Concept, direction and composition: Myriam Van Imschoot.
Performers: Louiza Amghizzar, Fatiha El Mrabet, Caroline Daish, Nezha Haffou, Myriam Van Imschoot, Fleur Khani, Suad Khelifa, Khadija Lazaar, Malika Mderreg, Anissa Rouas.
Recording: Kenny Martens.
Myriam Van Imschoot, Brüssel / Belgien — Performing Arts, Solitude fellow 2013–2015
Myriam Van Imschoot is a sound and performance artist based in Brussels. She works in various media, with voice as a recurring motif and vector. Among the concerns that keep her on her feet are the cracks in modernity as a failed project, or forms of expression that seek to communicate, even when communication seems impossible.
In its new collective publication, Schlossghost #1, Akademie Schloss Solitude examines the ways in which politics meet artistic and aesthetic practices in contemporary societies. For this the Solitude-fellows who had residencies in 2014, 2015 and early 2016 were invited to reflect on following questions: »Would you say that your practice is political? If so, how would you describe its political dimension?« Schlossghost #1 takes over the role of the traditional yearbooks by the Akademie. Every second year since 1990 they were summarizing all the facets of the work done in Solitude and maintained as a final truth Stéphane Mallarmé’s affirmation that »the ultimate state of the world is a book«. This new publication has lost its materiality and exists only as a virtual yearbook, or one could say as the ghost of a book. WWW.SCHLOSS-GHOST.COM