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<div><img src="cid:7CA895FE-DEE6-4A8D-9200-29778F0BF4B8@lan"></div><div><br></div><div>Pour vous qui habitez en Belgique (et pour les autres car ce n'est pas si loin...)</div><div><i>For you who live in Belgium (and for the others because it is not so far away...)</i></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">J'ai le grand plaisir d'exposer TIME SLIP Red Leds dans l'exposition "the game is up! How to save the world in 10 days" au centre d'art Vooruit à Gand/Gent (BE) (informations ci-dessous). Un afficheur à LED grandeur nature fait défiler les dernières dépêches des agences... conjuguées au futur. Cette version sculpturale de Time Slip a été fabriquée par timelab, nouveau laboratoire de production pour artistes et designers, avec le soutien du centre d'art Vooruit.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><i>I have the great pleasure to exhibit TIME SLIP Red Leds in the exhibition "the game is up! How to save the world in 10 days" in the art center Vooruit in Gand/Gent (BE) (informations below). A public real size LED display scrolls the latest news from news agencies... conjugated at the future tense. This sculptural version of Time Slip has been made by timelab, a new production laboratory for artists and designers, with the support of the Vooruit art center.</i></div><div><br></div><div>Vernissage demain le 4 mars 2009 à 18h à Gand/Gent</div><div><i>Opening tomorrow March 4 2009 at 6pm in Gand/Gent</i></div><div><br></div><div>Au plaisir de vous y rencontrer !</div><div><i>Hoping to meet you there !</i></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.gratin.org/timeslip">http://www.gratin.org/timeslip</a></div><div><div><div><a href="http://www.vooruit.be/en/serie/44">http://www.vooruit.be/en/serie/44</a></div><div><div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><a href="http://www.gratin.org/as">http://www.gratin.org/as</a></div><div></div></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:889885F8-45DD-4475-8D8D-66563695CE52@lan"></div><div><br></div><div>// ---------- festival information ----------------</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><font face="Consolas, monospace" size="2"><div>the game is up! How to save the world in 10 days</div><div>wed 4 – sat 14 march, Vooruit, Gent/Belgium</div><div><font size="2"> </font></div><div>Global warming, the financial crisis, famine, drought and overpopulation… The end is near, but don’t despair: Vooruit will save the world!<br>Artists and experts from different disciplines will launch proposals to save the world, put the threat in perspective or blow up the whole thing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Well-aimed happenings, bold statements, bizarre turns, sophisticated utopias and biodegradable references.</div><div><font size="2"> </font></div><div>Full program online!</div><div><font size="2"><a href="http://www.vooruit.be/en/serie/44"><font size="2"><u>http://www.vooruit.be/en/serie/44</u></font></a></font></div><div>day-to-day program, download here</div><div><font size="2"><a href="http://tools.emailgarage.com/Assets/IGNM--qLukeOLd-hhL6vQg%7E%7E/Vooruit_TheGameIsUp09_DayByDay.pdf"><font size="2"><u>http://tools.emailgarage.com/Assets/IGNM--qLukeOLd-hhL6vQg%7E%7E/Vooruit_TheGameIsUp09_DayByDay.pdf</u></font></a></font></div><div><font size="2"> </font></div><div>to warm you up:</div><div> </div><div>====================================</div><div> </div><div>the game is up! exhibition with Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser, Kristof Kintera, Michel de Broin and others - opening wed 4 march (18:00).<a href="http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1795">http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1795</a></div><div> </div><div>A crash between two large wooden cars in the middle of the Vooruit Café. This image by German artist duo Kaltwasser and Köbberling offers a perfect summary of the exhibition at the game is up. Nothing screams pollution and consumption more than cars do, while wood stands for nature, sustainability and recycling.<br>All through the Vooruit building you can discover an exhibition with sculptures, installations and videos by artists who are all – to a varying degree – concerned with current global issues. Other projects in the exhibition: Michel de Broin - Shelter (creation fort the game is up!), Dead star en Shared propulsion car; Moose aka Paul Curtis - Reverse Graffiti / Seed Bombs (guerilla gardening); Kaltwasser & Köbberling - Autos zu Fahrräder; Antoine Schmitt - Time Slip; FoAM (lab); Angelo Vermeulen - Biomodd; Annemie Maes/So-on - Politics of change; HeHe - Nuage Vert; Antoine Defoort - La Fusée / Le vent dans les cheveux.