City behind the scenes

Sound artist Stijn Demeuleunaere, architect/poet/dancer/musician Jolien Naeyaert, and visual/video artist Pierre-Philippe Hofmann (and other artists who may occasionally be involved) are interested in the canal area in Brussels. The canal is, of course, a place marked by an industrial history and new urban planning challenges, but in their view, it is also a space where many small, organic, and discreet transformations are taking place. The perfect counterpoint to the city, yet certainly also inhabited. They feel that this very invisible context teaches us a great deal about the human and ecological fragility of our contemporary cities. Through video and dance, they attempt to give the landscape a voice, a form of expression, by finding a new form that combines moving images, spatial sound, dance, documentary material, installations, and so on.