in a psychiatric hospital and begins to fray at the edges. Even before this debut, Goetz was already an enfant terrible of the German literary world. During a reading of his story Subito at the ceremony of the Ingeborg Bachmannpreis, Goetz slit his forehead with a razor blade in front of the television cameras. “The moment that he sliced open his skull and the blood dripped and dripped on his manuscript, the writer Rainald Goetz was born,” a German literary critic stated.

With publisher Het Balanseer en Kunsthal Gent

Friday Evenings

This autumn, we will present a programme around one or more artists, a collective or organisation for 10 weeks during the Friday Evenings. We offer local partners a platform. And we put artists with whom Kunsthal Gent currently collaborates in the spotlight. Every Friday evening is different: from performance, artist talk and book presentation to conversation, dinner or film screening.

Programme Friday Evenings

13.10.2023 — Rainald Goetz & Jean D.L.: ‘Gestoord’
Book launch by German cult writer Goetz, by Art Cinema OFFoff & Het Balanseer

20.10.2023 — An Autumn Night met Ben Thorp Brown
Artist talk on Cura’s Garden, Kunsthal Gent’s new garden

27.10.2023 — Anna Schlooz:Tafelen / Maagmoeder
Performance dinner sharing stories, rituals and pancakes

03.11.2023 — Engagement Shares: The Power Of Boundaries
How to deal with complex situations of transgressive behavior?

10.11.2023 — Een avond met De Verffabriek
Artist run space De Verffabriek invites you to Kunsthal Gent!

17.11.2023 — Meeting Grounds: Essay as Event
A gathering devised by Paul Bailey and the graphic design department at KASK

24.11.2023 — rokko: How To Create Free Space in an Unfree World?
Artistic attempt in literature and performance by queer feminist bookshop rokko

01.12.2023 — L. Puska: Living With
Performance and conversation: what does it mean to be the caretaker of an artwork?

08.12.2023 — Sophia Tabatadze: Pirimze
Documentaire en gesprek over gentrificatie in Tbilisi, i.s.m. Tot in de Stad!
Documentary and conversation on gentrification in Tbilisi, with Tot in de Stad!

15.12.2023 — How To Organize a Zine Fair
Les VoiZines looks at the past & future of Zine Happening

13.10.2023 19:30

Artcinema OFFoff & Het Balanseer present

Pay what you can

Vrijdagavonden: Rainald Goetz & Jean D.L.: Gestoord