INT. Shower STUDIO 54 - Tuesday September 13 2011 -
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Dining Room STUDIO 54 - Tuesday September 13 2011 -
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Kitchen STUDIO 54 - Tuesday September 13 2011 -
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Te Boelaerpark - Tuesday September 13 2011 -
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Group Meeting de Bottelarij - Thursday September 15 2011 -
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Private Session Rehearsal de Bottelarij - Thursday September 15 2011 -
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Some people are getting a little suspicious about SvenG's work: is it a soap opera or a big
brother project...
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Private Sessions DON'T KNOW! Conference - Friday
September 16 2011 -
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Sven seems to be stalking me. One by one he talks to all the women I
talked with. First we have Eva, whom I hardly had a chance to get to
know. I'm a little shy when I address her. I vaguely idolize her, since I discovered that she is the assistant of Arnon Grunberg, one of my
favorite writers. I should know better. This whole conference was all
about playing with authorial power reversal for me. Well the conference
was not about one single thing, but the game I played in my one-on-one
was amongst many other things, overemphasizing the power role of the
speaker, by blindfolding the listener.
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The second women Sven talks with is Nelle. I was happy to see she responded to my invitation to the conference. We only talked about some things not directly related to the conference. She is going to coordinate and assist the choreography of a TEDx-lecture by a acquaintance of mine, John B. This TEDx-lecture is conceived as an overturning of the relation between talk and illustration: in stead of using a power-point, John will use live dance to demonstrate his ideas about communication of complex ideas.I actually have the feeling I didn't really talk to anybody at the conference, about the concerns that it lay on the table. I spoke in debates, or posed questions, ... But I do remember meeting people, the chemistry, with a sense of receiving guests at a place which I consider a little bit my home: excitement at handling fragile mental luggage, adjusting the level of amphiphile actants, confronting cultural immunities on all kinds of levels.
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Sven also sat with Nicolas, the male co-organizer of the conference. I wonder why Sven didn't put into this soap of his, my talks with Elke
and Adva, the women-co-organizers of the Don't Know conference? Does he
have some problem with women in power. Indeed. An other conversation
that is missing from this little photo-novel: my visit to the one-on-one
of Margareth Kaserer, which started with me purposely throwing a glass
of water at Margareth. It was no coincidence that I did this: In my own one-on-one I asked my visitor to look at a picture of a glass of water; I then explained that the meeting between my visitor and myself is a place, not unlike the space obtained from the surface between air and water, by covering the top of the glass with your hand and shaking it.
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I never met Eung before the
conference. But the first time I approached her, during the opening coffee table, I wasn't wearing my glasses and I thought she was Michele Yang. So our first encounter was
more informal than it normally would have been. I realized she was a stranger as I got closer, but decided not to interrupt the impulse to great her warmly. In spite of her surprise
I decided to pretend nothing was wrong. I guess this determined to a
certain measure how smooth her visit to my one-on-one proposal went. She
was my first client and I was definitely less nervous, because of the
way I could "play her" from our first encounter.
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Caroline came to the conference, out of general interest for how things happen in a.pass.
She shared some impressions with me, from the one-on-one sessions she visited: she felt she was part of an experiment and that people were trying to get information from her.
She also recommended to me, on the second day of Don't Know, the worktable with Robert Stein, after participating in it herself, at the morning session. In fact she saw my physical temptation and hesitation to join this worktable at the first session in the morning, but then I decided to first participate in the proposal of Joel Verwimp about value. I took Caroline's recommendation serious and joined Robert's magic Circle in the afternoon. I confirm: it's really something I want to dive in to deeper. Caroline and me should talk more about why she thought that was so good for me. I would have loved to hear also what she had to say during her session in Robert Stein's circle: what story does Caroline come up with, when she has a chance to just talk about whatever she wants, in front of an audience of strangers, with whom you have just shared a massage.
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Ping Pong Tables DON'T KNOW! Conference - Friday September 16 2011 -
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Round Table DON'T KNOW! Conference - Friday September 16 2011 -
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CC Mechelen CONTOUR - Saturday September 17 2011 -
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Bimsem Mechelen CONTOUR - Saturday September 17 2011 -
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Friethalt - Saturday September 17 2011 -
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Michiel said "Mayonaise is foam: liquid and solid at the same time. Can you get your head around that Sven?"
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Bath STUDIO 54 - Saturday September 17 2011 -
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Since the word Soap and the genre it names became an obsession, Sven has trouble relaxing in bath.
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The fun seems to be out of waiting for the Eureka moment.
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What else can soap produce for entertainment?
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Bathroom Sink STUDIO 54 - Saturday September 17 2011 -
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