IN & OUT

"What kind of food would nourish documentation? What would be the funeral of a documentation? What would documentation be without a document?"

For two years, the four artists - students at ESA Le 75 in Brussels - followed a group of students from art schools ENSAV La Cambre (Brussels), Burren College of Art (Burren, Ireland) and UAP (Poznan), as part of the training program “Performing Identity. Performance art facing contemporary societal challenges”.

Armed with their senses and equipped with a few tools, each venue, workshop and festival constituted new reflections and documentation perspectives around performance art. The result is a living archive animated by the audiences it encounters, here in the form of a digital platform co-created with graphic design collective Luuse, and an interactive installation.

As many media and formats as sensibilities and environments overlap and intertwine. In trying to move away from conventional documentation, questions about the involvement of the body and its consequences are raised. Is documentation really possible? With what? With whom?

Fanny Schaepelynck (she, her) is a Brussels-based photographer and video artist, student at ESA le 75. 

Léah Crabé (she, her) is a Brussels-based photographer, student at ESA le 75.

Luna Descamps (she, her) is artist photographer, former student at ESA Le 75 (Brussels), based in Brussels. Cinema and a previous training in theater have always inspired her photography.

Louise Valin (she, her) is artist photographer and graphic designer, Currently based in Lisbon. She’s a former student of ESA Le 75 (Brussels), with previous training in graphic design in Strasbourg.

Collaborators

The students of the programme Performing Identity : Hongsukh Ahn, Raphaël Bauduin, Erin Besch, Fadwa Bouziane, Róisín Byrne, Mathilde Chaize, Kat Cope, Dawid Dzwonkowski, Joe Hendel, Eymric Moderne, Kimia Nasirian, Martyna Przybyło, Aimé..es Rossi, Barbara Stańko-Jurczyńska, Maria Strzelecka, Phoebe Tohl, Joanna Urbańska, and the graphic design studio Luuse.

In the framework of “Performing Identity. Performance Art Facing Contemporary Societal Challenges”. Project co-funded by the European Union (programme Erasmus+ - Strategic Partnerships).