Was he a wicked man, a giant Canaanite or a true martyr?   There are many theories, but we can at least state with certainty that he evolved into the patron Saint of travelers in the West;  Saint Christopher.

One of the people of Performing Pictures, Robert Brečević, has brought Saint Christopher in a interactive video-shrine from Stockholm to Brussels.  And a safe journey it was.  This little devotional object is the first of a series of Saints (Exemplary Individualities) that the PP bring back to life.

Through time, all of these characters have been doomed to stillness, in some cases the subjects have been exposed through more than a thousand years of inert fixation!  PP believes it’s time to set them free, one by one and motion by motion.

On Sunday, nadine, Geska Helena Brečević (PP) and a whole community of church- and culture lovers came together in the Eglise Notre-Dame de Bon Secours in the city center of Brussels to perform a ritual for St. Christopher.
Jérôme Porsperger chanted beautifully and performed several actions before opening the artifact.  Christopher appears and carries a small, yet almost unbearably heavy child across a river.
The legend continues.  When he finally reached the other side, he said to the child: “You have put me in the greatest danger. I do not think the whole world could have been as heavy on my shoulders as you were.” The child replied: “You had on your shoulders not only the whole world but him who made it. I am Christ your king, whom you are serving by this work.”

You too can set Christopher in motion by standing in front of the shrine at the Eglise Notre-Dame de Bon Secours until December 09, during the church’s opening hours (8:30-17:00).

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9 labs joined forces with the 6 resident organizations in the Rue de la Senne 17, in the bid to infect it with more experimental art.  Pictures from this amazing event can be found here.

Something is cooking in the arts laboratories.  Several lab’s are joining forces and team up with the Z17 residents to offer you a superb event during the BRXLBRAVO weekend.

In Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne, a former labo of the Ministery of Economic Affairs, a temporary artistic hub was opened in May this year.  During BRXLBRAVO, a cross-over of contemporary work from all disciplines will be presented, in the bid to infect the building with even more experimental art.

The platform arts-lab.be will use the occasion to display an artistic cartography.

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List participating organizations:

Bains Connective, Constant, Croxhapox, De Pianofabriek Werkplaats, FLACC, Galerie Fortlaan17, Het Entrepot, Josworld, Komplot, L’L, Lokaal01, Margarita Production, nadine, Q-O2, SECONDroom, SoundImageCulture, WP Zimmer

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The ARTLAB² – BrxlBravo@Zennestraat 17 program will be announced shorty.

All the pictures can be found here: http://teml.nadine.be

Six month’s can come to an end so easily… On the 1st of february we celebrated a new year and a new residency.  bolwerK the housekeeper and curator, chose to name the house in the Rue Gallait:  The Ever Mass Land.

The Ever Mass Land rested on an open structure with a number of core links:

‘La Réünion’ made particular use of the penthouse where international artists were invited who are part of bolwerK’s network. It provided the time and space to go further into individual and collective interests within the current flux of work movements.

‘Platform 3′, the project that was aimed especially at direct action and radical exploration in the public urban space, developed, among other things, into The Ever Waste Land, a fallow ground behind the community centre De Kriekelaar. It led to various eco-artistic projects in a temporary (or permanent) autonomous zone.

Under the heading ‘Framing the Image,’ the Antwerp-based organisation Logement put the emphasis on the documentation of site-specific work and temporary projects. Their Brussels intervention is structured as a space for their first international production.

‘D’office’ emerged from the idea that a physically divided studio space with a reliable logistical infrastructure promotes the work dynamic.

This weekend we celebrate our Belgian national holiday and The Ever Mass Land.  A celebration of art, then, with a jam session, performance, music, library, storytelling, etc.  You can find the programm here.