the first week of november was marked by harsh (long) belgium nights along the scar... redoing our nightly walk along the railroad tracks we encountered some more hidden spots that we somehow didnt recognize before - an opening in a wooden wall between a tunnel and the adjunct houses serves homeless people as a place to spend their nights - it`s one of those typical cut of spaces - one meter wide and flanked on both sides by more than 6m high walls it`s this sort of places chinese people would build a multi-family house in - here it openes up a narrow view to the sky - a kloof that one might encounter between the towers of a typical street in manhattan - but then in another scale - brussels style!
here a selection of photographic documents showing a variety of places that became staged and disturbed during those nights... (large scale prints of those images will be shown from 20th of nov. until 5th of dec. in brussels congress station).
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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