tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82896473176788993082024-03-14T07:36:30.910+01:00KRISTOF PERSYN blogARTISTIC CAMPAIGNS & IMAGE PERFORMANCES ______________theatremaker/ photographer/Kristof Persynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01659115265283058632noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289647317678899308.post-86395308615164676782012-09-01T19:27:00.000+02:002013-11-21T14:32:13.078+01:00NEW MIRRORS -Jordan<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The Arab world lives in New Times & has New Heroes. Focussing on Jordan: it's a place with new identity. From an urge to liberate themselves from imposed ideologies, restrictive gender-concepts & social conformism; a progressive generation reveals itself in a series of portraits: New Mirrors. Young people reflect on society who they are -rather then what their society wants them to be- by showing us an imagined identity.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"New Mirrors" combines outspoken statements on gender, women-rights, prejudice & spirituality with poetic & playfull images.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"This is the resting place of a journey in search of a location: the middle-point"<br />
Lina Soufan </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Is this how a woman has to look in order to be recognised?"<br />
Ban Majali</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I am who I am, giving by nature, even when I feel strangled and held back. <br />
Still reaching out to give more." Razan Mubaideen </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I am a sinner. But at least I'm honest with myself."<br />
Alaa Samman</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I am a tuned white mirror"<br />
Rawia Sabella</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I reveal myself as a Phoenix, rising from the ashes."<br />
Rafique Nasereddin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I feel great, funny, ridiculous, beautifull and strong. While I thought I would be scared."<br />
Riham Issac</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I represent freedom. By doing so, I face the city for the first time in my life."<br />
Ziad E. Hajir</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"My Mermaid is my immortal companion. She lives inside of me, she completes me."<br />
Shereen Zoumot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Society turns us into things, while I insist on being a human. <br />
I want to be a gypsy, living in the moment." Lubnah Juqqa</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"My roots are strong; I grow everywhere and anywhere."<br />
Sameera El-Asir</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Belonging to now place in particular: flying to all skies, landing to all grounds."<br />
Marie</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I purify myself from all the judgements in our society."<br />
Ammour Zacarneh<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">New Mirrors is created during the Aat-Festival: a cultural event in Amman/Jordan which celebrates International Woman's day. The organizing 'Aat Network' establishes a debate on gender-equality and identity. The festival creates a space to liberate expression and improves the discussion on gender-issues. Within its frame, both sexes are defending the regional and global Women Rights. The festival is directed by Lana Nasser and organised at Al-Balad theater.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The biennale "Parcours d'artistes" in the arts district Brussels Saint Gilles was the setting of my exposition "Mer Morte". The picturesque gallery 'La Charcuterie' opened its door for the special expo FORMAT CARTE POSTAL. Eight photographers presented eight images as postcards. Among these pictural voyages I exposed a selection of photographs from the Dead Sea-project created with Lana Nasser in 2011. I liked the intriguing shape 10 x 15, associated with landscapes for far away, for it accentuates well the mysterious beauty of the Dead Sea at the Jordanian banks. Travelling by eyes has always been the aim of such postcards, and travelling is a sensation I love to evoke in my work.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">During the Arab spring, Lana Nasser & I started creating "LIVE! from DEAD SEA"; an artistic awareness campaign about the lake's eco-disaster. Our collaboration is a Theatre and Photographic project, based on research about the Dead Sea's cultural importance and the ecological impact of its decline. A poetical protest against harming our Earth.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">In times of big global changes; we envision natures revolt in the uprising of new Mythological characters, Icons & Goddesses<i>. </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This is an imagination we photographed. '<i>The dead sea is the womb of this planet, its drought symbolises a global state': o</i>n the stage of Al-Balad theatre in Amman we were giving voice to Nature's outcry, by projecting the photographs with related stories. </span><br />
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<i>Copyrights on all images above (Jordan/2011)</i></div>Kristof Persynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01659115265283058632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289647317678899308.post-1550301392176893152012-02-19T20:00:00.001+01:002012-04-06T20:04:04.503+02:00LANA NASSER -pARTner<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: small;">On stage we tell the story of Shady who enters the Nile-river at night and disappears. Since his body has not been found there's lot's of legends about his disappearance. And soon, many more young Egyptians vanish at the Nile's shores. Shady's friend Kristof decides to look after them and travels along the Nile, from Cairo till Sudan. During this travel he askes villagers what could have happened to the missing people. In all the explanations supernatural powers are involved. Paradoxically in Egypt, rich with cult of dead and pyramids, dead itself does not exist; the afterworld is a vivid place among Djinns, mermaids, kidnapped brides, kings and sacrificed virgins on the muddy bottom of a river. Drowned in the Nile, the dissapeared youth has transformed in water-spirits.