Visions for Crossing & Vivid Tales
Research class by Anaïs Chabeur and Khristine Gillard
How do we create stories from the acts of listening, looking, and sensing? What makes an experience? How do we translate them into form? With a particular focus on relations between life and death, on remembrance and care, this masterclass will offer a journey paced by somatic exercises and ways of paying attention to the world around, the world inside and the world beyond.
Filmmaker Khristine Gillard and multidisciplinary artist Anaïs Chabeur will give insight into their practice, put on the table material from other makers and propose workshops to explore together. We will go on a sonic field recording walk, shape clay amulets toward a collective monument and rehearse gestures of deathcare.
Although you will be invited to share your own stories, it will not be required to do so. The workshops will offer other means of participating than speech. We do ask that participants are engaged in the whole program, in their own way.
(image: Rehearsal, film still, 2021, Anaïs Chabeur)
Anaïs Chabeur
Anaïs Chabeur (º1992) is an artist based in Brussels. She graduated from La Cambre (Brussels) in 2016 and HISK (Ghent) in 2018. Through films, installations and participative offerings she crafts poetic and sensorial atmospheres. Invitations to inhabit time consciously. The intimacies of dying is an underlying topic in her work and life. Since 2022 Anaïs Chabeur is a palliative care volunteer, offering presence and massages to terminally ill patients. Her work has been shown in collective exhibitions in institutions such as S.M.A.K. (Ghent), De Singel (Antwerp), Wiels (Brussels), CIAP (Hasselt). And solo shows at Botanique, V2Vingt and Atelier Arthur Rogiers (Brussels). She recently performed at Trinity College (Dublin) and Stadtgalerie (Saarbrücken).
Anaïs Chabeur is a researcher at the Academy.
anais.chabeur@ap.be
Khristine Gillard
After her first film Des Hommes (72', 2008), Khristine Gillard's research has focused on our relationships with our ecosystem, as seen in Miramen (22', 2011) and through her field work in Nicaragua - such as Cochihza (59', 2013) and The Minuscules (150', 2021), an epic of civic resistance against an extractivist megaproject. Always based on a documentary approach, her projects can also take the form of mixed-media installations, photograph etcs. Khristine Gillard cofounded LABO Bxl, artist-run lab for research on celluloid (2006- ongoing). In 2017, she led the research Forms of Documentary - Political Scope and Aesthetic Experience (Art/Recherche, ERG, Brussels). She has been a lecturer at ULB Faculty of Architecture and teaches in the Master Creative Documentary Filmmaking in Lussas Film School (France). Her work has been shown at international venues and festivals, including Visions du Réel, IFFR, Torino Film Festival, TIDF Taiwan, Punto de Vista, Festival Jean Rouch, Thessaloniki, MoMA, and FIDBA.
khristine.gillard@ap.be
>> This research class is part of the Research Week during the annual research festival ARTICULATE.