</div><div> </div><div>====================================</div><div> </div><div>Performance: Julien Maire – Modèle pour l’Apocalypse</div><div>4 march (21:30 - 23:30) -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1800">http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1800</a></div><div> </div><div>With Modèle pour l’Apocalypse Maire has constructed a special urban development plan for the future. When you take a closer look at his architectural model, you can see that it actually consists of slowly collapsing apartment blocks.</div><div> </div><div>====================================</div><div> </div><div>FrictiesSalon: Natalie Jeremijenko – Environmental Health Clinic</div><div>6 march (20:00) -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1804">http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1804</a></div><div> </div><div>With her Environmental Health Clinic Natalie Jeremijenko strives to improve the health of her patients by tackling environmental factors. Just like in an ordinary hospital, you come in for a consultation, but instead of walking out with a prescription, you will be referred to local environmental movements, local authorities or clubs. The hospital then organizes concrete actions to improve the environmental factors in your neighbourhood.. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net"><u>www.environmentalhealthclinic.net</u></a>.</div><div> </div><div>====================================</div><div> </div><div>Conference: Tickle your catastrophe</div><div>6 / 7 march (<a href="http://www.catastrophe.ugent.be"><u>http://www.catastrophe.ugent.be</u></a>)</div><div> </div><div>At the two-day conference Tickle Your Catastrophe the ruling image of the catastrophe in art, philosophy and science gets a kick up the rear! Whereas the twentieth century was dominated by political extremism and (coping with) trauma, it is the fear of the inevitable and complete catastrophe that reigns at the beginning of a new century. More :<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1802">http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1802</a></div><div> </div><div>====================================</div><div> </div><div>FrictiesSalon: HeHe and FoAM</div><div>10 march (20:00) -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1805">http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1805</a></div><div style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; ">Apart from exhibiting documentation about their prizewinning work ‘Nuage Vert’, the two founders of HeHe (Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen) will talk about their work in general in a Salonpresentation.</div><div style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; ">FoAM will set up a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.vooruit.be/en/event/1795">biodegradable lab</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>where scientists, artists and experts occupy themselves with patabotany and guild-gardening, involving plants in videogames and plant-person interaction. In this Salon they will elaborate on their history and practice.</div><div>===================================</div><div> </div><div>the game is up! LIVE ARTS</div><div>Sponsored By Nobody - W.M.D. (just the low points) - 4 and 5 march</div><div>Antoine Defoort & Halory Goerger - &&&&& & &&& - 4 till 7 march</div><div>Kris Verdonck - Actor #1 (preview) - 11 march</div><div>Antonia Baehr - Rire - 13 and 14 march</div><div>Davis Freeman - Assasins - 13 march</div><div> </div><div>====================================</div><div> </div><div>the game is up! CONCERTS</div><div>Dror Feiler - Basura (intervention in the city) - 4 march</div><div>Pamelia Kurstin + Erwin Stache & Atonor - 6 march</div><div>Kapotski - Iglo + Dror Feiler - Cantos de la Columna Vertebral - 12 march</div><div><font size="2"> </font></div><div><font size="2"> </font></div><div>More on the whole program<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.vooruit.be/en/"><u>http://www.vooruit.be/en/</u></a></div><div><font size="2"> </font></div><div>====================================</div><div><font size="2"> </font></div><div>Welcome!</div><div style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; ">Eva De Groote<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Music and media art | Arts Centre Vooruit | St.Pietersnieuwstr. 23 9000 Ghent/Belgium | fixed 0032 (0) 9 267 28 89 | mobile 0032 (0) 497 52 88 05</div><div>Vooruit is supported by:</div><div>Vlaamse overheid / Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen / Stad Gent De Morgen / P&V / Radio 1</div><div> </div><div>the game is up! is supported by:</div><div>partners Kunstencentrum van de toekomst Belgacom / Belnet / Cisco / IBBT Transdigital i.h.k.v. INTERREG IV France Wallonie Vlaanderen</div><div> </div><div>====================================</div><div><font size="2"> </font></div></font></div></span></div></body></html>