The video seen in the installation is a poetic rendition of an improfessional* research of the region’s underground networks - post-internet, vlog inspired video-essay of decomposed symbols of friendship, sketches of group dynamics, ties & knots of obsolete objects and recent archeological findings, pseudo-soil history and fiction.

[*”improfessional” (adj.) a word that emerged in the LOUCHE era, meaning “professional of improvisation” or “improvisation of the professional”]

During the working sessions, we have worked with various media, from improvisation theatre, poetry writing, and philosophies of invisible possibilities.

To deepen the process, 4 artists were invited to bring their expertise:

1. weaving with found materials (Yonah Taieb)

2. medium-format analogue photography (Zepph)

3. collaborative drawing (Saro Dessardo, Atlas d’un Arbre) — to work on this ground.

4. continuing support of Veerle

The result is collage by YLÏAM of all the results of those sessions, shown as an immersive audio-visual installation, inside the “Club House”.

The Clubhouse is the school’s garden house, normally used as a storage space for various tools.

During the project, we turned into our temporary experiment sanctuary and gathering space. From gentle gossiping to discussing, showing new dance choreographies to karaoke sessions, discussing the sad news to reading our poetry on a piano improv, from looking forward to the summer holidays to dreading the goodbyes that come along…

For the festival, we turned the Clubhouse into a viewing room of hay where the visitors can change the scenography and the seating possibilities. The hay also ensured good acoustics in an otherwise very reflecting space. The use of hay is also a reflection on how we experience audiovisual work in regular institutions. With hay, one can lay down on a soft bed, even jump into a heap of it. Watching the video is not a necessary aspect of the work, as one can also bury themselves into the hay, and just listen to the soundtrack (which is what, for example children do). This is an attempt to include not only children in the making of the work, but also in the experience of viewing the work.