SCREENS
Agenda
Belgium
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Just like any other form of transport, the train has altered our perception of distance and space: speed makes distances shorter. Moreover, with the arrival of the Internet, the entire world is just a mouse click away: it comes to us in real time via all sorts of screens. Conversely, we go out into the world with a screen in our hand to record, edit and share landscapes, monuments, and other landmarks. How does that affect our experience of the here and now? Can we still distinguish the ‘real’ world from the virtual one?
For SCREENS, you get on a train and find yourself in another world: the windows of the carriage turn into high resolution screens showing images created in a model train landscape. As you travel along the Belgian railway network, you feel like you are rolling through toy versions of other landscapes and cities. From the ‘real’ world to an unreal, virtual world. As if you are travelling inside Google Maps, or appear to be in the Caribbean, thanks to a filter on Zoom...
Kris Verdonck perfects the illusion in this new immersive video installation. When you get on a train in SCREENS, you sit inside a real carriage and at the same time you are elsewhere. You are really in an artificial toy world. Both here, and not here: an ultimate form of being in transit?
TRAIN ROUTES
Thursday 21/04/2022
P8006 Schaerbeek - De Panne 16:27 - 18:34Saturday 23/04/2022
3128 Brussel-Centraal - Luttre 07:59 - 08:40
3109 Luttre - Antwerpen-Centraal 09:22 - 10:51
3132 Antwerpen-Centraal - Luttre 11:09 - 12:40
3113 Luttre - Antwerpen-Centraal 13:22 - 14:51
3136 Antwerpen-Centraal - Luttre 15:09 - 16:40
3117 Luttre - Antwerpen-Centraal 17:22 - 18:51
3140 Antwerpen-Centraal - Brussel-Centraal 19:09 - 19:59Sunday 24/04/2022
3107 Vilvoorde - Antwerpen-Centraal 08:20 - 08:51
3130 Antwerpen-Centraal - Luttre 09:09 - 10:40
3111 Luttre - Antwerpen-Centraal 11:22 - 11:51
3134 Antwerpen-Centraal - Luttre 13:09 - 14:40
3115 Luttre - Antwerpen-Centraal 15:22 - 16:51
3138 Antwerpen-Centraal - Luttre 17:09 - 18:40
3119 Luttre - Mechelen 19:22 - 20:30Monday 25/04/2022
8741 Schaerbeek - Binche 16:30 - 18:06Tuesday 26/04/2022
8803 Schaarbeek - Quievrain 17:03 - 19:06Wednesday 27/04/2022
8741 Schaarbeek - Binche 16h30 - 18:06Monday 2/05/2022
3428 Mechelen - Binche 06:58-08:39
3409 Binche - Turnhout 09:20-11:54
4213 Turnhout - Antwerpen-Centraal 13:21-14:13
4235 Antwerpen-Centraal - Turnhout 14:47-15:37
3438 Turnhout - Binche 16:04-18:39Wednesday 04/05/2022
5131 Schaarbeek - Kortrijk 09:47-11:16
5111 Kortrijk - Schaarbeek 11:43-13:13
5135 Schaarbeek - Kortrijk 13:47-15:16
5115 Kortrijk - Brussel-Zuid 15:43-16:59Thursday 05/05/2022
5133 Schaarbeek - Kortrijk 11:47-13:16
5113 Kortrijk - Schaarbeek 13:43-15:13
8513 Schaarbeek - Moeskroen 16:10- 17:50
Credits
Director/Concept : Kris Verdonck
Dramaturgy : Kristof van Baarle
Technical coordinator & Electronics: Vincent Malstaf
Director of photography: Vincent Pinckaers
Production : Eefje Wijnings
Thanks to: Kristof Avonds, ALAF Association Liègeoise des Amateurs de chemin de Fer & AMAF Association Mosane d’Amateurs Ferroviaires
Coproduction : Europalia 2022, in collaboration with Railway Heritage and Train World Charters and Collections (NMBS), Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporain
With the support of : the Flemish Authorities, the Flemish Community Commission