Installation / And someday, somehow, before the end
3-channel looped installation
Courtisane is een platform voor film en audiovisuele kunsten. In de vorm van een jaarlijks festival, filmvertoningen, gesprekken en publicaties onderzoeken we de relaties tussen beeld en wereld, esthetiek en politiek, experiment en engagement.
Courtisane is a platform for film and audiovisual arts. Through a yearly festival, film screenings, talks and publications, we research the relations between image and world, aesthetics and politics, experiment and engagement.
3-channel looped installation
A rehearsal for death1 as a rehearsal for transformation2 is a rehearsal for infinity3.
1) “Call no man happy till he is dead.” - Aeschylus
2) “It’s been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home – only the millions of last moments... nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.” - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
3) “Effective magic is transcendent nature.” - George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), Middlemarch