Talk
Khristine Gillard | filmmaker, artist, art researcher (Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp · La Cambre)
Based on participant observation of the funeral ecosystem in the Val des Mues, this collaborative mixed-media research explores various points of interrelation between life and death, and examines mourning as an active relational experience. From the perspective of an ecology of connection and care, how can the very act of rethinking and re-engaging with rituals linked to death and mourning strengthen our relationships with our ecosystems, and give rise to new practices, collaborations, commitments and forms of storytelling?
A film-maker, artist and researcher, Khristine Gillard is interested in affective ecologies, the ways in which we coexist with the world, and our commitments, through the exploration of approaches that bring together sensory experiences and situated narratives. She co-founded LABO Bxl, a shared studio for research into film-based media. She has also led the mixed-media research projects Forms of the Documentary – Political Implications and Aesthetic Experience (erg) and Vivid Tales (Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp), which examine our relationship with life through the prism of our interactions with death.
Session: New imaginaries
Venue: Kanal Box 1
Time: 17:00 – 17:30
Duration: 30′
Language: French
