InLoop/EnTry: Paul Robbert Bruijninckx
De afbeeldingen in de tabletop van Paul Robbert Bruijninckx zijn fotografische afdrukken van frames uit een 16 mm zwart-wit film, die in 2011 is gedraaid in het kader van het projekt 'Hotel Charleroi'.The images in Paul Robbert Bruijninckx's table top presentation are photographic prints of frames from a 16 mm black-and-white film, that was shot in 2011 as part of the project 'Hotel Charleroi'.
HOTEL CHARLEROI
Hotel Charleroi is a flexible structure initiated by Adrien Tirtiaux (BE), Hannes Zebedin (AT), Antoine Turillon (FR). Located 60 km south from Brussels, Charleroi Charleroi is a decaying industrial town with all associated symptoms - high unemployment rate, raising criminality, corruption, et cetera. It's surrealistic urban landscape, reminiscences from an intense industrial past (slag heaps, steel factories) along with numerous irrational public infrastructures planned in the sixties (metro, ring road on viaduct), don't fit at all with its relatively small scale (population 400.000).
In fact, Charleroi offers a very condensed overview of how Modernity developed in Europe and which social and economical problems resulted from it. The city did hardly change in 30 years, and this makes it a very interesting investigation field for us, as it leaves everything open for a new generation of artists to position itself on its modern -and postmodern- heritage.
We share our interest in the city by organising sleeping facilities in Charleroi and inviting other artists and professionals for informal residencies. We propose the residents to use the city as a studio or laboratory for research and artistic interventions, and ask them to question the meaning of going as a guest to a city in terms of contemporary art production. The physical location of Hotel Charleroi changes every year, so do the local institutions with whom we collaborate and the topics on which we focus. We understand our non-institutional status as an advantage to create a dynamic platform, able to adapt itself to every occasion it encounters.
Within this structure of 'Hotel Charleroi' Paul Robbert Bruijninckx and Liliya Georgieva Parvanova have made a 16mm film with an old Russian Krasnagorsk Camera. In this film the city of Charleroi is the protagonist.
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