Mécaniques Discursives at EMAF

EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, distributors, galleries and an audience of experts the festival has a great impact on the topics and aesthetics of Media Art.

Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of experimental films, installations, performances, digital formats and hybrid forms, ranging from personal and political subjects or formal experiments to provocative statements from the pulsating area of “Media Art – Society”. The Festival sees itself as a place of experimentation and a laboratory where extraordinary works, experiments and ventures are created and presented.

Mécaniques Discursives at Bozar Electronic Festival 2012 / Brussels / Belgium.

Today started a special workshop at the 26th edition of European Media Art Festival (EMAF). We leave behind traditional video formats. In the workshop, participants will create a video animation which will be projected onto objects and sculptures they’ve also created together from drawings, origami figures, wood engravings, engravings or paper cuts. Based on his installation work “Mécaniques Discursives”, Yannick Jacquet (Legoman) and Fred Penelle (Penlelle), will humorously and playfully talk about new formats of video mapping and spatial projection.

The project, Mécaniques Discursives arises from the union in 2011, in Brussels, between the video creator Yannick Jacquet and artist Fred Penelle. The project is much more than a brilliant installation, is a work in progress, with new contributions, as a kind of visual intervention "augmented". A mixture of elements that shape a kind of modern wunderkammer. The wunderkammers were a cabinet of curiosities an encyclopedic collection in Renaissance Europe of types of objects whose categorial boundaries were yet to be defined. They were also known by various names such as Cabinet of Wonder, and in German Kunstkammer ("art-room") or Wunderkammer ("wonder-room").

This project is the result of wood engraver Fred Penelle's meeting with Yannick Jacquet. Combining woodcut and video projection, the installation is a kind of absurd and poetic machinery growing on the walls like an exquisite corpse, taking the principle of chain reaction as its starting point. Frederic Penelle has been working on taking woodcut composition and techniques out of the frame and its usual context for several years. His installation work shows a very fresh approach to a fairly dusty craft. Yannick Jacquet for his part is looking for new ways to integrate video into the performance space and break out of the traditional formats of video projection.

In a presentation on 26 April at 13:00 h, Yannik Jacquet will present the results of the workshop and shed light on his artistic work at Haus der Jugend.

Dates.- 24 - 28 April 2013. Exhibition: 24 April - 26 May 2013
Venue.- Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche. Hasemauer 1. 49074 Osnabrück. Germany.

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Mécaniques Discursives at Mapping Festival 2012 / Geneva / Switzerland.

Mécaniques Discursives at Imal / 2013 / Brussels / Belgium.

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Fred Penelle, Yannick Jacquet Mécaniques Discursives

Mécaniques Discursives by Fred Penelle & Yannick Jacquet.

Fred Penelle - www.penelle.be “In just under ten years, Frédéric Penelle (Brussels 1973), winner of the Art contest prize at the end of 2007, has given engraving a sudden burst of energy through his novel use of it in a way that is fundamentally original, malicious and as funny as it is serious.

The installation of each exhibition places on a wall a swarm of characters and objects that mix, either playfully or seriously, times, epochs, drawings, paintings, black, colour, old images and whatever else besides, to tell, not one, but a thousand tangled tales in which each will recognise his own according to his imagination, what he has lived through, his dreams or concerns.

In a heterogeneous set astonishingly coherent in its linear weirdness like a frieze, starting from a personal mythology that brings together images known to all it holds up a portrait of the world that is surprising yet familiar at the same time. And this arrangement is playful, amusing, inventive, sometimes threatening and also tragic in its device, constantly giving the impression that it might set itself in motion as if it was a vast comedy put on by actors who bear a strange resemblance to us. Might it be possible that we are taking part unawares? Very inspired and convincing.” (C.L.)
(la libre belgique 16/01/08).

Yannick Jacquet (legoman) - www.legoman.net Born in Geneva in 1980, lives and works in Brussels. A graphic designer by training, Yannick Jacquet now mainly devotes himself to moving images.

His work is characterised by a desire to step outside of traditional projection formats and locate the video in space. It mainly comes in the form of audiovisual performances, installations and stage design. His work is often in situ and is strongly influenced by questions connected to architecture. He regularly works with a number of artists and more particularly with those under the label AntiVJ where he is one of the founding members.

Published on: April 25, 2013

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