PERENNIAL #6 - 06 JULY 20H: DIRK DE MEYER - TERRAGNI'S DANTEUM, LECTURE

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PERENNIAL #5 - 01 JULY 20H: ERIK THYS - SPACE AND THE SOUL, LECTURE

01/07/2011 PERENNIAL #5: SPACE AND THE SOUL - ERIK THYS

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URANIUM-LEAD CLOCK, FALLEN ASTRONAUT & ORCHIDACEAE ROBERT DELIGHT

PERENNIAL #2 - 10 JUNE 20H: CHRISTIAN WALDVOGEL - GLOBUS CASSUS.

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PERENNIAL #4 - 24 JUNE 20H: NANAMI KOHSHOU - BUTOH PERFORMANCE

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PERENNIAL #6 - 06 JULY 20H: DIRK DE MEYER - TERRAGNI'S DANTEUM, LECTURE

PERENNIAL # 6 DIRK DE MEYER TERRAGNI'S DANTEUM - LECTURE WEDNESDAY 06.07.2011 - 8PM In 1938 the Italian architects Giuseppe Terragni and Pietro Lingeri presented to Mussolini the project for a Danteum, a temple and library dedicated to the great Italian poet. The real program of the building, however, was a symbolic one: a setting for the canto’sof Dante’s Divina Commedia, while putting emphasis on what Dante represented in the politics of the day: Italian unification and imperial pretentions. Although some critics have desperately tried to bring Terragni’s work back within the reassuring fold of the Modern Movement, it has always disrupted the conventional norms of the relationship between the modern and the classical. The Danteum in particular remains a building outside of and beyond time. Nevertheless, the lecture will try to anchor the project in its time, and discover its exceptional and intimate interactions between literature, architecture and politics. Dirk De Meyer is a professor in History of Architecture and Architectural Design at Ghent University. With his students, he has built a large scale model of the Danteum that is currently on show at Perennial. He has formerly been a Visiting Scholar and Chief Curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal. He is the author ofbooks on a.o.Johann Santini Aicheland on Piranesi, and contributed to books published by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (München), Electa (Milano) and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris). He published in journals such as the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, theJournal of Architecture, Casabella, Disegno d’Architettura and SanRocco. He has curated international exhibitions in Belgium, Prague and Montréal, on aspects of Baroque architecture in Italy and Central Europe, and on Piranesi. The lecture will be given in English. Reservations: welcome@wiels.org  More info: http://www.wiels.org FREE ENTRANCE PERENNIAL is a project of Arnaud Hendrickx, Michael Van den Abeele and Richard Venlet.

WIELS Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354 1190 Brussel tel +32 (0)2 340 00 53 fax +32 (0)2 340 00 59 http://www.wiels.org Wednesday through Sunday: 11:00 – 18:00 Nocturnes until 21.00 every 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays

Project supported by: Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Kunsten

PERENNIAL #5 - 01 JULY 20H: ERIK THYS - SPACE AND THE SOUL, LECTURE

PERENNIAL # 5 ERIK THYS SPACE AND THE SOUL - LECTURE FRIDAY 01.07.2011 - 8PM The unfathomable darkness of space mirrors the strangeness of human consciousness. Are we intelligent machines that have no direct contact with anything, or are we connected with everything? Are our minds more than our brains? Does the soul exist? Without hope or fear, the recent discoveries of brain science are discussed. The lecture will be given in English. Reservations: welcome@wiels.org  More info: http://www.wiels.org FREE ENTRANCE PERENNIAL is a project of Arnaud Hendrickx, Michael Van den Abeele and Richard Venlet. Save the date: Wednesday 06.07: Professor Dirk de Meyer – Giuseppe Terragni's Danteum

WIELS Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354 1190 Brussel tel +32 (0)2 340 00 53 fax +32 (0)2 340 00 59 http://www.wiels.org Wednesday through Sunday: 11:00 – 18:00 Nocturnes until 21.00 every 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays

Project supported by: Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Kunsten

PERENNIAL #4 - 24 JUNE 20H: NANAMI KOHSHOU - PERFORMANCE

PERENNIAL # 4 NANAMI KOHSHOU PERFORMANCE  FRIDAY 24.06.2011 - 8PM Nanami Kohshou is a Butoh dancer and choreographer based in Paris. From 1982 he made music and theater before turning to Butoh in 1999. Ankoku-Butoh, or ‘Dance of darkness’, first appeared in Japan following World War II. Dancers such as Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno influenced by German expressionistic dance and Japan’s industrial and rural landscape, found a non-formal mode of expression that broke with the influence of Western classical dance and Japan’s traditional theatre. Like decaying Kabuki troupes Butoh dancers re-learnt their body from scratch finding techniques both mental andphysical to tap into its impulses and drives. Organized in collaboration with Theo Cowley Performance Reservations: welcome@wiels.org  More info: http://www.wiels.org FREE ENTRANCE PERENNIAL is a project of Arnaud Hendrickx, Michael Van den Abeele and Richard Venlet. Save the date: Friday 01.07: Psychiatrist Erik Thys - lecture ! Change of date - Friday 08.07: Professor Dirk de Meyer – Giuseppe Terragni's Danteum

