‘What is Time? - Oona Libens’

28 + 29
Apr.'18

When Art Meets Science

In this lecture-performance the artist tries to find answers to the questions: What is Time? Has it always existed? What does it look like? and Can we stop it?
It is a combination of quotes from experts in the field and her own musings on the topic. This intimate, semi-scientific show is manually illustrated with slide projections, light effects and shadows, giving it a tactile quality.

Biography:
Oona Libens (1987) is a Belgian-Swedish artist. Her work revolves around media-archaeology and the history of the (moving) image. She develops a distinct universe by creating a dialogue between historic and recent media phenomena — from shadow theatre as the most primitive form of the moving image, by way of the magic lantern, the computer or TV screen, to today’s entertainment society and Google. With her performances Oona Libens tries to broaden our experience of the image and the screen, to create an analogue virtual reality and to make an entertainment machine that is slow, hesitates, falters and fails. Since her graduation from KASK Gent in 2012 she has been working on a series of poetic-scientific lectures dealing with topics such as the universe, the sea, time and the human body.

Practical information

Location

Terarken

Rue Ravenstein 23 1000 BRUSSELS

Language

  • English