07.08.2008: the preparations are done. a first session along the north-south connection shall happen tonight - improvising on various pre-selected spots important information (regarding environmental lighting, visability, reactions of passers-by,...) will be gathered and documented. Carrying the mobile projection unit with little problems in the train from Ghent to Brussels we had to fix a technical damage first before we could start - unfortunately it started to rain right then and we were doubting about the success of the mission. At the end it stopped for a while and we decided to challenge the (in)famous weather of a typical mid-August night in Belgium in the quest for nice, sad, useless spots along the beloved north-south scar.
With the help of our loyal multimedia-multipurpose-multiterrain-multi fantastic autonoumus unit we took our first steps to conquer the nocturnal city, at least untill the batteries stopped working and it it started raining again.
During the process we encountered various lost wills on their way home, few police cars, a couple of people looking for bitches, an homeless' and rather unfriendly dog and a lot of cold. Upcoming intense sessions.
Brussels has a long tradition of radical urban and spatial interventions within the city centre. The connection between the North- and South Trainstation was one of the biggest interruptions in the cities grown structure. The numerous leftover-places along this trajectory which where generated through this scar become the target of a series of site specific light intervention, treating them as “disturbed” architectural monuments telling us from their past and possible future.
A project by Mattia Casalegno and Michael Langeder within the CIMATICS Masterclass for live A/V, Brussels, 2008
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