From the original Festival website:

Over one summer meeting Kate and Eva came up with a game: shifting through the city, from inside to out, they constructed small installations in the locations they found. They played a ping-pong of images between them, each action challenging the other to a reply. The result is a collection of short actions and unlikely installations – a constantly expanding inventory of the world, through mischievous de-placements of the things in it.

There is a persistence and inquisitiveness about this catalogue of small crushings, traps, decorations, and repairs. There is an internal logic that can only be read as ‘putting things in the wrong place’ and yet which satisfies some curiosity, some desire, before passing quickly to the next. The rearrangements are subversive, cryptic and, at times, mysterious relocations of banal materials in everyday environments. Each image is a fragment in a rolling, compiling world-view; a hands-on investigation of what-might-go-where, and what might happen when one ‘thing’ meets another.

“The nicest, most outlandish ideas are documented in a video installation: Kate McIntosh and Eva Meyer-Keller provide variations on the wordplay of “de-placed”, outside and inside, in nature and indoors. Karl Valentin could not have done it more strangely. The young shoot of a tree is folded into a glass, a dandelion is beaten with a stone, whipped cream is used to glue leaves together, and cigarettes grow from a keyhole. Everything is slightly amiss and yet has its own poetic logic. Two people had fun doing it, and now they are passing the fun on. Just how it should be” Frankfürter Rundschau

Kate McIntosh is a Brussels-based artist working in theatre, performance and video, who has been performing internationally since 1995 (including collaborations with Wendy Houstoun, Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre, and Simone Aughterlony). She now directs and performs live work including the solo performances. All Natural (2004) + Loose Promise (2007), and group performances Hair From the Throat (2006) + Dark Matter (2009). Her short videos and installations have been screened at festivals and exhibitions the world over. She is also a founding member of the Belgian performance collective and punkrock band Poni.

Eva Meyer-Keller works mainly on performances and has been showing her work throughout Europe and America, in galleries and theatres. Before she graduated from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam she studied photography and visual art in Berlin and London. Eva’s work is versatile. She often works on several projects at the same time, makes performances, organises events, develops projects together with other people and increasingly makes video works. She has also worked on projects of other artists like Baktruppen, Jerome Bel and Christine De Smedt/ les Ballets C de la B.

Supported by: Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie

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