gRig

tine — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:51:30 +0000

To provoke inspiring & playful situations around us, we need a mixture of different skills from a variety of disciplines: artistic, technological and scientific.

gRig is a group of European cultural organizations that have come together for this purpose. nadine and FoAM are the Brussels partners of this group.

gRig is an ecological guild with a common quest; a guild for:
(1) Those who generate realities: bringing that which can be actually experienced into existence;

(2) Those who integrate realities: combining one world (or state of affairs) with another so that they may become whole. After an unknown time of underground activity, the guild has decided to become more public and formally support its members. gRig found this necessary as the present consensus reality is becoming thinner and grayer, with a pressing need for reality generation and integration in all spheres of human activity, while imagination still exists.

There is a new website online where you can read all about the different activities such as research, workshops, symposia, meetings and gatherings, public presentations, artistic installations and performances, ….

http://grig.info

Up close and personal

tine — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:40:24 +0000

Cosimo Terlizzi’s latest film is suitably called “Folder“, referring to all of the folders on your computer filled with files. Pictures, movies and Word documents, … Bits and pieces of everyday life. Bits and pieces that most people sort alphabetically or chronologically. Most people, but not Cosimo. Cosimo cuts and edits the film fragments in a splintered way. Not into one single storyline, but into different layers, backgrounds and emotions. The information is ellaborate and creates something much larger then ‘just a story’. It creates a ’storyscape’, an immersion.

Although Cosimo uses a small consumer handcam, this isn’t your typical city-trip-movie enjoyed only by those who were there and boring even the closest of relatives. No, thanks to the editing, the score (masterfully composed by Massimo Carozzi), and the diversity of topics touched on in this movie, it becomes something much more universal. These stories, these anecdotes are so powerful and recognisable that they demánd to be shared with a larger audience.

The anecdote that gripped me the most, was the piece where a friend of Cosimo’s talks about her sister’s suicide and how she was the one who found the body. The power of her story lies in the tiny little observations of that moment. The neighbour that stepped in to help undo the cord around her neck, (one more example) …

Having only seen the first finished half of the film, I can’t wait to see what else Cosimo chooses to share with us.

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gRig

Up close and personal