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">In the years 2007 and 2008 I have collaborated with the Egyptian Actor and visual artist Shady El Dali in Cairo and across his country. Togheter we've created <u>Cairo Nightnotes</u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> & <u>The Nile Song</u> and toured in Egypt and The Netherlands. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">From my Egyptian Collegues I learned how opposing forces -such as cencorship, poverty, corrupt art shools, no political support, lack of logistics and social discouragment- are not reasons to give up on art. During the revolution on Tahrir Square I recognised Shady's urge and courage among all Egyptians in their will to break bounderies. And art has an important role in there. </span></div>Kristof Persynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01659115265283058632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289647317678899308.post-22856750778723835622012-02-16T18:00:00.000+01:002012-04-06T19:57:43.636+02:00I am a Sailor<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Looking for Archetypes which mirrors elements of my personality, I have portrayed myself as a sailor. Back in 2009, being an rootless traveller since very long, the Sailor was an Icon which helped me to understand myself. This insight brought me to an embarkment. In Amsterdam -where Sailors meet Sailors- I got a tattoo of an Anchor. If someone does not find his place, he has to find it within. The tattoo anchored me in me. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Crisis in Belgium! In a series of photographs projected in a burlesque setting with dancers, musicians, actors and a singer; THE END event portrays a dark image of Belgium's capital Brussels. The motive starts with the death of the King, symbolising the modern decay of the country's unity. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Infected with fear, the characters I photographed have to live with the demons they created themselves in a country that falls apart.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Drawing is a meditation in which new ideas rise-up. In periods of less activity, I make ornaments around photographs which I discover in my archive. I always seek for ways to present a photo, as in a theatrical context, a narative collage or a simple drawing around. It might be my way to write visions for future-projects. Drawing though, requires a calm state which is hard to catch. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">(work untitled - 2008)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> </span></div>Kristof Persynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01659115265283058632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289647317678899308.post-30772818837160152702011-01-01T01:04:00.001+01:002011-09-13T19:28:09.556+02:00Angels among me...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">When it comes to beauty, I see it within everyone. But probably in a very particular way. In collages as above, I show some Archetypical quality of friends around, a reflection of my view on them. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">untitled work 2009)</span></div>Kristof Persynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01659115265283058632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289647317678899308.post-50073575571916353512011-01-01T01:03:00.001+01:002011-09-13T19:26:15.922+02:00Creating Characters with Aïcha Funk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">All Round Talent Aïcha Funk has been my collaborator since long, as dramaturg & model. In my Egyptian creation <u>Molahazat Ly Leia (Cairo Nightnotes)</u> she was also performing live on stage multilingual lullabies. Most recently Aïcha created the make-up in my Logo </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">(on top of this blog)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">In 2009 Aïcha Funk stood model for many female characters in my long-term writing-project <u>Mirror Storm</u>, in which I express my ideas about modern identity.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">In this portraits we were seeking for different styles of how the Mirror Storm - characters would look. My camera became a spectrum of all Aïcha Funk's qualities, while she showed me her personal and nostalgic interpretations of the women in my manuscript. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">For my first project in Egypt (and my first visit to the Arab World), I asked <u>Shady El Dali</u> to show me his city during nighttime. I was seeking for the more obscurated side of Cairo. Shady agreed, he was living at night anyway. He took me on several trips, and everywhere I saw beauty, poetry, surrealism and absurdism, Shady would show me his hard reality behind. Not only illuminated pyramids; but slums, inhuman workconditions, social injustice and poverty became the destinies of our nightly journies. Shady loves his country -that's why he showed me its uglyness- and wanted to use this project to speak out about the symptoms of dictatorship.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We have made that lullaby for Cairo on stage, I had never expected it would be such a discomforting one. While I wanted to soothe our audiance with pictures of Cairo, Shady wanted to wake them up by showing that same images. This dynamics worked very well - one image has always plural realities. What I care with me is the beauty of Egypt's people, their strenght to stand. I've seen theatre groups rehearsing at 4AM, a time their theatre was finally available for art. If life could'nt happen during the day - it had to happen at night. Such experiences had major impact on my life & work. It was the openness and generosity in Shady and the Egyptian people, which made that happen. </span><br />
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