WIELS Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354 1190 Brussel tel +32 (0)2 340 00 53 fax +32 (0)2 340 00 59 http://www.wiels.org Wednesday through Sunday: 11:00 – 18:00 Nocturnes until 21.00 every 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays

Project supported by: Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Kunsten

PERENNIAL #3 - 15 JUNE 20H: MARK VON SCHLEGELL - READING LIFE OF A SENTIENT PLANT

PERENNIAL # 3 MARK VON SCHLEGELL READING THE SECRET LIFE OF A SENTIENT PLANT WEDNESDAY 15.06.2011 - 8PM Mark von Schlegell (born in the US, based in Cologne) began his career as a cultural critic to become a science fiction author. He is the author of the novelette High Wichita and the novels Venusia (2005) andMercury Station (2009) both published by M.I.T./Semiotext(e). His experimental fiction and cultural criticism appears regularly in the international art community (his recent essay Dan Graham science fiction can be read at http://readfree.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/dg_vonschlegell.pdf). Mark Von Schlegell is the curator of the group-exhibition Distopia,currently showing at the CAPC musée d'art contemporain in Bordeaux. The reading for this occasion is entitled The secret life of a sentient plant. The reading will be given in English. Reservations: welcome@wiels.org  More info: http://www.wiels.org FREE ENTRANCE PERENNIAL is a project of Arnaud Hendrickx, Michael Van den Abeele and Richard Venlet. Save the date: Friday 24.06: to be confirmed Friday 01.07: Psychiatrist Erik Thys - lecture Wednesday 06.07: Professor Dirk de Meyer – Giuseppe Terragni's Danteum WIELS Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354 1190 Brussel tel +32 (0)2 340 00 53 fax +32 (0)2 340 00 59 http://www.wiels.org Wednesday through Sunday: 11:00 – 18:00 Nocturnes until 21.00 every 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays Project supported by: Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Kunsten

PERENNIAL #2 - 10 JUNE 20H: CHRISTIAN WALDVOGEL - GLOBUS CASSUS.

PERENNIAL # 2 CHRISTIAN WALDVOGEL FRIDAY 10.06.2011 - 8PM   LECTURE ON GLOBUS CASSUS Swiss architect and artist Christian Waldvogel will present his project Globus Cassus; a conceptual transformation of Planet Earth into a much bigger, hollow, artificial world with an ecosphere on its inner surface. The  project consists of a meticulous description of the transformation process, its construction, and the organizational workings on Globus Cassus. Globus Cassus was the Swiss contribution to the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale. The accompanying publication was co-edited by Boris Groys. “Globus Cassus is an antipode to the world - not only spatially, but also in time. It is the precisely drawn up opposite of the world, and it is meant to be thought about, not to happen. It is therefore set in the infinite future, which in Celestia translates into 09/09/9999, starting at 09:09:09 in the morning.”  Christian Waldvogel on Globus Cassus The lecture will be given in English. Reservations: welcome@wiels.org  More info: http://www.wiels.org FREE ENTRANCE PERENNIAL is a project of Arnaud Hendrickx, Michael Van den Abeele and Richard Venlet. Save the date: Wednesday 15.06: Science fiction author Mark von Schlegell - book-lecture Friday 24.06: to be confirmed Friday 01.07: Psychiatrist Erik Thys - lecture Wednesday 06.07: Professor Dirk de Meyer – Giuseppe Terragni's Danteum WIELS Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354 1190 Brussel tel +32 (0)2 340 00 53 fax +32 (0)2 340 00 59 http://www.wiels.org Wednesday through Sunday: 11:00 – 18:00 Nocturnes until 21.00 every 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays Project supported by: Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Kunsten

PERENNIAL #2 - 10 JUNE 20H: CHRISTIAN WALDVOGEL - GLOBUS CASSUS.

A thought experiment: building Earth’s antipode using up the Earth as construction material. Humanity would live on the inside of this gigantic structure. No heavens for the gods, and maybe paradise for man.

globus [lat.] m, shpere, lump

cassus [lat.]; concave, hollow

PERENNIAL #1 - 01 JUNE 20H: JOS DE GRUYTER & HARALD THYS - VIDEO PROJECTION

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PERENNIAL #1 - 01 JUNE 20H: JOS DE GRUYTER & HARALD THYS - VIDEO PROJECTION

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PERENNIAL #1 - 01 JUNE 20H: JOS DE GRUYTER & HARALD THYS - VIDEO PROJECTION

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