Hotel Noailles project / Artist Residency August 2007
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| The Mobile Institute events took place several times during the month of August 2007, filling vacant buildings and outdoor spaces thereby creating a network of non-specific locations. Collaborating with existing infrastructures (institutes, organisations, cultural centres and cinemas) the Mobile Institute covered events such as performances, lectures, debates and exhibitions involving artist residences. The objective was to stimulate the exchange between artists and institutions in order to create a more collaborative network. The overall scheme was to provide a self-managed organisation with multiple functions. Subsequently, artists were asked to develop a site-specific artwork. Locations and spaces formed the basis of all art events thereby creating an emergent network. All events took place every Friday of the month of August and are listed per places and per weeks on the links below. | ||
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 The former hotel at n° 47 rue Keyenveld is an old complex in the process of renovation. The house covering approximately 640 square meters has 9 rooms, a ground floor with a side extension, a garden and a swimming pool. This was the main space in which coordination, meetings, conferences, productions and events took place. |
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 Nadine is a interdisciplinary laboratory for contemporary artists: a place where innovative work can be created, supported and presented. Nadine wants to provide continuous support for innovative – and therefore often risky – projects that need the right context in which they can thrive. By developing its own methodology for artistic research and explicitly focusing on the artistic process, Nadine wants to question the present production practice of the arts sector and join artists in their quest for an open and flexible structure that can incorporate both internal questioning and wider external communication. |
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 In a street perpendicular to rue Keyenveld, another hotel is discernible as a dismissed blood clot in the city of Brussels. Still active since 1945, this meeting place for abandoned lovers has the characteristics of a theatrical display for events and performances. Enclosing 5 floors with more than 50 rooms and a tavern on the ground floor, this space was used for performances. |
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 The old parking is a wasteland opposite Nadine and “le Berger” Hotel. This place is an open space we used for public art installations. Identified as a non-specific space or non site, the abandoned land was thought out as a link between all spaces directly exhibited to the public eye. |
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 Situated in rue de l’arbre béni, a continuation of rue Keyenveld, the “Styx” originally was a blue (erotic) film cinema. Today it is an independent cinema in which the MI presented a video film program and live film performances. |
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| INVOLVED PEOPLE | |||
| Crew & Organisers Tom Hillewaere Jonathan Sullam Pacome Beru Samir Mougas Jose Miguel Biscaya Jean-François Fontaine Co-organisers Coordination Design |
Residency Artists Fia Cielen Michiel Alberts Ana Cristina Velasquez Pauline Bremmer Aukje Dekker Hans Wuyts Eléonore Saintagnan Andre ten Broeke Marion Dufranc Jan de Bruin Perrine Grivaux Hilke Muyldermans |
Open Artists Anja Masling Dafna Maimon Avi Krispin Tilmann Meyer-Faje Carolina Feix Andreas Templin Yann Leguay Brian McKenna Adriano Sobral Soares Florian Göttke Aram Mekhitariam Maurice van Daalen Ismaël Bennani Ronan Deriez Pascale Barret Xavier Borsu |
Institutes SANDBERG INSTITUTE NADINE (Trudo Engels & Ferdinand Dubois) 2nd ROOM (Christphe Floré & Janus Baudewijns) HISK Le FRESNOY ARGOS ONE minutes CODE Magazine EXPODIUM (Bart Witte & Luc Janssens) CologneOFF (Wilfried Agricola de Cologne) AEsP (Guy Massaux) MOBAC (Sven Vanderstichelen) |
| The Mobile Institute wishes to thank the Sandberg Institute without whose support this event would not have been possible. | “There if I grow, he harvest is your own.” William Shakespeare Macbeth – sc IV. Forres. The palace. |
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