In 2010, multimedia designer Naomi Kerkhove astonished her audience with White Out, a black and white miniature world stitched together with a sewing-machine, in which people, houses, trees and streets were brought to life in thread. With the help of an old surveillance camera and an unsettling soundscape, the amazing little town became the setting for an intriguing road movie. Dark, disorientating, but as clear as the night.
In Valies (Suitcase), her second production, Naomi tacks on a sequel which explores the border region of comic strip, design, music and film. Whereas White Out activated a sketchbook in a three-dimensional world of textile, Valies burrows its way down the rabbit hole of animation film.
Just as passers-by on the street or in stations sometimes seem to dissolve in their surroundings, so too the characters in Valies are swallowed up in the cinematic world around them. But at the same time they manipulate their environment in a direct and physical way by means of intelligent textiles and interactive sensors. Valies does not tell a straightforward story, but investigates how seemingly individual trails are interwoven in a world in which everyone is a passer-by. By means of images like daydreams your imagination gradually takes wing. You disentangle a patchwork of impressions and stories by following a thread which inevitably leads back to you.
EXTRA INFO
Project year 2012
CREDITS
Creation, design and performance: Naomi Kerkhove
Design and performance: Sarah Geirnaert
Performance: Ilse De Koe
Music & sound: Ruben Nachtergaele & Dijf Sanders
Cinematography: Koenraad Deblauwe
Programming: Elias Heuninck
Electronics & sensors: Ben Schockaert
Costumes: Claudine Grinwis
Movement coaching & dramaturgy: Klaas Devos
Dramaturgical advice: Simon Allemeersch
Light design: Peter De Goy
Production support: Diede Van Velk
Production: wpZimmer (Antwerp)
Co-production: Buda (Kortrijk), Vooruit (Ghent)
Supported by: Timelab (Ghent), Campus TIO3, Cultuurcentrum De Brouwerij (Ronse), De Pianofabriek (Brussels), Constant (Brussels)
Special thanks to Kurt Van Houtte, Tom Vanderbyorght, Wendy Van Wynsberge, Marije Baalman, Vincent Jacobs, Noëmie Raquet, Marc Maillard & FroeFroe, Mika Satomi, Arlette Goethals, Françoise Geers, Sandra Carota, Inge Kerfs, Frieda Peeters, Wim Godderis, Ira Kerkhove, Inge Kerfs, Matthias Van Looveren & Kasper Jordaens
PROJECT DATES
15/09/2012, 21:30, Kunstencentrum BUDA, Kortrijk (BE)
16/09/2012, 15:00, Kunstencentrum BUDA, Kortrijk (BE)
29/03/2012, 20:00, Vooruit, Ghent (BE)
30/03/2012, 20:00, Vooruit, Ghent (BE)
31/03/2012, 20:00, Vooruit, Ghent (BE)
PRESS
Interview, H ART #94: https://wpzimmer.be/media/artiesten/naomi%20kerkhove/valies%20(2012)/valies_interview_hart94_201203.pdf
Interview, Zone09: https://wpzimmer.be/media/artiesten/naomi%20kerkhove/valies%20(2012)/valies_interview_zone_09___evelyne_coussens.pdf
Review, STEPP: https://wpzimmer.be/media/artiesten/naomi%20kerkhove/valies%20(2012)/valies_reportage_stepp.pdf
Review, De Morgen: https://wpzimmer.be/media/artiesten/naomi%20kerkhove/valies%20(2012)/verdwalen_in_zwart_wit___evelyne_coussens_over_valies_in_de_morgen_030412.pdf