ABOUT PERENNIAL

PERENNIAL IS A TEMPORARY AUDITORIUM, THOUGHT OF AS A SALON, SHAPED AS AN EVENT. THE TERM “PERENNIAL” REFERS TO THE CYCLICAL BLOOMING OF PLANTS, AS WELL AS TO THE NOTION OF UNIVERSAL RECURRENCE OF PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS, THROUGH TIMES AND CULTURES. ASSUMING THAT FUTURE VISIONS ARE PROJECTED MEMORIES, SUBLIME AND OUTER WORLDLY PERSPECTIVES CAN ALSO BE CONCEIVED AS PROJECTED INTERIORS. PERENNIAL AS SALON AND AUDITORIUM WILL FUNCTION AS A MODEL OF THIS HYPOTHESIS AND THE DEPARTURE POINT FOR A VAST EVENING PROGRAM INCLUDING CHRISTIAN WALDVÖGEL, ETTORE SOTTSASS, JOS DE GRUYTER & HARALD THYS, MARK VON SCHLEGELL, GIUSEPPE TERRAGNI, ERIK THYS A.O


PERENNIAL IS A PROJECT OF ARNAUD HENDRICKX, MICHAEL VAN DEN ABEELE AND RICHARD VENLET.


PROJECT SUPPORTED BY: OPAK, WIELS, FAK.

AGENDA

FRI 27 MAY 18:00 - 21:00 WIELS
OPENING.


WED 01 JUNE 20:00 WIELS
HARALD THYS & JOS DE GRUYTER - FILM PREMIERE.


FRI 10 JUNE 20:00 WIELS
CHRISTIAN WALDVÖGEL - GLOBUS CASSUS, LECTURE.


WED 15 JUNE 20:00 WIELS
MARK VON SHLEGELL - THE SECRET LIFE OF A SENTIENT PLANT, READING.


FRI 24 JUNE 20:00 WIELS
NANAMI KOHSHOU - BUTOH PERFORMANCE


FRI 01 JULY 20:00 WIELS

ERIK THYS - SPACE AND THE SOUL, LECTURE.


WED 6 JULY 20:00 WIELS

DIRK DE MEYER - TERRAGNI'S DANTEUM, LECTURE.

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

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